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The Project (New Zealand TV Programme)
''The Project'' is a New Zealand current affairs show hosted by Jesse Mulligan, Kanoa Lloyd, and Jeremy Corbett with rotating guest panelists. It premiered on 20 February 2017 as a replacement for ''Story'' and airs from 7 pm weeknights on Three. The show runs for half an hour. It was simulcast on RadioLive, Monday – Thursday, until 5 June 2017. The show's format was purchased from Roving Enterprises and is the same as that of the Australian version, '' The Project'', which airs on Network Ten. It presents light and topical current affairs content as well as comedy from recent news stories. Presenters Backup presenters * As anchor ** Jon Bridges ** Michael Wesley-Smith ** Wallace Chapman ** Patrick Gower ** Ryan Bridge ** Nadine Higgins * As newsreader ** Nadine Higgins (née Chalmers-Ross) ** Mike McRoberts ** Ali Mau ** Nadine Higgins ** Isobel Ewing ** Jeremy Corbett ** Kate Rodger ** Laura Tupou * As comedian ** Ben Hurley ** Peter Helliar ** Jeremy Elwoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Project (Australian TV Program)
''The Project'' (previously ''The 7PM Project'' from 2009 to 2011) is an Australian news- current affairs and talk show television panel program, airing weeknights across Australia on Network 10, produced by Roving Enterprises. The show is hosted by Waleed Aly, Sarah Harris, Georgie Tunny, and Hamish Macdonald with rotating daily guest panellists. The one-hour show, formerly half-hour, premiered on 20 July 2009 and airs live in the eastern states with delays in other states (including Queensland during daylight saving). It is broadcast Monday to Friday from Network 10's studio in The Como Centre, South Yarra, Melbourne and Sundays from Network 10's Sydney studios at Pyrmont. ''The Project'' draws its content and comedy from recent news stories and offers a sometimes alternative view to mainstream, sponsored news stories. It runs for 51 weeks of the year, taking brief breaks during the Christmas and New Year period. ''The Project'' (as of 2017) has won numerous accolades, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Helliar
Peter Jason Matthew Helliar (born 16 June 1975) is an Australian comedian, actor, television, radio presenter, writer, producer and director. He is best known for his work on television as a former regular co-host of '' The Project'' on Network Ten from January 2014 to December 2022, replacing previous presenter Dave Hughes to host alongside Carrie Bickmore, Waleed Aly and Lisa Wilkinson. Helliar also appeared with Rove McManus as his sidekick on ''The Loft Live'' from 1997 to 1998, on ''Rove'' from 1999 and 2009 and in ''Before the Game'' as alter ego Bryan Strauchan. Helliar initially worked the Melbourne comedy circuit in the mid-1990s, performing in various venues and the annual Melbourne International Comedy Festival. He has performed in numerous television ads, most notably for Fernwood Fitness. Helliar has been nominated for the Gold Logie, a prestigious award bestowed upon the Most Popular Personality on Television in 2017. Television Helliar has made guest appearances ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacinda Ardern
Jacinda Kate Laurell Ardern ( ; born 26 July 1980) is a New Zealand politician who has been serving as the 40th prime minister of New Zealand and leader of the Labour Party since 2017. A member of the Labour Party, she has been the member of Parliament (MP) for Mount Albert since 2017. Born in Hamilton, Ardern grew up in Morrinsville and Murupara. She joined the Labour Party at the age of 17. After graduating from the University of Waikato in 2001, Ardern worked as a researcher in the office of Prime Minister Helen Clark. She later worked in London as an adviser in the Cabinet Office. In 2008, Ardern was elected president of the International Union of Socialist Youth. Ardern was first elected as an MP in the 2008 general election, when Labour lost power after nine years. She was later elected to represent the Mount Albert electorate in a by-election on 25 February 2017. Ardern was unanimously elected as deputy leader of the Labour Party on 1 March 2017, after the resig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wedding Of Prince Harry And Meghan Markle
The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle was held on Saturday 19 May 2018 in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in the United Kingdom. The groom is a member of the British royal family; the bride is American and previously worked as an actress, blogger, charity ambassador, and advocate. On the morning of the wedding, Prince Harry's grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, conferred upon him the titles of Duke of Sussex, Earl of Dumbarton and Baron Kilkeel. On her marriage, Markle gained the style Her Royal Highness and titles Duchess of Sussex, Countess of Dumbarton and Baroness Kilkeel. Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, officiated at the wedding using the standard Anglican church service for Holy Matrimony published in '' Common Worship'', a liturgical text of the Church of England. The traditional ceremony was noted for the inclusion of African-American culture. Announcement of engagement Prince Harry is the second son of King Charles III and Diana, Princess of Wales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven Sharp
''Seven Sharp'' is a half-hour-long New Zealand current affairs programme produced by Television New Zealand. The programme was created after the discontinuation of ''Close Up''. It is broadcast live from the TVNZ studio it shares with ''1 News'' in Auckland, at 7 pm (straight after '' 1 News at Six'') every weekday on TVNZ 1. ''Seven Sharp'' typically presents 3 stories within a 30-minute timeslot every weeknight, and is designed to be more integrated with social media and real time opinions than its predecessor. ''Seven Sharp'' competes mostly with Three's current affairs show '' The Project''; it also shares its time slot with sister channel TVNZ 2's drama ''Shortland Street'', and Prime's '' The Crowd Goes Wild''. The show is currently presented by Hilary Barry and Jeremy Wells. Toni Street and Mike Hosking left the show in December 2017. Previous fill-in presenters have included Pippa Wetzell, Melissa Stokes, Sam Wallace, Tim Wilson, Carolyn Robinson, Erin Conroy, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Hellier
Peter Jason Matthew Helliar (born 16 June 1975) is an Australian comedian, actor, television, radio presenter, writer, producer and director. He is best known for his work on television as a former regular co-host of '' The Project'' on Network Ten from January 2014 to December 2022, replacing previous presenter Dave Hughes to host alongside Carrie Bickmore, Waleed Aly and Lisa Wilkinson. Helliar also appeared with Rove McManus as his sidekick on ''The Loft Live'' from 1997 to 1998, on ''Rove'' from 1999 and 2009 and in ''Before the Game'' as alter ego Bryan Strauchan. Helliar initially worked the Melbourne comedy circuit in the mid-1990s, performing in various venues and the annual Melbourne International Comedy Festival. He has performed in numerous television ads, most notably for Fernwood Fitness. Helliar has been nominated for the Gold Logie, a prestigious award bestowed upon the Most Popular Personality on Television in 2017. Television Helliar has made guest appearances ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaquie Brown
Jaquie Brown is a New Zealand TV presenter, actress and radio presenter. Biography Brown was born in England and moved to New Zealand when she was fifteen.NZ On Screen - Jaquie Brown NZ On ScreenJaquie Brown: Actor Profile Johnson Laird Brown began volunteering at bFM when she was eighteen and did a variety of tasks, including presenting radio shows and hosting talkback. Her first television appearance was the late-night TV show Space on TV2, which she co-hosted for three seasons with and then |
Paul Ego
Paul Ego (birth name Paul Jones) is a Billy T Award winning New Zealand comedian. He is best known both for his current role as leader of Team One on the New Zealand comedy current affairs panel show 7 Days, and as the voice artist of the Stickman in television advertisements for PAK'nSAVE supermarket. Ego's first gig was in London in 1994 and upon returning to New Zealand in 1995 he soon became a regular sight on the pro-comedy skyline. Ego's Breakfast Radio career began in 2000 with his role on the Kim & Corbett Breakfast Show on Auckland's More FM. His role on the award-winning show involved writing comedy scripts and voicing many of the shows regular characters. In 2006 Paul moved to NZ's Rock Network and he is now one quarter of ’The Morning Rumble’, the 1 Music Breakfast Show in the country. According to his website, he was "parolled in 2011,", in order to "get to know his family again in the mornings." In the early months of 2013 he co-starred alongside Jeremy Corbett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jono Pryor
Jonathan Richard "Jono" Pryor is a New Zealand radio and television personality best known as the cohost of ''Jono and Ben''. Pryor worked for The Rock radio station for over 15 years, before moving to The Edge in 2017 to cohost ''The Edge Afternoons with Jono, Ben & Sharyn'' with Ben Boyce and Sharyn Casey. Pryor starred in ''Amped'' and ''The Jono Project'' on C4, before he began co-hosting ''Jono and Ben at Ten'' on Three alongside Boyce in 2012. In 2015, the show moved to prime time at 7:30pm, re-branded as ''Jono and Ben''. The show was cancelled at the end of 2018. Pryor and Boyce now host the breakfast show on The Hits, and soon a TV show on TVNZ. Personal life Jono Pryor is married to Jennifer with whom he has two children, son Oscar John Pryor (born roughly 21 February 2010) and daughter Poppy Pryor (born 3 November 2012). See also * List of New Zealand television personalities This is a list of New Zealand television personalities, including presenters and journal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark "Chopper" Read
Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read (17 November 1954 – 9 October 2013) was an Australian convicted criminal, gang member and author. Read wrote a series of semi-autobiographical fictional crime novels and children's books. The 2000 film '' Chopper'' is based on his life. Early life Read was born on 17 November 1954 to a former army and World War II veteran father Keith Read of Irish descent and a mother who was a devout Seventh-day Adventist. He was placed in a children's home for the first five years of his life. He grew up in the Melbourne suburbs of Collingwood and Fitzroy. He was bullied at school, saying that by the age of 15 he had been on the "losing end of several hundred fights" and that his father, usually on his mother's recommendation, beat him often as a child. Read had been molested as a child. Read was made a ward of the state by the age of 14 and was placed in several mental institutions as a teenager, where he stated he underwent electroshock therapy. Criminal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heath Franklin
Heath Franklin (born 23 December 1980) is an Australian comedic performer, improviser and writer. Career He appeared on ''The Ronnie Johns Half Hour'' sketch comedy show, ABC TV's ''Spicks and Specks (TV series), Spicks and Specks'', Working Dog's ''Thank God You're Here'' and in New Zealand, on ''7 Days (New Zealand), 7 Days''. He also appeared in the show ''Randling'' with the teammate: Felicity Ward. Heath is in the team: Ducks of war. He is best known for his impersonation of the infamous Australian criminal Mark Brandon "Chopper Read, Chopper" Read. In 2010, Franklin starred in the New Zealand crime comedy, ''Predicament (2010 film), Predicament''. Career appearances TV appearances As 'stage persona', "Chopper Read" * Network Ten ''The Panel (Australian TV series), The Christmas Panel'' special (2006) * The Comedy Channel's ''Stand Up Australia'' (2007). * The Comedy Channel's Cracker Festival Gala (2008) * C4's ''Jono's New Show'', New Zealand (2009) * The Comedy Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Williams (comedian)
Guy Malachi Jones Williams (born 19 September 1987) is a New Zealand comedian and television personality. Williams was a co-host on satirical news and entertainment television programme ''Jono and Ben'', until the show's end in 2018. In 2019, he began hosting '' New Zealand Today,'' a show detailing the lives and events of New Zealand towns and the people who live in them. Early life Williams was born in Christchurch to Gary and Roseanne Williams, and moved to Nelson when he was twelve months old. He attended primary school at St Joseph's School, and was educated at Nelson College from 2001 to 2005; in 2005 he travelled to Gallipoli with Prime Minister Helen Clark after winning a student essay competition. He was a member of the school's 'A' basketball team from 2003 to 2005.''Nelson College Old Boys' Register, 1856–2006'', 6th edition He attended Victoria University of Wellington, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in political science in 2011. While at Vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
