The ABC has ordered a six-part narrative comedy from Unless Pictures and Orange Entertainment centred on COVID-19 isolation, due to start filming - remotely - this month before airing in July.
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AMC Networks’ Sundance Now has snapped up the US rights to Lingo Pictures' 'Upright', starring, co-written, executive produced and composed by Tim Minchin.
Screenwest has put $1.2 million in grant funding towards 60 production companies, producers and post houses via one of its suite of COVID-19 support measures.
Netflix has taken the global rights to eOne and POP Family Entertainment's family series 'Alien TV'.
Fourteen documentary projects - spanning a feature film about Shane Warne, a VR project that traverses the historical expedition of Ernest Shackleton, to a short about Australia's femme and butch scene in the 1950s - will share in $2.1 million of production funding from Screen Australia.
Screen Queensland's Jo Dillon and writer Benjamin Law will be the co-chairs of the Screen Diversity Inclusion Network (SDIN) in 2020-21, succeeding Tim Soutphommasane and Tracey Vieira.
SBS has commissioned 'The Tailings', a short-form online drama series set in a remote community on the west coast of Tasmania.
