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The Mole (Australian TV Series)
''The Mole'' is an Australians, Australian Reality television, reality television show that aired on the Seven Network. It is based on other versions of the original Belgium, Belgian TV series ''De Mol (TV series), The Mole'' that have aired in numerous countries. The most recent season aired in 2013. The series is a reality competition in which the contestants work as a group to add money to a kitty that one of them will win. Among the contestants is one person who has been designated "the Mole (espionage), Mole" by the producers and is tasked with sabotaging the group's money-making efforts. His or her identity is unknown until the end of the series, when two genuine contestants take a final quiz in the final episode regarding details of the Mole. At the end of each episode, the contestant who knows the least about who the mole is, as decided by the results of a quiz, is eliminated from the game. The series was hosted by actor Grant Bowler in its first four seasons. Tom Willi ...
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Reality Television
Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents purportedly unscripted real-life situations, often starring unfamiliar people rather than professional actors. Reality television emerged as a distinct genre in the early 1990s with shows such as ''The Real World'', then achieved prominence in the early 2000s with the success of the series '' Survivor'', '' Idols'', and '' Big Brother'', all of which became global franchises. Reality television shows tend to be interspersed with "confessionals", short interview segments in which cast members reflect on or provide context for the events being depicted on-screen; this is most commonly seen in American reality television. Competition-based reality shows typically feature gradual elimination of participants, either by a panel of judges, by the viewership of the show, or by the contestants themselves. Documentaries, television news, sports television, talk shows, and traditional game shows are generally not clas ...
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The Mole (Australian Season 2)
The second season of the Australian version of '' The Mole'' originally aired from 21 February 2001 to 25 April 2001. It took place in Victoria and was hosted by Grant Bowler. Details Unlike other seasons of ''The Mole'', this season began with sixteen players, which were whittled down to ten in what was referred to as the "last step" in the audition process. The maximum prize amount in this season was $200,000. Filming took place throughout November and December in late 2000. More than 5,000 people auditioned to be on the show. Elimination chart : Indicates the player won the game : Indicates the player was the mole : Indicates the player won a free pass : Indicates the player scored the lowest on the quiz and was eliminated Episodes Episode 1 Hotel Huntdown: The players were split into four teams of four and started in Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, and Hobart. The groups' assignment was to get to a hotel in Melbourne by 4:00 P.M. They were given $500 each and were t ...
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Big Brother Australia
''Big Brother Australia'' (also known simply as ''Big Brother'') is an Australian reality show based on the international '' Big Brother'' format created by John de Mol. Following the premise of other versions of the format, the show features a group of contestants, known as "housemates" who live together in a specially constructed house that is isolated from the outside world. The housemates are continuously monitored during their stay in the house by live television cameras as well as personal audio microphones. Throughout the course of the competition, housemates are evicted from the house - eliminated from the competition. The last remaining housemate wins the competition and is awarded a cash prize. ''Big Brother'' was produced from 2001 and ran for eight seasons and a Celebrity edition on Network Ten before the network cancelled it in July 2008 after experiencing audience erosion and controversy. Big Brother returned in 2012 on the Nine Network. Nine's iteration of the ...
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Logie Awards Of 2002
The 44th Annual TV Week Logie Awards was held on Sunday 28 April 2002 at the Crown Palladium in Melbourne, and broadcast on the Nine Network. The ceremony was hosted by Wendy Harmer, and guests included Frankie Muniz and Ronn Moss. Winners and nominees In the tables below, winners are listed first and highlighted in bold. Gold Logie Acting/Presenting Most Popular Programs Most Outstanding Programs Performers *Shakira – "Whenever, Wherever" * Elton John – " Original Sin" * Destiny's Child – "Bootylicious" Hall of Fame After several years on Australian television, Mike Willesee Michael Robert Willesee, (29 June 1942 – 1 March 2019) was an Australian television journalist, interviewer and presenter. Willesee was the son of politician senator Don Willesee; Mike first came to prominence in 1967 as a reporter for the ... became the 19th inductee into the TV Week Logies Hall of Fame. References External links * {{Logie Awards years 2002 in Australian te ...
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Logie Awards Of 2001
The 43rd Annual TV Week Logie Awards was held on Sunday 22 April 2001 at the Crown Palladium in Melbourne, and broadcast on the Nine Network. The ceremony was hosted by Shaun Micallef, and guests included Michael Crawford and Christopher Ellison. Winners and nominees In the tables below, winners are listed first and highlighted in bold. Gold Logie Acting/Presenting Most Popular Programs Most Outstanding Programs Performers *Ricky Martin – "She Bangs" and " Loaded" *Human Nature – A medley *Vanessa Amorosi – " Shine" Hall of Fame After several years on Australian television, Ruth Cracknell became the 18th inductee into the TV Week Logies Hall of Fame. References External links * {{Logie Awards years 2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ... 2001 ...
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Logie Award
The Logie Awards (officially the TV Week Logie Awards; colloquially known as The Logies) is an annual gathering to celebrate Australian television, sponsored and organised by the magazine ''TV Week''. The first ceremony was held in 1959 as the TV Week Awards. Awards are presented in twenty categories, representing both public and industry voted prizes. The Gold Logie is the most prestigious award and the industry's highest honour; it's awarded to the ''Most Popular Personality on Australian Television'' for the previous year. The award receives much publicity and media attention. The event has been strongly associated with the Nine Network, who have hosted the ceremony on the most occasions, and TV and former radio personality Bert Newton, particularly in the early days, who served as a solo host of the ceremony on 17 occasions, with a constant run from 1966 until 1980 and as co-host on three other occasions. Over the years, the Logies have been hosted in Melbourne and Sydney. ...
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The Mole (Australian Season 6)
The sixth season of the Australian version of '' The Mole'' took place in various locations around Australia, and was hosted by Shura Taft. Executive Producer John Leahy Show details In October 2012, the Seven Network announced through its 2013 programming launch that ''The Mole'' would return following a seven-year absence. On 11 January 2013, it was announced that Shura Taft would be hosting the revived show. The announced maximum kitty for the season was $250,000. The show premiered on Tuesday, 2 July at 7:30pm, and was originally going to air three nights a week, however, disappointing ratings resulted in the show reverting to airing only once a week, on Wednesday nights showing double episodes at 9:30pm; that took effect from the fifth episode until the eleventh episode. Further disappointing ratings, and a clash with a documentary on the Essendon Football Club supplements saga saw the show moved to an even later timeslot, airing at 10:30pm on Wednesdays; this took effec ...
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New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island country by area, covering . New Zealand is about east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and south of the islands of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. The country's varied topography and sharp mountain peaks, including the Southern Alps, owe much to tectonic uplift and volcanic eruptions. New Zealand's capital city is Wellington, and its most populous city is Auckland. The islands of New Zealand were the last large habitable land to be settled by humans. Between about 1280 and 1350, Polynesians began to settle in the islands and then developed a distinctive Māori culture. In 1642, the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman became the first European to sight and record New Zealand. In 1840, representatives of the United Kingdom and Māori chiefs ...
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Liz Cantor
Liz Cantor (born 11 October 1982) is an Australian television presenter. She was the winner of the reality television game show ''The Mole'' in 2005. Education Cantor attended high school at St Peters Lutheran College at Indooroopilly, west of Brisbane city. While there she was selected as a prefect and sports captain. She graduated from Griffith University in 2003 with a Bachelor of Communications, majoring in journalism and meteorology. While at university she was a member of the string quartet and orchestra and was on the basketball, softball, hockey and debating teams. She has said she had considered studying marine biology but the performance side of her personality pulled her towards a career in the media industry. Career Surfing Cantor was a professional surfer who competed on the Australian junior circuit for five years. Sponsored by Billabong, her surfing career took her to Fiji, Tahiti, the Maldives, Hawaii and Europe to compete. She was also one of the first femal ...
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The Mole (Australian Season 5)
The fifth season of the Australian version of '' The Mole'', subtitled ''The Amazing Game'', took place in New Zealand and was hosted by Tom Williams. Show Details The announced maximum kitty for the season was $500,000, though the absolute maximum was slightly more than that. The final group kitty was $203,000. Unlike previous seasons, the show was produced live, with the challenges occurring over a weekend in New Zealand. Afterwards, the players were flown into Sydney for a live quiz and elimination on Thursdays. The live eliminations occurred at Sevens’s Martin Place Studios - which also hosts many of Seven’s news programs. This also meant that the seclusion of the players, normally a standard feature of ''The Mole'', was broken, as the players had access to the outside world - including being able to communicate to friends and family while in Sydney, watch the produced episode, and search the internet for clues. Additionally, it was revealed at the beginning of the s ...
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The Mole (Australian Season 4)
The fourth season of the Australian version of '' The Mole'', subtitled ''The Mole in Paradise'', took place mostly in New Caledonia and was hosted by Grant Bowler. Show Details This season had a higher announced maximum kitty than previous seasons, touting the maximum amount to be won to be $500,000. However, the final total in the group kitty was comparable with that of previous seasons, at $104,000. The first episode of this season took place in Sydney, with the host revealing during the elimination that nine of them, minus the player who was to be eliminated, would head to New Caledonia for the remainder of the season. This season almost did not go ahead due to poor ratings attained from the previous season. This showed with the fourth series being aired later on in the year. Unlike in previous seasons where the show was given a PG rating, this season was given a G rating. Additionally, the show screened on Sunday nights rather than the previous timeslot of Wednesday nigh ...
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Gold Coast, Queensland
The Gold Coast is a coastal city in the state of Queensland, Australia, approximately south-southeast of the centre of the state capital Brisbane. With a population over 600,000, the Gold Coast is the sixth-largest city in Australia, the nation's largest regional city, and Queensland's second-largest city after Brisbane. The city's Central Business District is located roughly in the centre of the Gold Coast in the suburb of Southport, with the suburb holding more corporate office space than anywhere else in the city. The urban area of the Gold Coast is concentrated along the coast sprawling almost 60 kilometers, joining up with the Greater Brisbane Metropolitan Area to the north and to the state border with New South Wales to the south. Prior to European settlement the area was occupied by the Yugambeh people. The demonym for the Gold Coast is Gold Coaster. The Gold Coast is a major tourist destination with a sunny, subtropical climate and has become widely known for its ...
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