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Jane Turner
Jane Turner (born 1 December 1960) is an Australian actress, comedian and Logie Award-winning comedy series creator and screenwriter. She is widely known for her role as Kath in the TV sitcom ''Kath and Kim''. Career Jane Turner, although best known as a comedy performer, made her acting debut in the internationally renowned TV cult drama series ''Prisoner (TV series), Prisoner'' in a 15-episode guest role. She is notable for numerous comedy roles including the sketch comedy programs ''The D-Generation'', ''Fast Forward (Australian TV series), Fast Forward'', ''Full Frontal (Australian TV series), Full Frontal'', ''Big Girl's Blouse'' and ''Something Stupid (TV series), Something Stupid''. On ''Fast Forward'' Turner (Svetta) recorded a song with cast member Peter Moon (comedian) (Victor), called "Don't Do Your Soviet Bloc". In the 2000s Turner has received accolades for her performance in ''Kath & Kim'', an ABC Television (Australian TV network), ABC Television (later Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kath Day-Knight
Kathleen "Kath" Darleen Day-Knight (formerly Poole) is a fictional character featured in the Australian Television show, television series ''Kath & Kim'' and is portrayed by Jane Turner. Her character has appeared on multiple Australian comedy series, first appearing as an early incarnation on ''Fast Forward (Australian TV series), Fast Forward'', and later ''Big Girl's Blouse'' and ''Something Stupid (TV series), Something Stupid'' as the more familiar Kath. She is revealed to be a Leo (series 2 episode 3; The Moon). Molly Shannon portrayed her American version in the short lived Kath & Kim (American TV series), American series. Kath's character is considered an Australian comedy icon. Kath was featured in ''Kath & Kimderella'' in 2012. The idea for the series was originally grasped during the nineties while successful Australian shows such as ''Big Girl's Blouse'' had skits on them with identical characters of the same name. ''Kath & Kim'' aired first on 16 May 2002, and beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven Network
Seven Network (stylised 7Network, and commonly known as Channel Seven or simply Seven) is an Australian commercial free-to-air Television broadcasting in Australia, television network. It is owned by Seven West Media, Seven West Media Limited, and is one of the five main free-to-air television networks in Australia. The network's headquarters are located in Sydney. As of 2014, it was the second-largest network in the country in terms of population reach. Seven Network shows various nonfiction shows—such as news broadcasts (''Seven News'') and sports programming—as well as fiction shows. In 2011, the network won all 40 out of 40 weeks of the ratings season for total viewers, being the first to achieve this since the introduction of the OzTAM ratings system in 2001. As of 2024, Seven Network is the highest-rated television network nationally, in Australia, ahead of the Nine Network, ABC TV (Australian TV channel), ABC TV, Network 10 and SBS (Australian TV channel), SBS. Hea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Member Of The European Parliament
A member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been Election, elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament. When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community) first met in 1952, its members were directly appointed by the governments of member states from among those already sitting in their own national parliaments. Since 1979, however, MEPs have been elected by direct universal suffrage every five years. Each Member state of the European Union, member state establishes its own method for electing MEPs – and in some states this has changed over time – but the system chosen must be a form of proportional representation. Some member states elect their MEPs to represent a single national constituency; other states apportion seats to sub-national regions for election. There may also be non-voting observers when a Enlargement of the European Union, new country is seeking membershi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parlement (TV Series)
''Parlement'' is a comedy television series about the inner workings of the European Parliament. It was created by , co-produced in France, Belgium and Germany, and first broadcast in April 2020 on france.tv, the VOD platform of France Télévisions. The show is simultaneously performed in French, English and German. The series recounts the adventures and misadventures of Samy Kantor, a young French parliamentary assistant, who arrives for his first day in Brussels just after the Brexit referendum. Samy is completely inexperienced, but somehow finds himself responsible for getting an amendment on shark finning passed by the European Parliament. His task is not helped by the fact that his boss, the MEP Michel Specklin, is both incompetent and indifferent. Samy is obliged to learn quickly how to make the right alliances. Seasons The first season was broadcast in Germany on One in September 2020. The second season was filmed between July and September 2021 and broadcast online i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rake (Australian TV Series)
''Rake'' is an Australian television program, produced by Essential Media and Entertainment, that first aired on the ABC TV in 2010. It stars Richard Roxburgh as the rakish Cleaver Greene, a brilliant but self-destructive Sydney barrister, defending a usually guilty client. The fifth and final series went into production in October 2017 and premiered on 19 August 2018. Cast Main cast * Richard Roxburgh as Cleaver Greene, a brilliant but self-destructive criminal defence barrister. The character is loosely based on colourful Sydney barristers Mervyn Ward and Charles Waterstreet, and was named after Cleaver Bunton. At the end of the fourth series, he is elected to a seat as an independent senator. At the end of the fifth series, he is appointed Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia. * Russell Dykstra as Barney "Barnyard" Meagher, one of Cleaver's instructing solicitors and his best friend. After Cleaver sleeps with his wife Scarlet, Barney feels betrayed and his relati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Open Slather
''Open Slather'' is an Australian sketch comedy television series which first aired on The Comedy Channel on Foxtel on 24 May 2015. The 20 episode series is executively produced by Laura Waters and Rick McKenna. After the first ten episodes aired, the series experienced a hiatus while new episodes were in production. Replacing new episodes were 30 minute 'best of' episodes titled ''Open Slather Reopened''. The second block of ten episodes began airing on 6 September, and concluded on 8 November 2015. On 31 December 2015, it was announced the show had been cancelled. Cast * Holly Austin * Hannah Bath * Shane Jacobson * Jay K. Cagatay * Dave Eastgate * Gina Riley * Stephen Curry * Ben Gerrard * Laura Hughes * Demi Lardner * Magda Szubanski * Ben Lomas * Marg Downey * Miles O'Neil * Glenn Robbins * Ilai Swindells * Jane Turner (11 episodes) * Emily Taheny * Michael Veitch * George H. Xanthis Guest * Franklyn Ajaye (1 episode) Special guests * Mark Holden as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Britain (sketch Show)
''Little Britain'' is a British sketch comedy series that began as a radio show in 2000 and ran as a television series between 2003 and 2006. It was written and performed by David Walliams and Matt Lucas. Financed by the BBC, the radio series was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4, with the initial two television series premiering on BBC Three and the third and final series on BBC One. The programme consists of sketches involving exaggerated parodies of British people from various walks of life. Each sketch was introduced by a voice-over narration (by Tom Baker) suggesting that the programme was a guide – aimed at non-British people – to British society. Despite the narrator's description of "great British institutions", the comedy arises from the British audience's self-deprecating understanding of themselves or people known to them. Recurring characters included Lou and Andy, Andy Pipkin who falsely presented himself as requiring the use of a wheelchair to gain the attention o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bligh (TV Series)
''Bligh'' is a 1992 Australian sitcom, set in colonial New South Wales, in 1807 and based on the life of Sir William Bligh, as Colonial Governor.Albert Moran, ''Moran's Guide to Australian TV Series'', AFTRS 1993 p 82 Cast * Michael Veitch as Governor William Bligh * Magda Szubanski as Betsy Bligh * William McInnes as John Macarthur * Gina Riley as Elizabeth Macarthur * Peter Moon as Reverend Marsden / King George III * Jimeoin as Convict Griffin * Kym Gyngell as The Prince References {{reflist External links''Bligh''at IMDb IMDb, historically known as the Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and biograp ...''Bligh''at Australian Television Seven Network original programming Australian television sitcoms 1992 Australian television series debuts Television shows set in colonial Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Denton
Nicholas Denton is a writer and Australian stage and screen actor. Career In 2017, Denton appeared with Lucy Moir in the John Kolvenbach play ''Love Song'' at the Melbourne Fringe Festival. He also appeared as Billy Bibbit in a version of ''One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest'' at the South Bank Theatre in Melbourne. In 2018 Denton appeared in the play ''Wild'' by Mike Bartlett for the Melbourne Theatre Company, a role loosely based on whistle-blower Edward Snowden. According to Time Out Denton "navigates the shift in status beautifully" of the main character. Denton appeared in the Australian TV series ''Glitch.'' Denton co-wrote with Bonnie Moir and appeared with Richard Moir in the short film ''Not Dark Yet''. Denton played the son of a man with a degenerate disease. The film was premiered at the 2022 Melbourne International Film Festival. Denton beat 200 or so actors to the role of Vicomte de Valmont in the television production of ''Dangerous Liaisons'' after passin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bachelor Of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is the holder of a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four years, depending on the country and institution. * Degree attainment typically takes five or more years in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Peru. * Degree attainment typically takes four years in Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Brunei, Bulgaria, Canada (except Quebec), China, Egypt, Finland, Georgia, Ghana, Greece, Hong Kong, Indonesia, India, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Jamaica, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Serbia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, the United S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glen Iris, Victoria
Glen Iris is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, South-East Melbourne, south-east of Melbourne's Melbourne central business district, Central Business District, located within the Cities of City of Boroondara, Boroondara and City of Stonnington, Stonnington Local government areas of Victoria, local government areas. Glen Iris recorded a population of 26,131 at the 2021 Australian census, 2021 census. Glen Iris had been Melbourne's geographical center of population, centre of population from the 1990s to the 2020s, with urban sprawl seeing Melbourne's centre of population shifting to Camberwell, Victoria, Camberwell in the 2020s. History Captain Thomas Henderson, of the Royal Australian Navy, Royal Navy, arrived in Melbourne on a ship called ''Iris'' in 1850. He acquired a property bounded by Gardiners Creek, High Street and a line extending Summerhill Road to Gardiners Creek. The property was advertised for sale as ''Glen Iris'', in 1852. Robert K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trafalgar Studios
Trafalgar Theatre is a West End theatre in Whitehall, near Trafalgar Square, in the City of Westminster, London. The Grade II listed building was built in 1930 with interiors in the Art Deco style as the Whitehall Theatre; it regularly staged comedies and revues. It was converted into a television and radio studio in the 1990s, before returning to theatrical use in 2004 as Trafalgar Studios, the name it bore until 2020, with the auditorium converted to two studio spaces. It re-opened in 2021 following a major multi-million pound project to reinstate it to its original single-auditorium design. History 1930 to 1996 The original Whitehall Theatre, built on the site of the 17th century ''Ye Old Ship Tavern'' was designed by Edward A. Stone, with interiors in the Art Deco style by Marc-Henri and Laverdet. It had 634 seats. The theatre opened on 29 September 1930 with ''The Way to Treat a Woman'' by Walter Hackett, who was the theatre's licensee. In November 1933 Henry Daniell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
