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Daily Mail
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Why Tasmania will always be Australia's biggest loser - and it's not just because of THAT doomed footy stadium. Plus, Q+A is dead... but there will be more TV funerals to come: PVO
RIP Q+A - but there will be more funerals to come The death of Q&A - once a marquee program on the ABC capable of attracting audiences in excess of one million - tells you everything you need to know about the slow and steady decline of free-to-air television.
ABC News
26-05-2025
- Science
- ABC News
Adrienne Francis
Adrienne Francis has worked as a radio, television and digital journalist and presenter for ABC Canberra since 2010. During her more than fifteen-year career with the ABC she has primarily worked in TV and Radio News. She has presented the ABC's flagship TV and Radio News bulletins in the ACT and Northern Territory and she also worked as a television current affairs reporter for 7.30 ACT, which was one of Canberra's most popular TV programs. Adrienne began her career with ABC Local Radio where she worked across outback northern Australia. She worked as a specialist rural journalist based out of Katherine and Kununurra, before becoming presenter of the Northern Territory Country Hour in Darwin. She has reported for national television current affairs programs, including Landline and Australia Wide. She has also worked as a reporter for ABC Radio's national current affairs unit, for the programs 'AM', The World Today, 'PM', and 'Saturday AM'. Adrienne spent her early years between Sydney and Jindabyne in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales. She originally studied agricultural science at the University of Sydney before pursuing a media career.
The Guardian
28-02-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Neville Green obituary
Television was still a young medium when my father, Neville Green, who has died aged 86, started out. He began in 1965 as a young production designer at ABC Television (which in 1968 became part of Thames Television), working on series such as Van der Valk and The Benny Hill Show. Later he switched to directing and producing for shows including Warrior Queen (1978) and Jemima Shore Investigates (1983). The youngest of three sons of Joe Green, who worked as a foreman in the local bobbin mill, and his wife, Elsie (Hanson), Neville was born in Keighley, West Yorkshire, and grew up in the village of Steeton. He was known in his early life (to avoid connections to Neville Chamberlain during wartime) by his middle name, Terry, but returned to his given name when he went into TV. His oldest brother, Derick, encouraged Neville to draw and paint and helped him to go to art school in Leeds, then Bradford, where David Hockney was a fellow student. Dad's art school friends told us about the time he took home one of Hockney's paintings (on hardboard) for safekeeping, but found when he came back for it that his father had used it to build a chicken coop. He went on to the Royal College of Art in London (again studying alongside Hockney as well as Ridley Scott). After graduating he tried out various lines of work in 60s London including advertising, interior design and furniture making. I wish I had listened to the tales of his adventures more closely. What was that story of meeting Salvador Dalí in Paris? Did he say something about Marlon Brando and a Jaguar? He married Annette, a photographer who worked out of a black-painted studio on Kings Road, Chelsea. Annette was involved with setting up the Fulham Road Clothes Shop, and some of the furniture Neville designed went on sale there. But he soon went into TV as a production designer, and one of his early jobs was designing sets for a summer spectacular at the ABC Theatre in Blackpool featuring the Beatles. His marriage to Annette ended in divorce, and while working at Thames Television he met Jean Kelly, a costume designer. They married in 1973, had two children, my brother Keiran and me, and settled first in Isleworth, west London, and later in Weybridge, Surrey. Mum died of breast cancer in 1997. While filming a TV show in Nottingham, Dad met Sue (nee Glanz), an artist, who became his third wife. In 1999 he decided to retire from television, and he and Sue moved to the south coast, first to Brighton, and later to near Worthing. There he went back to painting, sculpting and writing. He was particularly proud of his sci-fi book Candle Dancers. After he and Sue separated in 2023, he settled in Arundel, West Sussex. Dad was often provocative, always very good company and full of love for his family. He is survived by Keiran and me, and by two grandchildren, Midori and Lila.
