Tag: The Power The Passion

On This Day — 19 March

19 March 1988: Kylie Minogue (Neighbours) 19 March 1989: George Mallaby, Libby Purvis, Suzy Cato, Daniel Roberts (The Power, The Passion) 19 March 2005: Kip Gamblin, Rebecca Cartwright, Chris Hemsworth (Home And Away) 19 March 2022: Jackie Woodburne and Alan Fletcher (Neighbours) 19 March 1979: Singer Julie Anthony presents her second TV special, Julie Anthony …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2024/03/on-this-day-19-march.html

Obituary: Bert Newton

Bert Newton, one of the pioneers and enduring personalities of Australian television, has died at the age of 83. He had been in hospital for several months and went into palliative care recently following complications from recent surgery to have a leg amputated. Born in 1938, Newton started in radio when still a teenager, becoming …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2021/10/obituary-bert-newton.html

Back to the Millennium

New Year’s Eve television in Australia is usually a fairly low-rent mix of re-runs or B-grade filler not fit for broadcast during the high-pressure ratings season. But the global excitement over the year ticking over from 1999 to 2000, twenty years ago, saw some gallant efforts to secure the nation’s viewers on the big night. …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2019/12/back-to-the-millennium.html

Seven’s battle for high noon

In the 1980s one of the Nine Network‘s many strengths was its early afternoons. The Mike Walsh Show, which became Midday with Ray Martin, followed by US soaps Days Of Our Lives and The Young And The Restless constantly beat anything thrown at them by rival commercial networks Seven and Ten. When Christopher Skase took …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2019/03/sevens-battle-for-high-noon.html

Seven’s Motel promised daytime sizzle

The Seven Network‘s bold — and third — attempt to produce a daytime soap opera was met with comparisons to popular overseas dramas Peyton Place and Coronation Street. With a generous budget and a cast list of 16, Motel was a serious attempt to crack the daytime market as an alternative to cheaper game and chat …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2018/05/sevens-motel-promised-daytime-sizzle.html

Obituary: Alan Cassell

Alan Cassell, actor on Australian stage, film and television, died last week at the age of 85. Born in the United Kingdom, his acting career began in Western Australia. His work was mainly as a stage actor but he did have a lead role in a locally-produced series, The Drifter — one of the few …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2017/09/obituary-alan-cassell.html

Obituary: Oscar Whitbread

Oscar Whitbread, former television producer, died earlier this week at the age of 86. Whitbread first joined ABV2 in Melbourne in January 1957, just months after it first commenced transmission. His early years at ABV were predominantly focused on producing documentary and variety programs — in particular, the long-running magazine program Panorama, hosted by popular presenter Corinne Kerby, …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2016/05/obituary-oscar-whitbread.html

1993: April 11-17

Cover: Jo Bailey (Sale Of The Century) A Country Get-Together Around 150 past and present cast members of A Country Practice gathered at a Sydney harbourside restaurant to celebrate the series’ 1000th episode.  The show’s creator and producer James Davern said that even after 1000 episodes there is still plenty of life in the series. …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2013/04/1993-april-11-17.html

Obituary: Alan Bateman

Alan Bateman, the creator of long-running drama series Home And Away, has died after a battle with cancer. Bateman’s early television career was as a technician, working at Perth channels ABW2 and TVW7 in the early 1960s, before moving up the ranks to become a producer and executive at ABC and later the Seven and Nine …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2012/08/obituary-alan-bateman.html

1992: May 3-9

Rebecca does a double take! Being an aunt several times over – with 14 nieces and nephews – All Together Now star Rebecca Gibney (pictured) is no stranger to crying babies, which makes her well equipped for this week’s storyline which sees her character Tracy offering to babysit a pair of five-month-old twins.  But Gibney, …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2012/05/1992-may-3-9.html