Sydney may have lost the AACTA Awards to the Sunshine State but it will soon welcome back TV's night of nights from the north.
ITV head of entertainment Majella Wiemers will join the Seven Network in the same capacity later this year.
Australia’s commercial free-to-air broadcasters have asked the government for sweeping changes to local content regulations.
Last week, the Seven Network was found liable to pay a workers’ compensation claim brought by Nicole Prince, one of the contestants on its renovation reality television show, 'House Rules'.
Netflix has acquired global streaming rights to Northern Pictures' 'Love on the Spectrum', the ABC-commissioned docuseries which follows seven young adults on the autism spectrum as take their first steps into the world of dating.
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
Crime pays - at least that's what the makers of three new local, commercial network crime series are hoping, observes Pip Bulbeck.