A group of six friends on a yacht trip from Brisbane to Indonesia come to the aid of a broken-down asylum seekers' boat, leading to a tragic series of events that return to haunt them four years later.
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A group of six friends on a yacht trip from Brisbane to Indonesia come to the aid of a broken-down asylum seekers' boat, leading to a tragic series of events that return to haunt them four years later.
A showcase of Australia’s most seasoned live performers and versatile comedy talent with celebrated screen actors and established comedy performers supporting the ensemble cast throughout the series.
Explore the incredible highs, lows, joys, heartbreak, camaraderie, laughs and bittersweet sorrow that make up a teenager's life. A clandestine 'tunnel party' in the depths of the hinterland in northern NSW draws kids from all over the area but when a spectacular stunt leads to a car crash, a group of five teens face events that will transform their lives and their idyllic landscape forever.
Surf Patrol, Australia's Lifesavers is an Australian reality television series that airs on the Seven Network. The series is produced by the Australian production company Cornerbox, the producers of Seven's other factual series The Force and Border Security. The first season was presented by Simon Westaway, with Naomi Robson taking over for season two, and Tom Williams for series three. The show premiered on 9 July 2007. The second season started airing from 12 May 2008, with a third aired from 14 July 2009.
Follows the frightfully funny adventures of surf-siblings Jan and Dean as they enjoy an endless summer vacation on the island of Iki-Iki hanging out with their laidback uncle and a bunch of mischievous, thrill-seeking monsters.
This is the story of one boy's journey to manhood going from childhood games, to teenage lust and to adult sex. From secrets and lies, to fear and evil. From family ties that bind forever, to guilt that lasts a lifetime. And for the need to forgive. This is The Shark Net, a compelling, three-part series taken from on Robert Drewe's award-winning memoir about his early life growing up during the reign of one of Australia's most notorious serial killers. Though their lives take completely different turns, their paths cross; changing Robert forever. — Paul Gerard Kennedy
Raggs stars five members of a canine band, Raggs, Trilby, Pido, B. Max and Razzles, and their wise-cracking pet cat, Dumpster.
The Transformers began as a modest import toy only to become a multibillion-dollar merchandise line that would inspire a multibillion-dollar film franchise.
Ready Steady Cook is a twice Logie Award-nominated Australian cookery competition show that airs on Network Ten. It is based on the original Ready Steady Cook series broadcast by the BBC. The format is owned by Endemol. The show debuted in 2005, where it was hosted by former chef Nick Stratford. It aired weekdays at 1pm. Former Nine Network personality Peter Everett took over the hosting job in January 2006 to coincide with Ten's new daytime lineup. From 2006, it has aired at 2pm. In March 2011, it was announced that Colin Lane will replace Everett from June.
In 1829, a recently widowed Englishman brings his children to New South Wales to claim land and begin a new life, only to find it already occupied. Forced to settle as squatters, the family faces mounting challenges from colonial authorities, rival settlers, and the harsh conditions of the frontier.
Based on the BBC factual series of the same name, Ambulance Australia follows NSW Ambulance service, from the NSW Ambulance Triple Zero Control Centre to paramedics on the road in series 1 and 2. Series 3 follows the Queensland Ambulance Service.
Daniel and Alison meet in 1989 Sheffield and fall in love as teenagers before life takes them in different directions. They reconnect years later through shared musical memories, wondering if they're meant to be together.
Escape from Jupiter is a space adventure television series about a small group of children from a mining colony on Jupiter's moon, Io, who are forced to flee when a volcanic eruption destroys their world. With a few adult survivors, they seek shelter on the derelict space station KL5, floating above Io, convert it into a jerry-rigged spacecraft, and head off in a desperate attempt to reach Earth. They share many adventures and form close friendships on the dangerous journey. Escape from Jupiter concerned a small colony of humans on the moon of Io.
Monster House was an Australian reality/comedy television series broadcast on the Nine Network. Debuting on 12 February 2008, the program was hosted by Bernard Curry, brother of Stephen and Andrew Curry. The show centred around the Webb family, played by actors Rebel Wilson, Celia Ireland, Travis Cotton, Jody Kennedy, Julie Herbert and Glenn Butcher, who act as a fictional family in a house purpose-built with hidden cameras to capture their performances and those of the unsuspecting guests who get brought into the family's "web". The show debuted with an unimpressive 793,000 viewers tuning in. It was pulled from schedules after its second episode, and axed by the network the following day. Nine had commissioned ten unaired episodes of the show, which were filmed in December 2007 and January 2008. Nine stated it would air the remaining episodes later in the year, and did so as counter-programming during the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Follow a mischievous 8-year-old boy with a heart of gold in this blend of a modern family's chaos with biting satire.
The Adventures of Lano and Woodley is an Australian comedy television show starring the comedic duo of Lano and Woodley, consisting of two series which aired on ABC TV from 1997 to 1999. The first series was distributed on VHS and in 2004 The Complete Adventures of Lano and Woodley was released as a 2-disc DVD rather than each series being released separately.
Capturing the backstage excitement & collaboration of putting on a show, join Justine, stage manager puppet friend, Dash the Dog, & special guests, as they work together to get everything ready in time.
Follow the odyssey of three men: their quest to get inside the head of the modern woman, and find out where they went wrong.
Australian version of the reality dating show in which singles cruise on a luxury cruise ship while looking for love. Destination dates, challenges and surprise singles test the couples' compatibility and chemistry. Like the beloved original scripted series "The Love Boat", the crew members of the ship (including the captain and cruise director) play pivotal roles in the matchmaking and navigation of the turbulent romantic waters.
Don Angel is a small businessman – the backbone of this great country’s economy. But if that's true, it's no thanks to him. After numerous unsuccessful ventures, Don's Worldwide Business Group is now hurtling towards liquidation. His debts are mounting, his stomach's killing him, his wife has left him and he's just hired Ray Leonard as his sole employee. It's a marriage made in heaven – at least until the Tax Office gets there.
Missing Pieces is an Australian factual television series that screened on the Nine Network in 2009. It was hosted by Peter Overton. Missing Pieces follows the stories of people who embark on a life-changing journey to find someone special who is missing from their lives. It has a similar premise to the successful Seven Network factual television series Find My Family.
Mark "Chopper" Read established a reputation of infamy by becoming one of the toughest criminals in Australian history. But in order to secure the affections of the woman he loves, Chopper fights to go straight. Yet the sins of his past, his ego and an ongoing feud with Syd Collins will make his hopes of a straight life a dangerous and near-impossible enterprise. Underbelly Files: Chopper explores the collision of Chopper's two competing identities — the myth and the man.
Two Indigenous detectives race to solve a major case in their sketchy neighbourhood, but find their loyalties compromised when they discover that most of the suspects are family.
Wild Boys is an Australian television period drama series that began airing on the Seven Network on 4 September 2011. It is produced by Julie McGauran and Sarah Smith from Southern Star and John Holmes. The series is set in and around the fictional town of Hopetoun and principally filmed in Wilberforce on the Hawkesbury, Nelson, and Glenworth Valley on the New South Wales Central Coast.The series premiered in the UK on TCM UK on 3 March 2013. The series was not renewed after the first season of 13 episodes.
Australia's finest raconteurs gather in front of a live audience to reveal their funniest stories, darkest moments and their shameful secrets while sitting in a stupidly ornate chair and reading from an awkwardly large book.
The daily lives of five very special individuals who are among the thousands of citizens nominated for the prestigious title of Australian of the Year.
Crime Investigation Australia is an Australian true-crime series that first premiered on Foxtel's Crime & Investigation Network in August 2005. The series is also rebroadcast on the Nine Network, and made its debut there on 14 August 2007. The host of the series is Steve Liebmann.
Join host Aaron Pedersen as he takes audiences on a journey around Australia, exploring the country’s iconic wildlife, its unique landscapes and the great oceans that surround it in the new series Australia Remastered. Explore some of Australia's most iconic and fascinating animals. From mysterious orca to the iconic kangaroo, intelligent parrots and the secret lives of reptiles, all have evolved to survive across the Australian landscape.
At Home with Julia takes you into the life of PM Julia Gillard and boyfriend Tim Mathieson, behind the closed doors of The Lodge into the private life of perhaps our greatest PM since Kevin Rudd.
Puts one year under the microscope every episode, to remind us of the fads, fashions, movies, music, celebrities, news and events which made the year memorable.
Each week on Claire Hooper's House of Games, four celebrities face a bunch of tricky trivia, perplexing puzzles and hilarious headscratchers in exchange for a low-rent daily prize and a shot at the weekly champion's trophy.
Ferry Boat Fred is an Australian children's programme which was first broadcast in 1992. The main character is a ferry on Sydney Harbour named Fred, along with his older sister Kate, two other ferries, Lou and Bill, as well as Jean, a really jolly and colourful submarine. There is also the Captain, a Koala who is always found asleep behind Fred's wheel. Fred has a voluntary deckkie named Pete, a "know-it-all" Pelican who befriends Fred and follows him around the harbour, assisting Fred and tying him up at Wallaby Wharf. The show was a success during its limited run. It was created by Polka Dot Productions, a company set up by the Producer/Writer John Pye in 1992 with 25 episodes. John Pye, a model maker originally from Dagenham Essex UK, grew up watching the classic British children's TV shows, "Ivor the Engine" and "Noggin the Nog" Not only did Pye write the scripts and the incidental music but was also responsible for making most of the models.
Chopper Squad is an Australian television series produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation for the 0-10 Network. The series was based around the work of a helicopter rescue team operating on Dee Why beach in Sydney. It has been said that the American series Baywatch was based upon Chopper Squad.
This modern version of The Toothbrush Family reinvents the original concept with more colorful animation and more dynamic stories. Set in a bathroom, the toothbrushes Escovinha and Macia live alongside Pastinha, Esponjosa, and the Countess of the Comb. Together, they experience various adventures in a space full of secret places and unexpected visitors, promoting hygiene habits and cooperation.
Shane Jacobsen dives headfirst into the ultimate country adventure as he attempts to revive a tired old pub in the tiny Victorian town of Dederang and restore it as the beating heart of the community once again. There’s just one problem: Shane has never run a pub before. In a moment of spectacular optimism, he also booked a wedding that must go ahead right in the middle of renovation chaos.
Lauren is a dynamic Indigenous lawyer ticking off life goals in Adelaide. She's married to Ned, a handsome husband who makes fresh croissants. What else could a person need? After Lauren's eight-year-old niece is orphaned, the couple reluctantly abandons their big-city goals and move to the Top End to raise the child. While Lauren and Ned juggle the responsibility of becoming unexpected parents and try to keep their marriage together, Lauren must come to terms with her responsibilities within her culture as she transforms from an individualist to the linchpin of her family.
skitHOUSE was 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 colloquial word: "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.
Newstopia is an Australian half-hour satirical comedy programme hosted by Shaun Micallef. The first series premiered at 10:00 pm on SBS TV on 10 October 2007 and concluded on 3 December 2007. A second season began on 27 February 2008 and concluded on 30 April 2008. A third season of the show screened from 1 October to 3 December 2008. The show was developed by Micallef, Gary McCaffrie, Michael Ward and Jason Stephens, with McCaffrie and Ward working as writers on the programme. A fourth series in 2009 was planned, but cancelled due to production clashes with Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation. The show's contributors include Matt Cameron, Doug MacLeod, Dave O'Neil, Tony Moclair and Richard Marsland.
In the Sydney underworld, the lives of gangsters, the Instagram generation, and the glamorous social elite intertwine.
Freddy and the Howlington pack go paw to paw with ancient dark magic in an epic battle through time and space to save Milford, Werewolves, and the world as we know it.
The Warriors is set in the world of Australian Rules Football. It explores the elite world of professional sport through the eyes of two new recruits - plucked from obscurity to fame and fortune - and two established players as they are thrown together in a share house in Melbourne.
Filmed exclusively for The Comedy Channel and hosted by the razor sharp Dave Thornton (Seasons 1 to 3) and Tommy Little (Season 4 onward) witness comedians from all over the globe grace the Studio at Sydney's ultimate venue, the Sydney Opera House.
Misery Guts was an Australian children's television series on the Nine Network Australia that first screened in 1998. Keith is the only son of Vin and Marge Shipley. They live above a fish 'n' chips shop in South London and things are tough. Keith's parents are misery gutses and he is convinced that the only way for the family to regain its former happiness is for him to make his parents smile again. Keith embarks on a mission to cheer his parents up. He buys a brilliantly coloured tropical fish from Australia, where the sun shines all the time, the sea is full of fish and coconuts just fall into your hands. When all his efforts to cheer his parents up fail spectacularly, Keith decides he must somehow get his parents to Australia. People couldn't be unhappy in a paradise where fish sparkle like rainbows and it's sunny and warm all the time. Or could they? Based on Morris Gleitzman's books 'Misery Guts', 'Worry Warts', and 'Puppy Fat'.
This drama mini-series follows a group of friends from the South Sudanese community living in Sunshine, a suburb in the outskirts of Melbourne, Australia. The young men get entangled in a crime as they are hoping to make it as professional basketball players.
Splatalot! is a Canadian/Australian/British internationally co-produced medieval-themed physical game show for kids, which made its first debut in its English Canadian premiere on March 14, 2011 on YTV, where it is hosted by Jason Agnew and Matt Chin. The Australian and UK broadcasts of the show use the same filmed footage as the original Canadian show, but with their own local presenters providing commentary. The show premiered in the UK on CBBC on June 13, 2011, presented by Richard McCourt and Dominic Wood. The show premiered in Australia on ABC3 on November 5, 2011, hosted by Kayne Tremills and Scotty Tweedie. The series is a copy of Wipeout, designed for childrens audiences.
They're absent-minded, mildly corrupt and barely competent. Somehow, they're Australia's most elite detective unit.
An Australian educational comedy television series based on the American series (and earlier web series) of the same name. In each episode, an inebriated celebrity struggles to recount a historical event, while actors reconstruct and enact the narrator's anecdotes while lip syncing the dialogue.
Project Runway Australia is a reality television show based on the American program Project Runway, wherein fashion designers residing in Australia compete by making specific garments for weekly challenges. The show features Megan Gale as the host, and Peter Morrissey and Claudia Navone as judges. Alex Perry acts as a mentor to the contestants, as Tim Gunn does in the American version. Production began in May 2008, and the show premiered on Arena 8.30 p.m. Monday 7 July 2008. The prizes for the winner of Project Runway Australia included what is described as "$100,000 opportunity" to create their own fashion line to show in Melbourne Fashion Week, a new car, the model of which changes throughout the seasons, and having their clothes displayed in a six-page spread in Madison magazine.
Follows a suburban Australian psychologist and the ups and downs of her patients as they explore love, loss, anxiety, obsession and the uncertain future ahead. It celebrates the mess and melancholy of life with elements of unexpected magical realism.
The biggest names in Australian comedy are joining forces with a group of rising new stars for Open Slather, Foxtel’s highly anticipated, original production. Creating a comedy ‘hot pot’, Open Slather casts a satirical eye across the pop culture landscape and combines the talents of comedy legends who have made us laugh for years, (Glenn Robbins, Magda Szubanski, Shane Jacobson, Marg Downey, Gina Riley, Stephen Curry, Michael Veitch and Jane Turner) with 12 rising stars including Ben Gerrard, Ben Lomas, Dave Eastgate, Demi Lardner, Emily Taheny, George H. Xanthis, Hannah Bath, Holly Austin, Ilai Swindells, Jay K Cagatay, Laura Hughes and Miles O’Neil. Filmed in Melbourne, Open Slather will be a no holds barred send up of popular culture, politics, sport, music and media – all the things that capture the imagination of the public and get people laughing.
Comedy-drama looking at the anti-relationship, and what dating is really like when no one says what they mean or what they want.
If you have a penchant for the rollercoaster ride that is the property market, then make a date to inspect House Hunters Australia . From humble suburban homes to high-end city pads, House Hunters Australia pairs potential buyers with agents in the quest for a win-win deal.
Julia Zemiro explores some of the greatest places in Australia during a series of one-day walks and shares a treasure trove of untold stories.
Camera Shy is a 10-episode LGBTQIA+ TikTok web series filmed from the perspective of a laptop camera. Ellie, a budding photographer accidentally takes an online desk job at a school photography company and finds herself having to prove to her boss that she is worthy of a photographer position. Meanwhile, she has discovered she has a crush on her roommate Sam, causing her to be distracted from her work which unfortunately all her co-workers can hear as her microphone isn't on mute. Helen, Ellie's grandma (Sam's best friend) comes to stay, and it isn't long before she realises they like each other and makes it her mission to get the two together.
Ten stand-up specials from some of Australia’s best comedians, filmed at Melbourne's Malthouse Theatre for a global release on Amazon Prime Video.
Well shunt me in the hunt and call me a munt hunter, it's the Ronnie Johns Goodtimes Campfire Jamboree Half Hour Show! It's the hilarious Australian sketch comedy show that dared to reveal the truth about gnocchi, the joy of getting kicked in the janglies, and that high-fiving a Muslim can make the world a better place. So join Chopper, Jesus, Poppy, Mlak Mlak, Paulie, Gary, and of course, Gary, in the side-splitting show guaranteed to light a campfire in your pants.
Outland is a six-part comedy series about a gay science fiction fan club and the lives, loves and never-ending dramas of its five members. There’s Max, insecure and looking for love; the sexually-adventurous, muffin-baking Andy; Rae, the moral centre and unofficial head of the group; the high-camp, high-maintenance Fab; and the wealthy, socially-inept Toby. Every meeting collapses into chaos. Fault-lines within the group are exposed and secrets and skeletons come crashing out of the closet. Can science fiction save them all? Outland is a series about belonging, no matter who you are, and how everyone searches to find a place to fit in.