The ABC has strongly rejected the commercial free-to-air broadcasters’ demands that it restrict its role to providing programming which they cannot or will not provide.
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Create NSW and SBS have backed six teams of emerging filmmakers with $180,000 to create shorts which will air next year as part of SBS's coverage of the 40th Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.
Adam Zwar and Trent O’Donnell are set to make a six-part comedy for the ABC set entirely in cars, which will follow people from Sydney’s western suburbs as they drive to work.
Screen Australia investment manager Mike Cowap is leaving the agency for production company Princess Pictures, where he will be a senior producer across both scripted and unscripted.
Wayne Hope and Robyn Butler are making a sequel to their 2008 six-part comedy 'Very Small Business' for the ABC.
'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' and 'The Goldbergs' star Tim Meadows is playing the co-lead opposite Patrick Brammall in the US remake of 'No Activity'.
Distributors and exhibitors gathering on the Gold Coast this weekend for the annual Australian International Movie Convention no doubt will be addressing a contentious issue: collective bargaining.
The Australian Directors’ Guild has implored the Federal Government not to dismantle the current local content quotas without having a viable alternative in place.