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Somers Carroll Productions is an Australian
television Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication Media (communication), medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of Transmission (telecommunications), television tra ...
production company. Somers Carroll was formed by Daryl Somers and Ernie Carroll, to produce ''
Hey Hey It's Saturday ''Hey Hey It's Saturday'' was a long-running variety television program on Australian television. It initially ran for 28 years on the Nine Network from 9 October 1971 to 20 November 1999, with a recess in 1978. Its host throughout its entire ...
'', after original producer Gavin Disney left the series. Somers Carroll also produced compilation specials including ''The Best and Worst of Red Faces'', ''Hey Hey By Request'', ''The Plucka Duck Show'', ''The Ossie Ostrich Video Show'', ''Hey Hey it's the Comedians'', ''
The Russell Gilbert Show ''The Russell Gilbert Show'' is a short-lived Australian comedy show hosted by Russell Gilbert in 1998. It was produced by Somers Carroll Productions and was partially a spin-off from ''Hey Hey It's Saturday'', where Gilbert had risen to promin ...
'', ''Gonged but not Forgotten,'' and most recently the two ''Hey Hey'' reunion specials broadcast in 2009 and a revived series of ''Hey Hey It's Saturday'' in 2010; additionally, two additional specials were broadcast in 2021 and 2022. Somers Carroll archived past episodes of ''Hey Hey'' and making them available to the public by uploading countless hours of the program onto the Internet. This includes all the shows from the reunion show in 2009 and the last full series in 2010, right through to footage from the archives dating back to the early days of the program when it was produced by GTV9.


Home video

''Somers Carrol Productions'' also entered the DVD market, with releases of the ''Hey Hey by Request'' and Red Faces specials under its record label 'Now Hear This', which has also released Daryl Somers' slbum ''Songlines''.


See also

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List of Australian television series Future shows Seven * '' The 1% Club'' (Seven Network game show 2023–) * '' Apartment Rules'' (Seven Network reality 2023–) * ''Animals Aboard with Dr Harry'' (Seven Network reality 2023–) * ''Armchair Experts'' (Seven Network sport ...


References


External links

* * Official Websit


Hey Hey it's Saturday at the National Film and Sound Archive
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