Stan and the BBC have co-commissioned a six-part thriller from the producers of 'Fleabag', to be shot in South Australia with support from the SAFC.
For Australia's commercial free-to-air networks, arguably the biggest threat to losing eyeballs is not each other but the seemingly inexorable rise of streaming services led by Netflix, Stan, Disney+ and Amazon.
For Vicki Madden, Blake Ayshford, Glendyn Ivin and no doubt myriad other content creators, the challenge is to find unique Australian stories which resonate internationally and can cut through the worldwide glut of English-language drama.
Stan and Screen Queensland have put a call out for drama series pitches from Queensland-based writers and creative teams, as part of a joint development initiative.
Transmission Films launched Justin Kurzel's 'True History of the Kelly Gang' on 17 screens last Thursday, playing on limited sessions before the Australia Day premiere on Stan.
Stan has snapped up Everything’s Gonna Be Okay, Josh Thomas' 10 part US comedy commissioned by Disney’s young-adult US cable network Freeform.
People who are keen to see Justin Kurzel's 'True History of the Kelly Gang' in cinemas won't have many options - and they'll have to be quick.
Alice-Miranda is an extraordinary young girl, who at the age of nine and three quarters has organised her own early entry into boarding school along with her cheeky pony, Bonaparte. The Winchesterfield-Downsfordvale Girls Academy is a place of friendship and fun, but also of high drama, mystery and intrigue: there’s teachers and students in urgent need of help; a girl determined to be Alice-Miranda and her friends’ arch enemy; Fayle School for Boys under threat; a frightening principal who doesn’t want to be seen; and a scary witch in the woods.