#australian television

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"What's your laptop password?" "It's PimpMama_666."

Heartbreak High (2022) season 1 Reboot created by Hannah Caroll Chapman

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Class of '07 (2023) | S1Ep1 Bird Shit

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Damon Herriman as Captain Lucien Gaines The Artful Dodger | 1x3

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Bunyip - ten episodes (Videos, 1987)

You can watch this adorable Australian animated series by Anne Jolliffe (who also worked onThe Beatles animated series and Yellow Submarine) here.

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The Project (Aus): 5SOS Talk Calum's 'Little Blip' & the One D 'Stage Strut'

Broadcast 14 October 2014

Calum: "Little blip? Wasn't it a BIG blip?"

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QUEERSTRALIA (2022) Episode 3 dir. Stamatia Maroupas

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Any Australians on here who remember this show?

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Looking back at the careers of two talented actors actors and writers, both born this month (August) : Peter Denyer (left), born August 20th, and Ed Devereaux (right) born August 27th.

Peter Denyer (1947-2009) gained lifelong fame as Dennis Dunstable in the LWT sitcoms Please Sir and Fenn Street Gang.

He built a solid career in British television, including an ongoing role in the sitcom Dear John, written by John Sullivan (Only Fools and Horses), appeared in The Bill and On the Up, and is credited with co-writing one episode of the LWT sitcom, Romany Jones.

He also acted, wrote and directed for the stage, including collaborations with his Please Sir/ Fenn Street co-stars, and had a brief but fascinating recording career, which included Beggar Boy and Skid Row Romeo, a foray into disco (Just Another Minute) and a cracking love song called Sadie.

In later years, he became a prolific writer of pantomime - his scripts used in over 200 productions each year.

Ed Devereaux (1925-2003), whose career spanned almost 50 years, had over 100 credits in British and Australian film and television. One of the finest and most consistently successful of his generation of Australian actors, he had a major role in the 1966 Australian immigrant comedy They’re a Weird Mob (directed by Michael Powell and co-written by Emeric Pressberger), and achieved international stardom as Head Ranger Matt Hammond in Skippy (1968-70), some episodes of which he also wrote.

His versatility enabled him to move seamlessly from comedy, featuring in several of the earlier Carry On movies, to period drama like The Onedin Line and Fall of Eagles. He starred as Lord Beaverbrook in two productions, the award-winning Thames drama Edward and Mrs Simpson (1978) and The Life and Times of David Lloyd George in 1981.

In 1975 he gave one of his standout performances, a dark and intense portrayal of an armed blagger, Biggleswade, in an episode of The Sweeney (Jackpot).

Peter Denyer passed away in 2009, aged 62. According to David Barry's memoir, Please Sir: The Official History, he collapsed while walking to Cheltenham railway station, not far from his home.

Ed Devereaux passed away at home in Hampstead (UK), in 2003, aged 78.

[glenhannah]

TV Week / TV Times cover gallery.

TV Times was and TV Week is (it’s still going) two popular TV publications that competed against each other in the 1960s and 1970s in Australia. Local and international celebrities adorned the covers

Above: Belinda Montgomery from Bewitched and an autographed David (Man from Uncle) McCallum cover.

Below: They may have been television guides but when Beatlemania exploded they knew that putting the mop tops on the front cover could dramatically increase sales. This issue features the lyrics to 10 Beatles tunes.

Above: I think this is promoting the NEW Phil Silvers Show that came about in the 1960s.

Below: British actress Hayley Mills.

Above: Mod Squad was popular in Australia and Peggy Lipton was invited to The Logies as a special guest. The Logies or Logie Awards (named after TV pioneer inventor John Logie Baird) are an annual awards show for the best in Australian TV. Michael Cole also attended the awards a few years later and caused a minor scandal when he got drunk and swore on stage.

Above: Ann-Margaret

Below: Get Smart was phenomenally popular in Australia. Episodes were repeated endlessly into the 1970s and 80s

Below: Skippy the Bush Kangaroo was a Children’s series that became iconic and gained international appeal.

Below: TV Wrestling was also hugely popular in Australia and featured local and international names. Look at those faces. Mario Milano was a local legend.

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Thomas Weatherall in Heartbreak High season 1 episode 1 (2022) dir. Gracie Otto Costume design by Rita Carmody

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Emily Browning as Zoe | Class of '07 | S1Ep1 Bird Shit

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Damon Herriman as Captain Lucien Gaines The Artful Dodger | 1x01

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The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (Premiers 4th August)

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NCIS: Sydney – Doggieccino Day Afternoon – TV Review

TL;DR – A tale of two episodes, one fascinating, the other deeply frustrating.    ⭐⭐ Rating: 2 out of 5. Disclosure – I paid for the Paramount+ service that viewed this series. NCIS: Sydney Review – Today, we look at a case study of what happens when you take an exciting idea and then weigh it down with unnecessary factors that end up taking away from the fascinating idea you had at the…

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Anthony Lawrence's 1989 animation - he's put the entire series up on YouTube too

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5SOS: Interview on Sunrise (promo for She's Kinda Hot)

4 August, 2015