Foxtel's decision to package its TV channels with broadband internet and fixed-line telephone services next year will help to boost its penetration of households from 30%.
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Stats for the 2013 ratings year confirm that Australian audiences continue to overwhelmingly prefer home grown shows to US and British imports.
The UK's Channel 5 has picked up Secrets & Lies, Hoodlum Entertainment's six-part drama starring Martin Henderson as a guy who finds the body of a young boy and becomes the prime murder suspect.
Sarah Lambert wasn't around in the 1960s but Love Child, the drama series she created for the Nine Network, sets to capture that era of revolution, bohemia, youthful innocence and exuberance.
As the co-writer with Gabrielle Carey of the coming-of-age book which inspired Bruce Beresford's 1981 movie Puberty Blues and the Network Ten series, Kathy Lette has an almost maternal interest in the show.
Paul Hogan returns to Australian TV next year as the star of the ABC documentary Hoges: I've Just Gotta Ask.
Comedies from Matchbox Pictures, Princess Pictures, Working Dog and The Bondi Hipsters are among the highlights of ABC-TV's 2014 schedule.
The Nine Network today revealed details of its upcoming telemovie on Schapelle Corby, a miniseries on Gina Rinehart and a telemovie chronicling a near- disaster involving a Qantas flight.