Degrassi: The Next Generation is a Canadian teen drama television series created by Yan Moore and Linda Schuyler. It is the fourth series in the Degrassi franchise and a revival of Degrassi Junior High and Degrassi High. It premiered on CTV on October 14, 2001, and concluded on August 2, 2015, on MTV Canada. The series centers around a new ensemble cast of students at the fictional Degrassi Community School who face challenges such as sex, teen pregnancy, bullying, date rape, drug abuse, body image, homosexuality, domestic violence, gang violence, self-injury, suicide, abortion, mental disorders and many other issues. Various characters from the previous two series also returned as adults in recurring or guest roles.
Lowitja Lois O'Donoghue Smart, is an Aboriginal Australian retired public administrator. In 1990-1996 she was the inaugural chairperson of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC). She is patron of the Lowitja Institute, a research institute for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing.
The Aunty Jack Show was a Logie Award-winning Australian television comedy series that ran from 1972 to 1973. Produced by and broadcast on ABC-TV, the series attained an instant cult status that persists to the present day.
The Perth Wildcats are an Australian professional basketball team based in Perth, Western Australia. The Wildcats compete in the National Basketball League (NBL) and play their home games at RAC Arena, known colloquially as "The Jungle".
Curtis Travis Stone is an Australian celebrity chef, author, and television personality. Stone has been the fresh food and recipes ambassador for Coles Supermarkets in Australia since 2010.
Grahame John Bond AM is an Australian actor, writer, director, musician and composer, known primarily for his role as Aunty Jack.
Fuel TV is a sports-orientated streaming service focusing on the culture of extreme sports such as skateboarding, snowboarding, wakeboarding, motocross, surfing, BMX and FMX.
Benjamin O'Donoghue is an Australian chef.
Michael Eugene Fanning is an Australian professional surfer who was crowned champion of the Association of Surfing Professionals/World Surf League (ASP/WSL)'s World Tour in 2007, 2009 and 2013. In 2015, he survived a shark attack by what is suspected to be a great white shark during the J-Bay Open finals in Jeffreys Bay.
The first season of Saturday Night Live, an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on NBC from October 11, 1975, to July 31, 1976. The show served as a vehicle that launched to stardom the careers of a number of major comedians and actors, including Chevy Chase, John Belushi, and Dan Aykroyd.
Rory O'Donoghue was an Australian actor, composer and musician, best known for playing the character "Thin Arthur" in the 1970s ABC Television sketch comedy series The Aunty Jack Show, and for playing the guitar solo on Kevin Johnson's biggest hit "Rock 'N' Roll ". The Aunty Jack Show featured O'Donoghue's long-time creative partner Grahame Bond as the title character.
Degrassi: Next Class is a Canadian television series primarily created by Linda Schuyler. The fifth and to date most recent series in the Degrassi franchise and a direct sequel to Degrassi: The Next Generation, it premiered on Family's new teen programming block F2N in Canada on January 4, 2016, and was released on Netflix internationally on January 25, 2016.
The second season of Degrassi: Next Class premiered on July 19, 2016, on Family Channel under the teen block F2N in Canada and began streaming internationally on July 22, 2016, on Netflix. The season made its debut in Australia on May 30, 2016, and concluded on June 10, 2016.
Hayden Quinn is an Australian cook. He is best known for appearing on Series 3 of MasterChef Australia and as a judge on Nine Network cooking program Family Food Fight.
Vanessa Hill is an Australian scientist, television presenter and science communicator, who is best known for her YouTube series BrainCraft. Hill has hosted a PBS series of the same name since 2014.
Surviving Summer is an Australian teen drama television series that premiered on June 3, 2022, on Netflix. The first season consists of 10 episodes. In November 2022, the series was renewed for a second season, which premiered on September 15, 2023.
Daniel Churchill is an Australian chef, best known for his appearance on the 5th series of MasterChef Australia in 2013, placing 8th, and as a co-presenter of Surfing the Menu: The Next Generation (2016). He was included on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Food list in 2019 as the cofounder of New York City café, Charley St. He is also known for his two cookbooks, DudeFood: A Guy's Guide to Cooking Kick-Ass Food (2015) and Surfing the Menu (2016) co-authored with Hayden Quinn. A graduate of the University of Technology Sydney and Edith Cowan University, he worked with Chris Hemsworth on the latter's fitness app, Centr.
Surfing the Menu: The Next Generation is an Australian television cooking and lifestyle series on the ABC which first aired on 22 May 2016. The series is presented by Hayden Quinn and Dan Churchill.
