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 |
| Directed by | Marcus Cole Ralph Strasser Ian Watson Chris Martin-Jones |
| Starring | Series 1 Sophie Luck (series 1 & 2) Tahyna Tozzi Kate Bell (Series 1 & 3) Mara Scherzinger Khan Chittenden Adam Saunders Christopher Foy Series Two Gabrielle Scollay Lesley Mitchell Taryn Marler James Sorensen Ryan Corr Trent Dalzell Martin Lynes Liz Burch Series 3 Cariba Heine Kain O'Keefe Lachlan Buchanan Eka Darville Amy Beckwith Rebecca Breeds Craig Horner |
| Theme music composer | Liam Finn |
| Opening theme | Aiming For Your Head by Betchadupa |
| Country of origin |  Australia |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 78 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Noel Price Claire Henderson (Series 1 & 2) Angelika Paetow (Series 1) Tim Brooke-Hunt (Series 3) |
| Producer(s) | Dennis Kiely Noel Price |
| Editor(s) | Simon Martin Patrick Stewart Michael J. Hagan |
| Cinematography | Russell Bacon Brendan Lavelle |
| Running time | 25 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Southern Star Entertainment ABC1 |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | ABC1 |
| Picture format | 480i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Original run | May 11, 2005 – September 25, 2008 |
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| Official website | |
Blue Water High is an Australian television drama series, broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on ABC1 and on Austar/Foxtel Nickelodeon channel in Australia and on various channels in many other countries. 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.
The first two series were screened in 2005 and 2006 and the producers did not intend to create a third series. However, due to popular demand by fans, they relented and made one more series with only Kate Bell returning in a main role. Series three ended with the closure of Solar Blue, indicating that the show would most likely not continue.
Currently repeats of series two episodes are aired every Saturday at 2:30pm on ABC2
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[edit] Plot Summary
[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 teenager; 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. Sophie Luck won the 2005 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Young Actor for her role in the series. The winners for series one were Fly and Edge. That was not the last time Fly,Heath and Bec were shown on blue water high.
[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 winners of Series Two were Brooke and Eric.
The complete second series was released on DVD in Australia on October 1, 2007.[1]
[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), Loren (Amy Beckwith) and Cassie (Rebecca Breeds). Series Three began screening on Rollercoaster on 3 April 2008.
The winners are Bridget and Adam, but Bridget decides to go to university instead of joining the Pro Circuit, so Loren gets the wild card after Cassie literally 'draws the short straw' (as they both have the same number of points in the final surf-off so they decide who gets the wild card this way). In the last episode, Simmo makes a surprise return as one of the three judges in what is described as 'one of the best finals Solar Blue has seen', saving the day as he pulls 'not a rabbit out of a hat, but an elephant', ensuring that the winners of the final surf-off still get a wild card invitation.[1]
[edit] Cast
[edit] Series One
- Rebecca "Bec" Sanderson - Kate Bell
- Dean "Edge" Edgely - Khan Chittenden
- Perri Lawe -Tahyna Tozzi
- Matthew "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
- Deborah "Deb" Callum - Nadine Garner
- Joe Sanderson - Matt Ruddock
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
- Bec Sanderson - Kate Bell
[edit] List of Episodes
[edit] Series 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
- It's Hard to be Normal
- Perri Lies Low
- Winning Isn't Everything
- Right Dance, Wrong Partner
- Big Wave Fears
- The Kiss
- Behind The Scenes
- Tough Choices
- The Band Plays On
- Suspicious Minds
- And The Winner Is...
[edit] Series Two (June-December 2006), Series Three (April-October 2008)
Episodes of season 2 & 3 were not named, but were numbered from 1 to 26.
[edit] Overseas Broadcasting
[edit] Europe
Blue Water High previously aired on Boomerang in the United Kingdom. On June 11, 2007, Blue Water High started airing in Sweden as a part of the summer show Hej Hej Sommar (renamed Sommarlov 09 in 2009) on SVT. The series broadcasts in Poland on ZigZap as Na wysokiej fali, which translates to "On the High Wave". In Germany, the series is called Blue Water High, die Surf-Akademie (which means "Blue Water High, the Surf Academy") and is broadcast on KiKa (a children's channel). In Ireland Blue Water High is broadcast on RTE2 as part of The Den and in Spain, the show is broadcast on La 2 and ClanTVE. In France it is broadcast on Filles TV as "Blue Water High: Surf Academy". In Norway the show airs on TV2 Zebra. Portugal fans will now be able to watch this series as SIC bought the first season, and it will air from Monday to Friday at 5pm. It will also start airing on RTL 8 in The Netherlands from 2009.
[edit] South America
In the Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America, the show is titled Blue Water High, Escuela del Surf, which translates as "Blue Water High, Surf Academy", and is broadcast on Boomerang Latin America. In Brazil, it is broadcast by Boomerang Brazil under the title Galera do Surfe (The Surf Crowd). In Falkland Islands, Blue Water High was aired on Falkland Islands Television Service Tuesdays to Friday at 15:00 and Saturday at 11:30.
[edit] North America
"Blue Water High" is broadcast on the internet in North America where it is shown on The WB, which was resurrected by the Warner Bros. television arm as a website in 2008.[2]
[edit] South Africa
In South Africa, Blue Water High is aired twice a week on Go on the local satellite system, DSTV on channel 123.
[edit] Reception
Series one was very popular in Australia, with high ratings, critically and by audience numbers. Series two was largely regarded as inferior to the first and fans believed it did not contain as much comedy and drama as the first series.[citation needed] The second series is also noted for having a lack of a storyline and used too many cameos to fill in episodes. There was a lack of the polish that viewers saw in series one.[citation needed] Public and critic opinion of the third series have been mixed, although many regard that the series is trying to be "over" funny to make up for the lack of humour in the second series.[citation needed]
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2008/03/gallery-blue-water-high.html Pictures and information on the 2008 series of blue water high
- ^ http://thewb.com/shows/blue-water-high/ Blue Water High Streaming episodes on theWB
[edit] External links
- Official UK Website
- Blue Water High at the Internet Movie Database
- Blue Water High at TV.com
- Blue Water High at the National Film and Sound Archive
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