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Crackerjack Productions was an Australian independent television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 production company headed by brothers Mark and Carl Fennessy.

Based in St. Leonards, Sydney
Sydney

Sydney is the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4.34 million . It is the List of Australian capital cities of New South Wales, and was the site of the first British Empire colony in Australia....
, it concentrates on comedy
Comedy

Comedy as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse generally intended to amuse, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western culture origins are found in Ancient Greece....
-related projects, with forays into light entertainment
Light entertainment

Light entertainment is a term used to describe a broad range of usually televisual performances....
, music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
, factual and reality TV.

It was partially acquired by the FremantleMedia
FremantleMedia

FremantleMedia, Ltd. is the content and production division of RTL Group, Europe's largest TV, radio, and production company. Its world headquarters are located in London, United Kingdom....
 Group in 2003. Crackerjack has since merged with Grundy Television to form FremantleMedia Australia in 2006.

Crackerjack productions include:










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Crackerjack Productions was an Australian independent television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 production company headed by brothers Mark and Carl Fennessy.

Based in St. Leonards, Sydney
Sydney

Sydney is the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4.34 million . It is the List of Australian capital cities of New South Wales, and was the site of the first British Empire colony in Australia....
, it concentrates on comedy
Comedy

Comedy as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse generally intended to amuse, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western culture origins are found in Ancient Greece....
-related projects, with forays into light entertainment
Light entertainment

Light entertainment is a term used to describe a broad range of usually televisual performances....
, music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
, factual and reality TV.

It was partially acquired by the FremantleMedia
FremantleMedia

FremantleMedia, Ltd. is the content and production division of RTL Group, Europe's largest TV, radio, and production company. Its world headquarters are located in London, United Kingdom....
 Group in 2003. Crackerjack has since merged with Grundy Television to form FremantleMedia Australia in 2006.

Crackerjack productions include:

  • "Comedy Inc.
    Comedy Inc.

    Comedy Inc. is an Australian sketch comedy television program produced by Crackerjack Productions. It first premiered in February 2003 in the new wave of Australian sketch comedy shows being launched across the free-to-air channels along with Big Bite and skitHOUSE....
    "
  • "The Biggest Loser Australia"
  • "Australia's Brainiest Kid"
  • "So Fresh
    So Fresh

    So Fresh is an album currently produced by Sony BMG Music Entertainment that is only available in Australia. It is released every three months and is usually compiled of tracks recorded by artists signed to BMG, Sony and Universal....
    "
  • "The King
    The King (2007 film)

    The King: The Story of Graham Kennedy is an Australian telemovie examining the life of Australian entertainer Graham Kennedy.Produced in Australia by the Sydney based independent production company Crackerjack Productions for TV1 and the Nine Network, The King was first shown on 20 May 2007 on TV1 for Foxtel and Austar and became t...
    "


Controversies


It was reported in August 2002 that the Federal Court in Sydney had ruled that Crackerjack had "misled job seekers about the availability of work offered by it while making a reality television program for Network Ten" and that "the court has made orders by consent against Crackerjack, its producer Mr Jim Burnett, and Network Ten
Network Ten

Network Ten, or Channel Ten, is one of Australia's three major commercial Television broadcasting in Australia. Owned-and-operated stations can be found in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, Western Australia, while affiliates extend the network to cover most of the country....
 Pty Ltd in relation to conduct that included the placement of misleading job advertisements in several newspapers by Crackerjack for the purpose luring potential subjects for a reality television show it was producing".

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