Nine's program director Hamish Turner explains how he's programming through the pandemic, outlines gains in audiences, a greater focus on news and the likely impact on 2021 schedules.
As part of its $3.3 million COVID-19 support package, Screen Queensland will dedicate $50,000 to help support the state's film festivals to shift online.
The Seven, Nine and 10 networks insist they are not stockpiling Australian dramas and other local programming despite the suspension of the local content quotas for the rest of this year.
The coronavirus pandemic has forced the suspension or postponement of 119 screen productions, resulting in a loss to the production sector of $471 million.
Screen Australia has decided to postpone the introduction of the revised documentary programs from July 1 until 2021, to the dismay of some factual filmmakers who wanted the new regime to happen sooner.
The commercial free-to-air networks and Foxtel are major beneficiaries of the Federal Government's package of measures to help sustain Australian media businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The offer by Australians in Film (AiF) of two months free membership to new members has been taken up enthusiastically around the world.
Hoodlum Entertainment's Nathan Mayfield was devastated when the pandemic forced a halt to filming the third season of the ABC's Harrow and the second of Network 10's Five Bedrooms.