Jaquie Brown – Herself
If Jaquie has learnt anything from her past mistakes, it’s that she doesn’t learn anything from her mistakes. As she desperately tries to reclaim her position as a popular television personality, she gradually gets sucked into the same narcissistic tendencies that brought her to ruin in the first place.
Kim Sharee – Hannah Banks
Kim is a smart and wordly young businesswoman with a mind for success. She’s discontent with her menial tasks at the network and hopes to start her own management company, but managing Jaquie’s career ambitions seems to be a full time job in itself.
Tom – Ryan Lampp
Tom has given up stand up comedy and refocused his energies and abundant spare time on his acting career. But after becoming disillusioned with his prospects he decides to follow in Sylvester Stallone’s footsteps and write his own screenplay. But instead of writing and original movie, he thinks the smarter move is to pen a 4th sequel for an established straight to video film franchise.
Serita Singh – Madeleine Sami
Serita’s success seems to have no limits, as she has gone on to become the network darling of TV3, has a top ten single and now has her own sitcom – a terrible piece of derivative crap that the critics have called the NZ comedy we’ve all been waiting for. Serita’s inability to fail only serves to antagonize Jaquie even more.
James Coleman – Himself
James has been forced to share his midday radio show with Jaquie to ’soften the edges a bit’. Like Jaquie, James Coleman is an ex-TV presenter with plenty of talent but not a lot of luck. He’s even more bitter and volatile than Jaquie is but despite their similarities they hate each other with a passion, although they do occasionally bond over a mutual disdain for the intern, Nannette.
Nannette – Florence Noble
Nannette is a sweet but very mousey intern at the radio station who tries her hardest to please James and Jaquie. She desperately wants to make a career for herself in radio but she lacks spark and confidence, or as Jaquie less tactfully puts it, is ‘a lighter shade of beige’.