Amanda Duthie has been appointed the new Head of ABC TV’s Arts, Entertainment & Comedy.
Amanda has for the last four years been a Commissioning Editor and an Executive Producer for Arts, Entertainment & Comedy. She will take on her new role from Tuesday October 23 and will report to Courtney Gibson, in her newly-appointed role as Executive Head of Content Creation.
During the last four years Amanda has been responsible for a broad range of highly successful ABC TV programs including At the Movies, The New Inventors, First Tuesday Book Club, Painting Australia, jtv, and Spy Shop, as well as documentaries such as Girl in a Mirror, 900 Neighbours, and Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn.
Prior to her time at ABC TV, Amanda spent two years as the Senior Project Manager at the NSW Film and Television Office, managing the development of television programming including drama, animation, documentary series, and children’s TV series. She also worked on an array of feature films and short features.
Amanda was Series Producer of Eat Carpet and Alchemy at SBS, as well as Series Associate Producer on ABC TV’s Robert Hughes’ Beyond the Fatal Shore, a major 6 x 1 hour co-production between ABC TV/BBC/ PBS.
Kim Dalton, Director of Television said he was delighted to be able to appoint Amanda to this position.
‘Amanda has been responsible over the last few years for developing and executive producing a broad range of very successful programs for ABC TV. She will bring this experience along with her energy, creativity and excellent relationships with the independent production community to what is a key position within ABC TV,’ he said.
Amanda Duthie said ‘I am totally thrilled to be leading an incredibly strong department and coming on board during a bumper season of arts, entertainment and comedy production for ABC TV.’
[release from the ABC]