Public broadcaster SBS is relaunching SBS 2 in April as a youth-oriented, multi-platform channel.
The new six-part half-hour comedy series will air in 2013.
Filmmaker Alexs Stadermann will direct upcoming 3D Australian-German film Maya the Bee.
The Spierig brothers' sci-fi feature Predestination is set to begin its six-week shoot in April.
The time-travel comedy-romance stars Josh McConville, Hannah Marshall and Alex Dimitriades.
The second series of ABC1's Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries begins shooting in Melbourne this week.
Australian films have continued their strong performance at the Berlin Film Festival thanks to The Rocket, Satellite Boy and The Amber Amulet.
The Federal Government has offered a multi-million dollar one-off payment to lure Hollywood film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea to shoot in Australia.