The ABC has commissioned a fifth season of 'Rake', set to go into production in October.
“There are some directors, when they come knocking, you essentially go, 'I will play a horse in your movie.’ It doesn’t matter if it’s a small role.”
As the Barnaby Joyce scandal was unfolding, shooting of the fifth series of the ABC's 'Rake' started in Canberra, depicting events which are eerily similar in real life.
The ABC expects to spend $119 million on commissioning content from independent producers in the 2017-18 financial year, a significant uplift from the prior year’s $95 million.
As a regular in the ABC’s 'Rake' since the second series, Damien Garvey has a ready explanation as to why the fifth series is the last.
Australian film and television actor Richard Carter died last Saturday after a brief illness. He was 65.
ABC head of scripted production Sally Riley is an early winner of this year's Screen Producer Australia Awards, named the inaugural Commissioner of the Year.
ABC head of drama, entertainment and Indigenous, Sally Riley, has announced she is leaving the broadcaster after 13 years.