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Blair Strang
Blair Strang (born 15 March 1972) is a New Zealand Maori actor. He is most noted for playing ambulance driver Rangi Heremaia on New Zealand's longest-running soap opera, ''Shortland Street'', between 1995 and 2001 and Brian King on ''Nothing Trivial'' from 2011 to 2014. Early life Born to a Pākehā father of English descent and a Māori mother, he attended Saint Kentigern College, Pakuranga, where he was Head Prefect. Filmography * ''Falling Inn Love'' – Anaaki * ''Nothing Trivial'' – Brian King * '' Kaitangata Twitch'' – Sebastian Cardwell * ''Shortland Street'' – Rangi Heremaia * '' Go Girls'' – Joseph * '' Doves of War'' – Joe Matich * ''Orange Roughies'' – D.S. Sean Parkes * '' So You Wanna Be a Popstar?'' – a singer * ''Power Rangers S.P.D.'' – Bork (voice) * '' Maiden Voyage: Ocean Hijack'' – Enrique * ''Deceit'' – Karl * '' Mataku'' – Uncle Eru (Season 1 Episode 3: Going to War) * '' Best Bits'' – Himself * '' Happy Birthday 2 You'' – Para ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katrina Devine
Katrina Devine (born 21 April 1980) is an Irish-born New Zealand actress. Biography Devine migrated to New Zealand with her family when she was six years old and competed in Irish dance during her teens. In 1994, Katrina earned a role on ''Shortland Street'', which she appeared in for eight years playing receptionist Minnie Crozier. In 1998, she won the best supporting actress award at the New Zealand Television Awards for her work on the show. Later, in 2001, Devine married former ''Shortland Street'' co-star Blair Strang; the couple later divorced. In 2003, Katrina played the villainous Marah on ''Power Rangers Ninja Storm'', and later returned to play the recurring role of Cassidy on ''Power Rangers Dino Thunder'' in 2004. Devine has sung in several musical productions and was an editor of the New Zealand teen magazine Teen magazines are magazines aimed at teenage readers. They usually consist of gossip, news, fashion tips and interviews and may include posters, sticke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Auckland
, mottoeng = By natural ability and hard work , established = 1883; years ago , endowment = NZD $293 million (31 December 2021) , budget = NZD $1.281 billion (31 December 2021) , chancellor = Cecilia Tarrant , vice_chancellor = Dawn Freshwater , city = Auckland , country = New Zealand (Māori: ''Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa'') , academic_staff = 2,402 (FTE, 2019) , administrative_staff = 3,567 (FTE, 2019) , students = 34,521 (EFTS, 2019) , undergrad = 25,200 (EFTS, 2019) , postgrad = 8,630 (EFTS, 2019) , type = Public flagship research university , campus = Urban,City Campus: 16 ha (40 acres)Total: 40 ha (99 acres) , free_label = Student Magazine , free = Craccum , colours = Auckland Dark Blue and White , affiliations = ACU, APAIE, APRU, Universitas 21, WUN , website Auckland.ac.nz, logo = File:University of Auckland.svg The University of Auckland is a public research university based in Auckland, New Zealand. It is the largest, most comprehen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Mahy
Margaret Mahy (21 March 1936 – 23 July 2012) was a New Zealand author of children's and young adult books. Many of her story plots have strong supernatural elements but her writing concentrates on the themes of human relationships and growing up. She wrote more than 100 picture books, 40 novels and 20 collections of short stories. At her death she was one of thirty writers to win the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Medal for her "lasting contribution to children's literature". Mahy won the annual Carnegie Medal twice. It recognises the year's best children's book by a British subject, and she won for both '' The Haunting'' (1982) and '' The Changeover'' (1984). (As of 2012 just seven writers have won two Carnegies, none three.) She was also a highly commended runner up for ''Memory'' (1987). Among her children's books, '' A Lion in the Meadow'' and ''The Seven Chinese Brothers'' and ''The Man Whose Mother was a Pirate'' are considered national classics. Her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Māori Television
Māori or Maori can refer to: Relating to the Māori people * Māori people of New Zealand, or members of that group * Māori language, the language of the Māori people of New Zealand * Māori culture * Cook Islanders, the Māori people of the Cook Islands * Cook Islands Māori, the language of the Cook Islanders Ships * SS ''Maori'', a steamship of the Shaw Savill Line, shipwrecked 1909 * , a Royal Navy Tribal-class destroyer, sunk in 1915 * , a Royal Navy Tribal-class destroyer, launched 1936 and sunk 1942 * TEV ''Maori III'', a Union Steam Ship Company inter-island ferry, 1952–74 Sports teams * New Zealand Māori cricket team * New Zealand Māori rugby league team * New Zealand Māori rugby union team Other * ''Maori'', a novel by Alan Dean Foster *Mayotte, in the Bushi language Bushi or Kibosy (''Shibushi'' or ''Kibushi'') is a dialect of Malagasy spoken in the Indian Ocean island of Mayotte. Malagasy dialects most closely related to Bushi are spoken in northw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katrina Hobbs
Katrina Hobbs (born 3 September 1971) is a New Zealand actress and interior designer. She is best-known for her role as Kelly Watson on the Australian soap opera ''Home and Away'', for which she was nominated for the Logie Award for Most Popular New Talent. Early life Hobbs' was born to director, producer and writer Aileen O'Sullivan. She has three siblings; a brother, Chris, and a sister, Rebecca, are also actors. Her sister, Jessica, is a director. She is of Irish and Scottish descent. Career Early in her career, Hobbs would appear in television series, such as, the short-lived ''Betty's Bunch'', which featured Maggie Kirkpatrick, and ''The Boy from Andromeda'', in a leading role. Following several television guest appearances, Hobbs was cast in her first film in 1992, in ''Absent Without Leave'', alongside Craig McLachlan. In 1995, Hobbs joined the cast of Australian television soap opera ''Home and Away'', as Dr. Kelly Watson, the most notable role of her career, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Driver
Oliver Driver (born 22 November 1974) is a New Zealand actor, director, broadcaster and television presenter. Television Driver was the host of ''Let's Be Frank'', and the Creative Director of New Zealand's only alternative music television station, ALT TV, The channel is now no longer on air. He co-hosted TV3's early morning news show ''Sunrise'', which was cancelled on 8 April 2010. Driver played Mike Galloway, a pot smoking nurse on the long-running New Zealand drama ''Shortland Street'' as well as starring in a comedy called ''Serial Killers'', which was based on the lives of six storyliners working on a Shortland Street style hospital based soap. For three years he hosted the TVNZ arts programme ''Frontseat''. Driver returned to ''Shortland Street'' in the 2010s as a co-producer and director for numerous episodes. He finished a three-year contract in 2008 of voicing advertisements for The Warehouse, a nationwide retail store in New Zealand. Driver is known outside of N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prime Television
Prime7, formerly Prime Television and other names, was an Australian television network. Prime Television launched on 17 March 1962 as '' CBN-8'' in Orange, and later expanded to cover regional New South Wales, Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory. It was initially an independent affiliate owned by Prime Media Group before the network, and its sister GWN7, were acquired by Seven West Media on 31 December 2021. Prime7 along with GWN7 national broadcast facilities were based in Canberra, with playout facilities (since 2021) shared with hybrid-funded broadcaster SBS Television at a facility operated by Australian telecommunications provider Telstra. Seven West Media head office/administration is located in Pyrmont, Sydney. History Origins Prime Television originally began as a group of separate stations and networks – Midstate Television in Orange, Dubbo and Griffith; RVN/AMV in Wagga Wagga and Albury; and 9-8 Television in Tamworth and Taree. CBN-8 Orange first ai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV One (New Zealand)
TVNZ 1 ( mi, Te Reo Tātaki Tahi) is the first national television channel owned and operated by the state-owned broadcaster Television New Zealand ( TVNZ). It is the oldest television broadcaster in New Zealand, starting out from 1960 as independent channels in the four main centres of Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin, networking in 1969 to become NZBC TV (although the individual facilities retained their call signs into the 1970s). The network was renamed Television One (TV ONE, stylized as oɴe) in 1975 upon the break-up of the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation, and became a part of TVNZ in 1980 when Television One and South Pacific Television (now sister channel TVNZ 2) merged. The channel assumed its current name in October 2016. TVNZ 1 is both a public broadcaster and a commercial broadcaster. Central to TVNZ 1 is news and current affairs, which is produced under the banner ''1 News''. Also, it broadcasts sports programming under the banner '' 1 Sport''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV3 (New Zealand)
Three ( mi, Toru), stylized as +HR=E, is a New Zealand nationwide television channel. Launched on 26 November 1989 as TV3, it was New Zealand's first private broadcasting, privately owned television channel. The channel currently broadcasts nationally (with regional advertising targeting four markets) in digital free-to-air form via the state-owned Kordia on terrestrial and satellite. Vodafone also carries the channel for their cable subscribers in Wellington and Christchurch. It previously broadcast nationally on analogue television until that was switched off on 1 December 2013. Three is a general entertainment channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery New Zealand, Warner Bros. Discovery, with a significant news and current affairs element under the banner of Newshub. Three carries a significant amount of local content, most of which airs at prime-time. History Establishment Applications to apply for a warrant to operate New Zealand's third national television network opened ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Power Rangers Dino Fury
''Power Rangers Dino Fury'' are the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth seasons of the American children's television program ''Power Rangers''. The first season premiered on Nickelodeon on February 20, 2021, and concluded on December 18, 2021. It would be the last season of the show to air on the network. The second season premiered on Netflix on March 3, 2022, and concluded on September 29, 2022; making it the first season to air exclusively on an online streaming service. The third season of ''Dino Fury'' and thirtieth ''Power Rangers'' season overall, re-titled ''Power Rangers Cosmic Fury'' was announced on August 28, 2022 and is scheduled to premiere on Netflix in 2023. It will be a continuation of ''Dino Furys storyline, making it the first series since ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers'' to have the same cast for more than two seasons. As the 30th anniversary celebration of the franchise, ''Cosmic Fury'' will feature new original suits, with Zord and villain footage adapted from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
