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Go Girls
''Go Girls'' is a New Zealand comedy-drama television series that centers on four adult friends, three female and one male, living on Auckland's North Shore. In the fifth season it was the same premise, but this time centered on five adult friends, three female and two male. Dissatisfied with their lives, they make challenging promises to each other that they endeavour to fulfill throughout the series. Episodes Synopsis ''Go Girls'' began airing in New Zealand in February 2009. In June 2012 after the show's fourth season proved another ratings winner for its channel, Go Girls was signed on for a fifth season that began screening the following year. With many of the show's core cast (including Jay Ryan and Anna Hutchison) having departed for other roles, the fifth season featured an entirely new cast but a similar theme. The show was created by Rachel Lang, who co-created the popular '' Outrageous Fortune'' television series, and Gavin Strawhan (''Burying Brian''). The t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy Drama
Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau ''dramedy'', is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and Drama (film and television), drama. The modern, scripted-television examples tend to have more humorous bits than simple comic relief seen in a typical hour-long legal or medical drama, but exhibit far fewer jokes-per-minute as in a typical half-hour sitcom. In the United States Examples from United States television include: ''M*A*S*H (TV series), M*A*S*H'', ''Moonlighting (TV series), Moonlighting'', ''The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd'', ''Northern Exposure'', ''Ally McBeal'', ''Sex and the City'', ''Desperate Housewives'' and ''Scrubs (TV series), Scrubs''. The term "dramedy" was coined to describe the late 1980s wave of shows, including ''The Wonder Years'', ''Hooperman'', ''Doogie Howser, M.D.'' and ''Frank's Place''. See also *List of comedy drama television series *Black comedy *Dramatic structure *Melodrama *Seriousness *Tragicomedy *Psychological ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auckland
Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The List of New Zealand urban areas by population, most populous urban area in the country and the List of cities in Oceania by population, fifth largest city in Oceania, Auckland has an urban population of about It is located in the greater Auckland Region—the area governed by Auckland Council—which includes outlying rural areas and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf, and which has a total population of . While European New Zealanders, Europeans continue to make up the plurality of Auckland's population, the city became multicultural and Cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitan in the late-20th century, with Asian New Zealanders, Asians accounting for 31% of the city's population in 2018. Auckland has the fourth largest Foreign born, foreign-born population in the world, with 39% of its residents born overseas. With its large population of Pasifika New Zealanders, the city is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matariki Whatarau
Matariki Whatarau is a New Zealand actor and musician. Whatarau is also a founding member of Māori showband the Modern Māori Quartet. He co-wrote and performed songs, with the other band members, for the Modern Māori Quartet's debut album ''That's Us!'' (2017). Whatarau appeared on the television programmes, ''Go Girls'' and ''Find me a Māori Bride''. Whatarau also had a feature role in the film ''The Pā Boys'' (2014).''MatarikiWhatarau'', Whatarau co-hosted Māori Television's ''My Party Song'' as part of the ''Modern Māori Quartet''. In 2018, Matariki, along with other members of the ''Modern Māori Quartet'', began touring their cabaret show ''Modern Māori Quartet: Two Worlds.'' Early life Whatarau was born in Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau, New Zealand and is of Māori (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Whanaunga) descent. Matariki attended high school in Beijing, China and in Lilongwe, Malawi. Whatarau is a graduate of Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School (Te K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Whittle
Annie Whittle is a British-born New Zealand singer and actress who has appeared on such shows as ''Shortland Street'', where she played Barbara Heywood for four years and has had a singing career that has spanned three decades. She was previously married to director and producer Bruce Morrison. Her most notable film appearance was in ''The World's Fastest Indian'' (2005). Filmography Television * ''A Week of It'' (1977–1979) .... Various Characters * ''Castaways'' .... "''Castaways of the General Grant''" (1978) * '' Under the Mountain'' (1982) .... Mrs. Matheson in "''Maar''" (1982) * '' An Age Apart'' (1983) .... Air Hostess in Episode #1.1 (1983) * ''The Makutu on Mrs Jones'' (1983) .... Mrs Jones * '' The Billy T. James Show'' (1984) .... Various roles * "Heartland" (2001) .... Herself * ''Shortland Street'' (2001–2005) .... Barbara Heywood * '' Kai Korero'' (2006) TV series .... Muriel Spalding * ''Amazing Extraordinary Friends'' (2008) .... Madame Lulu in "''Love and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingrid Park
Ingrid Park (born February 1971) is a New Zealand television actress. She began her acting career in 1998 appearing in the New Zealand television soap opera series ''Shortland Street''. Early life and career breakthrough Ingrid was born in 1971 in Pahiatua and was raised in Palmerston North. She studied engineering before making her breakthrough television series debut as Dr. Mackenzie Choatin the 1998-1999 run of ''Shortland Street''. She went on to appear in notable television films including ''Big Fire'', '' Raising Waylon'', ''Spies and Lies''. ''Avalon High'' and ''Bloodlines''. She extended her television acting career through the 2008 series ''Go Girls ''Go Girls'' is a New Zealand comedy-drama television series that centers on four adult friends, three female and one male, living on Auckland's North Shore. In the fifth season it was the same premise, but this time centered on five adult fr ...'' which became one of the most successful TV series in New Zealand &md ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Go Girls Episodes
The following is a list of episodes from the New Zealand comedy '' Go Girls''. The show started airing on 19 February 2009 and ran until finishing its fifth season in 2013. Series overview Season 1 (2009) Four friends on Auckland's North Shore decide to turn their lives around by setting new year's resolutions they will each achieve in one year. Amy will be rich, and buy back her house. Britta will be famous. Cody will be married and Kevin....will get a new sports steering wheel. But as with any dream the Go Girls find that things don't always go the way you plan... Season 2 (2010) On 29 April 2009 TVNZ and NZ On Air NZ On Air (NZOA; mi, Irirangi te Motu), formally the Broadcasting Commission, is an autonomous Crown entity and commission of the New Zealand Government responsible for funding support for broadcasting and creative works. The commission oper ... confirmed that the show had been commissioned for a second season due to strong ratings and its dominance of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burying Brian
''Burying Brian'' is a New Zealand television miniseries produced by Eyeworks Touchdown which premiered on Television New Zealand's TVNZ 1, TV One on 2 July 2008, and ran for 6 episodes. The series is about Jodie and her three female friends. At the beginning of the first episode, Jodie's husband Brian dies during a domestic dispute. Jodie believes that she may go to jail for his murder, but her friends convince her not to report the death, but instead to bury the body and make it appear that he has run off with another woman. Although the series was a ratings success, no further episodes were made after the first season. Cast and characters *Jodie Dorday as Jodie Welch *Rebecca Hobbs as Gerri Marchand *Carrie McLaughlin as Theresa Donnelly *Ingrid Park as Denise Crowley *Craig Hall (actor), Craig Hall as Pete Donnelly *Shane Cortese as Brian Welch *Josh Leys as Josh Welch *Ruby Love as Kendall Welch *Scott Wills – Warren Crowley *Hannah Marshall (actress), Hannah Marshall – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Outrageous Fortune (TV Show)
''Outrageous Fortune'' is a New Zealand family comedy crime drama television series, which ran from 12 July 2005 to 9 November 2010 on TV3. The series followed the lives of the career criminal West family after the matriarch, Cheryl ( Robyn Malcolm), decided the family should go straight and abide by the law. The show was created by James Griffin and Rachel Lang and produced by South Pacific Pictures. Like the show itself, episodes took their names from Shakespeare quotations. The show concluded after 6 seasons and 107 episodes making it the longest running drama series made in New Zealand. The primary cast for the show's run consisted of Robyn Malcolm, Antony Starr, Siobhan Marshall, Antonia Prebble, Frank Whitten and Kirk Torrance; Grant Bowler appeared in a sporadic role throughout the show's first five seasons. The show premiered on 12 July 2005 and was welcomed by high acclaim. It won many of the major categories in the New Zealand television awards for its first 4 year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New Zealand Herald
''The New Zealand Herald'' is a daily newspaper published in Auckland, New Zealand, owned by New Zealand Media and Entertainment, and considered a newspaper of record for New Zealand. It has the largest newspaper circulation of all newspapers in New Zealand, peaking at over 200,000 copies in 2006, although circulation of the daily ''Herald'' had declined to 100,073 copies on average by September 2019. Its main circulation area is the Auckland region. It is also delivered to much of the upper North Island including Northland, Waikato and King Country. History ''The New Zealand Herald'' was founded by William Chisholm Wilson, and first published on 13 November 1863. Wilson had been a partner with John Williamson in the ''New Zealander'', but left to start a rival daily newspaper as he saw a business opportunity with Auckland's rapidly growing population. He had also split with Williamson because Wilson supported the war against the Māori (which the ''Herald'' termed "the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013
2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alaska earthquake: A (, 'Moderate') earthquake shakes Prince of Wales Island (Alaska), Prince of Wales Island. * January 10 – At least 130 people are killed and 270 are injured in January 2013 Pakistan bombings, several bomb blasts in Pakistan. * January 11 – The French Armed Forces, French military begins a 5-month intervention into the Northern Mali conflict, targeting the militant Islamist Ansar Dine group. * January 16–January 20, 20 – Thirty-nine international workers and 1 security guard die in a In Amenas hostage crisis, hostage crisis at a natural gas facility near In Aménas, Algeria. * January 21 – Barack Obama is Second inauguration of Barack Obama, sworn in for a second term as President of the United States. * January 27 – An estimated 245 people die in a Kiss nightclub fire, nightcl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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