Werner Film Productions has made its first appointment as part of BBC Studios Productions Australia, with producer Annie Flynn joining as head of production.
Independent company Werner Film Productions, responsible for 'Surviving Summer' and 'The Newsreader', will be brought under BBC Studios Productions Australia as part of a new deal designed to grow the distributor's investment in the Australian market.
'Surviving Summer' co-creators the Joanna Werner and Josh Mapleston say the series has been taken to a new level in its second season, due largely to increased levels of confidence both in front of and behind the camera.
The second season of ABC’s 'The Newsreader' picks up a year on from the events of season one, with Helen (Anna Torv) and Dale (Sam Reid) now established as ‘The Golden Couple of News’.
"When you're working with IP in any way, my M.O. is to learn to speak that language fluently, but then tell your own story with it. We were not there to remake the '70s 'Grease'. We were there to tell the story of the origin story of the Pink Ladies."
Olympia Valance, Annabel Wolfe, and Josh MacQueen have joined the cast of Netflix teen drama 'Surviving Summer', as production on season two gets underway along Victoria's Great Ocean Road.
Screen Producers Australia has confirmed the mentors for its Ones To Watch program, with some of Australia's leading producers set to lend their expertise to the 2022 cohort.
The second season of ABC's 'The Newsreader' will travel from election night 1987, through the shocks of the Hoddle Street shootings and the Stock Market Crash, the complexity of the heroin crisis, towards the protest and pageantry of the 1988 Bicentenary.