#Rodger Corser

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Annabel's was the most extra exit - and it was everything

The Traitors Australia s2ep5

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They honestly couldn't have picked 3 more perfect hosts. I'm obsessed with all of them!

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DR. HUGH KNIGHT IN EVERY EPISODE ↳ Season One - Episode One: "Doctor Doctor"

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Rodger Corser in Doctor Doctor (2016) Home Sweet Home

S1E2

Hugh wakes up in a house he doesn't recognize, littered with the remnants of a big night and Aoife face down on the floor. Thankfully, she's alive. Upon seeing his hungover state, Penny, however, is not amused and orders him to provide yet another urine sample. Hugh extracts one from a young patient in return for a doctor's note - but unfortunately, it tests positive for cannabis. Hugh's mood is boosted by a call from a Sydney surgeon in need of his help, but the respite is only fleeting as a 16-year-old pinned under a tractor tragically bleeds to death on Hugh's watch. This moment, along with a D&M with his old friend, Joey, who is facing a potential cancer diagnosis forces Hugh to reflect on his life choices. Meanwhile, tensions rise in the Knight family, as a family dinner sparks old flames and tests new dynamics. In an effort to do something right, Hugh bails up his schoolfriend-turned-mining-magnate 'Big Nathan' for $40K and hands it over to Penny for much needed MRI machine, to her delight and great surprise. Giving him a second chance, Penny decides to not test another urine sample.

*Penny: I need a good doctor. I'm starting to think you could be one.

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The Doctor Blake Mysteries  -  ABC (Aus) - February 1, 2013 - November 12, 2017

Crime Drama (45 episodes)

Running Time:  60 minutes

Stars:

Craig McLachlan as Dr. Lucien Blake

Nadine Garner as Jean Beazley

Cate Wolfe as Matilda "Mattie" O'Brien (Series 1–4.2)

Joel Tobeck as Chief Superintendent (later Chief Inspector) Matthew Lawson (Series 1–4.1, 5)

Rick Donald as Constable (later Sergeant) Daniel Parks (Series 1, 5)

Sara Gleeson as Joy McDonald (Series 1–2.1)

Charlie Cousins as Constable (later Sergeant) Charlie Davis (Series 2–5)

Belinda McClory as Alice Harvey (Series 2–5)

John Wood as Patrick Tyneman (Series 1–5)

Craig Hall as Chief Supt William Munro (Series 3, 5)

John Stanton as Douglas Ashby (Series 1–3)

Neil Pigot as Major Derek Alderton (Series 1, 4)

David Whiteley as Sergeant Bill Hobart

Ian Rooney as Cec Drury

Lee Beckhurst as Edward Tyneman (Series 1–5)

Rodger Corser as Chief Supt Frank Carlyle (Series 4)

Anna McGahan as Rose Anderson (Series 4–5)

Ling-Hsueh Tang as Mei Lin Blake (Series 4)

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Acamera sweeps under Sydney Harbour Bridge, to the right is the Opera House and then we’re at Fleet Base East in Woolloomooloo. It could be an ad for Tourism Australia, except soon there’s a dead US sailor floating in the water. It’s not so much, “Where bloody hell are we?” more “What the bloody hell is going on?”

Now, it’s here. And for that, you can thank AUKUS, the contentious nuclear submarine deal between Australia, the US and the UK, which provides a great excuse for getting NCIS agents on Australian soil.

“That’s what the show is piggybacking off,” says Todd Lasance, who plays Australian Federal Police agent Sergeant Jim “JD” Dempsey who is called in to investigate the sailor’s death. The catch? Because the sailor was a US citizen, NCIS also has jurisdiction over the investigation.

Mackey (Swann) and JD (Lasance) face off over who gets to investigate the death of a US sailor in NCIS: Sydney.

Enter Olivia Swann, who plays NCIS Special Agent Michelle Mackey. “She’s a very straightforward woman, she’s here to get a job done,” says Swann. “She’s here to do things her own way, she follows her own rules. So having to join forces with these larrikin, laid-back Aussies is not her ideal way of working.”

It’s a big swing and one I have been so curious about since the show was announced last year. Back then, it seemed ludicrous – how could NCIS even operate here? Would every dead body have a major tourism landmark in the background? How many times can they visit Bondi? Would they throw another shrimp on the barbie?

NCIS: Sydney is a throwback to the kind of police dramas we used to do so well, such as Rush, starring Jolene Anderson, Rodger Corser and Callan Mulvey.

But, you know what? It works, it really does. It’s zippy and light on its feet, with a distinctive Australian twang. It’s a throwback to the type of police action dramas we used to do – Police Rescue, Water Rats and Rush. Yes, it’s still slightly absurd that the AFP would team up with the NCIS crew and that AUKUS would be the catalyst, but it’s the back end of a rank 2023, so let’s go with it.

“With NCIS, the audience comes for the crime, but stays for the characters and chemistry,” says Lasance. “And that is very true for our series. It centres around interesting and well-rounded and nuanced characters, and when they come together, it’s just exciting stuff. They’re flawed people, but also so lovable.”

‘I wonder why they haven’t done this?’

Part of the enduring popularity of NCIS is that it’s the opposite of every cult, word-of-mouth, zeitgeisty show ever made. It’s easygoing, almost daggy TV. Everyone knows how it works – mysterious death in the first five minutes, some office banter, investigation of said death, a scene or two in the autopsy room or forensic lab, a red herring, then a chase, suspect is caught, more banter and cue credits. And repeat.

“My very first reaction was: I wonder why they haven’t done this already?” says O’Neill, who created the ABC series Les Norton.

So he watched a lot of NCIS – the Washington original, plus the Los Angeles, New Orleans and Hawaii spin-offs – and realised that far from creating a carbon copy of the “mothership”, each spin-off worked because it had its own identity.

“They expanded the universe, but they never made the same show twice,” says O’Neill. “So the original show, which is now in its 20th year, is a really unique show. It has its own swagger, its own tempo, its own tonality. But when they came to make NCIS: LA, it wasn’t the same show. They really took a step to the side and a couple of steps in a different direction to make sure that it stood out as a distinctive version of a show that shares a lot of DNA, but isn’t the same.”

And while these building blocks may seem creatively restrictive, O’Neill found them liberating.

“There is an expectation from the audience that this is going to be a quirky family, where you have these archetypes that exist within it,” says O’Neill. “Fortunately, we have those archetypes in Australia, and they’re not really the same as the ones that America has.

The other ingredient O’Neill wanted was humour. Whereas the US versions are cheesy, at best – Mark Harmon couldn’t crack a smile if he tried – NCIS: Sydney burrows into the culture clash between the US and Australia. The slang for yanks, “septic”, has to be explained, as does our coffee. There’s drag queens at Bondi and mustachioed hipsters in Marrickville, while a chase through a narrow terrace house is one you won’t find in Los Angeles.

“What I think makes this show such a behemoth – someone was telling me they reckon there’s four and a quarter trillion minutes of this show that has been viewed around the world since its inception – is that at the core of its success is the fact it’s fun. There’s a wink to it, there’s a twinkle in its eye,” says O’Neill.

‘Just be still’

One of the other main building blocks of NCIS is that each episode opens with a death – the sillier the better (one recent one had hairy body chunks falling from the sky onto a child’s birthday party). But what I want to know is, how do you play a dead body?

“You know, I had the same question,” says Michael Jupp, a stunt performer who was asked to, well, play dead. “I’ve done my fair share of acting and stunt work, but I’ve never played a dead body. So the first place you go, as anyone, is Google, to have a little look at the experiences of other people. I asked a few of my actor friends, and they’re like, ‘Just be still’.”

Jupp’s character has a fairly pedestrian death by NCIS standards – a drug-induced heart attack – but it required him to stagger while running before eventually collapsing. He then had to lie on the ground for a few hours while filming carried on around him.

“You’re just still and you try not to breathe with your chest, so you don’t look alive,” he says. “And if you do need to take a breath, go deep in the belly.”

Jupp also spent a couple of days on the autopsy table. “They make you super pale, with purpley dark bits under your eyes to make you look a bit lifeless,” says Jupp. “Then, because it was an investigative autopsy, they had to put prosthetics on my chest. The first thing we did was the sewn-up version, with the big Y-shape and stitches.

“Then there was a prosthetic change, where they put the open chest on. And that was like a massive build, from hip to shoulder. I couldn’t move at all, they were like: ‘If you move, it’ll break the seams and we’ll have to start again’.”

And the best thing about being a dead body? “It was a lot of getting paid to lie down,” says Jupp.

‘All sorts of sticky situations’

If O’Neill has his way, there’ll be plenty more opportunities for actors to play dead. “I can imagine a couple of [future] episodes shot up in Darwin,” he says. “There’s a huge port up in Darwin that houses a continual marine rotation unit, of anywhere between 3000 and 4000 Marines who get in all sorts of sticky situations up there.”

What about other US TV franchises, does O’Neill see a future with Law and Order: Melbourne perhaps?

“Melbourne can have Law and Order and then we can keep NCIS: Sydney and we can just co-exist,” he says. “The world is in a pretty dark place right now. I was just talking to one of my story producers and she said it’s actually good to come to work and be thinking of stories that are slightly escapist, where you can tell a story and wrap it up and actually love the people for what they’re doing. And I hope audiences feel that.”

NCIS: Sydney streams on Paramount+ from November 10.

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The Indonesian production of Jonathan Larson’s Rent 

I first saw Rent in Melbourne in 1999 which featured Aussie talents Christine Anu and Rodger Corser. It blew my mind and left a lasting impression even after all these years, so when I found out on Thursday night that there was going to be a production in Jakarta this weekend I snapped the tickets right away for their first show on Friday night. I wasn’t disappointed. Mostly.

I think the cast did very well in presenting the show for the local audience –they snuck in a couple of local references which were cute but I kinda wish they didn’t, took me out of the scenes – and they sang great. Although I love the addition of the impromptu Saman dance in the cafe scene. In the Melbourne show Angel was my highlight of the performance but in this one it’s Maureen who stole the show.

That the songs and the lyrics came rushing back and filled my head and got me to sing along throughout the entire show after not having listened to the tracks for a little while shows how much of a mark it left on me. I just wish the stage wasn’t so brightly lit, it took away the focus from the main performances vs the chorus or background.

PS: In one scene Angel hit Mimi in the face with a stick, I think it was an accident because it was quite a swing. The whole cast paused for a few seconds and I could feel the shock from the stage. She apologized and they all continued with Mimi holding her cheek.

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AUSTRALIAN DELIGHT: RODGER CORSER

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BBC Acquires Australian Version of 'The Traitors' for BBC Three

ADAPTATION The BBC has acquired the Australian version of hit gameshow “The Traitors” for broadcast and streaming this summer. “The Traitors Australia,” which sees contestants compete for a prize of AUS $250,000 in a luxury hotel in the Southern Highlands, is set to drop on BBC Three and iPlayer on July 9. It is hosted by Rodger Corser. “’The Traitors’ is an addictively fiendish format and I…

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Glitch S03E06 (Little Gidding)

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Loved this unnecessary, out of the blue joke from Rodger on The Traitors Australia s2 finale, I'd like to think just breaking character for a second 😂😘🤌

Bonus mention to the end of The Heist 😂

And that ending 🙌 may a lesson be learned

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Rush S2E02

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Sean Keenan and Isabelle Cornish in Puberty Blues (2012) S1E4

An impromptu party at Cheryl's house leads to disaster for Debbie, when Bruce suddenly drops her. But she's not the only one: ace surfer Gary gets dropped too. Meanwhile, Gary's dad Ferris is wining and dining his young lover and inviting friend Roger to join him. But it's Debbie's mum Judy who smells a rat - or in this case, something fishy about a missing lobster that her husband Martin fails to bring home.

*Rodger Corser (Ferris Hennessey), Claudia Karvan (Judy Vickers) & Simon Lyndon (Gumby) also worked together on Spirited (2010) as Steve Darling, Suzy Darling & The King respectively.

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Glitch s02e02: Dr. Heysen starts conducting brutal experiments on John, to see if John’s body can regenerate.

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Suddenly struck by the similarity of these guys’ hairlines. 

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Thank you Glitch the Netflix show for giving me the absolute thirst trap that is Rodger Corser in a permanently disheveled, rough look as John Doe/William Blackburn