Canadian-New Zealand actor Daniel Gillies ('The Originals') and Philippa Northeast are set to bolster the bulletins of ABC's 'The Newsreader' as filming on season two begins in Melbourne.
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.
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.
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.
"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."
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’.
'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.
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.