Free TV CEO Bridget Fair has identified free and easy access to free local services on connected TVs and updates to anti-siphoning legislation as the two most pressing issues for commercial broadcasting in 2024, calling on the government to implement a modernised regulatory framework that allows broadcasters to compete with "cashed up streaming services".
'My Brilliant Career' producer Margaret Fink, ACS Hall of Fame inductee Daryl Binning, Emmy-winning natural history filmmaker David Parer and Heather Croall, CEO of the Adelaide Fringe and former director of Sheffield Doc/Fest, have been recognised with Australia Day honours.
Media executive and composer Kim Williams is set to take from Ita Buttrose as the new chairperson of the ABC after being recommended for the position by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
Production has begun in Sydney's Sutherland Shire on the new ABC series 'Plum', an adaptation of Brendan Cowell's 2021 novel.
The final season of ABC political drama 'Total Control' will air from Sunday, bringing an end to five-year journey for production company Blackfella Films. IF speaks with producers Darren Dale and Erin Bretherton, and director Jub Clerc.
Screen Producers Australia (SPA) has revealed further details of next year's Connect Market, which will take place March 19-21 on the Gold Coast as part of Screen Forever.
Nine AFTRS graduates will complete 13-week paid industry internships across the ABC, BBC Studios, Endemol Shine Australia, Eureka Productions, ITV Studios Australia, SBS and Warner Bros. as part of the institution's annual graduate program.
In creating new ABC children's sci-fi 'Planet Lulin', Melanie Sano wanted the series about the part extraterrestrial pre-teen to carry a distinct '90s vibe.