National Association of Cinema Operators (Naco) executive director Michael Hawkins, former Seven Network CEO Maureen Kerridge, and actress Val Lehman are among the screen industry professionals to be recognised as part of the Australia Day honours.
Hawkins, who is also the chairman of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards advisory board and the director of Creative Content Australia, was named a Member of the Order of Australia (Am) for significant service to the film and television industry, and to screen content.
In addition to his role with Naco, Hawkins is also the executive director of the Australian International Movie Convention (Aimc), and sits on the Screen Australia board.
He was also executive chairman of Brisbane Asia Pacific Film Festival from 2014 to 2017, and of CEO Australian Multiplex Cinemas from 1994 to 2010.
Hawkins told If being able to advocate for sectors of the industry had been an important part of his career.
“Right now,...
Hawkins, who is also the chairman of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards advisory board and the director of Creative Content Australia, was named a Member of the Order of Australia (Am) for significant service to the film and television industry, and to screen content.
In addition to his role with Naco, Hawkins is also the executive director of the Australian International Movie Convention (Aimc), and sits on the Screen Australia board.
He was also executive chairman of Brisbane Asia Pacific Film Festival from 2014 to 2017, and of CEO Australian Multiplex Cinemas from 1994 to 2010.
Hawkins told If being able to advocate for sectors of the industry had been an important part of his career.
“Right now,...
- 1/25/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
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Remember Queen Bea, the Freak, and, er 'Vinegar Tits'? We revisit the joys of Aussie women’s prison drama, Prisoner: Cell Block H…
Britain, you sent Australia your convicts. In return, we sent you a TV show celebrating them.
Strap on your nostalgia goggles, it’s time to revisit one of the most bizarre, violent, lesbian-fetishy-heart-warming dramas ever created.
Prisoner: Cell Block H (known simply as Prisoner in Australia) was a daring, one-hour show set in Wentworth Detention Centre, a fictional women’s prison that provides the one-word title of the original show's modern-day revival. It ran for 692 episodes from February 1979 until December 1986. It hitched a ride on the coat-tails of the successful British show Within These Walls, with a notable difference. The focus of Prisoner was mostly on the inmates, not the wardens.
The opening was short and punchy - a quick recap of the previous...
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Remember Queen Bea, the Freak, and, er 'Vinegar Tits'? We revisit the joys of Aussie women’s prison drama, Prisoner: Cell Block H…
Britain, you sent Australia your convicts. In return, we sent you a TV show celebrating them.
Strap on your nostalgia goggles, it’s time to revisit one of the most bizarre, violent, lesbian-fetishy-heart-warming dramas ever created.
Prisoner: Cell Block H (known simply as Prisoner in Australia) was a daring, one-hour show set in Wentworth Detention Centre, a fictional women’s prison that provides the one-word title of the original show's modern-day revival. It ran for 692 episodes from February 1979 until December 1986. It hitched a ride on the coat-tails of the successful British show Within These Walls, with a notable difference. The focus of Prisoner was mostly on the inmates, not the wardens.
The opening was short and punchy - a quick recap of the previous...
- 11/9/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
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Jokers, circus masters and demonic dolls. Which TV characters terrify you? Den Of Geek asked its writers that very question…
The subconscious is a terrible place; dark, mysterious and peopled by spectres from the past. As a bit of a laugh then, we sent our writers journeying into theirs and asked them to drag out any TV terrors they found lurking in the shadows.
Some television fears had been ensconced there since childhood, others were more recent tenants. Some were morally terrifying; human beings with icy hearts capable of atrocities, others were simply… atrocities.
Join us as we count down in order of terror from the sort-of-creepy to the downright terrifying, the 50 TV characters that, for whatever reason, give our writers chills. It’s by no means an exhaustive list, so feel free to fill in gaps by adding your own peculiar television nightmares below…
50. Charn -...
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Jokers, circus masters and demonic dolls. Which TV characters terrify you? Den Of Geek asked its writers that very question…
The subconscious is a terrible place; dark, mysterious and peopled by spectres from the past. As a bit of a laugh then, we sent our writers journeying into theirs and asked them to drag out any TV terrors they found lurking in the shadows.
Some television fears had been ensconced there since childhood, others were more recent tenants. Some were morally terrifying; human beings with icy hearts capable of atrocities, others were simply… atrocities.
Join us as we count down in order of terror from the sort-of-creepy to the downright terrifying, the 50 TV characters that, for whatever reason, give our writers chills. It’s by no means an exhaustive list, so feel free to fill in gaps by adding your own peculiar television nightmares below…
50. Charn -...
- 10/29/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Prisoner Cell Block H remake Wentworth is to air on Channel 5 in the UK.
Based on the classic Australian soap opera, the ten-part Wentworth will premiere later this year.
Set in the violent, dangerous environment of a modern prison, the series is described as a "graphic, edgy reboot" of the original Prisoner.
Danielle Cormack and Nicole da Silva will star as lead inmates Bea Smith and Franky Doyle.
Katie Keenan, Head of Acquisitions at Channel 5, said: "Wentworth will be a great addition to Channel 5's drama output this autumn.
"This compelling cast of female characters packs an emotional punch and will appeal to the Channel 5 viewers who love our range of crime output from dramas to factual series."
Initially devised as a 16-part mini-series, the original Prisoner Cell Block H ultimately ran for 692 episodes between February 1979 and December 1986.
> Prisoner's Val Lehman wants to make comeback for show's remake
> Prisoner...
Based on the classic Australian soap opera, the ten-part Wentworth will premiere later this year.
Set in the violent, dangerous environment of a modern prison, the series is described as a "graphic, edgy reboot" of the original Prisoner.
Danielle Cormack and Nicole da Silva will star as lead inmates Bea Smith and Franky Doyle.
Katie Keenan, Head of Acquisitions at Channel 5, said: "Wentworth will be a great addition to Channel 5's drama output this autumn.
"This compelling cast of female characters packs an emotional punch and will appeal to the Channel 5 viewers who love our range of crime output from dramas to factual series."
Initially devised as a 16-part mini-series, the original Prisoner Cell Block H ultimately ran for 692 episodes between February 1979 and December 1986.
> Prisoner's Val Lehman wants to make comeback for show's remake
> Prisoner...
- 4/29/2013
- Digital Spy
Wentworth, the new drama based on iconic Australian TV series Prisoner, starts production in Melbourne next week.
The 10-part series will be filmed on a purpose-built women.s prison, the Wentworth Detention Centre, where inmates and corrections staff will be forced to forge unlikely friendships to survive on the inside.
The cast includes Danielle Cormack (Underbelly Razor, Rake) as Wentworth.s latest arrival, suburban wife and mum Bea Smith; Nicole Da Silva (Rush, East West 101) as Gen Y lesbian Franky Doyle; Celia Ireland (Laid, All Saints) as earthy Liz Birdsworth; and Shareena Clanton as young Aboriginal woman Doreen Anderson.
Catherine McClements (Rush, Water Rats) and Kate Atkinson (Offspring, Rush) play Governor Meg Jackson and her deputy Vera Bennett. Aaron Jeffery (Underbelly Badness, McLeod.s Daughters) and Robbie Magasiva (Shortland Street) are corrections officers Matthew .Fletch. Fletcher and Will Jackson. Leeanna Walsman (Underbelly Badness) plays progressive and crusading lawyer Erica Davidson.
The 10-part series will be filmed on a purpose-built women.s prison, the Wentworth Detention Centre, where inmates and corrections staff will be forced to forge unlikely friendships to survive on the inside.
The cast includes Danielle Cormack (Underbelly Razor, Rake) as Wentworth.s latest arrival, suburban wife and mum Bea Smith; Nicole Da Silva (Rush, East West 101) as Gen Y lesbian Franky Doyle; Celia Ireland (Laid, All Saints) as earthy Liz Birdsworth; and Shareena Clanton as young Aboriginal woman Doreen Anderson.
Catherine McClements (Rush, Water Rats) and Kate Atkinson (Offspring, Rush) play Governor Meg Jackson and her deputy Vera Bennett. Aaron Jeffery (Underbelly Badness, McLeod.s Daughters) and Robbie Magasiva (Shortland Street) are corrections officers Matthew .Fletch. Fletcher and Will Jackson. Leeanna Walsman (Underbelly Badness) plays progressive and crusading lawyer Erica Davidson.
- 10/3/2012
- by Staff reporter
- IF.com.au
When Prisoner began in 1979, no one could have predicted it would go on to air 692 episodes and become a cult classic. In light of Foxtel’s commissioning of Prisoner re-imagining Wentworth, Bob Ellis looks back at the original.
Watching the first episodes of Prisoner today, when Helen Travers (Kerry Armstrong) and Lynn Warner (Pieta Toppano) are ‘settling in’ (one is innocent of burying a baby alive, the other guilty of stabbing an adulterous husband who bullied her into an abortion, his death a scene reminiscent of Psycho) and Bea (Val Lehman) and Mum are released from what Scott Morrison would call ‘luxury accommodation’, we are less drawn into the unfolding stories and characters than we were in 1979.
We are less keen now to accept the bullying, the furniture-smashing violence, the unremarked corruption, the Governor’s piss-elegant Toorak accent, the male doctor’s bad acting, and the, well, imprecise morality at...
Watching the first episodes of Prisoner today, when Helen Travers (Kerry Armstrong) and Lynn Warner (Pieta Toppano) are ‘settling in’ (one is innocent of burying a baby alive, the other guilty of stabbing an adulterous husband who bullied her into an abortion, his death a scene reminiscent of Psycho) and Bea (Val Lehman) and Mum are released from what Scott Morrison would call ‘luxury accommodation’, we are less drawn into the unfolding stories and characters than we were in 1979.
We are less keen now to accept the bullying, the furniture-smashing violence, the unremarked corruption, the Governor’s piss-elegant Toorak accent, the male doctor’s bad acting, and the, well, imprecise morality at...
- 3/6/2012
- by Brooke Hemphill
- Encore Magazine
A star from the original version of Prisoner has revealed that she wants a role in the remake. Val Lehman, who played Bea in the '80s Australian prison series known as Prisoner: Cell Block H in the UK, said that she has already offered her services for a lead part in the new version and is not interested in any small guest roles. She told The Daily Telegraph: "F**k the cameo. I want to play the governor. I think it would be great to be a part of the show. And I've played a prisoner, so I'd love to play an authority figure this time around. I think that'd be great fun." Prisoner, which will be renamed Wentworth, was originally believed to have been picked up by Channel (more)...
- 3/5/2012
- by By Rebecca Davies
- Digital Spy
The former cast members of Prisoner have allegedly fallen out over royalties for the show. Val Lehman, who played Bea Smith in the Australian cult series - known internationally as Prisoner: Cell Block H - said that she was deliberately left off the guest list for a charity reunion by Screen Star Events. She added it is because she thinks her former co-stars are "jealous" that she makes more money from the show. Lehman told The Daily Telegraph that she had a royalty payment clause written into her contract before the series premiered in 1979 and cannot help the fact that the other actors did not think to do the same. "There are some cast members who are, perhaps, a bit jealous that I receive royalties from things like DVD sales - something (more)...
- 9/7/2011
- by By Rebecca Davies
- Digital Spy
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