Australia in the late 1970s. Bitter after being refused exclusive broadcast rights to the gentleman's game in Australia, media mogul Kerry Packer launches his own renegade competition and sparks a war ...

AUSTRALIAN pace great Len Pascoe says the creators of TV drama Howzat! Kerry Packer's War have credited the wrong person with inventing day/night cricket. The popular mini-series, which attracted ...

Greig's decision to join the Kerry Packer camp for World Series Cricket in the mid-70s made him the most vilified player of his time. Greig lost the England captaincy. He was jeered by cricket fans ...

But executives believed the story behind the creation of World Series Cricket would quickly lose momentum and opted to hone Howzat! to a tight two-parter, subsequently leaving viewers gagging for more ...

THE trouble with making a television drama about the history of World Series Cricket is that so much of it is, well, history. Take Waverley Park (aka VFL Park, aka AFL Park) for example. The site of ...

The ratings win confirms the dramatisation of Kerry Packer's war with the cricket establishment to create World Series Cricket is TV's biggest local drama of 2012. The broadcast of part two also ...

BBC One and ITV have attempted to bring magic back to primetime on a number of occasions in recent years, but without fail it's always bombed. Why they haven't got their chequebooks out for Dynamo and ...

If the name Count Arthur Strong (BBC2) sounds familiar, then you must be a regular listener to Radio 4's 6.30pm comedy slot where Steve Delaney's ageing variety entertainer got his first outing. And I ...

In the days before the IPL, Twenty20 and Sky Sports had been dreamed of, cricket still retained a quaint, parochial air and a virtually medieval hierarchical structure. The administrators fenced off ...

Howzat! Kerry Packer's War (2012) #9,696 4,520 TV Show Nine Network Miniseries Audience Score 60 Starring Lachy Hulme Abe Forsythe Damon Gameau ...

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