Kris Noble was born in India and then raised in Britain before relocating to Australia in the 1970s when he was aged in his early 20's.
25 Facts About Kris Noble
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In September 1984, Kris Noble was appointed as producer and director of second series of Australia You're Standing In It succeeding John Eastway.
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Just days before its first airing, the program's executive producer Grant Rule resigned with Kris Noble urgently brought in as a replacement.
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Just like how he had first seen the members of The D-Generation, Kris Noble had seen Connolly perform at The Last Laugh in Melbourne and saw potential in Connolly's comic talent, impressed with his ability to ad-lib.
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In 1988, Kris Noble began a brief tenure at the Seven Network.
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Kris Noble produced the 1989 Logie Awards telecast for Seven before leaving the network.
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In 1989, Kris Noble began his lengthy tenure with the Nine Network.
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Kris Noble was appointed as the executive producer of the new home video clip series Graham Kennedy's Funniest Home Video Show in 1990, hosted by Australian television veteran Graham Kennedy.
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In June 1990, Kris Noble warned viewers of Graham Kennedy's Funniest Home Video Show that if the network received any home video of potentially dangerous behaviour, they would likely be reported to the authorities.
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In 1991, Kris Noble became the executive producer of Nine's new sitcom All Together Now, created by Pino Amenta, Philip Dalkin and John Powditch.
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Kris Noble's appointment came at a time when the network hadn't produced many successful drama series for some time with the exception of The Flying Doctors.
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Kris Noble was protective of the network's drama offerings, going as far as writing a letter to the editor in 1996 in response to a reader's accusations of racism in Water Rats.
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Kris Noble was named as one of the senior production staff in the Outstanding Miniseries nomination along with Francis Ford Coppola, Fred Fuchs, Robert Halmi Sr.
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Kris Noble was credited as an executive producer on the show along with O'Bannon, Brian Henson and Robert Halmi Jr.
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The scheduling of Nine's soap Pacific Drive was a sore point for Kris Noble, who saw its potential to be a suitable afternoon drama to complement the network's American soaps, Days of Our Lives and The Young and the Restless.
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Kris Noble said it wasn't Nine's intention to glorify Ryan and said that although he felt sorry for Barns, he believed she was more upset about the way they focused on Ryan instead of her father.
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Kris Noble later said that the rationale behind making the film was because of Ryan's status as the last person hanged in Australia.
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Kris Noble said Barnes' father was indeed an unsung and forgotten hero.
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In 1999, Kris Noble submitted a proposal to Nine to commission a fast-paced children's television show for pre-schoolers called Hi-5, created by Helena Harris and Posie Graeme-Evans, featuring original members Kellie Crawford, Kathleen de Leon Jones, Nathan Foley, Tim Harding and Charli Robinson.
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Kris Noble's departure came after the failure of Young Lions, created by Michael Jenkins and starring Alex Dimitriades.
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Kris Noble was succeeded at Nine by co-creator of McLeod's Daughters and Hi-5, Posie Graeme-Evans.
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Seven reportedly reneged on the deal preventing Effie from appearing on Nine but Kris Noble denied there was such a deal.
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Kris Noble later served as managing director of production company Endemol Southern Star until resigning in 2007.
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In 2014, Kris Noble was credited as an executive producer of a medical infotainment series called Save Your Life Tonight hosted by Andrew Daddo with whom Kris Noble had worked with on The Factory in the 1980s.
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Kris Noble defended commercial free-to-air television in 1994 and said that viewers had been so conditioned to commercial breaks that they tended to miss them if there weren't any.