Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard is to be the subject of a television comedy parodying her life, and said she expects it to be hilarious.

State broadcaster ABC has commissioned the four-part series, At Home with Julia, about her domestic life and relationship with boyfriend Tim Mathieson, a former hairdresser known in Australia as the First Bloke.

It is billed as “part rom-com, part guaranteed lawsuit”.

Ms Gillard lookalike Amanda Bishop will play the lead role and the Prime Minister said she knew the actress’s work.

“She’s hilarious and does a very good job,” Ms Gillard told ABC radio, joking that perhaps she could delegate some of her work to Ms Bishop.

“It may come in handy having a double because there could be days where there’s an extra commitment and I could get her to go.”

The show starts shooting in Sydney today.