The emerging crisis around local content results from repeated inaction by government to develop 21st century policy frameworks, write University of the Sunshine Coast's Anna Potter and Queensland University of Technology's Amanda Lotz. Here, they recommend three ways government can encourage local production and break the policy inertia
The Seven Network and Discovery today announced they will be partners in a new Australian free-to-air food network.
New spin-offs of 'The Voice' and 'House Rules' join a host of returning franchises on the Seven Network's 2022 slate, which features a renewed focus on light entertainment. Of the titles announced as part of the upfronts, Screentime's 'Claremont' was the sole local drama.
'The Dressmaker'’s Jocelyn Moorhouse will make her first foray into television directing on the third season of Matchbox Pictures and R&R Productions’ 'Wanted'.
Geraldine Hakewill will play Peregrine Fisher, who inherits a windfall when the famous aunt she never knew, Phryne Fisher, goes missing over the highlands of New Guinea.
Seven West Media will raise about $440 million to pay down debt amid ongoing tough market conditions
Channel Seven has picked up the co-production for broadcast in 2013
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.