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Perfect Match (Australian Game Show)
''Perfect Match Australia'' is an Australian dating game show based on the format of the American game show ''The Dating Game''. ''Perfect Match'' was produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation. It originally aired on Network Ten for 30 minutes most weekdays from 5:30pm between 1984 and 1989. The format was revived in Australia for subsequent programs ''Blind Date'' based on its US counterpart on Network Ten in 1991, and again a revised version of ''Perfect Match'' this time airing on the Seven Network in 2002 premiering on 24 August. Overview The show featured the same format as international versions ''The Dating Game'' and ''Blind Date'', with a contestant determining their "perfect match" by asking three potential suitors of the opposite sex hidden behind a screen a number of scripted compatibility questions. Each episode featured two different rounds. One featured a male asking questions of three unseen females, the other had one female asking questions of three male contest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dating Game Show
Dating game shows are game shows that incorporates a variety of matchmaking systems and services in the form of a game with clear rules. Human matchmaking is involved only in selecting the game's contestants, who are usually selected more for the amusement value than any concern for their happiness or compatibility. The audience sees only the game; an important feature of all dating game shows is that the contestants have little or no previous knowledge of each other, and are exposed to each other only through the game, which may include viewing a photograph or at least knowing the basic criteria for participation (typically participants are not already married). There have been a number of dating shows aired on television over the years, using a variety of formats and rules. They are presented for the entertainment of the viewers. As the genre progressed, the format developed towards a reality-style show and more into a relationship show than simply finding a mate. History The d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Wrestling Entertainment
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) is an American professional wrestling promotion. It is owned and operated by TKO Group Holdings, a majority-owned subsidiary of Endeavor Group Holdings. A global integrated media and entertainment company, WWE has also branched out into fields outside of wrestling, including film, football, and other business ventures, such as licensing its intellectual property to other companies to produce video games and action figures. As in other professional wrestling promotions, WWE does not promote a legitimate sporting contest but rather entertainment-based performance theater, featuring storyline-driven, scripted, and partially choreographed matches; however, matches often include moves that put performers at risk of serious injury or death if not performed correctly. The pre-determined aspect of professional wrestling (an industry open secret) was publicly acknowledged by WWE in 1989 to avoid regulation by athletic commissions. WWE markets it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Craic
''The Craic'' (stylised as ''The Craíc''; pronounced ) is a 1999 Australian comedy film starring stand-up comedian Jimeoin with Alan McKee, directed by Ted Emery. Plot It is 1988, and two best friends from Ireland—Fergus Montagu (Jimeoin) and Wesley Murray (McKee)—flee from Belfast after a violent confrontation with Colin (Robert Morgan) of the IRA and illegally enter Australia, finding seasonal work picking fruit at orchards to afford hostels, sustenance and booze costs (but so cash-strapped, their whiskey and cokes are made by taking swigs of whiskey and coke, mixing the two on the fly in their mouth), the last often used to dull the two's fear of immigration officers. After some gentle persuasion, Fergus goes on a TV dating game show and wins a trip to Queensland. This, however, occurs just as the pair's apartment is raided by immigration officer Derek Johnson (Nicolas Bell), and Wesley is forced to escape, eventually reuniting with his friend in Queensland. Meanwhi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV3 (New Zealand)
Three (), stylised as +HR=E, is a New Zealand nationwide television channel. Launched on 26 November 1989 as TV3, it was New Zealand's first private broadcasting, privately owned television channel. The channel currently broadcasts nationally (with regional advertising targeting four markets) in digital free-to-air form via the state-owned Kordia on terrestrial and satellite. Vodafone also carries the channel for their cable subscribers in Wellington and Christchurch. It previously broadcast nationally on analogue television until that was switched off on 1 December 2013. Three is a general entertainment channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery New Zealand, with a news element under the banner of ThreeNews. Three carries a significant amount of local content, most of which airs at prime-time. History Establishment Applications to apply for warrants to operate New Zealand's third national television network opened in early 1985 and closed on 29 March 1985. There were four regio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Scott (Australia)
Keith Scott (born 29 October 1953) is an Australian voice actor, comedian, impressionist and animation historian. Career At a young age, Scott was always enchanted by the mimics and impressionists on ''The Ed Sullivan Show''. He began developing his ability to impersonate voices in high school, doing cartoon characters (the first of which being Mr. Jinks) and teacher's voices. In October 1972, just after leaving school, Scott was hired by William Hanna, the head of Hanna-Barbera, which had established a large animation studio in Sydney, Australia. He got the gig when he brought in some letters that he had received from Daws Butler (voice of Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, etc.) in December 1970. Hanna gave him a letter of recommendation when he was retrenched from the H-B office, and his name was such a credible one that it got Scott an instant agent, and his voice-over career began. In 1974, Scott began doing either impersonations or original character voices in many anonymous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robot
A robot is a machine—especially one Computer program, programmable by a computer—capable of carrying out a complex series of actions Automation, automatically. A robot can be guided by an external control device, or the robot control, control may be embedded within. Robots may be constructed to evoke Humanoid robot, human form, but most robots are task-performing machines, designed with an emphasis on stark functionality, rather than expressive aesthetics. Robots can be autonomous robot, autonomous or semi-autonomous and range from humanoids such as Honda's ''Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility'' (ASIMO) and TOSY's ''TOSY Ping Pong Playing Robot'' (TOPIO) to industrial robots, robot-assisted surgery, medical operating robots, patient assist robots, dog therapy robots, collectively programmed Swarm robotics, ''swarm'' robots, UAV drones such as General Atomics MQ-1 Predator, and even microscopic Nanorobotics, nanorobots. By mimicking a lifelike appearance or automating mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agro (puppet)
Agro is an Australian puppet and media personality, not owned although operated by comedian and voice artist Jamie Dunn. He was especially prominent on Australian television in the 1990s due to his co-hosting opposite Ann-Maree Biggar and Terasa Livingstone of '' Agro's Cartoon Connection'', a children's program that was aired from 1990 to 1997 on weekday mornings on the Seven Network. Name and personality The word "agro" (also spelled "aggro") is Australian slang for "aggression" or "aggravation". Agro is sometimes said to have the surname Vation, though the puppet is rarely credited with a surname. Agro's humour tends to be adult, with much sexual suggestion, cursing and uninhibited behaviour. He has often appeared with an innocent-acting female offsider, who is subjected to mocking and innuendo. His pre-taped performances in shows intended for a juvenile or family audience were vetted before broadcast, but in the adult-oriented shows (and in the Christmas tapes of '' Agr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Courier-Mail
''The Courier-Mail'' is an Australian newspaper published in Brisbane. Owned by News Corp Australia, it is published daily from Monday to Saturday in tabloid format. Its editorial offices are located at Bowen Hills, in Brisbane's inner northern suburbs, and it is printed at Yandina on the Sunshine Coast. It is available for purchase both online and in paper form throughout Queensland and most regions of Northern New South Wales. History 19th century origins The history of ''The Courier-Mail'' is through four mastheads. The '' Moreton Bay Courier'' later became '' The Courier'', then the '' Brisbane Courier'' and, since a merger with the ''Daily Mail'' in 1933, ''The Courier-Mail''. The ''Moreton Bay Courier'' was established as a weekly paper in June 1846. Its first editorial promised to "make known the wants of the community ... to rouse the apathetic, to inform the ignorant ... to transmit truthful representations of the state of this unrivalled portion of the colony to o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicky Buckley
Nicole Maree Louise Buckley-Bingham (born 25 November 1965) is an Australian television presenter and model. Buckley is best known for co-hosting ''Sale of the Century'' for six years from 1994 until 1999. Career In 1991, Buckley co-hosted a revival of Network 10 dating show '' Perfect Match'' called ''Blind Date'' with Greg Evans. After six months in the role, Buckley was replaced by Ankie Nordberg. In 2025, Buckley claimed she was "shattered" and "embarrassed" when she lost the job on ''Blind Date'', which prompted her to have acting and voice lessons. In late 1991, Buckley starred in an adaption of Jerome McDonough's play ''Juvie.'' At the end of 1993, five ''Sale of the Century'' models were given a chance to co-host in the final week, with Buckley being the successful candidate. After commencing her role on ''Sale of the Century'' in 1994, Buckley guest-starred on the Nine Network sitcom ''The Bob Morrison Show.'' In October 1995, Buckley became the face of a nation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerrie Friend
Kerrie Friend (born 2 October 1963) is an Australian model and TV presenter best known for co-hosting '' Wheel of Fortune'' and '' Perfect Match''. accessed 16 June 2014 References External links * Australian television presenters Australian women television presenters Australian female models[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiffany Lamb
Tiffany Lamb (born 22 September 1966) is an Australian model, actress, and TV presenter. She is best known for co-hosting '' Perfect Match'', and starring in '' Flipper – The New Adventures'' and '' Paradise Beach''. Career Lamb was a co-host on '' Perfect Match''. She has guested in various television serials, including ''Rafferty's Rules'', '' The Flying Doctors'', and ''Home and Away''. She has also appeared in '' Mission: Impossible''. In 1990, she starred in the American action adventure series '' E.A.R.T.H. Force'', which was cancelled after six episodes. In 1992, Lamb had a recurring role in ''Neighbours'' as Jacqueline Summers. From 1993 until 1994, she played Lisa Whitman in the Nine Network Nine Network (stylised 9Network, and 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 the five main free-to-air television ... soap opera '' Paradise Beach' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Debbie Newsome
Debbie Newsome (born 1960) is an Australian singer and former television personality, best known as the co-host with Greg Evans of the reality dating show '' Perfect Match''. Biography and career Newsome is a mother of two (Tara Pavlovic & Troy Pavlovic) from her former husband, Bob Pavlovic. She is now married to Mark Learmonth, and lives in Central Coast, New South Wales, Australia. Newsome is best known for her role as a co-host on '' Perfect Match'' In 1989, Newsome launched the 'Debbie Newsome Show', produced by Dee Lampe, initially partnering with New Zealand singer Lou Pihama at the North Sydney Leagues Club with Derek Williams as arranger and musical director, before touring New South Wales with Williams and his 8 piece showband. This marked her transition from the screen to the stage, and she now works as a singer, performing a Janis Joplin tribute show. Newsome also appeared in the James Bond movie '' For Your Eyes Only''. In July 2017, Newsome was interviewedBenn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
