Foxtel was the big winner as the TV Week Logie Awards returned to Sydney for the first time in 37 years on Sunday, with comedy series 'Colin From Accounts' and courtroom drama 'The Twelve' both receiving three awards.
Foxtel's courtroom drama 'The Twelve' has led the charge in the nominees for this year's TV Week Logie Awards, receiving nine nods including Most Outstanding Drama Series and Most Popular Drama Program.
Adapted from Tom Holt’s eponymous seven-book fantasy series, Jeffrey Walker's 'The Portable Door' follows Paul Carpenter (Patrick Gibson) and Sophie Pettingel (Sophie Wilde), two lowly, put-upon interns who begin working at the mysterious London firm J.W. Wells & Co. and become steadily aware that their employers are anything but conventional.
Queensland is currently housing production on Luke Sparke's 'Bring Him To Me', a mob thriller that stars Canadian actor Barry Pepper, Sam Neill, and Rachel Griffiths.
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'.
A bumper line-up of Australian talent, including Jillian Nguyen, Sam Neill, and Anna Torv, will lend their voices to upcoming animated feature film, 'Scarygirl', which is in production in Queensland.
Australian drama may be nurtured at the public broadcasters but pay TV will push the envelope with the genre in 2022, Foxtel executive director of television Brian Walsh says.
Brendan Cowell, Pallavi Sharda, Ngali Shaw, Catherine Van-Davies, Bishanyia Vincent and Damien Strouthos will star as jurors in Foxtel's courtroom drama 'The Twelve'.