In partnership with Football Australia, Disney+ has commissioned a six-part docuseries following The Matildas, the women’s national soccer team, as they prepare for the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 on home soil.
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Network 10 has commissioned eight-part drama 'Paper Dolls', which is set in 2000 and follows a manufactured girl group born out of one of the first reality TV shows.
The ABC has greenlit a second season of Cheeky Little Media's animated children's series 'Kangaroo Beach'.
Northern Pictures was crowned Production Business of the Year at Wednesday evening's Screen Producers Australia (SPA) Awards, while also taking home further gongs for 'See What You Made Do' and 'Love on the Spectrum'.
A film tracking the 30-year journey of children's band The Wiggles and another celebrating the life of late music executive Michael Gudinski are among the nine projects to share in more than $2.7 million of documentary funding from Screen Australia.
"Let’s make no bones about it - this is a disaster."
In the lead up to the federal election, the fight to regulate streaming services looks poised to get noisier: Australian Directors Guild executive director Alaric McAusland told Screen Forever Tuesday that the industry was currently "way too polite" to government on the issue.
Flying Bark Productions has launched a new production arm, After Bark, which will focus on content for older audiences, including mature animation projects and both scripted and unscripted live action.
Shuang Hu will star as a Chinese-Australian tea shop owner searching for love, family, and cultural connection in Amazon's first original Australian feature, 'Five Blind Dates'.