The Foxtel Group has commissioned docu-soap reality series 'Billion Dollar Playground' from Ronde Media, which will take audiences into the holiday homes of the super rich.
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Rebecca Gibney and Charles Edwards are going back 'Under the Vines', with Acorn TV and TVNZ co-commissioning a third season of the Perpetual Entertainment and Libertine Pictures series.
Newcomer Cato Ayyar will star opposite Michael Sheasby in Peter Skinner's debut feature 'Two Ugly People', which has commenced shooting across Sydney and regional NSW.
Jessica Mauboy is set to return to the screen for the first time since 2012's 'The Sapphires' in Tanith Glynn-Maloney's 'Windcatcher', which has begun production in Victoria.
Writer-director James Robert Woods and producer Stephanie Jane Day will make their feature debut with 'Moonrise Over Knights Hill', a dark satire now shooting in Robertson in NSW's Southern Highlands.
Rachel Griffiths has headed across the ditch to front the cast of 'Madam', a half-hour dramedy about a woman who starts an ethical brothel in small town New Zealand to provide for her family.
Feature film 'Honey Ant Dreamers', which goes behind the birth of the Western Desert Art Movement, is set to shoot in the Northern Territory next year, with US actor and comedian - and avid Indigenous art collector - Steve Martin as executive producer.
New Netflix outback drama 'Desert King' has begun its takeover of the Northern Territory and South Australia, with Easy Tiger and Ronde commencing production on the six-part series.