Hoges: The Paul Hogan Story

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Hoges: The Paul Hogan Story
Genre Bio Drama
Written by
  • Keith Thompson
  • Marieke Hardy
Directed byKevin Carlin
Starring
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producerJo Porter
Production companyFremantleMedia Australia
Original release
Network Seven Network
Release12 February (2017-02-12) 
19 February 2017 (2017-02-19)

Hoges: The Paul Hogan Story is a two-part Australian miniseries based on Australian actor and comedian Paul Hogan which premiered on 12 February and concluded on 19 February 2017. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Contents

Plot

The story of Paul Hogan is that of almost accidental supernova of raw comedic talent exploding onto the entertainment scene of first Australia and then the world. How a married-at-eighteen blue-collar worker with five kids went on talent contest New Faces as a dare from his work-mates and ended up completely wowing the audience and opening the door to completely unanticipated new life. [5]

Production

The series was announced in November 2015 with filming expected to be filmed in 2016, [6] in December 2015, it was announced casting was underway and Kevin Carlin would direct the series with Keith Thompson and Marieke Hardy as lead writers. [7] [8] In May 2016, the cast for the series was announced with actor Josh Lawson taking on the role of Paul Hogan. [9] Production for the series first began in May 2016 with filming taking place in Brisbane, the series is being funded by Screen Queensland. [10]

Cast

Reception

Viewership

EpisodeAir dateTimeslotViewers
(millions)
Nightly
rank
Consolidated Viewers
(millions)
Adjusted
rank
Source
"Part 1"12 February 2017Sunday 8:30pm0.837#60.973#5 [12] [13]
"Part 2"19 February 20170.839#60.960#4 [14] [15]

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