Hoges: The Paul Hogan Story

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Hoges: The Paul Hogan Story
Genre Bio Drama
Written by <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
  • Keith Thompson
  • Marieke Hardy
Directed by Kevin Carlin
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Country of origin Australia
Original language(s) English
Production
Executive producer(s) Jo Porter
Production company(s) FremantleMedia Australia
Release
Original network Seven Network
Original release 12 February (2017-02-12) –
19 February 2017 (2017-02-19)
External links
[{{#property:P856}} Website]

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]

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

Episode Air date Timeslot Viewers
(millions)
Nightly
rank
Consolidated Viewers
(millions)
Adjusted
rank
Source
"Part 1" 12 February 2017 Sunday 8:30pm 0.837 #6 0.973 #5 [12][13]
"Part 2" 19 February 2017 0.839 #6 0.960 #4 [14][15]

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