The omens weren't great in the lead-up to the premiere of Banished on BBC First amid the controversy over absence of Indigenous characters in the drama set in penal colony NSW.
Banished, the first commission from Australian cable channel BBC First, premiered on BBC2 last week, winning its timeslot but failing to impress many UK critics.
Jeffrey Walker is in New York directing the first four episodes of a comedy executive-produced by Amy Poehler and commissioned by streaming service Hulu.
Childhood's End, a US science fiction mini-series based on a classic Arthur C. Clarke novel which begins filming in Melbourne on December 1, will be a great gig for Australian cast and crew and, most probably, VFX houses.
A seven-part series set during the turbulent period of the establishment of the penal colony in Sydney in 1788 may seem a stretch for Liverpool-born and based writer Jimmy McGovern.
Following the award-winning and critically acclaimed Top of the Lake, BBC Worldwide Australia and New Zealand has announced its next local commission, which will screen on BBC First on Foxtel in 2015.