For Brian Walsh, 2020 shapes as the most competitive year for the broadcast and streaming sector since the inception of television in Australia in 1956.
Carly Heaton has resigned from Foxtel to join Fremantle in the newly created role of creative director, scripted content.
Billy Bowring has joined See-Saw Films as development producer at its Australian division after four years at Fremantle.
Porchlight Films' 'Operation Buffalo', an espionage thriller set during the British nuclear tests in outback South Australia in the 1950s, will have its world premiere at Series Mania in France next month.
The coronavirus pandemic has forced the cancellation of the Series Mania international TV festival, which was due to unspool from March 20-28 in Lille in northern France.
Self-isolation is providing a fillip for Foxtel with a spike in viewers of its movie channels.
Following on from their collaboration on Foxtel/Sky UK's 'The End', writer and producer Samantha Strauss and See-Saw Films have formed a joint venture in production company Picking Scabs.
Belying fears that Foxtel would cut back on local commissions following the Federal Government's media reforms, the pay TV platform expects to have three Australian dramas in production next year.