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AACTA Award For Best Performance In A Television Comedy
The AACTA Award for Best Performance in a Television Comedy is an accolade given by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), a non-profit organisation whose aim is to "identify, award, promote and celebrate Australia's greatest achievements in film and television." The award is handed out at the annual AACTA Awards, which rewards achievements in Australian feature film, television, documentaries and short films. From 1986 to 2010, the category was presented by the Australian Film Institute (AFI), the Academy's parent organisation, at the annual Australian Film Institute Awards (known as the AFI Awards). When the AFI launched the Academy in 2011, it changed the annual ceremony to the AACTA Awards, with the current prize being a continuum of the AFI Award for Best Performance in a Television Comedy. From 2003 to 2005, the award was given as a joint award with drama performances under the category Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Television Drama or Comedy. Howev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AACTA Awards
The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards, known as the AACTA Awards, are presented annually by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). The awards recognise excellence in the film and television industry, both locally and internationally, including the producers, directors, actors, writers, and cinematographers. It is the most prestigious awards ceremony for the Australian film and television industry. They are generally considered to be the Australian counterpart of the Academy Awards for the U.S. and the BAFTA Awards for the U.K. The awards, previously called Australian Film Institute Awards or AFI Awards, began in 1958, and involved 30 nominations across six categories. They expanded in 1986 to cover television as well as film. The AACTA Awards were instituted in 2011. The AACTA International Awards, inaugurated on 27 January 2012, are presented every January in Los Angeles. History 1958–2010: AFI Awards The awards were presented ann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Chaser's War On Everything
''The Chaser's War on Everything'' is an Australian television satirical comedy series broadcast on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) television station ABC1. It has won an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Television Comedy Series. The cast perform sketches mocking social and political issues, and often feature comedic publicity stunts. The series is produced by The Chaser, an Australian satirical group consisting of Chris Taylor, Julian Morrow, Craig Reucassel, Andrew Hansen, and Chas Licciardello. Fellow Chaser members Dominic Knight and Charles Firth are not part of the regular on-screen cast. However, Knight is a writer, and Firth compiled roving reports for the show from the United States, until he left the group to start a satirical newspaper in mid-2007. The show premiered on 17 February 2006 and has since produced 58 episodes, broadcast over three seasons between 2006 and 2007 as well as during 2009. The first season was broadcast at an unstable la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilfred (Australian TV Series)
''Wilfred'' is an Australian comedy television series created by Adam Zwar, Jason Gann and Tony Rogers based on their award-winning 2002 short film. The story follows the lives of the eponymous dog Wilfred, his owner Sarah, and her boyfriend Adam, who sees Wilfred as a man in a dog suit. It was directed by Tony Rogers, produced by Jenny Livingston and stars Gann, Zwar and Cindy Waddingham. Two series were broadcast on SBS One, the first in 2007 and the second in 2010. The series won three AFI Awards and was nominated for a Logie. Independent Film Channel acquired the international broadcast rights to the original two series of ''Wilfred'' in 2010. An American remake premiered on the cable channel FX on 23 June 2011. Background ''Wilfred'' creators, longtime friends Jason Gann and Adam Zwar, met at the University of Southern Queensland in 1990, where Gann studied acting and Zwar studied journalism. Adam Zwar later met future co-star Cindy Waddingham and director Tony Roge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Zwar
Adam Zwar (born 13 January 1972) is an Australian actor, voice artist, and writer. He is best known for co-creating the Australian comedy series '' Squinters'', '' Lowdown'', '' Wilfred'' and creating the critically acclaimed Channel 10 comedy '' Mr. Black'' as well as the popular factual series '' Agony Aunts'', '' Agony Uncles'', '' The Agony of Life'', '' The Agony of Modern Manners'' and ''Agony''. Zwar also presented and produced seminal cricket documentaries ''Underarm: The Ball That Changed Cricket'' and ''Bodyline: The Ultimate Test'' which took a forensic look at the infamous 1932-33 Ashes series between Australia and England. Early life Zwar was born on 13 January 1972 in Cairns, Queensland where he was subsequently raised. His parents bought the family home from actor Leo McKern. Zwar is the son of author Desmond Zwar, who wrote the best-selling book ''The Loneliest Man in the World'' about Rudolf Hess. Zwar's mother Delphine was a longtime writer for the '' House an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Australian Film Institute Awards
The 49th Australian Film Institute Awards ceremony, honoring the best in film for 2007, was broadcast from the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre in Melbourne, Australia on the Nine Network. Geoffrey Rush hosted the show, for the second time. He previously presided over the 48th Australian Film Institute Awards the previous year. The nominees were announced on 24 October 2007. Deborra-Lee Furness, Sibylla Budd, Marny Kennedy, and AFI President James Hewison made the announcements. Romulus, My Father got the highest nominations with a total of sixteen with The Home Song Stories with the second highest number of fourteen. Clubland came third with eleven nominations. The award winners were announced at two ceremonies; one on the 5 December ("industry" categories) and the other on 6 December (top categories), 2007. Films that won multiple Australian Film Institute Awards include: ''The Home Song Stories'' (7) and ''Romulus, My Father'' (4). ''The Home Song Stories'' perfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 In Australian Television
The year 2007 in Australian television was the 52nd year of continuous operation. Events * 15 January – Channel Nine, NBN Television & WIN Television relaunch their on-air presentation. * 22 January – Monique Wright was then crowned '' Sunrise's'' new weather presenter. A year later Monique Wright left ''Sunrise'' and the prize went to Fifi Box. On that day, SBS's World News is revamped with a 1-hour format. * 29 January – Former ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'' host and CEO of the Nine Network, Eddie McGuire, returns to screens as the host of Nine's new game show '' 1 vs. 100''. Also debuting on the same night, but at a different time, is the Seven Network's big money game show '' The Rich List'' hosted by Andrew O'Keefe. National Nine News nearly relaunch their news graphics, but on that day, this never happened. * 9 February – The Australian Football League signs a five-year broadcasting contract with the Seven Network, Network Ten and pay TV provider Foxtel, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UKTV (Australia And New Zealand)
BBC UKTV is an Australian pay television channel in Australia and New Zealand, screening British entertainment programming, sourced mainly from the archives of the BBC, RTL Group (mainly Talkback Thames material) and ITV plc. The channel was originally a joint venture with Foxtel (60% ownership), the RTL Group (20% ownership) and BBC Worldwide (20% ownership). It is now owned solely by BBC Studios. It is the home of the channel's flagship programme ''The Graham Norton Show''. History The channel was first launched in Australia in August 1996, becoming available on Austar in April 1999 and on Optus in December 2002. A New Zealand version with different programming launched on Sky TV, in November 2003. It shows a mix of repeats of old UK shows previously screened in Australia or New Zealand and new episodes of programs not shown before in Australia or New Zealand. Repeated series include ''Doctor Who'', ''Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'', ''Are You Being Served?'', ''Dad's Arm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Supernova (British TV Series)
''Supernova'' is a British comedy television programme produced by Hartswood Films and jointly commissioned by the BBC in the UK and UKTV in Australia. It follows Dr Paul Hamilton (Rob Brydon), a Welsh astronomer, who leaves a dull academic post and unloved girlfriend for a new job at the Royal Australian Observatory, deep in the Australian outback. The comedy centres on his difficulties adjusting to life in the outback and his eccentric fellow astronomers. The first series was released in the United Kingdom and Australia in October 2005 and consisted of six 30-minute episodes. The second series began airing on 3 August 2006 in the UK. The exterior scenes were shot at Broken Hill in New South Wales, Australia. The observatory itself is a CGI creation, according to the DVD commentary, and only a partial doorway was constructed on site for filming purposes. Plot During the series, Paul grapples with, amongst others, his attraction to his colleague Dr Rachel Mann (who is engaged ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kris McQuade
Kris McQuade (born 1952) is an Australian actress who has had many film, television and theatre roles. Career Her film credits include ''The Love Letters from Teralba Road'', '' Kostas'', '' Fighting Back'', '' Lonely Hearts'', ''Goodbye Paradise'', ''The Coca-Cola Kid'', '' Strictly Ballroom'', ''Billy's Holiday'', ''December Boys'' and ''Cargo''. McQuade's television credits include episodes of '' Fields of Flame'', '' Fields of Fire'', '' Scales of Justice'', ''Palace of Dreams'', '' Certain Women'', ''Skyways'', '' Punishment'', '' A Country Practice'', '' Home and Away'', ''The Flying Doctors'', ''Boys From The Bush'', ''Love Thy Neighbour in Australia'', '' The Last Resort'' (1988), '' Wildside'', ''Grass Roots'', ''Blue Heelers'', '' Stingers'', '' Supernova'', ''Wentworth'', '' The Kettering Incident'', and ''Rosehaven ''Rosehaven'' is an Australian television comedy series created and written by Celia Pacquola and Luke McGregor, who also star in the lead roles. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genevieve Morris
Genevieve Morris (born 1967) is an Australian comedian and actress, best known for being among the regular cast on the popular comedy series ''Comedy Inc'' and appearing in a popular advertising campaign for ANZ. She has also had recurring roles in Seven Network police dramas ''Blue Heelers'' and '' City Homicide''. She has performed in various stage productions since the early 1990s including the 2009 comedy show ''Spontaneous Broadway'' as Dame Helen Highwater, alongside Ross Daniels, Julia Zemiro and Geoff Paine. In 2010, she appeared in multiple television commercials for ANZ bank portraying "Barbara the bank manager". In 2011, Morris was part of the ensemble cast of the short-lived television series '' Ben Elton Live From Planet Earth'' where she was considered by some to be the program's breakout star. In 2013, she was a cast member of ''Wednesday Night Fever'' More recently, she has starred in the crime comedy series ''No Activity'' as dispatch officer Carol. She also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nine Network
The Nine Network (stylised 9Network, commonly known as Channel Nine or simply Nine) is an Australian commercial free-to-air television network. It is owned by parent company Nine Entertainment and is one of five main free-to-air television networks in Australia. From 2017 to 2021, the network's slogan has been "We Are the One". Since 2021, the network has changed its slogan back to the iconic Golden Era slogan "Still the One". As of 2022, the Nine Network is the second-rated television network in Australia, behind the Seven Network, and ahead of the ABC TV, Network 10 and SBS. History Origins The Nine Network's first broadcasting station was launched in Sydney, New South Wales, as TCN-9 on 16 September 1956 by ''The Daily Telegraph'' owner Frank Packer. John Godson introduced the station and former advertising executive Bruce Gyngell presented the first programme, ''This Is Television'' (so becoming the first person to appear on Australian television). Later that year, G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Late Shift '', a full-motion video game released in 2017
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The Late Shift or Late Shift may refer to: * ''The Late Shift'' (book), a 1994 book about 1990s conflict regarding ''The Tonight Show'' ** ''The Late Shift'' (film), a 1996 HBO film based on the book *''Comedy Inc: The Late Shift'', a 2005–2007 series of Australian sketch show '' Comedy Inc.'' * ''Late Shift ''Late Shift'' is an interactive FMV video game written and directed by Tobias Weber. The participation film technology behind the title was developed by CtrlMovie. The title was screened at many international film festivals, including The N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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