The ABC’s 2020 slate is packed with new documentaries and factual series - but there is a distinct air of déjà vu in the categories of drama and comedy.
Confirmed as head of children’s production at the ABC earlier this month, Libbie Doherty is on the look-out for comedies and factual entertainment programs.
Screen Australia has announced $2.7 million of production funding, going towards two features, one TV drama, one children's drama and five online projects.
Feisty Dame Productions' Tania Chambers and writer-director Nick Verso have optioned 'Invisible Boys', Holden Sheppard's debut novel which follows three 16-year-olds as they come to terms with their homosexuality in a small town in Western Australia.
With SBS preparing to select its second group of participants for the Emerging Writers Incubator, one of the program's inaugural members has shared her experience of the nationwide initiative, describing it as "life-changing".
The second instalment of ABC/Komixx Entertainment's 'Itch' was the first drama to recommence in Western Australia last year, thanks in part to virtual production technology used to contain sets.