Aussie comedian and Matilda writer Tim Minchin is to join David Duchovny in the hit comedy series Californication.

Which is good, but we find it hard to hear the name of that show in front of our mum and not go red.

Anyway, our hero is lined up for a role as an eccentic rockstar, Atticus Fetch in the next season.

The story is that David's character Hank writes a novel which is then adapted into a musical for which Tim's Atticus is drafted in to write the music. The play is called A Crazy Little Thing Called Love which maybe means something if you watch the show. Are you watching the show, by the way?

Anyway, we're sure there's some kind of art imitating life kind of scenario here, what with Tim Minchin having recently written the hit show Matilda but it's proving just too darn hard to draw any kind of parallel at this point in the day... Feel free though.

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