Filming of SBS's 10-part comedy entertainment series Room 101 adapted from a hit BBC show has started in Sydney.
Has TV replaced film in terms of quality of story, risk taking, directors and casting?
Matchbox Pictures has quietly launched a production offshoot in Asia and is already working on several projects.
Shooting is underway on Australia's first Kung Fu comedy - MAXIMUM CHOPPAGE, a 6X30 minute series, where identity, family and love are battlefields.
Matchbox Pictures, the prolific producer of Nowhere Boys, Devil's Playground, The Slap, the movie Cut Snake, Real Housewives of Melbourne, Formal Wars and upcoming miniseries Deadline Gallipoli, is now fully owned by a US studio.
Matchbox Pictures and Universal Television will produce a US version of The Slap for the NBC network.
Matchbox Pictures has produced a reality show about a group of young, pampered and immature adults who are forced to live together in a house and fend for themselves on a basic weekly budget, for the Seven network.
Comedies from Matchbox Pictures, Princess Pictures, Working Dog and The Bondi Hipsters are among the highlights of ABC-TV's 2014 schedule.