Chris Oliver-Taylor is set to depart Netflix to join the ABC in the newly-created role of chief content officer, reporting to managing director David Anderson.
It's a question as old as television: What makes a hit show? The creatives behind ABC factual successes 'Muster Dogs', 'Miriam Margolyes: Australia Unmasked', 'Magda's Big National Health Check' and 'Stuff the British Stole' shared their thoughts at ABC.
How do you make documentary and factual content for social platforms that captures and holds attention? How do you condense big topics into 60 seconds? Oh, and is there a business model for this sort of content? These questions were among the conversation at AIDC.
Matchbox Pictures and Film Camp's 'Turn Up The Volume' will premiere on ABC ME March 24.
Lingo Pictures' eight-part drama 'The Messenger' has found a German co-production partner in FabFiction - a scripted co-production initiative between ARD’s public broadcasters NDR, SWR and WDR.
Tim Draxl, Matt Day, Jada Alberts, Nicholas Brown, Anna McGahan and Oscar Leal lead the ABC's upcoming 'In Our Blood', a four-part musical drama series from Hoodlum Entertainment, inspired by Australia's radical response to AIDS in the early 1980s.
Some 13 AFTRS graduates of the Bachelor of Arts Screen: Production are set to undertake paid internships across the ABC, BBC Studios, Endemol Shine Australia, EQ Media, Eureka Productions, ITV Studios Australia, SBS, Warner Bros. and WildBear Entertainment.
After dominating the AACTA Industry Awards on Monday, Baz Luhrmann's 'Elvis' continued its sweep at the main ceremony, winning another four awards, including Best Film and Best Direction.