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Starchild Productions
{{Unref, date=March 2023 Starchild is a Sydney production company making drama and comedy for television, plus commercials, online content and music videos. Started in 2005, the company specialises in capturing Australian personalities and humour in their work. Starchild's achievements include AFI awards for their ABC comedy ''Review with Myles Barlow'', winning the Optus MTV ONE80PROJECT with ''Dungoona'', and ARIA and Grammy Award nominations for their music videos. List of notable works 2011 * ''This Week at Woolworths'' (commercials) * ''Fresh Market Update'' (long-running series of Woolworths commercials) * ''Free'' (Music video for Pete Murray) * ''Always a Winner'' (Music video for Pete Murray) * ''Our Ad'' (TV Commercial for The Starlight Foundation) 2010 ''Review with Myles Barlow Series II''(ABC TV comedy) * ''MTV Snow Jam'' (Live concert produced in Thredbo, NSW) 2009 ''Dungoona''(1hr Drama) (Winner Optus MTV ONE80PROJECT) * ''Last Day on Earth'' (ARIA-nominated M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woolworths (supermarket)
Woolworths Supermarkets (colloquially known in Australia as "Woolies") is an Australian chain of supermarkets and grocery stores owned by Woolworths Group. Founded in 1924, Woolworths today is Australia's biggest supermarket chain with a market share of 33% as of 2019. Woolworths specialises in groceries (vegetables, fruit, meat, packaged foods, etc.), but also sells magazines, DVDs, health and beauty products, household products, pet and baby supplies, and stationery. As of the end of June 2020, there were 987 Woolworths supermarkets and 64 Woolworths Metro convenience stores. Woolworths Online (formerly HomeShop) is a "click and collect" and home delivery service for Woolworths supermarkets. In 2014, Woolworths' slogan became "The Fresh Food People". History Woolworths Limited (now Woolworths Group) was founded on 22 September 1924 by five Australian entrepreneursPercy Christmas, Stanley Chatterton, Cecil Scott Waine, George Creed and Ernest Williams. The first store was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Murray (Australian Singer-songwriter)
Peter Kenneth Murray (born 14 October 1969) is an Australian musician who has had three albums reach number 1 on the Australian (ARIA) charts. Murray has received 17 ARIA nominations throughout his career so far. He has sold over 1.2 million albums in Australia. Biography 1969–2002: Early life and career beginnings Peter Kenneth Murray was born in Chinchilla, on 14 October 1969. His mother is Jan and he has a sister. When Murray was 16 the family moved to Brisbane. He attended St Joseph's College, Nudgee, for his final two years of secondary schooling. At the college, Murray showed talent in rugby union, athletics, and swimming. He briefly played for Brisbane club rugby for GPS and Brothers. When he was 18, his father died of a heart attack, Murray was contesting the Australian championships of the 400 meters. While on the sidelines, Murray started to learn the guitar at age 22. Eventually, he worked up the courage to take his guitar to a barbecue singing songs by Neil Young a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Starlight Children's Foundation
Starlight Children's Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded in 1982. Starlight's programs include providing hospital wear, games, and deliveries to hospitalized children. The programs are provided directly to children through Starlight's network of more than 700 children's hospitals and other community health partners throughout the world. Starlight's US operations are based in Los Angeles, California. Starlight also operates in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and possibly other countries, though their websites are unclear about their global operations. Programs The non-profit's programs aim to deliver happiness to seriously ill kids and include specially manufactured Starlight Nintendo Gaming Stations for hospital use, Disney Princess-themed hospital wear, and Starlight Radio Flyer Hero Wagons with an IV pole attachment. History Starlight Children's Foundation was founded in 1982 by filmmaker Peter Samuelson and actress Emma Samms, who was inspired by her 8-year-o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MTV Snow Jam
MTV (Originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable channel that launched on August 1, 1981. Based in New York City, it serves as the flagship property of the MTV Entertainment Group, part of Paramount Media Networks, a division of Paramount Global. The channel originally aired music videos and related programming as guided by television personalities known as video jockeys, or VJs. In the years since its inception, it significantly toned down its focus on music in favor of original reality programming for teenagers and young adults. Since early 2020, MTV has devoted most of its programming schedule to a single program, '' Ridiculousness'', which in June 2020 aired "for 113 hours out of the network’s entire 168-hour lineup". MTV has spawned numerous sister channels in the United States and affiliated channels internationally, some of which have since gone independent. Approximately 90.6 million households in the US received MTV as of January 2017 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
