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词条 News Free Zone
释义

  1. Premise

  2. Cast

  3. Production

  4. Reception

  5. References

  6. External links

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}}News Free Zone was a 1985 Australian TV comedy show starring Grahame Bond. It was the idea of Maurice Murphy.[1]

Premise

It was intended to be an entire evening's entertainment in one half hour with no news (shown at 6pm, the same time the three commercial networks showed their evening news). It screened daily.[2]

The regular segments included:

  • a sitcom called Australia Street about a sharehouse at 85 Australia Street with a different resident from each state
  • a game show Neverending Story
  • a one person soap opera Party Line
  • Kev Kevanagh's Kulture
  • World Championship Acting
  • Vintage Video which showed old sketches from Aunty Jack
  • a reading at the end from The Book Of Wisdom
  • Bond singing "Please Respect Me"

Cast

  • Grahame Bond]
  • Rory O’Donoghue
  • Garry McDonald
  • Robyn Moase
  • John Derum
  • John Bluthal
  • Jude Kuring
  • Neil Redfern
  • Val Langford
  • Sandra MacGregor
  • Doug Scroope

Production

Murphy says the program was based on his "absolute hatred of anything journalistic and philosophical" and an "absolute love of enjoyment and fun and the light side in life". He says it was based on his "personal attention span. Some programs have one minute of plot and 27 minutes of fill in. I've always wondered why we just didn't have the minute and forget about the other 27 minutes." [3]

Apart from Grahame Bond, there are no well-known faces in the cast. "The aim is to try and develop a program that doesn't have to come off," said Murphy. "The idea is just to have I fun. I hope News Free Zone builds up new faces."[3]

It was filmed in Adelaide.[4] The series ran on every weekday for ten weeks.[3]

Reception

The show was the lead-in for the new ABC news program The National. Ratings were poor.[5]

References

1. ^{{cite news|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|date=July 28, 1985|page=59|title=Series takes the Australian slant}}
2. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article122522053 |title=Chatterbox poet lost in secluded paradise |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=59, |issue=18,214 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=12 August 1985 |accessdate=22 December 2017 |page=26 |via=National Library of Australia}}
3. ^{{cite news|page=54|title=The ABC believe no news is good news|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|date=July 29, 1985}}
4. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article118300909 |title=From 30 hours to 105 on ABC More Australian drama next year |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=61, |issue=18,896 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=29 June 1987 |accessdate=22 December 2017 |page=1 (TIMES TV & RADIO) |via=National Library of Australia}}
5. ^{{cite news|title=Here is the news|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|date=August 10, 1985 |page=1}}

External links

  • {{IMDb title|0088581}}
  • News Free Zone at Nostalgia Central

3 : Australian comedy television series|1985 Australian television series debuts|1986 Australian television series endings

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