TV drama producers face a balancing act next year: How to take advantage of the 30 per cent Producer Offset while coping with watered-down local content regulations and the financial constraints affecting all Australian broadcasters - public and commercial.
The biggest challenge facing TV producers next year is figuring out ways to keep Australian dramas on the free-to-air broadcasters, according to Fiona Eagger.
Daniel Henshall, Sullivan Stapleton, Ling Cooper Tang and newcomers Lena Nankivell, Eaden McGuinness and Tatiana Goode are starring in A Sunburnt Christmas, a Stan Original film directed by Christiaan Van Vuuren.
In a major overhaul of the regulatory system, the Federal Government is scrapping the fixed quotas for local drama, children's programming and documentary and harmonising the film and TV Producer Offsets at 30 per cent.
Launched on July 30, Screen Australia's COVID-19 Budget Support Fund so far has supported 24 projects that are greenlit and ready to go into production within six months.
A second season of Northern Pictures/ABC's 'Love on the Spectrum' and a feature documentary for SBS that goes behind the frontlines of NSW's child protection system are among the 12 doc projects to recently share in $1.3 million of production funding via Screen Australia.
'MuM' follows Australian actress and filmmaker Tahyna MacManus on her four-year experience of pregnancy and miscarriage.
Stan and NBCUniversal Global Distribution have inked a multi-year, exclusive content partnership, which will see Stan become the local home for productions from Sky Studios, NBCUniversal International Studios, as well as Peacock Originals produced by Universal Studio Group and Dreamworks Animation TV.