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Neil Sutherland (composer)
Neil Campbell Sutherland is a New Zealand-born, Australian-based screen music composer and musician. His work on '' Getaway'' (1994–present), ''MythBusters'' (2003–2016), ''Border Security'' (2004–present), ''Dancing with the Stars'' (2004–present) and '' Bondi Vet'' (2009–2016) has resulted in 14 consecutive Most Performed Screen Composer – Overseas Awards at the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) Awards from 2008 to 2021. Biography Neil Campbell Sutherland was born in New Zealand. He started music lessons from the age of 6 and during the 1970s trained in classical piano. Sutherland formed a rock band, while a teenager, which toured New Zealand. He relocated to Australia at age 21. In 1989 Sutherland joined a TV music company, working as a screen composer. Two years later he formed his own company, Musication, in Sydney and continued creating and arranging music for TV and film. From 1989 to 1994 he was a co-composer for TV science, informat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 List of islands of New Zealand, smaller islands. It is the List of island countries, sixth-largest island country by area, covering . New Zealand is about east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and south of the islands of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. The country's varied topography and sharp mountain peaks, including the Southern Alps, owe much to tectonic uplift and volcanic eruptions. New Zealand's Capital of New Zealand, capital city is Wellington, and its most populous city is Auckland. The islands of New Zealand were the last large habitable land to be settled by humans. Between about 1280 and 1350, Polynesians began to settle in the islands and then developed a distinctive Māori culture. In 1642, the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman became the first European to sight and record New Zealand. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beyond International
Beyond International Limited is an international television and film production company with operations in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States. Listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (), the company is involved in the creation and international distribution of television, feature films and ancillary products. The company has an extensive television program catalogue of over 5,000 hours and covers all genres including drama, feature films, comedy, children's, reality, and documentary programs. The company was formed in 1984 to produce the science and technology magazine program ''Beyond 2000'', a commercial reworking of the program ''Towards 2000'' which aired on the Australian public broadcaster ABC. ''Beyond 2000'' was later rebooted in 2005 as '' Beyond Tomorrow''. Other notable programming produced and/or distributed by Beyond include ''MythBusters'', ''Deadly Women'', ''Beat Bugs'', ''Highway Thru Hell'' and '' 800 Words''. History The com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keeping Up With The Joneses (TV Series)
''Keeping up with the Joneses'' is an Australian reality television series that follows the life of a family on a cattle station—Coolibah Station—600 km south-west of Darwin, Northern Territory The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Au .... The show follows the daily lives of the titular Jones family—father Milton and mother Cristina—and their staff as they muster cattle with helicopters, fight fires, battle floods and even wrestle crocodiles. This raw and humorous snapshot of family life shows what it takes to live in the outback. The family own over 1,000,000 acres. References Network 10 original programming 2010s Australian reality television series 2010 Australian television series debuts 2011 Australian television series endings Television shows set ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sydney Morning Herald
''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily compact newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and owned by Nine. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia and "the most widely-read masthead in the country." The newspaper is published in compact print form from Monday to Saturday as ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' and on Sunday as its sister newspaper, '' The Sun-Herald'' and digitally as an online site and app, seven days a week. It is considered a newspaper of record for Australia. The print edition of ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' is available for purchase from many retail outlets throughout the Sydney metropolitan area, most parts of regional New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South East Queensland. Overview ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' publishes a variety of supplements, including the magazines ''Good Weekend'' (included in the Saturday edition of ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RBT (TV Series)
''RBT'' is an Australian factual television series that looks at the everyday workings of sobriety check points by Random Breath Testing (or RBT) police units, and is narrated by Australian actor Andrew Daddo. The show began on the Nine Network The Nine Network (stylised 9Network, 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 five main free-to-air television netw ... on 27 June 2010 and follows RBT patrols in Australia testing for alcohol and drug-affected and reckless drivers. The premiere attracted 1.32 million viewers. The second season began in February 2011, followed by a third in September 2011. RBT entered its 12th season in November 2018. Seasons 1 through 11 were filmed in New South Wales, with production switching to South Australia in season 12. Starting in 2020, the show is filmed in Victoria. International screenings The show is transm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Network Ten
Network 10 (commonly known as Ten Network, Channel 10 or simply 10) is an Australian commercial television network owned by Ten Network Holdings, a division of the Paramount Networks UK & Australia subsidiary of Paramount Global. One of five national free-to-air networks, 10's owned-and-operated stations can be found in the state capital cities of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth while affiliates extend the network to regional areas of the country. As of 2022, Network 10 is the fourth-rated television network in Australia, behind the Seven Network, Nine Network, ABC TV and ahead of SBS. History Origins From the introduction of TV in 1956 until 1965 there were three television networks in Australia, the National Television Network (now the Nine Network), the Australian Television Network (now the Seven Network), and the public ABC National Television Service (now ABC TV). In the early 1960s, the Australian Government began canvassing the idea of licensing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gladiators (2008 Australian TV Series)
''Gladiators'' was an Australian television series which aired on the Seven Network in 2008. It was a revival of the earlier series of the same name, and was based on the American version of the show, which was also revived in 2008. The show was filmed at The Dome at the Sydney Showground, and was hosted by Tom Williams and Zoe Naylor. Well known NRL referee Bill Harrigan was one of the two referees for the show, the other was John Forsythe, who was a referee on the original series. Although not credited, the Sydney Altitude Cheerleaders were present in every episode, doing various routines throughout each episode whether an event was taking place or not. Behind the scenes, highly respected military fitness expert 'Chief' Brabon (head strength & conditioning coach) was responsible for preparing the gladiators for their extremely physical roles. The revival of ''Gladiators'' was first announced on 9 September 2007, and premiered on 30 March 2008 at 6:30 pm. The Challenge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Anzacs
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
APRA Music Awards Of 2005
The Australasian Performing Right Association Awards of 2005 (generally known as APRA Awards) are a series of awards which include the APRA Music Awards, Classical Music Awards, and Screen Music Awards. The APRA Music Awards ceremony occurred on 30 May at the Sydney Four Seasons Hotel, they were presented by APRA and the Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS). The Classical Music Awards were distributed in July in Sydney and are sponsored by APRA and the Australian Music Centre (AMC). The Screen Music Awards were issued in November by APRA and Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC). Awards ''Nominees and winners with results indicated on the right.'' See also *Music of Australia The music of Australia has an extensive history made of music societies. Indigenous Australian music forms a significant part of the unique heritage of a 40,000- to 60,000-year history which produced the iconic didgeridoo. Contemporary fusions of ... References External li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Taylor (comedian)
Christopher Thornton Taylor (born 15 July 1974) is an Australian comedy writer, performer and broadcaster from Sydney. As a member of The Chaser, he is best known for co-writing and appearing on satirical ABC Television shows '' CNNNN'' (2002–2003) and ''The Chaser's War on Everything'' (2006 – July 2009). He formerly co-hosted the drive radio show ''Today Today'' (2004–05) on Triple J with fellow Chaser member Craig Reucassel, and in 2007, he wrote the musical comedy ''Dead Caesar''. Taylor also hosted the mini documentary series 'Australia's Heritage: National Treasures'. In 2010, with his Chaser colleague Andrew Hansen, Taylor made a musical comedy series for Triple J titled '' The Blow Parade'', which became the number one podcast in the country, and won the 2010 ARIA Award for Best Comedy Release. In 2019, Taylor was the creator and co-writer of the drama Upright starring Tim Minchin. The series screened to critical acclaim in both Australia and the UK. Early years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Film And Sound Archive
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA), known as ScreenSound Australia from 1999 to 2004, is Australia's audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, promoting and providing access to a national collection of film, television, sound, radio, video games, new media, and related documents and artefacts. The collection ranges from works created in the late nineteenth century when the recorded sound and film industries were in their infancy, to those made in the present day. The NFSA collection first started as the National Historical Film and Speaking Record Library (within the then Commonwealth National Library) in 1935, becoming an independent cultural organisation in 1984. On 3 October, Prime Minister Bob Hawke officially opened the NFSA's headquarters in Canberra. History of the organisation The work of the Archive can be officially dated to the establishment of the National Historical Film and Speaking Record Library (part of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warren Brown (cartoonist)
Warren Lindsay Brown (born 1965) is an Australian author, cartoonist and television presenter. Career He has been an editorial newspaper cartoonist since 1986. He is currently cartoonist for the Sydney's '' Daily Telegraph'', for which he also wrote a weekly motoring column and regularly contributes opinion and historical pieces. He has won numerous awards for his cartooning including three times Australian Cartoonists’ Association Editorial Cartoonist of the Year, Best Editorial Cartoonist News Awards and Rothmans Gold Medallist Editorial Cartoonist and Cartoon of the Year. He created editorial cartoons for the ABC television programs ''Difference of Opinion'' and '' Insiders'', and presented the TV history programs ''National Treasures'', ''The Prime Ministers' National Treasures'', ''Rewind'', ''Moments in Time'', "Lost and Found" for the History Channel and hosted ‘Design to Driveway’ for Shannon’s Online. In 1995, as part of the Federal Government's ''Australia Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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