Directors Fadia Abboud and Shirley Barrett are joining set-up director Peter Templeman on the second season of Network 10/Hoodlum Entertainment's Five Bedrooms, which is now shooting in Melbourne.
Hoodlum Entertainment, Aurora Films' Antony Waddington and Ákos Armont and Sweetshop & Green's Sharlene George and Gal Greenspan are teaming up to produce an asylum seeker drama adapted from a 2018 novel.
When UK-based actor Daniel Lapaine was asked by his mate Tim Minchin to play his brother in Lingo Pictures/Foxtel's Upright, he was both surprised and delighted.
BBC One has acquired both series of Hoodlum Entertainment/Network 10's Five Bedrooms from NBCUniversal Global Distribution.
Michael Lucas, who co-created Network 10's 'Five Bedrooms' with Christine Bartlett, reached out to emerging writer Xavier Coy last year after reading Coy's play 'Not Even God Can Save Us'.
The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in the cancellation of four screen industry events, halted production on Netflix's Clickbait and two major movies, and postponed shooting of two big TV reality shows.
More than 60 per cent of the 500-plus people who responded to Screen Queensland's survey on the impact on the screen sector from COVID-19 in the past two days are freelancers or contractors - and most are jobless.
Screen Queensland is providing $3.3 million in re-allocated funding to support the stricken Queensland screen industry through the COVID-19 crisis.