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Ol’ Black Eyes is back
70s pop star and 90s sitcom actor Jon English makes a rare return to television next week when he joins the gang at RocKwiz.
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70s pop star and 90s sitcom actor Jon English makes a rare return to television next week when he joins the gang at RocKwiz.
English, who was a regular vocal act on Countdown, actor on Against the Wind and comedy star on All Together Now, performs his classic 70s hit Hollywood Seven (what an underrated song it was).
If we’re doing a wave of TV reunions somebody should get onto gathering Jon English, Rebecca Gibney, Steve Jacobs, Jane Hall, Bruno Lucia, Kerry Armstrong and Garry Who. All Together Now may not have been the most sophisticated of sitcoms but there are certainly some names there if they can get around network allegiances…
Meanwhile English appears on RocKwiz 9:20pm Saturday April 23 on SBS ONE.
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11 Responses
@Earthquake i totally agree with you about our content. 7TWO show old episodes of Sons And daughters And Home And Away, But Where are some of our bigger icons. Shows Like The Sullivans, All Together Now and A Country Practice just aren’t being Shown. Considering there are 16 channels, 1 should pick up the rights to just Aussie channel with just Aussie Programming. Be easy enough. Just Classic Aussie would be nice. I Met Jon Last year and his performance was great.
Jon is awesome. Seen him live a lot of times and Hollywood 7 is a fav of mine. His new show is touring now too. can’t wait to check it out.
I loved him!!! Great to see him again!!! 😀
@Earthquake & Cam Read. Agree totally with you we should have a decent time slot on any of the 6 commercial multi channels for classic australian content but the reality is we dont. Part of the reason is the output deals Networks have wit the American companies. I dont we will see any classic australian shows on Eleven because the channel is a joint venture between CBS & Network Ten. Plus the fact that acquiring the rights of those shows would probably be expensive especially will the whole royalties thing. Iam not condoning what the networks are doing in chooseing to flood the multichannel with old foreign mainly American content but it think its as i have stated earlier because of output deals with the american companies and because of the possibly expensive australian content.
Bre: Gemma Ray.
Don’t know of this guy but RocKwiz is such an awesome show I’m sure he’ll be cool.
Jon English is certainly a blast from the past. Any idea who will be appearing along will him?
I would like to see re-runs of Countdown, Against the Wind, All Together Now and The Sullivans shown on one of the digital mult-channels.
@Earthquake I’ve wondered that as well, plenty of what where quality shows out there like Cash And Company/Tandarra, the original Boney, Rush, Against The Wind and etc that could be shown. When the old episodes of Heartbeat and repeats of those UK shows go well on multi-channels, you’d think there would space in the schedule for older Aussie Shows.
@Armchair, It can get hot on stage under the lights
Great song and great performance. i never quite understood why some perfomers sweat so much on stage including Jon English.
And surely there must be a channel that can show the old Aussie shows as well? If you looked at the multi-channels you’d swear that Australian television didn’t make any programming between 1956 and 2000. But it must have! I swear I’ve seen Graham Kennedy somewhere….