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Game Of Life (TV Programme)
''Game of Life'' (also ''The Game of Life'') was an educational programme for teenagers, commissioned by the ABC and SBS in 1986. The format was a compere (Mic Conway) would teleport seven youths to a disco in the opening credits, one of whom would be chosen as that episode's reporter. Topic included leaving high school, sex and drugs. Mic Conway said, "It got a big response mainly from people who didn't like that it tackled "youth" issues like drugs, sex etc; just as families were settling down to dinner and the ABC news, so it was not taken up again." The eight episodes screened from Thursday 3 April 1986 on ABC, and were repeated twice on both ABC and SBS Episodes #Just Good Friends ''(3 April 1986)'' #A Way to Play Peacefully ''(10 April 1986)'' #I Feel Like I'm Thirty ''(17 April 1986)'' #Education Doesn't Mean Nothin' To Me ''(24 April 1986)'' #I Need a Job ''(1 May 1986)'' #Hey Mum I'm on TV ''(8 May 1986)'' #Youth Rules OK ''(15 May 1986)'' #We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is the national broadcaster of Australia. It is principally funded by direct grants from the Australian Government and is administered by a government-appointed board. The ABC is a publicly-owned body that is politically independent and fully accountable, with its charter enshrined in legislation, the ''Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983''. ABC Commercial, a profit-making division of the corporation, also helps to generate funding for content provision. The ABC was established as the Australian Broadcasting Commission on 1 July 1932 by an act of federal parliament. It effectively replaced the Australian Broadcasting Company, a private company established in 1924 to provide programming for A-class radio stations. The ABC was given statutory powers that reinforced its independence from the government and enhanced its news-gathering role. Modelled after the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), which is funded by a tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Special Broadcasting Service
The Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) is an Australian hybrid-funded public service broadcaster. About 80 percent of funding for the company is derived from the Australian Government. SBS operates six TV channels ( SBS, SBS Viceland, SBS World Movies, SBS Food, NITV and SBS WorldWatch) and seven radio networks (SBS Radios 1, 2 and 3, Arabic24, SBS Chill, SBS PopDesi and SBS PopAsia). SBS Online is home to SBS On Demand video streaming service. The stated purpose of SBS is "to provide multilingual and multicultural radio and television services that inform, educate and entertain all Australians and, in doing so, reflect Australia's multicultural society".SBS: Frequently Asked Questions SBS Corporation, accessed 26 May 2007 SBS is one of five main |
Mic Conway
Mic Conway (born 15 February 1951) is an Australian vocalist and with his brother, Jim Conway, was a co-founder of the 1970s humour, theatre and rock group, The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band.McFarlane (1999). Encyclopedia entry for . Retrieved 31 January 2010.Spencer et al, (2007CAPTAIN MATCHBOX WHOOPEE BAND entry. Retrieved 31 January 2010. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1974 until Australian Recording Industry Association(ARIA) created their own charts in mid-1988. In 1992, Kent back calculated chart positions for 1970–1974. Conway also was a founding member of Soapbox Circus and Circus Oz. Conway plays an assortment of oddball instruments, and performs magic, juggling, tap dancing and fire eating. Biography Conway, along with his brother Jim, attended Camberwell High School. There they formed the Jelly Bean Jug Band which would later become The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band. Captain Matchbox would later find success in the 1970s where the grou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Hensley (actress)
Lisa Hensley is an Australian actress who first came to prominence with a leading role in the television mini-series ''Brides of Christ''. She went to high school at Brigidine College, St Ives, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Hensley has also appeared in ''A Country Practice'', '' 15 Amore'', '' Sons and Daughters'', ''The Flying Doctors'', ''Dating the Enemy'', ''Farscape'' as Matala, ''Two Twisted ''Two Twisted'' is an Australian TV mystery anthology drama which premiered on the Nine Network on 14 August 2006. Narrated by Bryan Brown, who also produced the series' predecessor, '' Twisted Tales'', each episode of the series contains two sh ...'', and '' All Saints''. She currently presents the "From the Heart" program on Qantas airlines’s inflight ON-Q Radio. External links * Living people AACTA Award winners Actresses from New South Wales Australian television personalities Women television personalities Australian voice actresses Australian televisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Pattinson
Michael Pattinson (born 1957) is an Australian film director. He has directed over 40 films and television shows since 1980. In 1987, along with Bruce Myles, he co-directed the film ''Ground Zero''. It was entered into the 38th Berlin International Film Festival. Selected filmography * ''The Young Doctors'' (1980) * ''Prisoner'' (1980) * '' Moving Out'' (1983) * '' Street Hero'' (1984) * ''Ground Zero'' (1987) * ''Wendy Cracked a Walnut'' (1990) * '' The Last Bullet'' (1995) * ''Virtual Nightmare ''Virtual Nightmare'' is a 2000 made-for-TV horror film directed by Michael Pattinson and starring Michael Muhney, Tasma Walton, and Todd MacDonald. The story was conceived in 1995 when writer David Tausik read the Philip K. Dick novel Time Ou ...'' (2000) References External links * 1957 births Living people Film directors from Melbourne {{Australia-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Piper
Hugh Piper is an Australian documentary filmmaker and writer/ director. He is best known for his documentaries "Dancing With Dictators", "Mr. Sin: The Abe Saffron Story" and ''Submariners''. Filmography * ''Outback Coroner'' A multi-part series about mysterious and unexplained deaths in remote locations around Australia. * "Dancing With Dictators", about Australian publisher Ross Dunkley and his struggles in Burma, set against the background of that country's first election in twenty years. * "Mr. Sin: The Abe Saffron Story", about the man who brought Sinatra, rock 'n roll, and organized crime to Australia. * ''The Post'', about Cambodia's Phnom Penh Post newspaper. * ''Double Concerto'', about classical music and politics. * ''Australia's Outback'', a year in the life of an outback cattle station (narrated by Mel Gibson). * ''Cracking The Colour Code'', a three-part French-Australian co-production taking a multi-disciplinary approach to examining the science, anthr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Educational Television Series
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1986 In Australian Television
Events Television *5 January - SBS ceases VHF transmissions on Channel 0 in Sydney and Melbourne. *20 January - ''Neighbours'' makes its debut on Network Ten and comes to dominate the 7:00pm weeknight timeslot. *25 January - American sitcom starring Soleil Moon Frye and George Gaynes '' Punky Brewster'' receives its Australian television debut on Seven Network. *28 January - Australian news and current affairs program ''The 7.30 Report'' debuts on ABC. *30 January - Debut of Australian soap opera ''Prime Time'' on Nine Network. It was the very last soap opera from Australia ever produced with exterior location scenes shot on film and interior scenes shot on videotape. *10 February - Australian soap opera '' Return to Eden'' premieres on Network Ten. *13 March - Australia's popular and influential TV sketch comedy '' The D-Generation'' which was created and written by a group of students from Melbourne University who had gained local notoriety for their stage work such as M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Original Programming
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