Blue Water High
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| Blue Water High | |
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 Blue Water High opening title card |
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| Format | Children's TV Drama |
| Starring | Sophie Luck Tahyna Tozzi Kate Bell Mara Scherzinger Khan Chittenden Adam Saunders Christopher Foy Gabrielle Scollay Lesley Mitchell Taryn Marler James Sorensen Cariba Heine Ryan Corr Trent Dalzell Martin Lynes Liz Burch |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| No. of episodes | 46 as of November 12, 2006 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 25 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | ABC1 |
| Original run | May 11, 2005 – present |
| Status | New Series |
Blue Water High is an Australian television drama series, broadcast on ABC1. Each season follows the lives of a young group of students at Solar Blue, a high-performance surf academy where several lucky 16-year-olds are selected for a 12-month-long surfing program on Sydney's northern beaches.
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[edit] Series One
The first series consisted of twenty-six episodes. It starred Adam Saunders as Heath, the relaxed joker who struggles with school; Tahyna Tozzi as Perri, resident glamour queen from the Gold Coast; Sophie Luck as Fly, the youngest; Kate Bell as Bec, the local; Khan Chittenden as Edge, the aggressive and competitive teen; Chris Foy as Matt, the generic 'smart guy' and Mara Scherzinger as Anna, a famous German Kiteboarder. At the end of the year, two of them (one girl and one boy) get a wild card spot on the pro-circuit tour. The first series was released on DVD in 4 volumes, though fans are strongly urging for a complete re-release featuring the entire season in one package as was later done with Series Two. The winners of Series One were Fly and Edge.
Sophie Luck won the 2005 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Young Actor for her role in the series.
As of June 2008, selected episodes of the first season are currently being shown on the beta version of the recently re-launched TheWB.com.
[edit] Series Two
Filming of a second series began in early January 2006 in Sydney, Australia, with a revised cast, which included Sophie Luck who was back as Fly, Trent Dalzell as Corey, Ryan Corr as Eric, Lesley Mitchell as Brooke, Taryn Marler as Rachel, Gabrielle Scollay as Amy, and James Sorensen as Mike. It premiered on 28 June 2006. Sophie Luck, Adam Saunders, Kate Bell, Chris Foy, Tahyna Tozzi, Nadine Garner and Khan Chittenden have all reappeared in the second series in various episodes.
The complete second series was released on DVD in Australia on October 1, 2007.[1]
The winners of Series Two were Brooke and Eric.
[edit] Series Three
The third series began filming in October 2007. Kate Bell returns as Bec for series three and is joined by Craig Horner as Garry. The new Solar Blue pupils are Guy (Kain O'Keefe), Charley (Lachlan Buchanan), Adam (Eka Darville), Bridget (Cariba Heine), Lauren (Amy Beckwith) and Cassie (Rebecca Breeds). Series Three began screening on Rollercoaster on the 3rd of April 2008 at 5:25 pm. [1]
[edit] Character-actors (Series One)
- Bec Sanderson - Kate Bell
- Dean "Edge" Edgely - Khan Chittenden
- Perri Lawe -Tahyna Tozzi
- Matt Leyland -Chris Foy
- Fiona "Fly" Watson - Sophie Luck
- Heath Carroll - Adam Saunders
- Anna Petersen - Mara Scherzinger
- Craig "Simmo" Simmonds - Martin Lynes
- Jilly - Liz Burch
[edit] Character-actors (Series Two)
- Eric Tanner - Ryan Corr
- Amy Reed - Gabrielle Scollay
- Mike Kruze - James Sorensen
- Brooke Solomon - Lesley Anne Mitchell
- Corey Petrie - Trent Dalzell
- Rachel Samuels - Taryn Marler
- Fiona "Fly" Watson - Sophie Luck
- Craig "Simmo" Simmonds - Martin Lynes
- Jilly - Liz Burch
- Deborah Callum - Nadine Garner
[edit] Character-actors (Series Three)
- Guy Spender - Kain O'Keefe
- Charley Prince - Lachlan Buchanan
- Adam Bridge - Eka Darville
- Bridget Sanchez - Cariba Heine
- Loren Power - Amy Beckwith
- Cassie Cometti - Rebecca Breeds
- Gary Miller - Craig Horner
- Lulu Fowler - Sarah Atwell
- Bec Sanderson - Kate Bell
[edit] List of Episodes
[edit] Season One (May-November 2005)
- The Contenders
- Winners and Losers
- Trouble in Paradise
- Fly Takes a Dive
- Anna Loses Her Way
- Edge Wipes Out
- Friends in Need
- Brothers and Sisters
- Sharks In The Mind
- Timing Is Everything
- Out Of Control
- Dreams and Dramas
- Life On The Line
- Bad Boy Heath
- Joker's Wild
- Undefined
- Perri Lies Low
- Winning Isn't Everything
- Right Dances-Wrong Partner
- Big Wave Fears
- The Kiss
- Behind The Scenes
- Tough Choices
- The Band Plays On
- Suspicious Minds
- And The Winner Is...
[edit] Season Two (June-December 2006)
Episodes of season 2 were not given names, but were rather numbered from 1 to 26.
[edit] Season Three (April-October 2008)
[edit] Overseas Broadcasting
As of June 11 2007, the series started started broadcasting in Sweden, on the Swedish summer show Hej Hej Sommar on SVT. The series is also broadcast in Poland on ZigZap.tv as "Na wysokiej fali", which, translated equates to "On the High Wave". In Brazil it is broadcast by the Boomerang channel under the title Galera do Surfe (The Surf Crowd). In Germany the series is called "Blue water High, die Surf-Akademie" (which means "Blue water high, the surf academy) and is broadcasted on KiKa (children's channel)
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Blue Water High at the Internet Movie Database
- Blue Water High at the National Film and Sound Archive
- http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2008/03/gallery-blue-water-high.html Pictures and information on the 2008 series of blue water high
