Carly Heaton has resigned from Foxtel to join Fremantle in the newly created role of creative director, scripted content.
Network 10 and the UK's Channel 5 have commissioned an extra five episodes of Fremantle's Neighbours to make the show's 35th anniversary.
The government's review of local content quotas should result in a funding and regulatory framework that protects Australian stories, voices and jobs, according to Fremantle CEO Chris Oliver-Taylor.
Blake Ayshford is writing a pilot for the BBC, a comedy-drama set in the near future in which an Uber-like app provides emotional labour for time-poor people.
Seven creatives from across regional NSW and one from the Pilbara in Western Australia have been selected to participate in Screenworks 2020 Career Pathways Program, funded by Screen NSW and Screenwest.
Fremantle will produce 'Breathless', a four-part thriller created by 'Neighbours' executive producer Jason Herbison for Network 10 and the UK's Channel 5, using a production model designed as a precursor for more short-run dramas.
'Snowtown' and 'True History of the Kelly Gang' collaborators, director Justin Kurzel and writer Shaun Grant, will bring to life the series adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s 2014 Man Booker prize-winning novel 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' for Fremantle.
One of Australia's most respected and prolific TV directors who started his career at Crawford Productions in the 1960s, Gary Conway died on Friday in a hospice in Melbourne, aged 73.