Sep 22 2022
John Hamblin, actor and long-time presenter on Play School, has died at the age of 87. Born in England, Hamblin had made some early acting appearances on British television and was a “ten pound pom” when he came to Australia in the 1960s. His first Australian TV appearance was a guest role in the adventure …
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Sep 14 2022
The Nine Network has announced that it will launch a Tasmanian-based news bulletin in 2023. Nine News Tasmania, to air nightly at 6.00pm, will be produced from a new Hobart-based studio and broadcast statewide on Nine’s affiliate broadcaster WIN. The new bulletin replaces WIN’s current 5.30pm half-hour local news and relay of Nine News from …
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Sep 13 2022
The Seven Network has announced that it has secured the rights to the TV Week Logie Awards in a multi-year agreement with TV Week publisher Are Media. It will be the first time Seven has hosted the awards since 1995. It had also previously hosted the awards in 1989, with Bert Newton, and 1992. The …
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Sep 05 2022
Basia Rendall (née Bonkowski), television producer and former presenter, had died following a battle with lymphoma. Born in Adelaide, she first became ill with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma at the age of 17. The diagnosis led to her re-evaluating her interests and changed her studies from law to studying English, Literature and Drama at Flinders University. She …
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Sep 04 2022
The success of Australian-produced mini-series in the late 1970s saw the genre continue into the 1980s — with period dramas like The Last Outlaw, Outbreak Of Love, Water Under The Bridge, A Town Like Alice, 1915, Women Of The Sun and Sara Dane clocking up big budgets and, in many cases, overseas sales. ABC‘s contribution …
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