Head of Screen NSW Kyas Hepworth with Alison Hurbert-Burns, commissioner & executive director content at Foxtel Group at SXSW Sydney.
Head of Screen NSW Kyas Hepworth with Alison Hurbert-Burns, commissioner & executive director content at Foxtel Group at SXSW Sydney.

Foxtel and Binge reveal the type of local content they want and how to successfully pitch projects

Foxtel and Binge are looking to commission “bigger, better and fewer” Australian original series that can attract and maintain a mass audience of subscribers.

“Because we do three or four things a year – sometimes five – we’re looking for things that can really have a big impact and hit as broad an audience as possible,” Foxtel Group commissioner and executive director, content, Alison Hurbert-Burns told an audience at a NSW Power Lunch session at SXSW Sydney.

“So we are of...