The Australian obsession with housing prices and affordability is the inspiration behind 'Five Bedrooms', Hoodlum Entertainment’s drama which started shooting in Melbourne yesterday.
Director Peter Templeman rates Michael Lucas and Christine Bartlett as Australia’s pre-eminent creators of TV comedy-dramas.
After years of creating fictional characters in such series as 'House Husbands', 'Offspring', 'The Wrong Girl' and 'Playing for Keeps', Christine Bartlett allowed herself the freedom to do something unprecedented in 'Five Bedrooms'.
NBC's US streaming service Peacock has bought Hoodlum Entertainment's 'Five Bedrooms' just as production of the second series of the relationships dramedy gets underway for Network 10.
BBC One has acquired both series of Hoodlum Entertainment/Network 10's Five Bedrooms from NBCUniversal Global Distribution.
Michael Lucas, who co-created Network 10's 'Five Bedrooms' with Christine Bartlett, reached out to emerging writer Xavier Coy last year after reading Coy's play 'Not Even God Can Save Us'.
The Australian TV drama production sector has virtually ground to a halt with multiple shows suspending shooting last Friday.
Like the rest of the crew and cast, Niki Aken was gutted when the production of the ABC comedy Why Are You Like This was shut down with two weeks filming to go.