17 January 1998: Kristy Wright, Nic Testoni, Kate Ritchie, Ben Unwin (Home And Away) 17 January 2004: Georgie Parker (All Saints) 17 January 2009: Jodi Gordon and Paul O’Brien (Home And Away) 17 January 1988: The movie-length pilot of Home And Away screens on Seven, with the series’ half-hour episodes commencing the next night. The …
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Feb 14 2023
ABC’s Certain Women
Fifty years ago, ABC‘s Certain Women marked a shift in putting the primary focus in Australian television drama on women. Up until then, Australian television drama was largely male-dominated. Indeed, it was not until 1972 that the TV Week Logie Awards sought to add a category for Best Actress. Although serials like Motel, Bellbird and …
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Jan 05 2023
Obituary: Joan Sydney
Actor Joan Sydney, best known as Matron Maggie Sloane in A Country Practice, has died at the age of 83. English-born, her early career was in the theatre, which she continued after arriving in Australia in 1965. She made her Australian TV debut in the telemovie The Scalp Merchant in 1978, followed by an appearance …
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Feb 03 2019
Obituary: Carmen Duncan
Australian film and television actress Carmen Duncan has died at the age of 76. The actress died in hospital in Sydney on Sunday afternoon. Duncan first came to fame in the late 1960s appearing on dramas including The Battlers, You Can’t See Round Corners, Delta and Hunter. She went on to play the part of …
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Nov 29 2017
The Dream Factory pays tribute to Ripponlea
ABC this week pays tribute to its legendary Ripponlea studios in the documentary The Dream Factory. The studios, based in the Melbourne suburb of Elsternwick and named after the historic homestead which is adjacent to it, were officially opened in May 1958, eighteen months after ABC’s Melbourne channel ABV2 began broadcasting. The studios continued to …
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