It's a question as old as television: What makes a hit show? The creatives behind ABC factual successes 'Muster Dogs', 'Miriam Margolyes: Australia Unmasked', 'Magda's Big National Health Check' and 'Stuff the British Stole' shared their thoughts at ABC.
It seems AACTA voters couldn't help falling in love with the craft behind Baz Luhrmann's 'Elvis', with the film picking up seven out of a possible 10 gongs at the Industry Awards - including a history-making cinematography win for Mandy Walker.
This year's AACTA Award for Best Film will be a contest between Baz Luhrmann’s 'Elvis', George Miller’s 'Three Thousand Years of Longing', Leah Purcell’s 'The Drover's Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson', Thomas M. Wright's 'The Stranger', Western Sydney anthology feature 'Here Out West', and Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes' horror 'Sissy'.
The ABC has announced two presenter-led additions to its 2022 factual slate: 'Great Southern Landscapes', hosted by Rachel Griffiths, and 'Stuff The British Stole', which sees Marc Fennell build upon his ABC podcast of the same name.
With the future of Australian drama under the microscope in wake of relaxed local content quotas, there was always going to be added interest in the ABC's 2022 slate.