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Peter Powers
Peter Powers is a British television personality and hypnotist. In Australia he appears on the Rugby League television '' Footy Show''. Career Powers has made several TV shows; '' The Power of One'', which is filmed in Australia, and ''Street Hypnosis'' which was filmed in the UK. He made five one-hour TV specials for UK's Channel 5, entitled ''The Naughty, Naughty Hypnoshow'' and recorded two one-hour TV specials for Network 9 in Australia in which celebrities were hypnotised. In 2008, he appeared in a one-hour special ("Housemates Hypnotized") on '' Big Brother Australia 2008'', where he hypnotized many of the willing housemates. His TV show in the Netherlands, ''Peter Powers' Payback'', a 10-part series, was broadcast in early 2009. On 2 June 2012, he appeared on an episode of "Australia's Funniest Home Videos ''Australia's Funniest Home Videos'' (''AFHV'', also known as ''Funniest Home Videos'' or simply ''The Video Show'', originally ''Graham Kennedy's Funniest Home ...
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Rugby League
Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby 13/XIII in non-Anglophone Europe, is a contact sport, full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular Rugby league playing field, field measuring wide and long with H-shaped posts at both ends. It is one of the Comparison of rugby league and rugby union, two major codes of rugby football, the other being rugby union. It originated in 1895 in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England, as the result of a History of rugby league#The schism in England, split from the Rugby Football Union (RFU) over the issue of payments to players.Tony Collins, ''Rugby League in Twentieth Century Britain'' (2006), p.3 The rules of the game governed by the new Rugby Football League, Northern Rugby Football Union progressively changed from those of the RFU with the specific aim of producing a faster and more entertaining game to appeal to paying spectators, on whose income the new ...
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The Footy Show (rugby League)
''The Footy Show'' was an Australian sports variety television program covering professional rugby league in Australia. It was shown on the Nine Network and aired for 25 seasons. For the final season in 2018, the show was hosted by journalist Erin Molan, and co-hosted by Ryan Girdler and Brad Fittler, with regular contributions from Beau Ryan and Darryl Brohman. It was previously hosted by former rugby league footballer and commentator Paul Vautin for 23 years, with former player and commentator Peter Sterling also an early host from the first 12 years. Having aired usually on Thursday nights since 1994, the program was largely entertainment-based, with some football-related content included, such as previews of the weekend's fixtures and interviews with players. The name ''The Footy Show'' derives from the diminutive form of the word football commonly used in Australian English. On 2 October 2018, it was announced that the show had been axed and would not continue in 2019 ...
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Peter Powers Poster Of A Show In Glasgow 2019
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The Power Of One (TV Series)
'The Power of One' was an Australian television series which ran for two seasons between 2006 and 2008 and featured hypnotist Peter Powers hypnotising "subjects" and forcing them to perform amusing and often embarrassing acts. Content The hypnotism in the show usually aims for comedy rather than exhibiting the hypnotist's skill. Examples of the acts performed on the show include: * hypnotising someone to think they are driving an expensive car, when in fact they are driving a cheap one, or a bumper car at a fair. * exploiting a personal weakness, such as arachnophobia or shyness. * sexually centered acts, such as convincing a man that each of the holes in a pool table is a woman that he has to satisfy. * making a person do something embarrassing, such as achieving instant orgasm, in response to a pre-set trigger. Broadcast The show aired on The Comedy Channel on Australian subscription television service Foxtel NXE Australia Pty Ltd, trading as the Foxtel Group, is an A ...
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Big Brother Australia 2008
''Big Brother Australia 2008'' or ''Big Brother 8'' was the eighth season of the Australian reality television show '' Big Brother'' and was the final season to air on Network Ten. The eighth season launched on 28 April 2008. A total 20 housemates competed in the show. Halfway through the show, the prize money was revealed to be $250,000, the amount originally given in the earlier season of the show. Season 8 introduced Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O as the new hosts, replacing Gretel Killeen, who had previously hosted the show from Season 1. It also featured the return of an adult-themed weekly installment titled Big Mouth. Production Auditions Auditions opened in late 2007. People wishing to audition were required to post a video audition of themselves on the official ''Big Brother'' website. Voting closed on 7 January 2008. The three people with the highest number of votes would be guaranteed a place in the House with the top 50 others to go through a second selection process ...
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Australia's Funniest Home Videos
''Australia's Funniest Home Videos'' (''AFHV'', also known as ''Funniest Home Videos'' or simply ''The Video Show'', originally ''Graham Kennedy's Funniest Home Video Show'' in its first season and ''Australia's Funniest Home Video Show'' until 2004) is an Australian television show on the Nine Network that presents home movies, home videos sent in by viewers. It is the Australian counterpart of ''America's Funniest Home Videos'', which was also created by Vin Di Bona. The show was broadcast from March 1990 until February 2014. Although Nine did not officially cancel the show, in 2015 they stated that they had no plans to produce new episodes. Synopsis The show is similar in content to ''You've Been Framed!'' and ''America's Funniest Home Videos'', which was also created by Vin Di Bona (which was based on Tokyo Broadcasting System's ''Fun TV with Kato-chan and Ken-chan''). The videos frequently feature slapstick and Low culture, lowbrow humour such as people tripping over or a ...
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Mesmerised (TV Series)
''Mesmerised'' is an Australian television series involving hypnotist Peter Powers traveling around Australia with actors and volunteers willing to be hypnotised by Powers and made to perform amusing and often embarrassing acts. The series was produced for the Seven Network by Endemol Australia Endemol Australia, formerly known as Southern Star Group, Southern Star Productions, Southern Star/Hanna-Barbera Australia and Taft-Hardie Group Pty Ltd, was a major Australian independent television production, distribution, and syndication com .... The series premiered in Australia on 15 October 2015 on the Seven Network. Although six episodes were produced, the program was pulled from the broadcast schedule after low ratings for its debut episode. The Seven Network planned to air the remaining episodes weekly on 7flix on Sunday afternoons at 5:00pm. Episodes Season 1 (2015) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Mesmerised (TV series) 2015 Australian television series debuts Televisio ...
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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 ...
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British Television Personalities
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British Hypnotists
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. * British national identity, the characteristics of British people and culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** British Isles, an island group ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** British Empire, a historical global colonial empire ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) * British Raj, colonial India under the British Empire * British Hong Kong, colonial H ...
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