Michael Miller, co-writer of the ABC's 'Cleverman', has won the $10,000 Australian Writers' Guild's 2016 John Hinde Award for Science Fiction.
Series directors Wayne Blair and Leah Purcell are returning, while the season two writers room will consist of Stuart Page, Jane Allen, Jada Alberts, Justine Gillmer and Ryan Griffen.
The series will air in Britain later this year, following the show’s world premiere on SundanceTV in the US on June 1 and on the ABC in Australia on June 2.
Cleverman will launch in the United States on SundanceTV on June 1 and in Australia on ABC and ABC iview on June 2.
Deborah Mailman, Frances O'Connor, Hunter Page-Lochard, Tasma Walton, Stef Dawson, Wayne Blair, Ryan Griffen, Rosemary Blight and Angela Littlejohn have walked the Berlinale's red carpet ahead of a screening of the show's first two episodes.
Newcomers Elias Anton and Ben Kindon are playing the leads in Barracuda, the 4-part Matchbox Pictures drama for ABC directed by Rob Connolly.
Rahel Romahn is 22 but he’s carving out quite a career playing high school students of various ethnic origins, mostly rebellious or with a dark side.
Screen Australia has foreshadowed a more stringent approach to investing in children's drama in light of the paltry viewing figures for programs aired on the commercial free-to-air networks' digital channels.