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form
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A Place to Call Home
( dir. Roger Hodgman
et. al. )agent
2013
Australia
:
Channel 7
,
2012-
Z1904429
2013
series - publisher
film/TV
'Set in rural Australia in the 1950s, A Place to Call Home is a sweeping drama of one woman's journey to heal her soul and of a privileged family's confrontation with a changing era. A romantic saga based in the fictional town of Inverness - home to the Bligh family estate Ash Park - with a landscape as vast and dramatic as the people who live there.' (Source: http://www.throng.com.au/2012/07/new-seven-show-a-place-to-call-home/ )
- 2015 shortlisted Logie Awards — Most Outstanding Drama Series
- 2015 nominated Logie Awards — Best Drama
- 2014 nominated Logie Awards — Most Outstanding Drama Series
- 2018 nominated Logie Awards — Most Outstanding Drama Series
- 2017 winner Logie Awards — Most Outstanding Drama Series
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form
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All Saints
All Saints : Medical Response Unit
( dir. Leigh Spence
et. al. )agent
1998
Australia
:
Seven Network
Red Heart Entertainment
,
1998-2009
Z1571142
1998
series - publisher
film/TV
One of Australia's highest rating dramas, All Saints is a Logie Award-winning Australian medical drama set in the fictional All Saints Western General Hospital in suburban Sydney. The stories originally focused on the nursing staff of Ward 17 run by Nursing Unit Manager Terri Sullivan. It was sometimes referred to as the 'garbage ward' because it took the overflow of patients.
In 2004 Network Seven producers overhauled the series in an effort to increase the show's gradually dwindling audience. They achieved this by closing down Ward 17 and transferring some of the staff to the Emergency Department managed by Frank Campion. Several other new lead characters were also introduced. The changes also saw the storylines begin to focus more on the lives of the doctors and nurses.
Another significant change to the series came in early 2009 when the producers introduced the Medical Response Unit. Central to this development was the helicopter which took doctors to rescue situations outside the hopsital and which in turn brought patients to the All Saints Emergency Department. The show's name was also changed at this time to All Saints: Medical Response Unit. The increased production costs created by having scenes shot on location played a part, however, in the series being cancelled mid-year. The series ended with the Emergency Department and Medical Response Unit teams having a dinner to farewell the last remaining original character, Von Ryan on her final day at All Saints.
All Saints was popular in many countries including the United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium and Iran.
- 1999 nominated Logie Awards — Most Popular Australian Program
- 2000 nominated Logie Awards — Most Popular Australian Program
- 2001 nominated Logie Awards — Most Outstanding Drama Series
- 2001 winner Logie Awards — Most Popular Australian Program
- 2002 winner Logie Awards — Most Popular Australian Program
- 2004 nominated Logie Awards — Most Popular Australian Program
- 2004 nominated Logie Awards — Most Outstanding Drama Series
- 2005 nominated Logie Awards — Most Popular Drama Series
- 2006 nominated Logie Awards — Most Outstanding Drama Series
- 2006 nominated Logie Awards — Most Popular Drama Series
- 2007 nominated Logie Awards — Most Popular Drama Series
- 2008 nominated Logie Awards — Most Popular Drama Series
- 2010 nominated Logie Awards — Most Popular Drama Series
- 2002 nominated AFI Awards Australian Film Institute Awards — Best Television Drama Series
- 2005 nominated AFI Awards Australian Film Institute Awards — Best Television Drama Series
- 2006 nominated AFI Awards Australian Film Institute Awards — Best Television Drama Series
- 2007 nominated AFI Awards Australian Film Institute Awards — Best Television Drama Series
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form
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Home and Away
1988
Australia
:
Seven Network
,
1988-
Z1367287
1988
series - publisher
film/TV
Home and Away is a television serial created by Alan Bateman and produced by the Seven Network. The idea for the series came to Bateman (then head of drama at Seven) after he stopped to buy ice-creams in a small country town in southern NSW. While chatting to some locals, he learned that the town was unhappy about plans to build a home for foster kids from the city. At that time, Channel Seven was still smarting from its decision to let Neighbours go to the Ten Network, where it had become hugely popular, and was looking to create another series to rival its success. Bateman saw in the idea that became Home and Away the potential for plenty of storylines and conflict by having streetwise city kids being relocated to a small regional environment,
In the beginning, the series focused on Pippa and Tom Fletcher, who, being unable to have children of their own, decide to become foster parents. When Tom is retrenched from his city job, the couple buy the rundown Summer Bay Caravan Park and move there with their five foster children. Soon after arriving, they also take in troublesome Bobby Simpson.
The series debuted in January 1988 with an hour-long telemovie. Although this rated well, the series itself took some while to develop an audience. Having learned their lesson from the Neighbours debacle, Network Seven gave its new show time, and its ratings gradually increased. As with Neighbours, the Home and Away series and performers became very popular in the United Kingdom.
- 2015 winner Logie Awards — Best Drama
- 2014 winner Logie Awards — Most Popular Drama Series
- 1998 nominated Logie Awards — Most Popular Series
- 1996 winner Logie Awards — Most Popular Series
- 1995 winner Logie Awards — Most Popular Series
- 1994 winner Logie Awards — Most Popular Series
- 1993 winner Logie Awards — Most Popular Series
- 1991 winner Logie Awards — Most Popular Drama Series
- 2019 nominated Logie Awards — Most Popular Drama Series
- 2018 nominated Logie Awards — Most Popular Drama Series