Former Nine Entertainment CEO Hugh Marks and Endemol Shine Australia co-founder Carl Fennessy have launched a full-service production and distribution studio with the backing of Endeavor Content.
Nine Entertainment expects to save spending on drama and children's programming as part of a radical plan to slash costs by $266 million this year.
There is increasing variation between Netflix, Stan and Amazon Prime Video in terms of the kind, age, and genre mix of Australian-made material they carry.
Nine Entertainment CEO Hugh Marks has set a lofty target for Stan once the streaming service is fully owned by the merged NEC/Fairfax Media.
Calls by the Seven, Nine and Ten networks to scrap the quotas for children’s and pre-school programming have been roundly condemned by key screen industry groups and guilds.
The chiefs of the Seven, Nine and Ten Networks today pressed their case to scrap the quotas for children’s and pre-school programming and to raise the TV producer offset to 40 per cent.
With two parallel yet overlapping inquiries under way into the Australian screen sector, what can the industry realistically hope will be the outcome?
Haslingden will step down as chairman and non-executive director at Nine Entertainment Company and be replaced by Peter Costello, currently an independent, non-executive director.