2001 Cast Appearences

2002/2003

»Want to know what your favourite SeaChange star has been up to since the end of SeaChange? Then check out the Internet Movie Database. This site contains information about every piece of work that all the stars have been involved with in their showbiz careers.

October 2001

»The Herald Sun (October 3) reports that a second series of Tim Ferguson's TV1 comedy-drama Shock Jock, set in a radio station in the 80's, starts production this month, featuring two new faces - Tiriel Mora (Frontline/The Castle) and Cassandra Magrath.

»View an interview 60 Minutes did with Sigrid Thornton back in April, when she was officially voted the most popular woman in Australia. Follow this Link.

»SeaChange returns to our television screens on Saturday September 28 at 7.30pm.

»Sigrid Thornton narrates a series of documentaries on Great Oz Films which screens on the ABC on Saturdays at 9.30pm.

»John Howard is to appear in the new Channel 7 series "Always Greener", a series said to be loosely based on SeaChange. Channel 7 has set up a mini-site for Always Greener which you can access at http://alwaysgreener.i7.com.au/.

»There are two articles on Cassandra Magrath in the Saturday Herald Sun today (July 14). One talks about the new theatre show she appears in (Bold Girls, playing at the Chapel off Chapel, until July 29. Tickets $18/$15. Ph: 9522 3390). The second article is in the Home Magazine Pull-out. She talks about her favourite thing, a locket that her mother gave her when she turned 16.

»The ABC website reports that SeaChange will be returning to our screens soon.

»The Annual TV Week Logie Awards screen on Channel Nine this month, and SeaChange took out three awards. These were:
Most Outstanding Actress - Kerry Armstrong
Most Outstanding Actor - John Howard
Most Outstanding Drama Series - SeaChange
The awards in the 'outstanding' categories were voted on by industry peers and not the readers of TV Week, therefore proving that SeaChange was indeed a well respected show inside the television industry.

»There was an interview with Sigrid Thornton and Kate Cherry (Director of Betrayal) in the Saturday Herald Sun (Feb 17). She mainly discussed 'Betrayal', and her decision to go back to theatre.
Melbourne Theatre Company's Betrayal at the Fairfax, February 23 to April 12. Bookings: 13 61 66.

»Rove McManus will interview Sigrid Thornton on the season premiere of Rove Live (Tuesday 20th at 9.30pm) on Channel 10.

»Kevin Harrington is in the new Yellow Pages television commercials about a man having trouble with a disobedient dog.

»William McInnes was on Good Morning Australia with Bert Newton on Friday 9th. He talked about 'Art', plus working with Sigrid Thornton and Lisa McCune. If you missed the interview then you may have to wait for the summer series of GMA.

»There was an article in The Age (Thursday 1) about Barwon Coast (coastal foreshore managers) having put together a guided tour of all the SeaChange hotspots which is running now. Read the article online: Guided walk to slice of SeaChange life.

»I found this article on the internet, a bit outdated but interesting nonetheless.

The millions of viewers who tuned in to farewell the characters of Pearl Bay made Sunday night's final episode of SeaChange the ABC's highest-rating program in history.

A campaign to save SeaChange has been launched on the Internet. As viewers flooded the ABC's phone lines and website to beg for the series to return, "Daniel" posted an e-mail announcing a campaign to make the writers think again.

"It is important that we try to save SeaChange now before it is too late," he writes on the site.

It also approached to within a whisker of being the highest-rating non-Olympic show on Australian television for the whole year.

The ratings landslide brought renewed pressure on the show's writers, Andrew Knight and Deb Cox, to do another series.

It is known that SeaChange is the favourite program of ABC managing director Jonathan Shier, who has launched a campaign to make the national broadcaster more ratings conscious.

A total of 2.36 million people tuned in across the country to see whether Laura, played by Sigrid Thornton, and Max (William McInnes) would end up together.

This was 47.9 per cent of the total national television audience at the time.

It was beaten as the highest rating non-Olympic or Olympic trials television event of the year only by Channel Seven's Better Homes and Gardens Special, which won 2.42 million viewers when it went to air back in early October.

In Sydney, 772,000 viewers tuned in to SeaChange, which ended with Laura expecting Max's baby.

Meanwhile Deb Cox, one of the show's co-writers, said the ratings bonanza may indeed see a return of SeaChange, despite the publicity about last Sunday's episode being the last one ever.

"We just need a break from it," she said.

"I think in a year's time we might like to look at it again.

"The response that this was the last episode ever just comes from temporary exhaustion.

"Because it's humorous people assume it's easy to write but it's a lot harder than most heavy drama I've done.

"The cast is exhausted too."

Some cast members have found stardom from the series; first up it was David Wenham, who played Diver Dan.

Tom Long (who played Angus Kabiri) and Kevin Harrington (Kevin Findlay) are currently starring in The Dish after the film's producers saw them in SeaChange.

SeaChange opened in 1998 and became a ratings phenomenon, ending 60 Minutes' long-held dominance of the 7.30pm Sunday time slot.

By the second series last year, the show was averaging two million viewers a week and that August won the highest-ever audience for an ABC program at 2.17 million viewers.

The Paralympic Opening Ceremony broke that record with 2.29 million, which has itself now been exceeded.

»There was another interview with William McInnes, this time in The Age (Tuesday 23) which you can read online.
Art, Football & Fame

»There was an interview with Kane Mcnay about his new film 'Mallboy' in the Herald Sun HiT section on Thursday 25th.

»There was an interview with William McInnes in the Melbourne Sunday Herald Sun (January 22) where he talks about his new play 'Art', which is playing at the Playhouse Theatre from January 23 through to February 24.

»The final video in the SeaChange series is available to buy online now before shipping commences in February. Click the SeaChange Shopping link on the left to take you to the ABC Shop Online.

»There was a small article and picture in the Sunday Herald Sun TV Guide about William McInnes performing in the Melbourne Theatre Company's production of Art, which will premiere at the Playhouse Theatre in Melbourne on January 23. William will play the part of Serge.

»David Wenham stars as Faramir in J.R.R Tolkien's epic tale Lord of the Rings. This movie is part of a trilogy which was shot over in New Zealand over a period of 18 months. There are many good sites on the internet to find out more about the movie. Two of the best would be:
http://www.lordoftherings.net/ and http://filmforce.ign.com/lotr/

For a picture from the trailer of Lord of the Rings with David in it, click here. You can also visit this site to find an MP3 interview with David talking about Better than Sex with a small mention about Lord of the Rings. For anyone who doesn't have any compatible software for MP3's, then there is the text for the interview also. This interview actually took place on November 7 last year. For much more information on the movie, just search Lord of the Rings on Yahoo!.

So far the current American release date that has been announced is December 25, 2001, with the sequel and prequel to be released in America in 2002 and 2003 respctively. An Australian release date would be expected to be within a month of the American release. Australian's can expect to begin seeing trailers for this movie in Village Cinema's from Thursday January 18 (this information may vary slightly for states other than Victoria, and for those those living outside the Melbourne metropolitan area. For a more accurate account, contact Roadshow Distributors). Check your local paper to see which movie the trailer will be attached to.