Australian drama may be nurtured at the public broadcasters but pay TV will push the envelope with the genre in 2022, Foxtel executive director of television Brian Walsh says.
Brendan Cowell, Pallavi Sharda, Ngali Shaw, Catherine Van-Davies, Bishanyia Vincent and Damien Strouthos will star as jurors in Foxtel's courtroom drama 'The Twelve'.
Brooke Satchwell, Damian Herriman, Justin Rosniak, Edmund Lembke-Hogan, Nicholas Cassim and YouTube star Natalie Tran have joined the cast of 'Mr Inbetween', the first Australian series commissioned by FX.
Writer-director Romi Trower’s debut feature ‘What If It Works?’ is set to make its world premiere at the 2017 Cinequest Film and VR Festival in San Jose next month.
This year's AACTA Award for Best Film will be a contest between Baz Luhrmann’s 'Elvis', George Miller’s 'Three Thousand Years of Longing', Leah Purcell’s 'The Drover's Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson', Thomas M. Wright's 'The Stranger', Western Sydney anthology feature 'Here Out West', and Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes' horror 'Sissy'.
"It's more important than ever for broadcasters to have reasons for people to tune in on the night to watch, so that they are not just turning on the streaming when they want."
Jungle Entertainment/Blue-Tongue Films’ 'Mr Inbetween' has been warmly received after its world premiere in the first Indie Episodic section of the Sundance Film Festival.
ABC doomsday comedy 'Preppers' has started filming in Sydney, with the six-part series set to air later this year.