August 22, 2026 — 1:50pm

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Diplomats never tell, but a new dark TV comedy created by the former Australian ambassador to France promises to be anything but discreet.

Brendan Berne, our man in Paris from 2017 to 2020, has just filmed the pilot for a sitcom called Rank , inspired by his two decades of service with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Berne, 56, who resigned from DFAT in 2020 to move to Burgundy in France with his husband and to concentrate on creative projects, describes Rank as “The Thick of It updated for the age of…

Read the full article at SMH.COM.AU