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Genre | Sketch comedy |
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Country of origin | Australia |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 6 (list of episodes) |
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Network | Amazon Prime Video |
Release | 30 June 2021 – present |
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The Moth Effect was created and written by Nick Boshier and Jazz Twemlow, with a team of writers which includes Sarah Bishop, Bridie Connell, Mark Humphries, Nazeem Hussain, Natesha Somasundaram, David Woodhead and Meg O’Connell and Ramsay David Nuthall. is directed by Craig Anderson and Gracie Otto. produced by Lauren Elliott and Jordana Johnson and executive produced by Sophia Zachariou. [1]
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