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Justin Rosniak
Justin Rosniak (born 11 May 1977) is an Australian television and film actor, best known for his appearances in the television series ''Packed to the Rafters'', ''Police Rescue'', '' Squinters'' and ''Mr Inbetween''. Career Rosniak appeared as Tony in 1997's '' Spellbinder: Land of the Dragon Lord'', and in the same year voiced the title role in the animated television series ''The Adventures of Sam''. He has appeared in ''Home and Away'' three times, in 1988 as McPhee, the grandson of regular character's Neville and Floss McPhee, in 1995 as Joseph Lynch, and in 2018 as Ross Nixon. In 2010, Rosniak was cast in a supporting role in '' Animal Kingdom'' and in 2011 was in '' Underbelly: Razor'', playing the part of notorious Australian career criminal, Squizzy Taylor. In 2018, Rosniak was one of the regular cast members in the comedy series '' Squinters''. Rosniak appears in the 2019 Australian crime-thriller film ''Locusts Locusts (derived from the Vulgar Latin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Packed To The Rafters
''Packed to the Rafters'' was an Australian family-oriented comedy drama television program which premiered on the Seven Network on Tuesday 26 August 2008 at 8:30 pm. The show continued on Tuesdays in this timeslot for its entire run. The drama series features a mix of lighthearted comedy woven through the plot. It revolves around the Rafter family facing work pressures and life issues, while also tackling serious social issues. The Logie award winning series was the highest rating to screen on the Seven Network in 2008, and the show was consistently among the top 5 shows of the year throughout its run in Australia. ''TV Week'' announced 2013 that the sixth series of ''Packed to the Rafters'' would be the last, with Hugh Sheridan stating, "It's emotional letting go of ''Rafters'' – for all of us. It was such an amazing chapter in Aussie TV. I'm really proud we all came back together to send it off." The two-hour finale of ''Rafters'' aired on 2 July 2013, and saw the retur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. It is now owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes) and million person records. Additionally, the site had 83 million registered users. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. Features The title and talent ''pages'' of IMDb are accessible to all users, but only registered and logged-in users can submit new material and suggest edits to existing entries. Most of the site's data has been provided by these volunteers. Registered users with a prov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Heelers
''Blue Heelers'' is an Australian police drama series that was produced by Southern Star Group and ran for 12 years on the Seven Network, from 1994 to 2006. Although based around the policing of the town, the series generally depicted the everyday lives and relationships of the residents of Mount Thomas, a fictional small town in Victoria. The series was one of the highest-rated and most-awarded programs in the history of Australian television, having won 25 Logie awards, it is equal as the most awarded show in Logies history with ''The Don Lane Show''. It is also noted for its two main stars Lisa McCune, a four-time recipient of the Gold Logie, and John Wood, who also won Gold. Overview ''Blue Heelers'' was first aired on 10 September 1993, with the episode "A Woman's Place". The last episode, aired on 4 June 2006, was the 510th episode, "One Day More". It was produced by Southern Star for the Seven Network. During its 13-season run it won a total of 32 awards and was nom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doom Runners
''Doom Runners'' (1997) is an Australian science fiction television children's film. Premise The story concerns a group of children in a post-apocalyptic world searching for the last unpolluted place on Earth, New Eden. However, the Doom Troopers (DTs), led by Dr. Kao (Tim Curry), want to get there first and will do anything to stop the children. Prior to the film's release, Curry noted that the production resembled a "'Mad Max' for kids." Telecast premiere Produced in cooperation between America's Paramount-owned Showtime and Nickelodeon, the film was telecast on Showtime starting 20 December 1997. Later that year, it was telecast on Nickelodeon from 25 April 1998, the first original full-length feature film to air on that network. References External links * * ''Doom Runners''at Screen Australia Screen Australia is the Australian Federal Government's key funding body for the Australian screen production industry, created under the ''Screen Australia Act 2008''. From ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirror, Mirror II
Mirror, Mirror II is a co-production between Australia and New Zealand that was released in 1997. Unlike the first series, '' Mirror, Mirror'', which was one story played out over a number of episodes, this series has individual adventures in each new episode, but there is a story linking them all. Main cast * Simon James as Daniel McFarlane * Ben Revell as Fergus McFarlane * Antonia Prebble as Mandy McFarlane * Jovita Shaw as Constance de Lutrelle * Zoe Bertram as Violette de Lutrelle * Tina Regtien as Jenny McFarlane * Simon Ferry as Doug McFarlane * Barry Quin as Gervaise de Lutrelle * Melanie Thompson as Mai Ling * Denise O'Connell as Aunt Lily Plot In this series, the mirror from the original ''Mirror, Mirror'' series has come into the hands of two other New Zealand families: the de Lutrelles and the McFarlanes. They both live in the same house, but are separated from each other by 130 years. de Lutrelle family Gervaise, Violette and their daughter Constance, live i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Return To Jupiter
''Return to Jupiter'' was an Australian television series, a 13-part follow-up to ''Escape from Jupiter''. It aired in Australia from 23 March to 15 June 1997. Plot After their escape from Io, Michael, Kumiko, Gerard and Anna, last seen in ''Escape From Jupiter'', are reunited on the Icarus, a solar cruiser that will take them back to their parents on Ganymede, one of Jupiter's moons. But the journey is far from a smooth one. Danger and excitement wait around every turn, as the children face a crash landing on Mars, hitch a ride on an asteroid, and race against two villains whose evil plan jeopardises the Icarus and its crew. Cast *Sonia Todd as Cmdr Edwina Dent *David Wenham as Dr. Chrobak *Jeanette Cronin as Glovic *Colin Moody as Tobias Selby *Anna Choy as Kumiko *Justin Rosniak as Gerard *Daniel Taylor as Michael *Dominic Elmaloglou as Abraham *Robyn MacKenzie as Anna *Emma Jane Fowler as Zac Episodes Episode information retrieved from IMDB. See also * List of Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Water Rats (TV Series)
''Water Rats'' is an Australian TV police procedural broadcast on the Nine Network from 1996 to 2001. The series was based on the work of the men and women of the Sydney Water Police who fight crime around Sydney Harbour and surrounding locales. The show was set on and around Goat Island in Sydney Harbour. ''Water Rats'' premiered on 12 February 1996, and ran for six seasons and 177 episodes. Colin Friels and Catherine McClements were the original stars of the series and were instrumental in the show's early success. They both departed the show in 1999. In later seasons, Steve Bisley, Aaron Pedersen and Dee Smart became the show's main stars. For the sixth and final season in 2001, the show concentrated more on the cops' personal lives rather than just focusing on the crimes committed. The Nine Network cancelled the show after six seasons. Executive Producer Kris Noble blamed escalating costs for the cancellation. However, Bisley and Smart had also quit the show and the seri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stories Of Men
Story or stories may refer to: Common uses * Story, a narrative (an account of imaginary or real people and events) ** Short story, a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting * Story (American English), or storey (British English), a floor or level of a building * News story, an event or topic reported by a news organization Social media *Stories (social media), a collection of messages, images or videos, often ephemeral ** Facebook Stories, short user-generated photo or video collections that can be uploaded to the user's Facebook ** Instagram Stories, a feature in Instagram that let the user post vertical images that will disappear in 24 hours ** Snapchat Stories, a feature in Snapchat which allows users to compile snaps into chronological storylines, accessible to all of their friends Film, television and radio * Story Television, an American digital broadcast television network * Story TV, a South Korean television drama production company * ''Stor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Escape From Jupiter
''Escape from Jupiter'' is an Australian children's science fiction drama which aired from 26 November 1994 to 11 March 1995 on ABC. Concerning a small group of children on Jupiter's moon Io, the series ran for 13 episodes. When one of Io's volcanoes erupts, the surviving colonists must flee the moon and try to reach the safety of Earth. Using a derelict space station in orbit of Io, they convert it into a rudimentary space craft and set off, having many adventures and forming close relationships along the way. The series was followed by ''Return to Jupiter''. Introduction The main character is Michael Faraday, a boy in his teens who has lived in space his whole life. Having never been to Earth, he resides with his father on the moon Io. Despite being a mining colony habituated predominantly by adults, a few have their families with them. Michael's best friend is Kingston, the son of the medical officer of the colony. In addition to this duo are Jarrod and Anna, both childre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Ideas (film)
''Big Ideas'' is a 1993 TV movie,Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p14 touted as "From the Producers of Blue Heelers". Plot Jimmy Kovak attends a Sydney public (State) school, and is falling behind in his studies, partly because of his love of soccer, and his part-time work producing compost from garbage he collects, and which he sells at a local hardware store. His next door neighbor has an antipathy to the Kovaks, at least partly because of their nationality, and runs a spiteful campaign against the boy, resulting in confiscation of his compost bins, and other harassment. His widowed mother is handicapped by her inability to recognize the Latin alphabet (presumably she can read Cyrillic perfectly), and is too embarrassed to seek help, so is forced to accept piece-work, sewing at slave wages. Financial relief comes in the form of Sam Stevens, who recognizes the boy's ingenuity and offers him a contract to invent a chicken feed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winners (Australian TV Series)
''Winners'' is an Australian children's television anthology series conceived and produced for the ACTF by its founding director, Patricia Edgar.Australian Children's Television Foundation, (1991). Australian Children's Television Foundation Annual Report 1990-1991. A.C.T.F. Productions Limited. It first screened on Network 10 in 1985 as part of the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal's newly implemented C classified drama quota. It featured eight self-contained telemovies and stories. Patricia Edgar was confident that ''Winners'' would be a landmark in the development of quality children's television and that it would go on to set the standard nationally and internationally for future children's productions.Australian Children's Television Foundation, (1983). Care for kids: Television News, ''The newsletter of the Australian Children's Television Foundation'', Issue No. 6, p. 1-4. ISSN: 0813-3727 ''More Winners'' is the second season of the series, first screened on ABC in 1990. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |