Screen Australia has announced $4 million worth of production investment for one film, two television series and three online projects. They include a film adaptation of book 'Penguin Bloom', starring Naomi Watts and produced by Bruna Papandrea's Made Up Stories; a second season of ABC series 'Mystery Road'; Nine's 'Seachange' reboot; and 'Roborovski', a VR project from Tilda Cobham-Hervey and Dev Patel.
Rebecca Gibney will return to the Nine Network next year as forensic psychiatrist Jane Halifax in the miniseries 'Halifax: Retribution', which looks at the character 20 years after the original series.
Eighteen years since 'SeaChange' ended its 39-episodes run on the ABC, Sigrid Thornton and John Howard will be back on screen in 2019 in a new version of the show created by Andrew Knight and Deborah Cox.