Sweat was an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n drama

Drama

Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...

 series

Television program

A television program , also called television show, is a segment of content which is intended to be broadcast on television. It may be a one-time production or part of a periodically recurring series...

 created by John Rapsey and produced by Barron Entertainment in Perth. The show aired on Network Ten

Network Ten

Network Ten , is one of Australia's three major commercial television networks. Owned-and-operated stations can be found in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, while affiliates extend the network to cover most of the country...

 in 1996 (one season of 26 episodes) and centred around students at an Australian school for the athletically gifted.Sweat was Heath Ledger

Heath Ledger

Heath Andrew Ledger was an Australian television and film actor. After performing roles in Australian television and film during the 1990s, Ledger moved to the United States in 1998 to develop his film career...

's first regular role on a television show. Ledger played Snowy Bowles, a gay

Gay

Gay is a word that refers to a homosexual person, especially a homosexual male. For homosexual women the specific term is "lesbian"....

 cyclist.

Characters

• Melissa Thomas
  Melissa Thomas
  Mélissa Thomas is an Australian actress . She co-starred with Heath Ledger in the television series Sweat and has most recently been seen in the Heath Ledger episode of E! True Hollywood Story as herself, speaking frankly about life as his friend and co-star...
  
    - Sandy Fricker
• Tai Nguyen - Nhon Huong Tran, 'Noodle'
• Martin Henderson
  Martin Henderson
  Martin Henderson is a New Zealand actor, well known to American audiences for his starring role in the ABC TV series Off the Map, while remaining known in his home country for his teenage role as Stuart Neilson in the soap opera Shortland Street.-Life and career:Henderson was born in Auckland, New...
  
   - Tom Nash
• Inge Hornstra
  Inge Hornstra
  Inge Hornstra is a Dutch-born Australian television and stage actress. She is best known for her roles on Heartbreak High and McLeod's Daughters.-Early life:...
  
   - Tatyana 'Tats' Alecsandri
• Tahnie Merrey - Evie Hogan
• Heath Ledger
  Heath Ledger
  Heath Andrew Ledger was an Australian television and film actor. After performing roles in Australian television and film during the 1990s, Ledger moved to the United States in 1998 to develop his film career...
  
   - Snowy Bowles
• Heath Bergersen - Stewie Perkins
• Matt Castelli - Danny Rodriguez
• Claire Sprunt - Leila Rasheed
• Paul Tassone
  Paul Tassone
  Paul Tassone is an Australian actor most known for his work as Nelson Curtis on All Saints, an Australian hospital drama. In late 2007-2008, he played a reverend who turned out to be a violent stalker as a result of a brain tumor on Home and Away...
  
   - Don Majors

International Broadcasts

• Ireland - RTE Two
  RTÉ Two
  RTÉ Two is a free-to-air general entertainment channel operated by Irish state broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann. RTÉ Two is available throughout the island of Ireland through digital terrestrial service Saorview, VHF and UHF bands, and is also available via satellite to Irish subscribers of...
  
   Winter 1996/Spring 1997
• Czech Republic - Supermax
  Supermax (TV channel)
  'Supermax was a Czech channel that featured mostly animated television programs for teens and pre-teens. It started broadcast on 22nd November 1994 and without any commercials...
  
  1998