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Kym Gyngell
Kim Gyngell, sometimes also credited as Kym Gyngell, is an Australian comedian and film, television and stage actor. Gyngell won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 1988 for his role as Ian McKenzie in ''Boulevard of Broken Dreams''. Early life and education Kim Gyngell was born in Melbourne, Victoria. He had not considered a career in acting until his high school English teacher suggested it to him, and he soon went for an audition. He said that he was not a very good student at school. Career Television In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Gyngell appeared in '' The Comedy Company'' and developed several popular characters, one of whom, Col'n Carpenter, went on to have his own sitcom. Gyngell also appeared (as Carpenter) in a series of public service announcements for the Alcohol Advisory Council of New Zealand. Gyngell was a regular on Australian comedy series '' Full Frontal'' during the mid-1990s, where he starred alongside Eric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freely Licenced
Free content, libre content, libre information, or free information is any kind of creative work, such as a work of art, a book, a software, software program, or any other creative Media (communication), content for which there are very minimal copyright and other legal limitations on usage, modification and distribution. These are works or expressions which can be freely studied, applied, copied and modified by anyone for any purpose including, in some cases, commercial purposes. Free content encompasses all works in the public domain and also those copyrighted works whose licenses honor and uphold the definition of free cultural work. In most countries, the Berne Convention grants copyright holders control over their creations by default. Therefore, copyrighted content must be explicitly declared free by the authors, which is usually accomplished by referencing or including licensing statements from within the work. The right to reuse such a work is granted by the authors in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CrashBurn
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No Activity
''No Activity'' is an Australian comedy television series which streams on Stan, about two detectives on a stakeout. The show was the first commission for the Australian streaming service. It comes from the production company Jungle Entertainment, a partnership between Trent O'Donnell, Jason Burrows, Chloe Rickard and Phil Lloyd. It is written and directed by Trent O'Donnell with Executive Producer Jason Burrows and Producer Chloe Rickard. The first season, consisting of six episodes, premiered in its entirety on 22 October 2015. The second season was released on 26 October 2016. A one-off Christmas special titled ''No Activity: The Night Before Christmas'' was commissioned and premiered on Stan in December 2018. Cast Main cast * Patrick Brammall as Detective Hendy, an ambitious detective keen to restore his reputation after a disastrous drug bust. He talks a lot. * Darren Gilshenan as Detective Stokes, a hopeful dreamer whose detective work leaves a lot to be desired. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wakefield (TV Series)
''Wakefield'' is an eight-part Australian television drama series that premiered on ABC iview on 2 April 2021 and was shown on ABC TV in weekly episodes from Sunday 18 April. At the 2021 ARIA Music Awards, the music was nominated for Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album. Synopsis ''Wakefield'' is a psychological mystery revolving around the staff and patients who populate Ward C of a psychiatric hospital in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, centred on psychiatric nurse Nik. Cast * Rudi Dharmalingam as Nikhil "Nik" Katira, a warm empathetic nurse at Wakefield Psychiatric Hospital, son of Indian immigrants Rashaal and Jeshna, and brother of Renuka ** Kershawn Theodore as 12-year-old Nik **Nirish Bhat Surambadka as young Nik * Geraldine Hakewill as Dr. Kareena Wells, the leading doctor of the ward, Nik's former fiancée, and wife of David * Mandy McElhinney as Linda, acting Nursing Unit Manager * Felicity Ward as Collette, a Wakefield nurse, friend of Nik, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Travis Fimmel
Travis Fimmel (born 15 July 1979) is an Australian actor. He is known for his role as Ragnar Lothbrok in the History Channel television series ''Vikings'' (2013–2017). He also starred in HBO science fiction series' '' Raised by Wolves'' as Marcus and in '' Dune: Prophecy'' as Desmond Hart. Early life and education Fimmel was born in Echuca, Victoria, Australia and was raised in Lockington. The youngest of three brothers, he is the son of Jennie, a recreation officer for disabled people, and Chris, a cattle farmer. Aspiring to be a professional Australian rules footballer, Fimmel moved to Melbourne to play for the St Kilda Football Club in the AFL, but a broken leg sidelined him before the season began. He was accepted into RMIT University for an architecture course, but later deferred to travel abroad.Lee, Luain'The Beast's' Travis Fimmel is Happy Down on the FarmThe Denver Post, 28 January 2009 Modelling Fimmel was spotted working out at a gym in the Melbourne sub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Snow (TV Series)
''Black Snow'' is an Australian crime drama television series available on Stan. The series is set in and filmed throughout different locations in Queensland, Australia. Each season follows a different cold case being investigated by Detective James Cormack as he struggles with his own family demons. Synopsis Season one introduces Detective James Cormack in 2019. Cormack is placed in charge of an inquiry into the cold case murder of 17-year-old Isabel Baker in 1994 in the fictional town of Ashford. A majority of the season focuses on the Australian South Sea Islander community Isabel was a part of. Season two, subtitled “Jack of Clubs” and set in 2024, focuses on Detective Cormack investigating the missing persons case of Zoe Jacobs in 2003 in the fictional town of Moorevale. Cormack is simultaneously informally looking into the disappearance of his younger brother in 1994. Cast *Travis Fimmel as Detective James Cormack (season 1 & 2) Series 1 * Jemmason Power as Haze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crazy Fun Park
''Crazy Fun Park'' is an Australian horror comedy television series for teens on ABC ME directed and written by Nicholas Verso. It won the 2023 TV Week Logie Award The TV Week Logie Awards (known colloquially as The Logies) is an annual ceremony celebrating and honouring the best shows and stars in Television in Australia, Australian television, sponsored and organised by the magazine ''TV Week''. The eve ... for the Most Outstanding Children's Program. Synopsis Chester is an art-smart and loving teen, who tries his best at school but sometimes gets his grades dragged down by one of his only friends. His best friend is Mapplethorpe, who is air headed by far but still cares for his best bud. Together, they're an inseparable duo who love writing comics together- until the two get into a fight, and Mapplethorpe dies at a run down theme park while trying to make it up to Chester. Crazy Fun Park is an abandoned roller coaster park, once meant to bring joy and happiness but has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Me (Australian TV Series)
''Love Me'' is an Australian drama series and the first original production of streaming service Binge, that premiered on 26 December 2021. Set in Melbourne, ''Love Me'' is a story about love, loss, and relationship complexity for the father, daughter, and son of a contemporary, middle-class Australian family. The season one, six-part series is directed by Emma Freeman with lead writer Alison Bell, and writers Leon Ford, Adele Vuko, and Blake Ayshford. Season two premiered on 6 April 2023. The ensemble cast includes Hugo Weaving, Bojana Novakovic, William Lodder, and Sarah Peirse, along with Bob Morley, Heather Mitchell, Celia Pacquola, Mitzi Ruhlmann, and Shalom Brune-Franklin. ''Love Me'' is produced by Angie Fielder and Polly Staniford of Aquarius Films and executive produced by Michael Brooks and Hamish Lewis (Warner Bros.). Executive producers for the Foxtel Group are Brian Walsh, Alison Hurbert-Burns, and Lana Greenhalgh. Premise ''Love Me'' is a story about r ... [...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] |
Top Of The Lake
''Top of the Lake'' is a mystery drama television series created and written by Jane Campion and Gerard Lee, and directed by Campion and Garth Davis. It was broadcast in 2013, and the sequel, entitled ''Top of the Lake: China Girl'', in 2017. It is Campion's first work for television since '' An Angel at My Table'' in 1990. Series 1 follows Detective Robin Griffin ( Elisabeth Moss) and deals with her investigation of the disappearance of a pregnant 12-year-old girl in New Zealand. Series 2, ''China Girl'', is set in Sydney five years later, as Detective Griffin investigates the death of an unidentified Asian girl found at Bondi Beach. ''Top of the Lake'' was co-produced for BBC Two in the UK, BBC UKTV in Australia and New Zealand, and Sundance Channel in the United States. It has been generally very well received. Cast Elisabeth Moss plays the central role of Robin Griffin, a Sydney detective specializing in sexual assault, in both series. Additional cast members are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Straits
''The Straits'' is an Australian television drama series for ABC1 filmed in Cairns, the Torres Strait Islands and other Far North Queensland locations. The series is based on an idea by actor Aaron Fa'aoso and produced by Penny Chapman and Helen Panckhurst from Matchbox Pictures. It is directed by Peter Andrikidis, Rachel Ward, and Rowan Woods. It is written by Louis Nowra, Blake Ayshford, Nick Parsons, Kristen Dunphy, and Jaime Browne. On 19 October 2012, it was announced that a second series would not be produced. In December 2012, the show began airing exclusively on Hulu. Synopsis The series follows the Montebello family, whose business involves smuggling drugs into Australia, and guns and exotic wildlife out, making use of ties of blood and loyalty in the Torres Strait Islands. When Harry Montebello, the head of the family, starts to plan his succession, he sparks a vicious family power struggle. While under attack from ambitious bikers and mercurial Papua New Guinea Rask ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Very Small Business (TV Series)
''Very Small Business'' is an Australian television comedy series first broadcast on Wednesday 3 September 2008 on ABC1. The series is written and created by Wayne Hope, Gary McCaffrie, and Robyn Butler, and produced by Hope and Butler. It comprises fourteen half-hour episodes. A new season began screening in September 2018 titled ''Back in Very Small Business''. It comprises six half-hour episodes. Synopsis Don Angel is the small business owner of the Worldwide Business Group, a business he's trying to grow. This business includes publishing of dubious niche magazines such as ''Feelin' Great'', ''Railway Union Monthly'' and ''Music, Music, Music, Music'' – mere vehicles used by smooth-talking Don to sell advertising space to unsuspecting businesses. He's just hired Ray Leonard, a down-and-out former journalist for ''The Australian'', as his senior journalist and sole employee. Cast * Wayne Hope as Don Angel / Marcus Goode / James White / Haydn King / Kerry Akermanis / Pete M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
