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Forgotten Australian Television Plays: The Twelve Pound Look

Stephen Vagg’s series on forgotten Australian television plays looks at the first local drama ever shown in this country: The Twelve Pound Look (1956).

Stephen Vagg’s series on forgotten Australian television plays looks at the first local drama ever shown in this country: The Twelve Pound Look (1956).

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Steven O’Donnell: Being Bajo Again in Trip For Biscuits

In the children's science fiction comedy series Trip For Biscuits, Stephen "Bajo" O'Donnell and a ragtag team of misfits investigate a hidden world of aliens, generally managing to cause more trouble than they were trying to solve. It is, as he explains, an evolution of the onscreen persona he's been developing for years.

In the children’s science fiction comedy series Trip For Biscuits, Stephen “Bajo” O’Donnell and a ragtag team of misfits investigate a hidden world of aliens, generally managing to cause more trouble than they were trying to solve. It is, as he explains, an evolution of the onscreen persona he’s been developing for years.

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Sean Pertwee: Buttling for the Baby Bat in Gotham

He's played a range of tough guys over the years in the likes of Dog Soldiers and Event Horizon, but now Sean Pertwee is better known in the role of Alfred Pennyworth, butler and guardian to young Bruce Wayne, in the WB prequel series, Gotham. We caught up with the British thesp to talk about the challenge of re-interpreting such an iconic role.

He’s played a range of tough guys over the years in the likes of Dog Soldiers and Event Horizon, but now Sean Pertwee is better known in the role of Alfred Pennyworth, butler and guardian to young Bruce Wayne, in the WB prequel series, Gotham. We caught up with the British thesp to talk about the challenge of re-interpreting such an iconic role.