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Something In The Air (TV Series)
''Something in the Air'' is an Australian television soap opera transmitted by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation between 2000 and 2002. It was one of the first programs in Australia to be filmed in widescreen. It won the AACTA Award for Best Television Drama Series in 2001. The series initially screened four episodes weekly, Monday to Thursday at 6:30 pm, and was a moderate success. Ratings began to drop after the show was moved to Saturday evenings, and was cut down to two episodes shown in a one-hour block. It later resumed its four-episode weekly run, but it was screened in a 6:00 pm timeslot, putting it up against the high-rating Seven and Nine news bulletins, and that ultimately led to its cancellation. The series was repeated on the-then ABC2 from 11 February 2008. Episodes Cast Main * Eric Bana as Joe Sabatini (2000–01) * Ray Barrett as Len Taylor * Ulli Birvé aa Helen Virtue * Alan Brough as Warren Brown (2000) * Danielle Carter as Sally Sabatini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soap Opera
A soap opera, or ''soap'' for short, is a typically long-running radio or television serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. The term "soap opera" originated from radio dramas originally being sponsored by soap manufacturers.Bowles, p. 118. The term was preceded by "horse opera", a derogatory term for low-budget Westerns. BBC Radio's ''The Archers'', first broadcast in 1950, is the world's longest-running radio soap opera. The longest-running current television soap is '' Coronation Street'', which was first broadcast on ITV in 1960, with the record for the longest running soap opera in history being held by '' Guiding Light'', which began on radio in 1937, transitioned to television in 1952, and ended in 2009. A crucial element that defines the soap opera is the open-ended serial nature of the narrative, with stories spanning several episodes. One of the defining features that makes a television program a soap opera, according to Alber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danielle Carter (actress)
Danielle Carter is an Australian actress. She has acted in a number of popular television shows, films and plays."Danielle Carter" ''-Australia'', Retrieved 19 March 2010 She graduated from Australia's '''', (NIDA) in 1993. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmen Duncan
Carmen Joan Duncan (7 July 1942 – 3 February 2019) was an Australian-born stage and screen actress and activist, with a career locally and internationally in the United States that spanned over 50 years. She was nominated for the AFI Award for Best Actress for the 1980 film ''Harlequin'', and was also known for the film ''Don't Let It Get You''. Her other film appearances include '' Touch and Go'' (1980) and ''Turkey Shoot'' (1982). She played Iris Wheeler in the American soap opera '' Another World'' from 1988 to 1994. Duncan appeared in numerous theatre roles from 1970 and 2015 Early life and career Duncan was born in Cooma, New South Wales, in 1942. She graduated in 1961 from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Sydney. Duncan was known to Australian audiences as a character actress in television, stage and films, as well as having appeared in television commercials. Her television roles included the series ''Hunter'' (1967) and she appeared in the evening so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brett Climo
Brett Leonard Climo (born 26 September 1964) is an Australian actor and comedian best known for his television soap opera roles, but has also appeared in films (feature-length and made-for-TV features). He is best known roles include in productions: '' Sons and Daughters'', ''A Country Practice'', ''The Flying Doctors'' and '' A Place to Call Home'' and the movie ''Archer Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In mo ...''. Filmography Film Television External links * Brett Climo interview 21st-century Australian male actors Australian male television actors 1964 births Living people 20th-century Australian male actors {{Australia-tv-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Hopgood
Alan John Hopgood AM (29 September 1934 – 19 March 2022), also known as Alan Hopwood, was an Australian actor, producer, and writer. He wrote the screenplay for the 1972 film ''Alvin Purple'' and made appearances in television shows such as '' Bellbird'', ''Prisoner'' and '' Neighbours''. Early life Hopgood was born in Launceston, Tasmania, and grew up in the state. He acted in several dramatic roles in his childhood. He attended school in Melbourne and then studied at the University of Melbourne, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (Hon) and a Diploma of Education. His first play, ''Marcus'', was produced at Melbourne University while he was working as a school teacher. He left teaching to write full-time and start his acting career. Career Scriptwriting and screenwriting Hopgood's first successful play, ''And the Big Men Fly'', was about Australian rules football and was produced in 1963 by the Union Theatre Repertory Company at the Russell Street Theatre in Melbourne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arianthe Galani
Arianthe Galani (born 9 April 1940), is an Australian character actress born in New Zealand of Greek descent. She is known for her roles in TV soap operas and serials, TV commercials, as well as films. Galani is primarily known for guest roles and cameos. Career Galani worked in opera and sang professionally before she became known as an actor. She worked as a singer in England for four years in the 1960s then joined the Australian Opera for five years between 1967 and 1972.Richard Coleman 'From sausage rolls to queenly role' ''Sydney Morning Herald'' 19 June 1980 p. 8 Galani played a regular role in soap opera, ''Number 96'' as Maria Panucci, the aunt of Harry Michaels' character Giovanni from late 1976 until the end of the series in August 1977, and then took a regular role in Australian Broadcasting Corporation situation comedy series ''Home Sweet Home'' (1980). Both roles were as fiery Italians. Between these roles she made appearances in the first season of cult TV se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Bonner
Anthony Frederick Bonner (born 23 November 1943) is an Australian television, film and stage actor and singer. Bonner became famous in the 1960s children's television series '' Skippy the Bush Kangaroo'', later moving on to lead roles in the dramas ''Cop Shop'' and ''Skyways''. Early life Bonner was born in Manly, a northern beach suburb of Sydney. His grandfather, James Bonner, was a former Mayor of Manly and founding President of the Manly Life Saving Club. His father, Frederick Bonner, was a musical comedy actor at Her Majesty's Theatre, Sydney. After leaving school he started work for a company supplying mannequins and other equipment for window dressing. He also worked part-time in his father's theatre as a wardrobe attendant, fostering his interest in acting. Career Acting Bonner's first professional stage acting job was in 1961, aged 18. His first major role was as helicopter pilot Jerry King on the television series '' Skippy''. Bonner went on to appear in many Cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Adams (actor)
Steve Adams is an Australian actor. For his performance in ''Something in the Air'' he was nominated for the 2001 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Guest Role in a Television Drama Series. Roles he has played include the TV series ''Something in the Air'' as Father Brian, Spanish teacher Pablo in the film ''Strange Fits of Passion ''Strange Fits of Passion'' is a 1999 Australian film directed by Elise McCredie and starring Michela Noonan. It is about a young woman determined to lose her virginity. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:A ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Lindsay Taylor
Jeremy Lindsay Taylor (born Sydney, 19 September 1973) is an Australian actor. Education He finished his education at Newington College in 1991 and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree, with a major in drama and sociology, from the University of Newcastle. He was a first grade cricketer and Rugby player at school. He was considered to be one of Newington College's finest medium pace seamers of all time. Acting career He is known for his long-running role as Kurt Peterson in ''Heartbreak High''. Since then he has appeared in ''Something in the Air'', ''McLeod's Daughters'', '' Stingers'' and ''Blue Heelers''. In 2006, he guest-starred in the ''Doctor Who'' audio adventure ''The Reaping''. Taylor appeared in the feature films '' Tom White'' and '' Em4Jay'' and ''Bad Bush''. His theatre credits include the Melbourne Theatre Company's '' Take Me Out''. In 2007, Taylor co-starred with Lisa McCune, Ian Stenlake, Saskia Burmeister, John Batchelor, Matt Holmes, Jay Ryan, Kristian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Phelan
Anne Mary Phelan (2 August 1948 – 27 October 2019) was an Australian actress of stage and screen who appeared in many theatre, television and film productions as well as radio and voice-over. Her television soap opera roles included '' Bellbird'' as Kate Ashwood, in ''Prisoner'' (1980–1985) as Myra Desmond and Monica Taylor in ''Something in the Air'' (2000–2002) as Monica Taylor, for which she won the 2000 AFI (AACTA) Award for Best Actress in a Television Drama, having previously won the 1988 AFI Award for Best Actress in a Miniseries for ''Poor Man's Orange''. She received the Equity Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016. She was also an activist for humanitarian causes. Early life Phelan was raised in Fitzroy, Victoria. She was reported as saying that she had no formal study or qualifications for acting or singing, but instead had trained through 15 years work in amateur theatre. Aged 16, she became pregnant and gave her daughter up for adoption, seeing her agai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Oakley
Roger Oakley (born 21 August 1943) is a New Zealand actor and theatre director noted for his performances in television serials, mini-series, feature and television films. He is also active as a theatre performer, director and voice-over. Oakley has been a professional working actor for over 55 years. He is perhaps best known for his role as the original character of foster father Tom Fletcher between 1988 and 1990, with a brief guest role in 2008 on the Seven Network's soap opera '' Home and Away''. His other notable roles include ''The Sullivans'' television series and film version as Major. Barrington and ''Something in the Air'', as controversial politician Doug Rutherford. Oakley appeared in feature film roles including in 1977 in his native New Zealand in the movie '' Sleeping Dogs'' starring Sam Neill, and in Australia in '' Sara Dane'', ''Women of the Sun'', ''Travelling North'' and ''My Year Without Sex'' but has also appeared in numerous telemovies and mini-series incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melita Jurisic
Melita may refer to: __NOTOC__ Places * Melite (ancient city), on the site of modern Mdina, Malta * Melita (ancient port city), near city of Melitopol in southeast Ukraine * Melita, Manitoba, Canada, a town * Mljet (Latin: Melita), an island in the Dalmatia region of Croatia * Melita, Michigan, United States * Melita Island, Montana, United States People * Melita (given name) Other uses * Melita (personification), the allegorical figure of Malta ** Melita issue, a series of stamps depicting the allegorical figure ** Melita bullion coins, a series of coins depicting the allegorical figure * Melita F.C., a football (soccer) club in Malta * Melita (telecommunications company), a telecommunications company in Malta * HMS ''Melita'', two warships of the Royal Navy * Melita Stadium, Chester Hill, New South Wales, Australia * "Melita", an alternative tune to the hymn "Eternal Father, Strong to Save" * Melita, a nymph in Greek mythology - see Melite (mythology) See also * Malita, capi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
