Given the current focus on Australia as a production destination, what are the current opportunities for local producers to forge international partnerships and turn the boom in to long-term sustainable growth?
Writer-director Abe Forsythe has re-teamed with Made Up Stories to produce his next project, Stan and Peacock series 'Wolf Like Me', to star Isla Fisher and Josh Gad.
Minister for Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts Paul Fletcher has doubled down on criticism of the ABC for its response to potential local content obligations, but has sympathised with other industry views on the green paper – namely the call for streaming platforms to spend 20 per cent of their local revenue on Australian content.
Requirements on global services seem an easy answer — and who doesn’t want more Australian TV? — but this call ignores complex realities of how the TV business and its funding have changed, write Amanda Lotz and Anna Potter in this cross-posting from The Conversation.
Stan boss Mike Sneesby has been appointed the new CEO of Nine, succeeding Hugh Marks.
Starz has acquired the US and Canadian rights to 'The Gloaming', with the eight-episode drama to premiere across each of the cable network's platforms next month.
IF understands Amanda Duthie will depart SBS this week for a role at Stan.
Jamie Dornan will play the lead role in Harry and Jack Williams' 'The Tourist', a thriller Stan is touting as its "biggest series yet". Due to shoot in South Australia, Danielle Macdonald, Shalom Brune-Franklin and Hugo Weaving will co-star.