'The Letdown' was one of six pilots aired last year on the ABC via the Comedy Showroom initiative, and the episode went on to pick up an AACTA Award for Best Screenplay in Television.
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The volume of TV drama and TV documentary production in Australia has slumped in the past four years due to fewer commissions from free-to-air broadcasters, according to a survey released today.
Kate Mulvany and John Howard have joined the cast of 'The Merger', a comedy/drama which will star Damian Callinan.
South Australian production company 57 Films is set to join forces with China’s Qingdao Broadcasting and Television Station to develop 'Soccer Swap'.
'Highlander' director Russell Mulcahy has begun production on the Gold Coast for his Errol Flynn biopic, 'In Like Flynn'.
Director Grant Sputore made short film 'Legacy' in 2008 and was selected by the ADG to be a director’s attachment with Kriv Stenders on 'Kill Me Three times' in 2014. 'Mother' will be his feature debut.
'Deadlock', a teenage-focused ABC iview series from Every Cloud Productions, the producers of 'Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries' and 'Newton’s Law', is set to shoot on the north coast of NSW in July.
Production has begun in Sydney on Playmaker’s 'The Easybeats' for the ABC.