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n. A button that causes media to be fast forwarded. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To cause an audio or video tape, digital media stream, etc. to move forward very fast, so that when the device is played, it will start at a later point. 2 (context intransitive English) To be fast-forwarded; to move ahead in this fashion. 3 (context intransitive figuratively by extension English) to shift one's attention or focus toward a later point in time.
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Fast Forward was Australia’s highest rating and most critically awarded commercial television sketch comedy show, broadcast for 90 one-hour episodes from 12 April 1989 to 26 November 1992.
The show was produced by Steve Vizard, who was also the Executive Producer, writer and performer, and starred Jane Turner, Gina Riley, Magda Szubanski (who went on to star in Kath & Kim), Marg Downey, Michael Veitch, Peter Moon, Alan Pentland, Steve Blackburn, Geoff Brookes, Ernie Dingo, the Rubbery Figures satirical puppets, and numerous guests and supporting stars, such as Gerry Connolly and Brian Dawe.
Fast Forward was succeeded by the related series Full Frontal, and subsequently Totally Full Frontal, which were broadcast from 1993 to 1999 and which starred many of the original Fast Forward cast as well as many iconic performers including Eric Bana, Stephen Curry, Glenn Robbins, Shaun Micallef, Kitty Flanagan and Julia Morris.
Fast Forward was directed by Ted Emery. In its second and subsequent series, Andrew Knight joined Steve Vizard and Ted Emery as Executive Producers of the show. They went on to establish the leading Australian Production house, Artist Services, which produced 1400 hours of prime time television including SeaChange, Big Girl's Blouse, Tonight Live with Steve Vizard, The Eric Bana Show, The Shaun Micallef Pogram (sic).
All four seasons plus five 'best of' compilations of Fast Forward have been released on DVD. All four seasons were re-released in 2010.
In 2013, the Network Ten-owned channel, One began airing hour-long specials titled Fast Forward Funniest Send-Ups.
To fast-forward is to move forward through a recording at a speed faster than that at which it would usually be played. The recordings are usually audio, video or computer data. It is colloquially known as 'f-forwarding'. On player buttons and interfaces, the function is commonly represented by two solid arrows pointing right and these typical icons were correctly recognised by 75% of a sample of European consumers.
Fast Forward was a weekly children's magazine launched in September 1989 by the BBC to compete with Look-in. It was aimed at seven- to 14-year-olds and was promoted heavily with trailers shown on Children's BBC. Circulation started at 210,000 copies per week, reached a peak of 340,000 in March 1990, but fell to 150,000 by Spring 1991. Fast Forward generally sold around 40% to 50% more copies than Look-in on a weekly basis.
Fast Forward is the sixth studio album by punk band Heideroosjes. It was released on 28 March 2001.
Fast forward is a process of quickly moving through storage media such as cassette tapes.
Fast Forward may also refer to:
- Fast Forward (band), a band formed in 1984, featuring vocalist Ian Lloyd, that released one album, Living in Fiction
- Fast Forward (film), a 1985 film directed by Sidney Poitier
- Fast Forward (TV series), an Australian sketch comedy show of the late 1980s and early 1990s
- Fast Forward (Spyro Gyra album), 1990
- Fast Forward (magazine), a children's magazine
- Fast Forward (cassette magazine), a music magazine produced in Australia in the early 1980s
- Fast Forward (anthology), a science fiction anthology published by Pyr
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fast Forward, a US animated TV series
- Fast Forward, a type of challenge in TV series The Amazing Race
- "Fast Forward", a song by Jagúar from the album Get the Funk Out
- Fast Forward Weekly, a Canadian alternative newspaper
- Fast Forward, a comic book character, member of one version of the Doom Patrol
- Fast Forward (Heideroosjes album), 2001
- Fast Forward (Joe Jackson album), 2015
Fast Forward is a 1985 dance film directed by Sidney Poitier. In the film, a dance troupe from Ohio comes to New York to compete in a national talent competition. The Bollywood film Dance Dance was inspired by this film.
Fast Forward is the fourteenth album by the American jazz group Spyro Gyra, released in 1990 on the GRP label. This album reached #1 on Billboard's Contemporary Jazz chart.
On this album only, the band was billed on the album cover as "Spyro Gyra Featuring Jay Beckenstein".
Fast Forward was a Canadian band formed in 1984 in Vancouver. Featuring Ian Lloyd, former lead singer of Stories and a solo artist, the band released one album, Living in Fiction.
Fast Forward was a cassette magazine documenting post-punk music in the early 1980s. It was edited in Melbourne, Australia, by Bruce Milne and Andrew Maine, with graphic design by Michael Trudgeon. The cassettes interspersed interviews with music and were packaged with printed artwork and distributed in record shops around Australia and abroad. Thirteen issues were produced between November 1980 and October 1982.
Fast Forward is an album by British singer-songwriter Joe Jackson. The album and track list were officially announced via Jackson's official website and was scheduled for a mid-fall release. The record was later released wordwide on October 2, 2015. Excluding his classical releases and film work, the album is his thirteenth studio project.
Fast Forward is the first startup accelerator to focus solely on nonprofit-based technology enterprises, it was founded by Sharon Farley and Kevin Barenblat in 2014. The accelerator provides support, mentorship, and access to financial capital for emerging companies that aim to improve the world, by focusing on poverty, education access, improving health, and environmental degradation.
Fast Forward is supported by nonprofit tech leaders like Sal Khan of Khan Academy, Premal Shah of Kiva, Charles Best of DonorsChoose, and Leila Janah of SamaSource, Andrew McCollum of Facebook, Josh Reeves of ZenPayroll, Joe Greenstein of Flixster, and others. Its corporate partners include Google.org and BlackRock.
Usage examples of "fast forward".
In the evenings, while more and more of the delegates spent their time partying, or going for walks up and down the tunnel, Art continued to meet with Nirgal, and they watched tapes at a moderate fast forward so that everyone spoke like a bird, only slowing them down to take notes, or talk over some point or other.
The moment Art agreed to take the Mars assignment, his life speeded up like a video on fast forward.
What followed after that was a blur of sound and action on fast forward.