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Jane Turner
Jane Turner (born 1 December 1960) is an Australian actress, comedian and Logie Award-winning comedy series creator and screnwriter. Career Turner, although best known as a comedy performer, made her acting debut in the internationally renowned TV cult drama series ''Prisoner (TV series), Prisoner'' in a 15 episode guest role. She is notable for numerous comedy roles including the sketch comedy programs ''The D-Generation'', ''Fast Forward (Australian TV series), Fast Forward'', ''Full Frontal (Australian TV series), Full Frontal'', ''Big Girl's Blouse'' and ''Something Stupid (TV series), Something Stupid''. On ''Fast Forward'' Turner (Svetta) recorded a song with cast member Peter Moon (comedian) (Victor), called "Don't Do Your Soviet Bloc". In the 2000s Turner has received accolades for her performance in ''Kath & Kim'', an Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ABC (later Seven Network) comedy series which she created, wrote, produced and starred in with her longtime fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kath Day-Knight
Kathleen "Kath" Darleen Day-Knight is a fictional character featured in the Australian television series ''Kath & Kim'' and is portrayed by Jane Turner. Her character has appeared on multiple Australian comedy series including '' Fast Forward'', '' Big Girl's Blouse'' and '' Something Stupid'' before appearing on ''Kath & Kim''. Kath is revealed to be a Leo (series 2 episode 3; The Moon). Molly Shannon portrayed her American version in the short lived American series. Kath's character is considered an Australian Comedy Icon. Kath was featured in '' Kath & Kimderella'' in 2012. The idea for the series was originally grasped during the nineties while successful Australian shows such as ''Big Girl's Blouse'' had skits on them with identical characters of the same name. ''Kath & Kim'' aired first on 16 May 2002, and become a hit in Australia and internationally. The series ended in 2007; Turner returned to screens as Kath in 2012 with '' Kath & Kimderella'' which premiered in ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven Network
The Seven Network (commonly known as Channel Seven or simply Seven) is a major Australian commercial free-to-air television network. It is owned by Seven West Media Limited, and is one of five main free-to-air television networks in Australia. The network's headquarters are located in Sydney. As of 2014, it is the second-largest network in the country in terms of population reach. The Seven Network shows various nonfiction shows—such as news broadcasts (''Seven News'') and sports programing—as well as fiction shows. In 2011, the network won all 40 out of 40 weeks of the ratings season for total viewers, being the first to achieve this since the introduction of the OzTAM ratings system in 2001. As of 2022, the Seven Network is the highest-rated television network in Australia, ahead of the Nine Network, ABC TV, Network 10 and SBS. Headquarters Seven's administration headquarters are in Eveleigh, Sydney, completed in 2003. National news and current affairs programming a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bit Part
''The Bit Part'' is a 1987 Australian comedy film directed by Brendan Maher and starring Chris Haywood and Nicole Kidman.David Stratton, And featuring Wilbur Wild, Des 'Animal' McKenna and Red Symons from The Hey Hey Its Saturday Band, starring as a joke Biker Mob. ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan, 1990 p319-320 The film never achieved theatrical release and went straight to television Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertisin ....Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p14-15 References External links * Australian comedy films 1987 comedy films 1987 films 1980s English-language films 1980s Australian films {{1980s-Australia-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bachelor Girl (film)
''Bachelor Girl'' is a 1988 Australian TV movie.David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan, 1990 p331 Plot Dorothy Bloom is a 32-year-old single soap opera writer planning a long, quiet weekend in Melbourne. Her Aunt Esther wants her to meet a gynecologist but instead she runs into Karl Stanton, an old friend from uni days. Cast *Lyn Pierse as Dot Bloom * Kym Gyngell as Karl Stanton *Jan Friedl as Helen Carter *Bruce Spence as Alistair Dredge Jr *Doug Tremlett as Charles *Ruth Yaffe as Aunt Esther *Jack Perry as Uncle Isaac * Monica Maugham as Sybil *Tim Robertson as Grant *Mark Minchinton as Gazza *Christine Mahoney as Jenny *Denis Moore as Bert Production It was financed with the assistance of Film Victoria and the Australian Film Commission. Reception The TV critic from ''The Age'' called the film "wonderfully whimsical. A sort of Aussie '' Heartburn (film), Heartburn'', it combines liberal helpings of Jewish phil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Member Of The European Parliament
A Member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament. When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the ECSC) first met in 1952, its members were directly appointed by the governments of member states from among those already sitting in their own national parliaments. Since 1979, however, MEPs have been elected by direct universal suffrage. Earlier European organizations that were a precursor to the European Union did not have MEPs. Each member state establishes its own method for electing MEPs – and in some states this has changed over time – but the system chosen must be a form of proportional representation. Some member states elect their MEPs to represent a single national constituency; other states apportion seats to sub-national regions for election. They are sometimes referred to as delegates. They may also be known as observers when a new country is seeki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rake (Australian TV Series)
''Rake'' is an Australian television program, produced by Essential Media and Entertainment, that first aired on the ABC TV in 2010. It stars Richard Roxburgh as the rakish Cleaver Greene, a brilliant but self-destructive Sydney barrister, defending a usually guilty client. The show airs in the United States on DirecTV's Audience Network and was previously available on Netflix in the UK, Ireland, Canada, the United States, the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Czech Republic, Poland, and Thailand. The fifth and final series went into production in October 2017 and premiered on 19 August 2018. Cast Main cast * Richard Roxburgh as Cleaver Greene, a brilliant but self-destructive criminal defence barrister. The character is loosely based on colourful Sydney barristers Mervyn Ward and Charles Waterstreet, and was named after Cleaver Bunton. At the end of the fourth series, he is elected to a seat as an independent senator. At the end of the fifth series, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Open Slather
''Open Slather'' is an Australian sketch comedy television series which first aired on The Comedy Channel on Foxtel on 24 May 2015. The 20 episode series is executively produced by Laura Waters and Rick McKenna. After the first ten episodes aired, the series experienced a hiatus while new episodes were in production. Replacing new episodes were 30 minute 'best of' episodes titled ''Open Slather Reopened''. The second block of ten episodes began airing on 6 September, and concluded on 8 November 2015. On 31 December 2015, it was announced the show had been cancelled. Cast * Holly Austin * Hannah Bath * Shane Jacobson * Jay K. Cagatay * Dave Eastgate * Gina Riley * Stephen Curry * Ben Gerrard * Laura Hughes * Demi Lardner * Magda Szubanski * Ben Lomas * Marg Downey * Miles O'Neil * Glenn Robbins * Ilai Swindells * Jane Turner (11 episodes) * Emily Taheny * Michael Veitch * George H. Xanthis Guest * Franklyn Ajaye (1 episode) Special guests * Mark Holden as himsel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Britain (sketch Show)
''Little Britain'' is a British sketch comedy series that began as a radio show in 2000 and ran as a television series between 2003 and 2007. It was written and performed by David Walliams and Matt Lucas. Financed by the BBC, the radio series was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4, with the initial two television series premiering on BBC Three and the third and final series on BBC One. The programme consists of a series of sketches involving exaggerated parodies of British people from various walks of life. Each sketch was introduced by a voice-over narration (Tom Baker) suggesting that the programme was a guide – aimed at non-British people – to British society. Despite the narrator's description of "great British institutions", the comedy arises from the British audience's self-deprecating understanding of either themselves or of people known to them. Recurring characters included Andy Pipkin, who falsely presented himself as requiring the use of a wheelchair to gain the a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bligh (TV Series)
''Bligh'' is a 1992 Australian sitcom, set in colonial New South Wales, in 1807 and based on the life of Sir William Bligh, as Colonial Governor.Albert Moran, ''Moran's Guide to Australian TV Series'', AFTRS 1993 p 82 Cast * Michael Veitch ... Governor William Bligh * Magda Szubanski ... Betsy Bligh * William McInnes ... John Macarthur * Gina Riley ... Elizabeth Macarthur * Peter Moon ... Reverend Marsden * Jimeoin ... Convict Griffin References {{reflist External links''Bligh''at IMDb IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, ...''Bligh''at Australian Television Seven Network original programming Australian television sitcoms 1992 Australian television series debuts Television shows set in colonial Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a metropolitan area known as Greater Melbourne, comprising an urban agglomeration of 31 local municipalities, although the name is also used specifically for the local municipality of City of Melbourne based around its central business area. The metropolis occupies much of the northern and eastern coastlines of Port Phillip Bay and spreads into the Mornington Peninsula, part of West Gippsland, as well as the hinterlands towards the Yarra Valley, the Dandenong and Macedon Ranges. It has a population over 5 million (19% of the population of Australia, as per 2021 census), mostly residing to the east side of the city centre, and its inhabitants are commonly referred to as "Melburnians". The area of Melbourne has been home to Aboriginal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glen Iris, Victoria
Glen Iris is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Cities of Boroondara and Stonnington local government areas. Glen Iris recorded a population of 26,131 at the 2021 census. Glen Iris has been Melbourne's geographical centre of population since the 1990s. History Captain Thomas Henderson, of the Royal Navy, arrived in Melbourne on a ship called ''Iris'' in 1850. He acquired a property bounded by Gardiners Creek, High Street and a line extending Summerhill Road to Gardiners Creek. The property was advertised for sale as ''Glen Iris'', in 1852. Robert Kent, a subsequent owner of the ''Glen Iris'' homestead, suggested a Mechanics' Institute be established, but it was never completed. A Wesleyan church was established in 1865 and in 1871 land was granted for an adjacent school (now Glen Iris Primary School). By the 1880s reference was made to the Township of Glen Iris. Glen Iris Post Office opened ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trafalgar Studios
Trafalgar Theatre is a new West End theatre in Whitehall, near Trafalgar Square, in the City of Westminster, London. It is set to open in spring 2021 following a major multi-million pound restoration project aiming to reinstate it back to its original heritage design. The Grade II listed building was built in 1930 with interiors in the Art Deco style as the Whitehall Theatre; it regularly staged comedies and revues. It was converted into a television and radio studio in the 1990s, before returning to theatrical use in 2004 as Trafalgar Studios, the name it bore until 2020. History 1930 to 1996 The original Whitehall Theatre, built on the site of the 17th century ''Ye Old Ship Tavern'' was designed by Edward A. Stone, with interiors in the Art Deco style by Marc-Henri and Laverdet. It had 634 seats. The theatre opened on 29 September 1930 with ''The Way to Treat a Woman'' by Walter Hackett, who was the theatre's licensee. In November 1933 Henry Daniell appeared there as Portman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
