With Australia’s notoriously strict defamation laws undergoing a shake up in the past couple of
years and dramatic retellings of recent history becoming increasingly popular, has the state of play
for creatives wanting to base projects on real events and people changed? IF weighs up the views of producers and legal experts to find out.
Alex Williams will star as late cricketer Shane Warne in Nine drama series, 'Warnie', which has begun filming in Melbourne.
Ryan Johnson, Catherine Văn-Davies and Aaron Glenane will lead the cast of Screentime miniseries 'The Claremont Murders', set to premiere on Seven next year.
Emalia, Naomi Sequeira, Miah Madden, Courtney Clarke and Courtney Monsma will play the members of Harlow, a manufactured girl group born out of early reality TV, in 10's 'Paper Dolls'.
Seven's 'The Claremont Murders' is an investigative drama that explores how the disappearance of three young women in Perth in the late 1990s launched a 25-year investigation by the police and one tenacious journalist.
Nine and Stan have co-commissioned a new four-part series based on the 2002 Bali bombings.
The Belanglo State Forest, scene of Ivan Milat's serial murders, is such a forbidding place the producers of the Seven Network's Catching Milat chose to avoid the area.
The story of Melissa Caddick and the missing millions is set to gain a new level of notoriety, with Hulu securing the US rights to Screentime’s 'Vanishing Act'.