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The Agony Of Life (TV Series)
''The Agony of...'' is a collection of conversational-style Australian television programs which originally screened between 2012 and 2015 on ABC1, and later aired in the United States on Vibrant TV Network. The format shows a number of well-known men and women talking to interviewer/narrator Adam Zwar. ''Agony Aunts'' ''Agony Aunts'' was a six-part series that first screened in 2012 on Australia's ABC1. The show searched for answers on dating, cohabitation, marriage, and divorce. It featured personalities such as Judith Lucy (comedian, actress), Denise Scott (comedian, actress), Myf Warhurst (TV host), Angela Catterns (broadcaster), Wendy Harmer (broadcaster), Hannah Gadsby (comedian), Leah Vandenberg, Kate Jenkinson (actress), Sam Lane, Mirka Mora, Sarah Wilson (journalist), Julia Zemiro (TV host), Susan Carland, Maya Stange (actress), Bridget Taylor, Amanda Brotchie (writer, director), Heather Mitchell (actress) and Charlotte Gregg (actress). ''Agony Aunts'' was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television
Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. Additionally, the term can refer to a physical television set rather than the medium of transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment, news, and sports. The medium is capable of more than "radio broadcasting", which refers to an audio signal sent to radio receivers. Television became available in crude experimental forms in the 1920s, but only after several years of further development was the new technology marketed to consumers. After World War II, an improved form of black-and-white television broadcasting became popular in the United Kingdom and the United States, and television sets became commonplace in homes, businesses, and institutions. During the 1950s, television was the primary medium for influencing public opinion.Diggs-Brown, Barbara (2011''Strategic Public Relations: Audience Focused Practice''p. 48 In the mid-1960s, color broadcasting was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heather Mitchell
Heather Lee Mitchell is an Australian actor, who has appeared in Australian stage, television, and film productions. She is best known for her leading role in the 1990s television show '' Spellbinder''. More recently, she appeared as Anita in the series '' Love Me'', and as Margaux in the Paramount Plus series ''Fake''. She has a role in the upcoming miniseries ''The Narrow Road to the Deep North''. Mitchell is a graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art, and has performed on stage since 1975, including collaborations with dance company Force Majeure. In 2022, she played U.S. justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the play ''RBG: Of Many, One'', for Sydney Theatre Company. Early life and education Heather Lee Mitchell attended Camden High School in Camden, New South Wales, between 1971 and 1976, and was school captain in her final year. She took the leading role of Judith Bliss in the 1976 school production of Noël Coward's ''Hay Fever''. Career Television Mitchell is we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Elliott (investment Banker)
Thomas or Tom Elliott may refer to: * Thomas Elliott (footballer) (1890–?), English footballer * Thomas Elliott (Australian cricketer) (1879–1939), Australian cricketer * Thomas Elliott (New Zealand cricketer) (1867–?), New Zealand cricketer * C. Thomas Elliott (born 1939), British scientist, known as Tom Elliott * Thomas Elliott (RAF officer) (1898–?), World War I British flying ace * Thomas Renton Elliott (1877–1961), British physician and physiologist *Sir Thomas Elliott, 1st Baronet, English civil servant * Tom Elliott, Baron Elliott of Ballinamallard (born 1963), Northern Irish politician * Tom Elliott (footballer, born 1990), English footballer * Tom Elliott (Australian footballer) (1901–1974), former Australian rules footballer * Tom Elliott (radio personality) (born 1967), Australian radio presenter and former investment banker * Thomas Jane (born 1969), actor born Thomas Elliott III See also * Thomas Eliot (other) {{human name disambiguation, Ellio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Elliott (businessman)
John Dorman Elliott (3 October 1941 – 23 September 2021) was an Australian businessman and state and federal president of the Liberal Party. He had also been president of the Carlton Football Club. He frequently provoked controversy due to his political affiliations, his brushes with the law, and his abrasive personal style. Early life and education Elliott was born in Melbourne on 3 October 1941. He was the son of Frank Elliott and his wife, Anita. He completed his secondary schooling at Carey Baptist Grammar School in Kew. He then attended the University of Melbourne and graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) degree and later completed a Master of Business Administration degree at the Melbourne Business School. Career Elliott joined BHP for two years. He then left to do an MBA, before joining global consulting firm McKinsey & Company in 1966 and worked in both Australia and the United States for six years. In 1972, he acquired control of IXL, a food manufacturer li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Thornton
Dave Thornton (born 13 December 1979) is an Australian stand-up comedian, actor, television and radio presenter. He has performed stand-up comedy throughout Australia, in Edinburgh, Singapore and New York. He has also appeared on Australian television and radio. Career Stand-up comedy Thornton began working in stand-up comedy at the Geelong heats of Raw Comedy in 2002. He debuted his solo hour-long show ''Euro:mission,'' which was based on his experiences as a backpacking traveler, at the 2007 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, where he was nominated for 'Best Newcomer'. Thornton has performed at the MICF every year since, and in 2009 debuted at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with a new show, ''Allow Me to Introduce Myself''. He has also performed stand-up comedy on TV shows including '' Good Morning Australia'' (Network 10) in 2006, '' Stand Up Australia'' ( Comedy Channel Australia) in 2007 and '' Rove'' (Network 10) in 2008. Radio In October 2009, Thornton began hos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Mooney
Lawrence Mooney (born 22 April 1965) is an Australian comedian, actor, writer, and former television and radio presenter. Radio career Mooney has held various jobs including a customs officer, cleaner, salesman, furniture polisher and collecting golf balls at a driving range, before becoming a stand-up comic. He hosted the drive time show on Melbourne Talk Radio. He has also been a fill-in host and guest on MTR's Steve Vizard Show and ABC Radio Melbourne and 3AW. In 2016, he regularly appeared on the Triple M impersonating Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull with weekly spots on the Sydney and Melbourne breakfast shows, and as a guest co-host on ''Merrick & Australia''. He was part of the morning drive show on Triple M Brisbane from December 2017 to December 2018. On 15 January 2019, Lawrence replaced ''The Grill Team'' for Sydney Breakfast on Triple M with ''Moonman in the Morning,'' alongside Gus Worland, Chris Page and Jess Eva. In October 2019, Mooney won an Austral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Leung
Lawrence Leung is an Australian comedian, writer, director and actor from Melbourne. He is best known for his television series '' Lawrence Leung's Choose Your Own Adventure'' based his one-man shows on stories about his obsessions, such as breakdancing, ghosts, the Rubik's Cube, and his family. Career Comedian and writer Leung has performed in shows in London's West End and at the Edinburgh Fringe festival, as well as having toured Australia extensively. In 2001, his show ''Sucker'' won Best Solo Show at the Melbourne Fringe Festival, and in 2007, his show ''Lawrence Leung Learns to Breakdance'' won the Age Critic's Award for best Australian show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Best Local (Australian) Show at the 2008 Sydney Comedy Festival. His other shows included ''Skeptic'', ''The Marvellous Misadventures of Puzzle Boy'' and ''Lawrence Leung Wants A Jetpack''. He has also written pranks for the satirical comedy TV show ''The Chaser's War on Ever ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josh Lawson
Josh Lawson is an Australian actor best known for his role as Doug Guggenheim in '' House of Lies'', Tate in '' Superstore'' and as Kano in the 2021 film ''Mortal Kombat''. Early life Lawson grew up in Brisbane, and attended St Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace. He graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 2001. He also spent one year studying improvisation techniques in Los Angeles at The Second City, The Groundlings, ACME Comedy Theatre and I.O. West. His older brother is actor Ben Lawson. In 2003 Lawson was awarded a Mike Walsh Fellowship. Career Television Lawson has had guest-starring roles in such popular Australian television programs as ''Blue Heelers'' and '' Home & Away'', and is known for his appearances on the improv comedy program '' Thank God You're Here'' and on the Australian drama ''Sea Patrol'' and comedy '' The Librarians''. He also had a guest role in the comedy '' Wilfred'' and starred in several television commercials, including adver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Elliot
Adam Benjamin Elliot is an Australian animator and filmmaker based in Melbourne. Established as an independent auteur of minimalistic narrative-driven films in animation, all of his films have generally use of tragicomedy genre with themes of bittersweet nature and psychological development to the characters; based loosely on his family and friends, each of his films is considered a Clayography – a portmanteau genre of clay animation and biography, coined by himself. Early life and education Adam Benjamin Elliot was born in Berwick, Victoria, and raised in the Australian outback on a prawn farm by his father, Noel, a retired acrobatic clown, and his mother Valerie, a hairdresser; he has three siblings, Samantha, Luke and Joshua. After the farm went bankrupt, Elliot's father moved the family to the city of Melbourne, where he bought a small hardware shop. Elliot attended the Pinewood Primary State School in the suburb of Mount Waverley, and then Haileybury College, Keys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Kavalee
Edward Robert Kavalee (born 30 June 1979) is an Australian comedian, actor, writer, podcaster, radio and television presenter and association football commentator. He is a recurring panellist on Network 10's '' Have You Been Paying Attention?'' with Sam Pang. Kavalee is a former host of ''Hughesy, Ed & Erin'' and ''Ash, Grant & Ed'' on 2Day FM and the ''Marto, Ed & Robin'' breakfast show on Triple M Brisbane. He has hosted a number of television shows, including '' TV Burp'' and various sports-themed comedy shows along with Santo Cilauro and Sam Pang. Career Kavalee is an experienced Theatresports performer. He had been involved in running Theatresports workshops at the University of New South Wales (Studio 4, New South Wales University's comedy society), and for a number of years, he hosted Theatresports at the University of Sydney. Before his career on radio with Triple M, Kavalee began working in a small video store at the age of fourteen for a period of eight and a half ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waleed Aly
Waleed Aly (born 15 August 1978) is an Australian television presenter, journalist, academic, and lawyer. Aly is a lecturer in politics at Monash University working in their Global Terrorism Research Centre, and a co-host of Network Ten's news and current affairs television program '' The Project''. He also writes for Fairfax Media, co-hosts ''The Minefield'', an ABC RN program about ethical dilemmas of modern life, and is lead guitarist in rock band Robot Child. In 2016, he won the Gold Logie Award for Best Personality on Australian Television. Early life and education Aly was born on 15 August 1978 in Melbourne, Victoria, to Egyptian parents. He is a Sunni Muslim. He attended Wesley College, completing the International Baccalaureate in 1996. He then studied at the University of Melbourne, graduating with Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical) and Bachelor of Laws (with honours) degrees in 2002. In May 2017 Aly was awarded a PhD, for his thesis on global terrorism titled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damian Walshe-Howling
Damian Walshe-Howling is an Australian actor, well known for his role as Andrew "Benji" Veniamin in the Australian underworld drama '' Underbelly'', for which he won the Best Supporting or Guest Actor in a Drama Series at the 2008 AFI Awards. Early life and education Damien Walshe-Howling was born in Melbourne. Career He starred on ''Blue Heelers'' as Constable Adam Cooper from 1994 to 1998, and returned for the series finale in 2006. He has also had guest starring roles on ''Neighbours'' in 1993, ''The Secret Life of Us'' (2001) as Mac, ''Marshall Law'' (2002), '' Stingers'' (2003), '' Wilfred'' (2007), '' All Saints'' (2007) and '' Terra Nova'' (2011). His film work includes ''Halifax f.p.'' (2000), ''He Died with a Felafel in His Hand'' (2001), ''Ned Kelly'' (2003) and ''Macbeth'' (2006). In 2008, he hosted the Seven Network's factual series ''Crash Investigation Unit'' and appeared in the Bell Shakespeare production of ''Pericles, Prince of Tyre''. He also went back ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
