Following on from 'Neighbours' and 'Lie With Me', Network 10 and the UK's Channel 5 have partnered again to back another Fremantle Australia drama, 'Riptide'.
After 37 years and 8903 episodes, Fremantle Australia's 'Neighbours' final episode, running 90-minutes, will be simulcast on 10 and 10 Peach on Thursday, July 28 at 7:30pm.
Georgie Stone hopes the short documentary about her life - 'The Dreamlife of Georgie Stone', which recently premiered at both Tribeca and Sydney film festivals - will be empowering for other trans people.
Actors Ella Cannon and Jenna Rosenow have turned their attention to producing, with the pair's newly formed production company Midnight Madhouse optioning Deborah J. Swiss' narrative non-fiction novel 'The Tin Ticket' for a television drama.
The end is near for Australia’s longest running drama, 'Neighbours', after Fremantle confirmed that it had been unable to a new UK broadcast partner.
"There is no formal tertiary training for note-takers and script coordinators. It’s the sort of thing that people learn on the job. The problem is, how do you get that job without first gaining the skills? And when you do get the chance to be a note-taker in a writers’ room, how do you know what’s expected of you and how to deliver what is required?"
The loss of this training ground will have a major impact on the screen industry in the next decades in terms of a place to learn craft, find a creative voice and for peers to meet, writes former 'Neighbours' writer and VCA lecturer Philippa Burne.
Australia's longest running drama 'Neighbours' faces an uncertain future after British broadcaster Channel 5 confirmed it would not air the program beyond June.