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Brendan Maher (director)
Brendan Maher is a director of numerous episodes of Australian television series and several British TV series and feature films. He directed episodes of ''Five Mile Creek'' (c. 1985), ''The Flying Doctors'' (c. 1986), ''Glass Babies'' (1985) and '' Skirts'' (1990). Later Australian credits include the TV series '' Tomorrow, When the War Began'', ''Sisters of War'', ''The Cooks'', ''White Collar Blue'' and ''The Secret Life of Us''; also the telemovies ''Secret Bridesmaids' Business'' and an adaptation of ''Society Murders''. He directed the series '' Outlander'', and '' The Passing Bells'' for the BBC, also episodes of ''Spartacus'', '' Upstairs Downstairs'', ''Silent Witness'', and a TV adaptation of '' Wide Sargasso Sea''. Recognition Maher won AFI awards for Best Director for ''The Road from Coorain'' and ''After the Deluge''; also an Australian Directors Guild Award for Best Direction in a TV Mini-Series for ''Dirt Game ''Dirt Game'' is an Australian drama television ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Five Mile Creek
''Five Mile Creek'' is a western television drama series adapted from Louis L'Amour's novel ''The Cherokee Trail'' and produced in Australia. It starred Liz Burch, Louise Caire Clark, Rod Mullinar, Jay Kerr, Michael Caton, Peter Carroll, Gus Mercurio, Martin Lewis, Priscilla Weems and Nicole Kidman. It also featured a then-unknown Asher Keddie in her film debut. Jonathan Frakes was a guest star as Maggie's estranged husband, Adam Scott. The series aired on the Disney Channel in the US in the 1980s. Main cast * Louise Caire Clark ... Maggie Scott *Liz Burch ... Kate Wallace * Jay Kerr ... Con Madigan *Rod Mullinar ... Jack Taylor * Michael Caton ... Paddy Malone *Gus Mercurio ... Ben Jones * Priscilla Weems ... Hannah Scott * Martin Lewis ... Sam Sawyer *Nicole Kidman ... Annie * Peter Carroll ... Charles Withers * Scott McGregor ... Edward Armstrong Production The first two seasons cost $12 million to make. The show was popular on the Disney Channel in the US bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Outlander (TV Series)
''Outlander'' is a historical drama television series based on the '' Outlander'' novel series by Diana Gabaldon. Developed by Ronald D. Moore, the show premiered on August 9, 2014, on Starz. It stars Caitríona Balfe as Claire Randall, a former Second World War military nurse in Scotland who, in 1945, finds herself transported back in time to 1743. There she encounters, falls in love with and marries a dashing Highland warrior named Jamie Fraser ( Sam Heughan), a tacksman of Gabaldon's fictionalized version of Clan Fraser of Lovat and becomes embroiled in the Jacobite rising. The 16-episode first season of the television series (released as two half-seasons) is based on the first novel in the series, '' Outlander''. The second season of 13 episodes, based on '' Dragonfly in Amber'', aired from April to July 2016. The 13-episode third season, based on ''Voyager'', aired from September to December 2017. The 13-episode fourth season, based on '' Drums of Autumn'', aired fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirt Game
''Dirt Game'' is an Australian drama television series that screened on the ABC. It starred Joel Edgerton and Freya Stafford. The series contains six 50-minute episodes. It was written by Michael Harvey and produced by David Taft and Michael Harvey. It was directed by Brendan Maher and Grant Brown. It premiered on 19 April 2009 and finished on 25 May 2009. Cast * Joel Edgerton as Shane Bevic * Freya Stafford as Megan Kerr * Gerald Lepkowski as Brian Jardine * Shane Connor as Max Mees * Katie Wall as Caz Cohen * Nicholas Bell as Nigel Hay * Martin Jacobs as Iain Blair * Lucy Bell as Tess Jardine * Adrian Mulraney as Simon Cato * George Whaley as Tim Royce * Don Hany as Dion Pesci Episodes See also * List of Australian television series * List of Australian Broadcasting Corporation programs This is a list of television programmes that are currently being broadcast or have been broadcast on ABC Television's ABC TV (formerly ABC1), ABC TV Plus (formerly ABC2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
After The Deluge
''After the Deluge'' is a 2003 Australian television miniseries starring Ray Barrett, David Wenham, Hugo Weaving and Samuel Johnson. It was first broadcast by Channel Ten in two parts in June 2003. Cast * David Wenham – Alex Kirby * Hugo Weaving – Martin 'Marty' Kirby * Samuel Johnson – Toby Kirby * Aden Young – Young Cliff * Ray Barrett – Old Cliff Kirby * Catherine McClements – Nikki Kirby * Essie Davis – Beth * Rachel Griffiths – Annie * Kate Beahan – Margaret * Vince Colosimo – Eric * Marta Dusseldorp – Eva * Bob Franklin – Sid *Marco Chiappi – Bevan * Simon Burke – Michael * Tara Morice – Dianne * Emily Browning – Maddy * Dominic Smith - Schoolboy Story Cliff, a former music teacher, is stricken with alzheimers and is living in a nursing home. His three sons, with whom he has had a difficult, at times estranged, relationship, are all struggling with their lives and their roles in a post-feminist world. The eldest son, Martin is a fading ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Road From Coorain
Jill Ker Conway (9 October 1934 – 1 June 2018) was an Australian-American scholar and author. Well known for her autobiographies, in particular her first memoir, '' The Road from Coorain'', she also was Smith College's first woman president (1975–1985) and most recently served as a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2004 she was designated a Women's History Month Honoree by the National Women's History Project. She was a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. Biography Ker Conway was born in Hillston, New South Wales, in the outback of Australia. Together with her two brothers, Ker Conway was raised in near-total isolation on a family-owned tract of land called Coorain (the aboriginal word for "windy place"), which eventually grew to encompass . On Coorain, she lived a lonely life, and grew up without playmates except for her brothers. In her early years, she was schooled entirely by her mother, with the aid of correspondence class ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wide Sargasso Sea
''Wide Sargasso Sea'' is a 1966 novel by Dominican-British author Jean Rhys. The novel serves as a postcolonial and feminist prequel to Charlotte Brontë's novel ''Jane Eyre'' (1847), describing the background to Mr. Rochester's marriage from the point-of-view of his wife Antoinette Cosway, a Creole heiress. Antoinette Cosway is Rhys's version of Brontë's devilish " madwoman in the attic". Antoinette's story is told from the time of her youth in Jamaica, to her unhappy marriage to an English gentleman, Mr. Rochester, who renames her Bertha, declares her mad, takes her to England, and isolates her from the rest of the world in his mansion. Antoinette is caught in a patriarchal society in which she fully belongs neither to Europe nor to Jamaica. ''Wide Sargasso Sea'' explores the power of relationships between men and women and discusses the themes of race, Caribbean history, and assimilation. Rhys lived in obscurity after her previous work, '' Good Morning, Midnight'', was p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silent Witness
''Silent Witness'' is a British crime drama television series produced by the BBC, which focuses on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes. First broadcast in 1996, the series was created by Nigel McCrery, a former murder squad detective based in Nottingham. Twenty-five series of ''Silent Witness'' have been broadcast since 1996. Amanda Burton starred as primary character Dr. Sam Ryan before leaving the show during the eighth series. Since her departure the series has featured an ensemble cast, which initially consisted of William Gaminara, Tom Ward and Emilia Fox, and later on David Caves, Liz Carr and Richard Lintern alongside Emilia Fox. At the end of series 23 Carr and Lintern both departed. The cast was joined by Genesis Lynea from series 24. The programme is broadcast in more than 235 territories, including ABC in Australia, Showcase and the Knowledge Network in Canada, KRO in the Netherlands, TV One and Prime in New Ze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upstairs Downstairs (2010 TV Series)
''Upstairs Downstairs'' is a British drama series, broadcast on BBC One from 2010 to 2012, and co-produced by BBC Wales and Masterpiece. Created and written by Heidi Thomas, it is a continuation of the London Weekend Television series of the same name, which ran from 1971 to 1975 on ITV. The series resumes the story of 165 Eaton Place in 1936 London, six years after the original series concluded. Jean Marsh reprises her role as Rose Buck, who becomes housekeeper of the re-established household, with Ed Stoppard and Keeley Hawes playing its new owners Sir Hallam and Lady Agnes Holland. The first series, consisting of three episodes, was broadcast across consecutive nights during Christmas 2010. The second series consists of six episodes, first aired between 19 February 2012 and 25 March 2012. The series ends at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. Production history Series 1 In October 2009, it was announced that the BBC was to revive the series as two 90-minute ep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spartacus (TV Series)
''Spartacus'' is an American television series produced in New Zealand that premiered on Starz on January 22, 2010, and concluded on April 12, 2013. The fiction series was inspired by the historical figure of Spartacus, a Thracian gladiator who from 73 to 71 BC led a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic departing from Capua. Executive producers Steven S. DeKnight and Robert Tapert focused on structuring the events of Spartacus' obscure early life leading up to the beginning of historical records.Interview: Steven S. DeKnight and Robert Tapert from Spartacus: Blood And Sand After the completion of the first season titled '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Passing Bells
''The Passing Bells'' is a five-part British-Polish television drama that was first broadcast on BBC One in 2014. The series is set during World War I and was a part of the BBC First World War centenary season. It shows events through the eyes of two very ordinary teenagers, one from England and one from Germany, who enlist in the war, which they expect will be over within months. The drama stars Patrick Gibson and Jack Lowden, and was written by Tony Jordan and directed by Brendan Maher. Plot The series operates in parallel as it follows two teenagers in two countries, one German ( Jack Lowden) and one British ( Patrick Gibson), who sign up as soldiers at the outbreak of the First World War. The plot covers the time period from just prior to the war to its conclusion. The story includes the boys' families, their love interests, and the friends and comrades they make during the war. It reveals the toll the war takes on the two young men and their fellow soldiers as it lasts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Society Murders
The Society Murders is the name given to the 4 April 2002 familicide of husband and wife millionaire socialites Margaret Mary Wales-King, 69, and husband, Paul Aloysius King, 75, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, by Wales-King's 34-year-old son, Matthew Robert Wales. News media throughout Australia covered the crime and subsequent trial, which later became the subject of a book and a television film. Double murder On 4 April 2002, the victims, Margaret Wales-King and her second husband, Paul King, attended the Glen Iris home of Wales-King's youngest son Matthew Wales, a former hairdresser, and his Chilean-born wife Maritza Wales for dinner. That evening, Wales made, then drugged, their vegetable soup with crushed tablets stolen from his mother to make them drowsy. He then killed his mother and stepfather as they left the house by clubbing them to the back of the neck. After hiding the bodies in the front yard he then abandoned their car in Middle Park. After renting a trai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Flying Doctors
''The Flying Doctors'' is an Australian drama TV series produced by Crawford Productions that revolves around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia, starring Andrew McFarlane as the newly arrived Dr. Tom Callaghan. The popular series ran for nine seasons and was successfully screened internationally. It was initially a 1985 mini-series based in the fictional outback town of Cooper's Crossing (set in the real life town of Minyip in north-western rural Victoria). The success of the mini-series led to its return the following year as an ongoing series with McFarlane being joined by a new doctor, Chris Randall, played by Liz Burch. McFarlane left during the first season, and actor Robert Grubb arrived as new doctor Geoff Standish. McFarlane later returned to the series, resuming his role. The series' episodes were mostly self-contained and about medical items. The Australian society was mirrored in handling more or less controversial so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
