TV drama producers face a balancing act next year: How to take advantage of the 30 per cent Producer Offset while coping with watered-down local content regulations and the financial constraints affecting all Australian broadcasters - public and commercial.
After 10 years as a development producer - the last seven and a half years at Easy Tiger/Essential Media and Entertainment - Rachael Turk is pursuing her passion for screenwriting, creating her own projects and script producing with other creatives.
Film Victoria CEO Caroline Pitcher is committed to growing the state's screen sector next financial year but, longer-term, she worries about the sustainability of production.
Producer-director Mark Joffe and Easy Tiger are co-producing a two-part documentary for Network 10 which examines one of the country’s most infamous miscarriages of justice.
Essential 11 Television is producing a pilot for a home renovation series in Los Angeles for the US network HGTV while three other shows are premiering in the US this month.
The Jack Irish telemovies could be the latest Australian drama headed for a US network remake.
Claudia Karvan nd Marcus Graham have signed to star alongside Guy Pearce in the next installment of Jack Irish.
While adaptations are popular in Hollywood, constantly taking huge box office dollars, they aren't so common in Australia