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SkitHOUSE
''Skithouse'' (styled ''skitHOUSE'') is an Australian sketch comedy television series that ran on Network Ten from 9 February 2003 to 28 July 2004. The series was produced by Roving Enterprises. It featured many well-known Australian comedians, including comedy-band Tripod. Reruns can now be seen on The Comedy Channel on Foxtel. In the UK, it is shown on the channel Paramount Comedy 2 and Trouble. The title name itself is a pun on the colloquialism "shithouse". The series only ran for two seasons, before being cancelled due to a combination of dwindling ratings and the withdrawal of the cable network Foxtel as co-financier of the program's production. Cast ''Skithouse'' was produced by Roving Enterprises, a production company formed by Rove McManus. Two key performers were Rove's Rove Live co-hosts Peter Helliar and Corinne Grant. The show also featured Cal Wilson, Scott Brennan, Fiona Harris, Damian Callinan, Roz Hammond, Michael Chamberlin, Ingrid Bloom, Tom Glees ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roz Hammond
Rosalind Hammond, often credited as Ros or Roz, is an Australian actress and writer who has worked in theatre, film, and television. Hammond's television appearances include the role of Heather in ABC's '' Bay of Fires'', Claudia in '' The Heights'', and ten seasons of ''Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell''. Early life and education Rosalind Hammond is a graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Career Hammond played the role of librarian Christine Grimwood in three series of the ABC sitcom '' The Librarians''. She was a regular cast member on '' Thank God You're Here'', '' Full Frontal'', '' Sky Trackers'', '' Snowy'', and '' Micro Nation''. Hammond made guest appearances on the television series '' Harrow'', ''Please Like Me'', ''The Letdown'', '' Carla Cametti PD'', '' Driven Crazy'', ''Law of the Land'', '' MDA'', ''Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries'', '' Mr & Mrs Murder'', '' Newstopia'', ''Offspring'', '' Outland'', '' Raw FM'', ''Slide'' and '' Welcher an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cal Wilson
Cal Wilson (5 October 1970 – 11 October 2023) was a New Zealand stand-up comedian, author, radio and television presenter based in Australia. Wilson wrote the New Zealand sitcom ''Willy Nilly'' from 2001 until 2003. She then appeared in numerous comedy and television shows, including being the host of ''Sleuth 101,'' co-host of '' The Great Australian Bake Off,'' and voiced Petal and Thorn in the children's TV series ''Kitty Is Not a Cat''. Wilson also co-hosted several radio shows. Early life and education Wilson was born in New Zealand on 5 October 1970. After high school in Christchurch, she completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Canterbury. Comedy career Wilson co-founded the Court Jesters improv group in 1990; she was part of the New Zealand team that won the World Theatresports title in Los Angeles in 1994. Wilson then moved to stand-up comedy full-time and in 1997 was the inaugural winner (with Ewen Gilmour) of New Zealand's most prestigious comedy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Helliar
Pete Jason Matthew Helliar (born 16 June 1975) is an Australian comedian, actor, television, radio presenter, writer, producer and director. He is best known for his work on television as a former regular co-host of '' The Project'' on Network Ten from January 2014 to December 2022, replacing previous presenter Dave Hughes to host alongside Carrie Bickmore, Waleed Aly and Lisa Wilkinson. Helliar also appeared with Rove McManus as his sidekick on '' The Loft Live'' from 1997 to 1998, on '' Rove'' from 1999 and 2009 and in '' Before the Game'' as alter ego Bryan Strauchan. Helliar initially worked the Melbourne comedy circuit in the mid-1990s, performing in various venues and the annual Melbourne International Comedy Festival. He has performed in numerous television ads, most notably for Fernwood Fitness. Helliar has been nominated for the Gold Logie, a prestigious award bestowed upon the Most Popular Personality on Television in 2017. Career Television Helliar has made gu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trouble (TV)
Trouble was a subscription television channel operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland that was owned and operated by Virgin Media Television. Trouble had a key demographic of young adults and teenagers, aged between 15 and 24. The channel aired primarily American and Australian imports, with only a small margin of programmes being British. History In 1992, now-defunct television channel The Children's Channel restructured its late-afternoon programming to focus on a teenage audience, by launching a block called "TCC". TCC ran initially from 5:00pm-7:00pm but beginning on 1 September 1993 to coincide with the launch of The Family Channel and Sky Multichannels, the channel's space was changed to end at 5:00pm, including the TCC block, which now started at 3:00pm. Beginning on 3 February 1997, the TCC block was spun-off by Flextech into its own channel - Trouble, running from 12:00pm-8:00pm, timesharing with Bravo, which had removed its daytime broadcast hours in order to fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fast Bowler
Fast bowling (also referred to as pace bowling) is a type of bowling in cricket, in which the ball is delivered at high speed. The fastest bowlers bowl the ball at over . Practitioners of fast bowling are known as fast bowlers or quicks. Also included in this broad category are bowlers who do not achieve the highest speeds, who may instead be known by a range of other terms, such as medium fast bowlers. In addition to delivering the ball at speed, this type of bowler may also use seam bowling or swing bowling techniques, to make it even harder for the batter to play the ball correctly. The mixture of speed, seam and swing that can be achieved depends on several factors, including the individual bowler's skill, the condition of the ball, and the weather. Seam and swing are particularly important for bowlers who do not achieve the highest speeds. Therefore, they might also be referred to as a seam bowler, a swing bowler, or a fast bowler who can swing it, for example, if this is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cricket
Cricket is a Bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball game played between two Sports team, teams of eleven players on a cricket field, field, at the centre of which is a cricket pitch, pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two Bail (cricket), bails (small sticks) balanced on three stump (cricket), stumps. Two players from the Batting (cricket), batting team, the striker and nonstriker, stand in front of either wicket holding Cricket bat, bats, while one player from the Fielding (cricket), fielding team, the bowler, Bowling (cricket), bowls the Cricket ball, ball toward the striker's wicket from the opposite end of the pitch. The striker's goal is to hit the bowled ball with the bat and then switch places with the nonstriker, with the batting team scoring one Run (cricket), run for each of these swaps. Runs are also scored when the ball reaches the Boundary (cricket), boundary of the field or when the ball is bowled Illegal delivery (cricket), illegally. The fielding tea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fast Forward (Australian TV Series)
''Fast Forward'' was Australia's highest-rating and most critically awarded commercial television sketch comedy show, broadcast for 90 one-hour episodes from 12 April 1989 to 26 November 1992. The show was produced by Steve Vizard, who was also the executive producer, writer, and performer, and starred Jane Turner, Gina Riley, Magda Szubanski (the three of whom went on to star in '' Kath & Kim''), Marg Downey, Michael Veitch, Peter Moon, Alan Pentland, Steve Blackburn, Geoff Brooks, Ernie Dingo, the '' Rubbery Figures'' satirical puppets, and numerous guests and supporting stars, such as Gerry Connolly and Bryan Dawe.''The Unofficial Fast Forward Guide'' ''Fast Forward'' was succeeded by the related series '' Full Frontal'', and subsequently ''Totally Full Frontal'', which were broadcast from 1993 to 1999. ''Full Frontal'' had a different main cast, but many of the ''Fast Forward'' cast guest-starred. ''Fast Forward'' was directed by Ted Emery. From its second series o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy
Comedy is a genre of dramatic works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. Origins Comedy originated in ancient Greece: in Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by political satire performed by comic poets in Ancient Greek theatre, theaters. The theatrical genre of Greek comedy can be described as a dramatic performance pitting two groups, ages, genders, or societies against each other in an amusing ''agon'' or conflict. Northrop Frye depicted these two opposing sides as a "Society of Youth" and a "Society of the Old". A revised view characterizes the essential agon of comedy as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth and the societal conventions posing obstacles to his hopes. In this struggle, the youth then becomes constrained by his lack of social authority, and is left with little choice but to resort to ruses which e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hard Quiz
''Hard Quiz'' is an Australian television comedy quiz show which premiered on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) on 19 October 2016. Hosted by Tom Gleeson, the show is a spin-off of his "Hard Chat" segment on the satirical television news program ''The Weekly with Charlie Pickering''. It is filmed at the ABC Melbourne studios in Southbank in front of a studio audience. It is routine for Gleeson to mock the contestants or their subject and contestants will often make jokes at Gleeson's expense, all of which is accepted and appears to be encouraged. Gleeson has claimed he was surprised by the success of the program, saying he had given up hope of being a star. On 24 May 2019, Gleeson announced he was stepping down as host and quitting the program via a media release. On 26 May 2019, Gleeson was announced as a nominee for the Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television. He later tweeted that he would "un-axe" the show if he wins the Gold Log ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ABC Television (Australian TV Network)
ABC Television is the general name for the national television services of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Until an organisational restructure in 2017/2018, ABC Television was also the name of a division of the ABC. The name was also used to refer to the first and for many years the only national ABC channel, before it was renamed ABC1 and then again to ABC TV. The Australian public broadcaster's television service was launched in November 1956 from its first television station in Australia, ABN (TV station), ABN Sydney. This was the second one in the country, with the commercial channel TCN having launched two months earlier. An ABC television network covering every Australian states and territories, state and territory was completed by 1971, and in 2000 the television operations joined the ABC Radio and Regional Content, ABC radio and ABC Online, online divisions at the Corporation's Ultimo, New South Wales, Ultimo headquarters in Sydney in 2000. The ABC pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thank God You're Here
''Thank God You're Here'' is an Australian television improvised comedy program created by Working Dog Productions, which premiered on 5 April 2006 on Network 10, where it aired for the first three and from the fifth season onwards; the fourth season aired on the Seven Network. Each episode involves performers walking through a door into an unknown situation, greeted by the line "Thank God you're here!". They then have to improvise their way through the scene. At the end of each episode a winner is announced. It was the most successful new show in Australia of 2006, attracting an average of 1.7 million viewers after the first few episodes. The show was originally hosted by Shane Bourne and judged by Tom Gleisner. After a fourteen year hiatus, it was revived for a fifth series, hosted by Celia Pacquola and featuring a guest judge each episode. The format is sold for recreation in a number of countries. The sixth series of the show aired in 2024. The series won’t screen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wedge (Australian TV Series)
''The Wedge'' was an Australian sketch show created by Ian McFadyen and produced by Cornerbox for Network Ten. The show stars Dailan Evans, from the ABC sketch show'' Eagle & Evans''; Adam Zwar, best known for his roles in '' Wilfred'', Rebel Wilson, who at the time was best known as 'Toula' on the comedy show ''Pizza''; Jason Gann, two-time winner of best actor at Tropfest for his roles in Wilfred, as well as regulars Kate Jenkinson, Anthony Ahern, Katrina Mathers, Julie Eckersley and Ross Daniels. Marney McQueen, Aidan Fennessy and Cori Hooper were also regulars in Series 1, and Damian Callinan and Cal Wilson were regulars in Series 2. It ran for two seasons, airing 2006 and 2007. A spin-off mockumentary of one of the show's characters, Mark Wary, was produced by Network Ten in 2008. The show, titled '' Mark Loves Sharon'' premiered at 9:30pm on 30 June 2008. History and premise The program was first advertised by Network Ten in December 2005, with promos depicting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
