Brooke Satchwell, Damian Herriman, Justin Rosniak, Edmund Lembke-Hogan, Nicholas Cassim and YouTube star Natalie Tran have joined the cast of 'Mr Inbetween', the first Australian series commissioned by FX.
Former Screen NSW boss Courtney Gibson is headed to Jungle, where she will serve as managing director.
Hoodlum Entertainment's Nathan Mayfield was devastated when the pandemic forced a halt to filming the third season of the ABC's Harrow and the second of Network 10's Five Bedrooms.
Screen Australia has announced $2 million in production funding for 11 documentary projects, seven through the Documentary Producer Program and four through the Commissioned Program.
“[FX] have been very understanding in terms of working with Australians and parochialisms and have not tried to Americanise anything. They have very respectful of us as filmmakers and very collaborative."
Jungle Entertainment CEO Jason Burrows advocates one key structural change if the Australian screen industry is to take full advantage of an expected, post-pandemic boom in demand for scripted content: Treat writers much better.
'Big Deal' presenter Christian Van Vuuren says the distance of departure from the documentary series and his previous work is not lost on him.
FX Australia has commissioned its first local TV series, 'Mr Inbetween', to be directed by Nash Edgerton.