BBC One has acquired both series of Hoodlum Entertainment/Network 10's Five Bedrooms from NBCUniversal Global Distribution.
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.
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.
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.
NBC's US streaming service Peacock has bought Hoodlum Entertainment's 'Five Bedrooms' just as production of the second series of the relationships dramedy gets underway for Network 10.
For Australia's commercial free-to-air networks, arguably the biggest threat to losing eyeballs is not each other but the seemingly inexorable rise of streaming services led by Netflix, Stan, Disney+ and Amazon.
Disney Television Studios has axed ABC Studios International, the London-based unit which has a first-look deal with Hoodlum Entertainment and co-commissioned The Gloaming with Stan.
Ioan Gruffudd is set to make his TV directing debut on season 3 of the ABC's 'Harrow', which starts shooting next month in Brisbane and South-East Queensland.