Why did Colin Friels leave Water Rats

STEVE BISLEY announced several months ago he would not return for future series.Channel Nine has scrapped its Sydney Harbor police drama It will end on August 7 after six years and 177 episodes.But it lost popularity in 1999 after the departure of two stars, Colin Friels and Catherine McClements.Steve Bisley, who replaced Friels, announced several months ago he would not return for future series. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/WaterRatsAn Australian procedural police show that featured Sydney's Water Police.

Detective Senior Constable Rachel Goldstein (née Friedman) was a fictional character in the Australian police drama Water Rats.She and partner Frank Holloway (Colin Friels) were both the original main detectives at the Sydney Water Police.Rachel was portrayed by Catherine McClements "We have decided to end it now, on a high note, that is appropriate to one of the all-time great Australian dramas." Nine's director of drama, Kris Noble, said yesterday the show had been a fantastic performer for the network.

Detective Senior Constable Frank Holloway (Francis James Holloway), born 25 June 1952, was a fictional character in the Australian police drama Water Rats who was portrayed by Colin Friels.Frank was one of the original characters in the series when it started in 1996.

Colin Friels is returning to an Adelaide stage for the first time in many years to perform in the State Theatre’s production of Mortido, a new Australian work by playwright Angela Betzien. Menu. Colin Friels, 66, is an acclaimed actor best known for his TV work on Water Rats Their only son Jack, 31, is an actor and musician turned freelance photographer Frank Holloway (Colin Friels) goes off to follow a forgotten dream, in real life the Colin Friels was fighting cancer. Tommy Tavita. The departure of Friels and McClements saw them replaced by Steve Bisley and Dee Smart. I suppose one of us could leave… Dee Smart, who is pregnant, has also left the series.In announcing the decision not to renew the drama yesterday, Nine Network's director of drama Kris Noble blamed escalating costs. Senior Constable Tommy Tavita, portrayed by Jay Laga'aia, was on the show from series one to five. The show was one of the first to suffer from the new OzTam ratings, which showed the program to be struggling. "However, we could see escalating costs ultimately degrading the standard of the show," he said. It was depicted as a police procedural show before it concentrated on the personal lives of the officers in the finals.A DVD version has been released and it is also available on Hulu.TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. In late 1997, Friels was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.However, his treatment was successful, and he is one of the very few sufferers of this disease to go into long-term remission. Water Rats (TV Series 1996–2001) Colin Friels as Detective Senior Constable Frank Holloway. Friels discusses his love of theatre and his disdain for rehearsals (among other things) in this expletive-laden interview. Personal life and views. They both left during Season 4, replaced by Steve Bisley as Detective Sergeant Jack Christey, Aaron Pederson as Detective Michael Reilly and Dee Smart as Senior Detective Alex St. Clare.

The show was initially headlined by Colin Friels and Catherine [McClements] as Senior Detectives Frank Holloway and Rachel Goldstein. "We have decided to end it now on a high note that is appropriate to one of the all-time great Australian dramas," Mr Noble said.It costs between $400,000 and $450,000 to shoot an hour-long episode on film.The Melbourne-made drama Stingers will move into Water Rats' 9.30pm Tuesday timeslot on August 14.THE Nine Network has axed its long-running police series The program will end with the screening of the final episode of the present series on Tuesday, August 7.

Colin Friels, 66, is an acclaimed actor best known for his TV work on Water Rats Their only son Jack, 31, is an actor and musician turned freelance photographer

It aired for 177 episodes from 1996 to 2001 in Australia on the The show centers on the New South Wales Police's Water Police (Now known as Marine Area Command) with its officers sent on missions to tackle criminal and terrorist cases committed in Sydney's territorial waters and other nearby locations, while rendering assistance to their fellow officers once in a blue moon.