Unveiling its 2020 schedule, Network 10 is betting heavily on renewals of Australian dramas, reality and light entertainment.
Some $1.17 billion was spent on drama production in Australia in the last financial year - the second highest year on record and more than 50 per cent up on the previous year - driven by all-time high expenditure on local content and significantly bolstered levels of foreign spend.
Fremantle will produce 'Breathless', a four-part thriller created by 'Neighbours' executive producer Jason Herbison for Network 10 and the UK's Channel 5, using a production model designed as a precursor for more short-run dramas.
The Federal Government has committed to a staged process of media regulation reform, ultimately culminating in what it hopes will be "platform-neutral regulatory framework covering both online and offline delivery of media content."
ViacomCBS has appointed Network 10 CEO Paul Anderson to additionally lead its operations in Australia and New Zealand.
For Australia's commercial free-to-air networks, arguably the biggest threat to losing eyeballs is not each other but the seemingly inexorable rise of streaming services led by Netflix, Stan, Disney+ and Amazon.
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.
Directors Fadia Abboud and Shirley Barrett are joining set-up director Peter Templeman on the second season of Network 10/Hoodlum Entertainment's Five Bedrooms, which is now shooting in Melbourne.