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Stephen Hall (actor)
Stephen Hall (born 17 May 1969) is an Australian actor, writer and producer. Career Television Hall's career in television includes acting, writing and production duties. He was the host of Under Melbourne Tonight, a weekly live variety hour television program produced by RMITV that broadcast on C31 Melbourne from 1993 to 1998. He has appeared in the long-running television series '' Neighbours'', and in 2008 he performed the role of Warren in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) television comedy series ''The Hollowmen'' "Warren: ''Departmental Under-Secretary''" in "Who's Who" at '''' Official Website. |
CBS Interactive
Paramount Streaming (formerly CBS Digital Media Group, CBS Interactive, ViacomCBS Streaming), a division of Paramount Global, oversees the company’s streaming technology and offers direct-to-consumer services, free, premium and pay. These include Pluto TV, which has more than 250 live and original channels, and Paramount+, a subscription service that combines breaking news, live sports, and premium entertainment. History As CBS Interactive On May 30, 2007, CBS Interactive acquired Last.fm for £140 million (US$280 million). On June 30, 2008, CNET, CNET Networks was acquired by CBS and the assets were merged into CBS Interactive, including Metacritic, GameSpot, TV.com, and Movietome. On March 15, 2012, it was announced that CBS Interactive acquired video game-based website Giant Bomb and comic book-based website Comic Vine from Whiskey Media, who sold off their other remaining websites to BermanBraun. This occasion marked the return of video game journalism, video game jou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exchange Student Zero
''Exchange Student Zero'' is an Australian television film that premiered on 16 December 2012 on Cartoon Network. Created by Bruce Kane with Maurice Argiro and produced by Bogan Entertainment Solutions, in association with Cartoon Network Asia Pacific, it is the first local animated made production to be commissioned by the channel. A TV series based on the film was announced as the first Cartoon Network show produced in Australia, where the two original creators joins Patrick Crawley. It premiered in the Asia-Pacific region on 26 September 2015, and the setting was changed from Perth, Australia to a U.S. town called South Port. Voice cast Film (2012) Main * Dee Bradley Baker - Amonsun, Monsters * Natalie Bond - Lucinda, Anime Girls #1 * Patrick Crawley - Biology Teacher, Real Exchange Student * Marg Downey - Peg, Happy Peach Flower, Drama Teacher * Scott Edgar - Principal Rogerson * Mark Hamill - King Karuta, King Blackyard * Edwin Kane - Leroy * Kate McLennan - Charity, Anim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monster Beach
''Monster Beach'' is an Australian television series created by Bruce Kane, Maurice Argiro (who also created '' Kitty Is Not a Cat'') and Patrick Crawley, which first premiered as a 70 minute TV special on Cartoon Network on 31 October 2014 and was then later commissioned as a full series airing in 2020. Originally produced by the companies Bogan Entertainment Solutions (later Studio Moshi) and Fragrant Gumtree Entertainment (in association with Cartoon Network Asia Pacific), it's the second locally animated production to be commissioned by the channel after ''Exchange Student Zero''. It was released on DVD on 1 June 2016 from Madman Entertainment. In 2017, a series was greenlit by Cartoon Network for a 52 episode TV series consisting of 11 minute episodes; a pilot episode based on the televised film itself was announced but never released. The series started airing on Cartoon Network Australia on 11 April 2020 and won Best Animated TV Programme at the 2020 Content Asia Awards. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fawlty Towers
''Fawlty Towers'' is a British television sitcom written by John Cleese and Connie Booth, broadcast on BBC2 in 1975 and 1979. Two series of six episodes each were made. The show was ranked first on a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000 and, in 2019, it was named the greatest ever British TV sitcom by a panel of comedy experts compiled by the ''Radio Times''.Mattha Busby, 9 April 2019"Fawlty Towers named greatest ever British TV sitcom" ''The Guardian'', Retrieved 24 May 2019 The series is set in Fawlty Towers, a fictional hotel in the seaside town of Torquay on the English Riviera. The plots centre on the tense, rude and put-upon owner Basil Fawlty (Cleese), his bossy wife Sybil (Prunella Scales), the sensible chambermaid Polly (Booth) who often is the peacemaker and voice of reason, and the hapless and English-challenged Spanish waiter Manuel (Andrew Sachs). They show their attempts to run the hotel amidst far ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basil Fawlty
Basil Fawlty is the main character of the 1970s British sitcom ''Fawlty Towers'', played by John Cleese. The proprietor of the hotel Fawlty Towers, he is a cynical and misanthropic snob, desperate to belong to a higher social class. His attempts to run the hotel often end in farce. Possessing a dry, sarcastic wit, Basil has become an iconic British comedy character who remains widely known to the public despite only 12 half-hour episodes ever having been made. Cleese would receive the 1980 British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance. In a 2001 poll conducted by Channel 4, Basil was ranked second on their list of the 100 Greatest TV Characters. Known for his quotable rants, the character was inspired by Donald Sinclair, an eccentric, inhospitable hotel owner whom Cleese had encountered when he stayed at his hotel (Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay, England) along with the rest of Monty Python in May 1970. Personality Basil, who runs the titular hotel in Torqua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cleese
John Marwood Cleese ( ; born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. Emerging from the Cambridge Footlights in the 1960s, he first achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and as a scriptwriter and performer on ''The Frost Report''. In the late 1960s, he co-founded Monty Python, the comedy troupe responsible for the sketch show '' Monty Python's Flying Circus.'' Along with his Python co-stars Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and Graham Chapman, Cleese starred in Monty Python films, which include '' Monty Python and the Holy Grail'' (1975), ''Life of Brian'' (1979) and ''Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, The Meaning of Life'' (1983). In the mid-1970s, Cleese and first wife Connie Booth co-wrote the sitcom ''Fawlty Towers'', in which he starred as hotel owner Basil Fawlty, for which he won the 1980 British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance. In 2000 the show topped the British Film Inst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spamalot
''Spamalot'' (also known as ''Monty Python's Spamalot'') is a musical comedy with music by John Du Prez and Eric Idle, and lyrics and book by Idle. It is adapted from the 1975 film ''Monty Python and the Holy Grail''. Like the motion picture, it is a highly irreverent parody of the Arthurian legend, but it differs from the film in many ways. The original 2005 Broadway production, directed by Mike Nichols, received 14 Tony Awards nominations, winning in three categories, including Best Musical. During its initial run of 1,575 performances, it was seen by more than two million people and grossed over $175 million. Tim Curry starred as King Arthur in the original Broadway and West End productions. It was one of eight UK musicals commemorated on Royal Mail stamps, issued in February 2011. A Paramount Pictures film adaptation, directed by Casey Nicholaw in his directorial debut from a script by Idle, was in pre-production as of 2021. Synopsis Before the show A recording encour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Now Add Honey
''Now Add Honey'' is a 2015 Australian comedy film written by Robyn Butler and directed by Wayne Hope. The film stars Butler, Lucy Fry, Portia de Rossi, Lucy Durack, Hamish Blake, Angus Sampson and Erik Thomson. Butler was nominated for the AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role at the 5th AACTA Awards. Cast * Robyn Butler as Caroline Morgan * Lucy Fry as Honey Halloway * Portia de Rossi as Beth Halloway * Lucy Durack as Katie Halloway * Hamish Blake as Alex Kilstein * Erik Thomson as Richard Morgan * Angus Sampson as Mick Croyston * Ben Lawson as Joshua Redlich * Robbie Magasiva as Sebastian Tasi * Philippa Coulthard as Clare Morgan * David Field as Roger Gardam * Lucinda Armstrong Hall as Harriet Morgan * Ben Schumann as Liam * Sandy Gore as Diane * Luke McGregor as Charles * Stephen Hall as Hotel Concierge * Tim Potter as Eric * Heidi Arena as Rhonda * Dave Thornton as Detective Smith * Emily Taheny as Detective Davis * Marty Sheargold as Gavin * Faustina Agolley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wog Boy
''The Wog Boy'' is a 2000 Australian comedy film directed by Aleksi Vellis and starring Nick Giannopoulos, Vince Colosimo, Lucy Bell, Abi Tucker, Stephen Curry, Tony Nikolakopoulos and Derryn Hinch. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2000 the soundtrack was nominated for Best Original Soundtrack Album.ARIA Award previous winners. It is the first part of Giannopoulous's eponymous ''Wog Boys Trilogy'' (aka "The Blue Valiant Trilogy") preceding '' Wog Boy 2: Kings of Mykonos'', ''and'' the 2022 released final installment in the series, ''Wog Boys Forever.'' Plot Steve (Nick Giannopoulos) is a first-generation Greek Australian. Steve is unemployed, but manages to get by, helping out here and there. His pride and joy is his VF Valiant Pacer. Whilst helping out a compensation-oriented neighbour, Steve has a minor car accident involving the Minister for Employment, vampily played by Geraldine Turner. The net result of this encounter is twofold: Steve gets to meet Celia ( Lucy Bell) whom h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romper Stomper
''Romper Stomper'' is a 1992 Australian drama film written and directed by Geoffrey Wright in his feature film directorial debut. The film stars Russell Crowe, Daniel Pollock, Jacqueline McKenzie, Tony Le-Nguyen and Colin Chin. The film tells the story of the exploits and downfall of a neo-Nazi group in blue-collar suburban Melbourne. The film was released on 12 November 1992. Plot A gang of violent young neo-Nazi skinheads from Footscray, Victoria, Australia attack three Vietnamese Australian teenagers in a tunnel at Footscray Station, brutally beating two of them. The gang is led by Hando, a violent, reckless, and unpredictable psychopath with strong white nationalist beliefs and homicidal tendencies, with his friend and second-in-command, the quiet, reserved, but similarly violent Davey. At their local pub, Hando and Davey meet Gabrielle, who suffers from poorly controlled epilepsy, the day after her sexually abusive, affluent father Martin has her junkie boyfriend arreste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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