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Shane Jacobson
Shane Jacobson (born 18 March 1970) is an Australian actor, director, writer, and comedian, best known as the "Dunny Man" for his performances as the eponymous character Kenny Smyth, a plumber working for a portable toilet rental company, in the 2006 film ''Kenny (2006 film), Kenny'' and the spin-off TV series, ''Kenny's World''. In 2006, he won the Australian Film Institute's Award for Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Actor in a Leading Role for that performance. In 2017 and 2018 he presented ''Little Big Shots (Australian TV series), Little Big Shots'', on the Seven Network, based on the Little Big Shots, American series of the same title. In 2019, Jacobson became a judge on ''Australia's Got Talent''. Career Jacobson began his career on the stage at the age of 10 with amateur theatre and the Melbourne Gang Show. At 18, he began his comedy career with regular theatre restaurant, musical theatre, stand-up and MC gigs. He was also hired to pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Essendon, Victoria
Essendon is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, north-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Moonee Valley local government area. Essendon recorded a population of 21,240 at the 2021 census. Essendon is bounded in the west by Hoffmans Road, in the north by Keilor Road and Woodland Street, in the east by the Moonee Ponds Creek, and in the south by Buckley Street (except for a small section further south bordering Moonee Ponds). History Essendon and the banks of the Maribyrnong River were originally inhabited by the Wurundjeri clan of the Woiwurrung speaking people of the Kulin nation. In 1803, Charles Grimes and James Fleming were the first known European explorers into the Maribyrnong area. Essendon was named after the village of Essendon in Hertfordshire, England. Richard Green, who arrived in Victoria in the 1850s and settled near Melbourne, was a native of Essendon, Hertfordshire, where his father Isaac Green was either ow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guys And Dolls (musical)
''Guys and Dolls'' is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. It is based on "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" (1933) and "Blood Pressure", which are two short stories by Damon Runyon, and also borrows characters and plot elements from other Runyon stories, such as "Pick the Winner". The show premiered on Broadway in 1950, where it ran for 1,200 performances and won the Tony Award for Best Musical. The musical has had several Broadway and London revivals, as well as a 1955 film adaptation starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine. ''Guys and Dolls'' was selected as the winner of the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. However, because of writer Abe Burrows' communist sympathies as exposed by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), the Trustees of Columbia University vetoed the selection, and no Pulitzer for Drama was awarded that year. In 1998, Vivian Blaine, Sam Levene, Robert Alda and Isab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beaconsfield (TV Film)
''Beaconsfield'' is an Australian television film produced for Nine Network The Nine Network (stylised 9Network, commonly known as Channel Nine or simply Nine) is an Australian commercial free-to-air television network. It is owned by parent company Nine Entertainment and is one of five main free-to-air television netw .... The film is a dramatisation of the 2006 Beaconsfield Mine collapse. It premiered on Nine Network on 22 April 2012. References External links * 2012 television films 2012 films Nine Network original programming Australian drama television films Films set in Tasmania {{Australia-tv-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herald Sun
The ''Herald Sun'' is a conservative daily tabloid newspaper based in Melbourne, Australia, published by The Herald and Weekly Times, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of the Murdoch owned News Corp. The ''Herald Sun'' primarily serves Melbourne and the state of Victoria and shares many articles with other News Corporation daily newspapers, especially those from Australia. It is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales such as the Riverina and New South Wales South Coast, and is available digitally through its website and apps. In 2017, the paper had a daily circulation of 350,000 from Monday to Friday. The ''Herald Sun'' newspaper is the product of a merger in 1990 of two newspapers owned by The Herald and Weekly Times Limited: the morning tabloid paper ''The Sun News-Pictorial'' and the afternoon broadsheet paper '' The Herald''. It was first pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nine Network
The Nine Network (stylised 9Network, commonly known as Channel Nine or simply Nine) is an Australian commercial free-to-air television network. It is owned by parent company Nine Entertainment and is one of five main free-to-air television networks in Australia. From 2017 to 2021, the network's slogan has been "We Are the One". Since 2021, the network has changed its slogan back to the iconic Golden Era slogan "Still the One". As of 2022, the Nine Network is the second-rated television network in Australia, behind the Seven Network, and ahead of the ABC TV, Network 10 and SBS. History Origins The Nine Network's first broadcasting station was launched in Sydney, New South Wales, as TCN-9 on 16 September 1956 by ''The Daily Telegraph'' owner Frank Packer. John Godson introduced the station and former advertising executive Bruce Gyngell presented the first programme, ''This Is Television'' (so becoming the first person to appear on Australian television). Later that year, G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ewen Page
Ewen Page was editor-in-chief of '' Top Gear Australia magazine'' and was thTop Gear official website Page has a media career spanning 28 years and has edited a variety of Australian car magazines, from '' Street Machine'' to ''Wheels'', ''Motor'' and ''Auto Action''. He has a passion for all things with wheels. Ewen has also been the sports editor of ''The Canberra Times'', editor of ''FHM'', and was the founding deputy editor of ''Zoo Weekly''. In 2010 Page became a television presenter on the short lived television program Top Gear Australia alongside Steve Pizzati and Shane Jacobson Shane Jacobson (born 18 March 1970) is an Australian actor, director, writer, and comedian, best known as the "Dunny Man" for his performances as the eponymous character Kenny Smyth, a plumber working for a portable toilet rental company, in the .... References External links topgear.com.au Year of birth missing (living people) Living people {{editor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Pizzati
Steve Pizzati is an Australian race driver, driving instructor, television presenter and free-lance motoring journalist. He was born in Melbourne to Italian parents and did not speak English until he was at school. He attended Cathedral College, East Melbourne and St Kevin's College. In 2008, he was selected from 4,000 applicants to be one of the presenters of ''Top Gear Australia'' on SBS TV. In 2010 he was the only host selected by the Nine Network to continue with the new broadcaster thus making him the only host to have been a part of all four series of the show. Prior to ''Top Gear Australia'', Pizzati competed in various national categories of Australian motor sport including GT racing. He has also been a professional driving instructor for various manufacturers, mainly Porsche and Audi since 1996. Pizzati was also a regular host of the Top Gear Live and Top Gear Festival shows having joined ''Top Gear'' UK hosts Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond for the Top Gear Liv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Top Gear Australia
''Top Gear Australia'' was an Australian motoring reality television series, based on the British BBC series ''Top Gear''. The programme first premiered on SBS One on 29 September 2008. A second season was ordered following the high ratings for the premiere episode and positive comments from advertisers, and the second season began broadcasting from 11 May 2009. After acquiring the rights to broadcast the UK version in 2009, the Nine Network started airing their own version of ''Top Gear Australia'' in September 2010. ''Top Gear Australia'' returned for a fourth season in 2011. The show was cancelled on 28 April 2012 due to declining ratings. ''Top Gear Australia'' is also the name of a licensed version of the British ''Top Gear'' magazine. The Australian magazine is produced by ACP Magazines (Australian Consolidated Press). The magazine features articles from many writers including Steven Corby, Craig Jamieson, Bill Mckinnon, James Stanford, Ben Smithurst, Jason Barlow, Sam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie & Boots
''Charlie & Boots'' is a 2009 Australian film starring Paul Hogan and Shane Jacobson. It had the best opening weekend for any Australian film in 2009 when it was released on Father's Day (1 September 2009). The film features many small towns in country Australia. It also has a cameo by Reg Evans, who died in the 2009 Victorian bushfires before the film was released, and the film is dedicated to the victims of the fires. Plot Shane Jacobson plays Boots who takes his father (Paul Hogan) on a trip to fish on the northernmost tip of Australia because of something his father told him when he was a kid. Although he probably wasn't serious and can't remember it Boots decides to carry it out. They travel on a road trip from Victoria to the Cape York Peninsula in a Holden Kingswood, passing through towns like Tamworth. The film starts with the death of Gracie, Boots' mother and Charlie's wife. After Gracie's death, Boots goes to visit Charlie on the family farm, finding him locked away ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Hogan
Paul Hogan (born 8 October 1939) is an Australian actor and comedian. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his performance as outback adventurer Michael "Crocodile" Dundee in ''Crocodile Dundee'' (1986), the first in the ''Crocodile Dundee'' film series. Early life At the start of his career, Paul Hogan said he was born in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, to appear more interesting. He was actually born in Parramatta, a suburb in Greater Western Sydney. He moved to Granville in Western Sydney at a young age and worked as a rigger on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. He attended both Primary and High School at Parramatta Marist High School. Career Hogan's first public appearance was on Australian television, the Nine Network's amateur talent program ''New Faces'' in 1971. Hogan had observed to his Harbour Bridge workmates that the program's entertainment value ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Emdur
Larry Emdur (born 9 December 1964) is an Australian television personality. Emdur is currently co-host of ''The Morning Show (TV program), The Morning Show'' alongside Kylie Gillies, and host of ''The Chase Australia''. The duo also hosted the Australian version of ''Celebrity Splash!''. He formerly hosted the Australian version of game show ''The Price Is Right (Australian game show), The Price Is Right'' from 1993 to 1998 and later 2003 to 2005 on the Nine Network and then again when the show returned to the Seven Network on 7 May 2012. The show was cancelled later that year. Emdur is known to Australian audiences for his hosting duties on several other game shows, including ''Cash Bonanza'' (Nine Network), and ''Wheel of Fortune (Australian game show), Wheel of Fortune'' (Seven Network). Emdur hosted ''Hey Hey it's Saturday'' five times, once in 1994, twice in 1998, and twice, consecutively, in 1999, and substituted as host of ''It Takes Two (Australian TV series), It Takes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kylie Gillies
Kylie Gillies (born 4 May 1967) is Australian television presenter for the Seven Network, based in Sydney, Australia. Gillies is the co-host of '' The Morning Show'' with Larry Emdur. Career Gillies was born in Tamworth and attended Tamworth High School. She started working as a researcher at radio statio2TM then began working as a reporter, producer and news presenter for Prime Television for ten years. Her first role at Seven was an assistant producer on ''Seven's Late News'' with Anne Fulwood. Prior to '' The Morning Show'', Gillies was on '' Sportsworld'' as the sports news presenter. Gillies has also been a reporter for Seven's Australian Open Tennis coverage, providing the weather and the sports reports for each day of the Open. In December 2006, Kylie was a regular presenter of the weekend sport report on Sydney's edition of ''Seven News.'' She has also been a fill in presenter on ''Sunrise'', ''Weekend Sunrise'', '' Seven Morning News'', '' Seven 4.30 News, Today Tonigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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