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Wicked! (TV Series)
''Wicked!'' is an Australian animated television series based on the book series of the same name by Paul Jennings and Morris Gleitzman. It was co-produced by Energee Entertainment in Sydney, Australia and France Animation. The series is about two step-siblings named Rory and Dawn as they try to protect their own town from viruses caused by the Appleman, a man with a head shaped like a half-eaten apple. It was intended as a "comedy of horrors" aimed at children aged 8 to 13. ''Wicked!'' began with 13 short webisodes released on the eKidz website in late 2000. The series ran for 26 episodes and an 80-minute film. By the end of 2001, it had become Energee Entertainment's most successful series, with over €8 million in sales. However, the producers were unable to continue the series, as Energee shut down in 2002 due to financial losses from its film ''The Magic Pudding''. In Australia, the series aired on both the Seven Network and the Oh! channel by Optus Television. Internatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy Horror
Comedy horror (also called horror comedy) is a literary, television and film genre that combines elements of comedy and horror fiction. Comedy horror has been described as having three types: "black comedy, parody and spoof." Comedy horror can also parody or subtly spoof horror clichés as its main source of humour or use those elements to take a story in a different direction. Examples of comedy horror films include ''Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein'' (1948), ''An American Werewolf in London'' (1981), the '' Evil Dead'' franchise (1981–present), '' Gremlins'' (1984), '' Shaun of the Dead'' (2004) and '' The Cabin in the Woods'' (2011). In literature Horror and comedy have been associated with each other since the early days of horror novels. Author Bruce G. Hallenbeck cites the 1820 short story " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving as "the first great comedy horror story". The story made readers "laugh one moment and scream the next" and its premise was bas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Jennings (Australian Author)
Paul Jennings Order of Australia, AM (born 30 April 1943), is an English-born Australian writer for children, young adults and adults. He is best known for his short stories that lead the reader through an unusual series of events and end with a Twist ending, twist. Many of his stories were adapted for the cult classic children's television series ''Round the Twist''. Jennings collaborated with Morris Gleitzman on the book series ''Wicked!'', which was adapted into an Wicked! (TV series), animated TV series in 2000, and ''Deadly!''. Early life and education Paul Jennings was born on 30 April 1943 in Heston, Middlesex (now part of London Borough of Hounslow, Hounslow in Greater London, London). In 1949 his family emigrated to Australia. He first attended Bentleigh West Primary School in Bentleigh, Victoria, Bentleigh, a suburb of Melbourne, and then Caulfield Grammar School. He graduated with a Bachelor of Education Studies from Frankston Teachers' College and taught at Frank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morris Gleitzman
Morris Gleitzman (born 9 January 1953) is an Australian author of children's and young adult fiction.Morris Gleitzman He has gained recognition for sparking an interest in in his novel '' Two Weeks with the Queen'' (1990). Gleitzman has co-written many children's series with another Australian children's author, Paul Jennings. One of Gleitzman and Jennings' colla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Carrington (television Executive)
Michael Andrew Carrington (born Michael Andrew Chuprin-Plicha, 5 May 1961) is an Australian broadcast media executive. He was Director, Entertainment and Specialist at the ABC based in Sydney, New South Wales. He oversaw all national radio, television, and digital services including ABC TV (ABC1), ABC TV Plus (ABC2), ABC Me, ABC Kids plus ABC iview, ABC Listen, ABC Kids Listen, ABC Classic FM, ABC Jazz, ABC Country, and Radio National. Early life Of Russian and English descent, Carrington was born in 1961 in Camden, New South Wales, Australia to Hubert John Plicha and Elaine Marshall. The family lived in Campbelltown, New South Wales until 1974 when they moved to Parkes, New South Wales, where Carrington attended Parkes High School graduating in 1979. Carrington's father was born Vitalik Aleksandrovich Chuprin () in Rostov-on-Don, Russia and is a direct descendant of Jacob Wiens, a co-founder of the Mennonites. Carrington's paternal grandmother, Margarita Chuprin (néWiens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ravensburger
Ravensburger AG is a German game, puzzle and toy company, publishing house, and market leader in the jigsaw puzzle market. History The company was founded by Otto Robert Maier in Ravensburg, a town in Upper Swabia in southern Germany. He began publishing in 1883 with his first author contract. He started publishing instruction folders for craftsmen and architects, which soon acquired him a solid financial basis. His first board game appeared in 1884, named ''Journey Around the World''. At the turn of the 20th century, his product line broadened to include picture books, books, children’s activity books, art instruction manuals, non-fiction books, and reference books as well as children’s games, Happy Families, and activity kits. In 1900, the Ravensburger blue triangle trademark was registered with the Imperial patent office. As of 1912, many board and activity games had an export version that was distributed to Western Europe and the countries of the Danube Monarchy as wel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France Animation
MoonScoop S.A. also known as the MoonScoop Group was a French television production company and animation company that created and published animated television series. Its corporate headquarters were located in Paris, France, along with offices in the United Kingdom and the United States. It was established in 2003. It is most famously known for ''Code Lyoko'' and its open-ended sequel series, '' Code Lyoko: Evolution''. History One of MoonScoop's predecessors was France Animation, founded in 1984, and based in Paris. France Animation went on to become the original producers of ''Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea''. In September 2003, the company was acquired from its then-owner Wanadoo by Antefilms Production—an outfit created by Christophe Di Sabatino and Benoît Di Sabatino in 1990. Both companies' distribution arms were merged in March 2004 to form the present day MoonScoop. On January 24, 2014, the Commercial Court of Paris accepted Dargaud's takeover bid of MoonSc ... [...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] |
Webisodes
A webisode (portmanteau of "web" and "episode") is an episode of a series that is distributed as part of a web series or on streaming television. It is available either for download or in streaming, as opposed to first airing on broadcast or cable television. The format can be used as a preview, promotion, part of a collection of shorts, commercial, or raw metadata. A webisode may or may not have been broadcast on TV. What defines it is its online distribution on the web, or through video-sharing web sites such as Vimeo or YouTube. While there is no set standard for length, most webisodes are relatively short, ranging from 3–15 minutes in length. It is a single web episode, but collectively is part of a web series. The term ''webisode'' (a portmanteau formed from the words ''web'' and ''episode'') was first introduced in the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary in 2009. History Webisodes have become increasingly common in the midst of the post-broadcast era, which implies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Magic Pudding (film)
''The Magic Pudding'' is a 2000 Australian animated musical adventure comedy film loosely adapted from the 1918 book of the same name by Norman Lindsay. Directed by Karl Zwicky, the film features a voice cast of well known actors including Sam Neill, Geoffrey Rush, Hugo Weaving, Jack Thompson, Toni Collette and John Cleese. The film was produced by the Australian studio Energee Entertainment. The studio shut down in 2002 due to financial losses from the film. Plot In the South Pole, Bill Barnacle, his first mate Sam Sawnoff and crewman Buncle are shipwrecked in the south pole. After Bill stops a starving Buncle from eating Sam, the iceberg cracks and produces Albert, a rude, everlasting magic pudding who demands that they continue to eat him. Buncle runs off with the pudding and claims it as his own, but the ice breaks and he falls into the sea. Bill and Sam manage to rescue the pudding, and after briefly mourning the apparent loss of Buncle, choose to protect it from thiever ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oh! (TV Channel)
Oh! was an Australian cable TV channel owned by Optus Television. It served as the services's premier general entertainment channel until it was replaced by FOX8 in 2002. Programming was mostly sourced from Warner Brothers Television. After the channel's closure, the content was given to Foxtel and XYZnetworks channels, with most of the Warner Brothers shows moving to Arena An arena is a large enclosed venue, often circular or oval-shaped, designed to showcase theatre, Music, musical performances or Sport, sporting events. It comprises a large open space surrounded on most or all sides by tiered seating for specta .... Programming References {{Authority control Defunct television channels in Australia Television channels and stations established in 1999 Television channels and stations disestablished in 2002 English-language television stations in Australia 1999 establishments in Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Optus Television
Optus Television is the cable television division of Australian telecommunications company Optus. History Its immediate predecessor was Optus Vision, a joint venture between Optus and Continental Cablevision, with small shareholdings by media companies Publishing & Broadcasting Limited and Seven Network. It was founded to handle residential cable television and local telephony, while its parent concentrated on corporate, long-distance, satellite and interstate communications. It used a hybrid fibre coaxial cable network to connect homes to its network and subsequently added broadband cable internet access. Optus Vision used the Optus telecommunications licence as its authority to build a cable network, which it deployed in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane. Optus's main competition, especially in the metropolitan areas, was Foxtel, a joint venture between Telstra and News Corporation. Optus negotiated exclusive access to AFL, rugby league, and other sports, and had exclus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wicked TV Show Characters
Wicked may refer to: Books * ''Wicked'' (Maguire novel), a 1995 novel by Gregory Maguire that inspired the musical of the same name * ''Wicked'', a 1997 novel series collaboration between Australian children's authors Paul Jennings and Morris Gleitzman * ''Wicked'' (novel series), a young adult novel series written by Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguié * ''Wicked'' (''Pretty Little Liars''), the fifth novel in Sara Shepard's ''Pretty Little Liars'' series * ''Wicked!'', a 2006 novel by Jilly Cooper Film, television and stage * ''Wicked'' (1931 film), a drama film starring Bailey Morley and Victor McLaglen * ''Wicked, Wicked'', a 1973 horror-thriller feature film that was presented in "Duo-Vision" * ''The Wicked'' (1991 film), Italian film directed by Carlo Lizzani * ''Wicked'' (1998 film), a 1998 film starring Julia Stiles * ''Wicked!'' (TV series), a 2000 Australian animated series * ''Wicked'' (musical), a 2003 musical based on the Gregory Maguire novel * ''Wicked'' (fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
