Gruen’s ten favourite episodes of The Pitch

With the return of the Gruen franchise to ABC1 next week, producer Jon Casimir shares some of his favourite contributions to The Pitch, in which agencies take a crack at selling the unsellable.

Our favourite ten Pitch ads? Wow, this was hard. There have been many amazing contributions across four seasons of The Gruen Transfer, two of Gruen Planet and one each of Gruen Nation and Gruen Sweat. Some have stopped us in our tracks, others have melted the office down in laughter. Many hands and minds at many agencies have gone beyond the call of duty to come up with ads for our show. We can never thank them enough. Or pay them enough, but that’s an ABC budget for you…

This list, then, is as close as we can come to agreeing on our faves. And yes, there’s an ulterior motive to its compilation. Gruen is back on air next Wednesday. We’re kicking off with four episodes of our election spinoff, Gruen Nation, then following with eight episodes of Planet. And we’re looking for agencies who might want to live up to, or even better, the legacy of these ads. If you’d like to know more, email us at GruenHQ@cjz.com.au