Porchlight Films and Sweet Potato Films’ 'The Kettering Incident' was the top-selling adult TV drama supported by Screen Australia internationally in 2017, just ahead of two series of Every Cloud Productions’ 'Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries'.
'The Kettering Incident' took out Best Miniseries at Wednesday's AACTA awards, while star Elizabeth Debicki won Best Lead Actress in a TV Drama.
The Tasmania-shot Kettering was created by Vicki Madden and producer Vincent Sheehan, and will premiere on Prime September 30. Amazon nabbed the rights from BBC Worldwide North America.
Foxtel has promoted Penny Win to the new role of head of drama, a reward for her work in commissioning The Kettering Incident, Devil’s Playground and Deadline Gallipoli.
Elizabeth Debicki will play a doctor who is linked to the cases of two girls who mysteriously disappear in the wilds of Tasmania 15 years apart and fights to clear her name in The Kettering Incident.
Foxtel has announced it will progressively double its investment in Australian scripted, factual, lifestyle and entertainment programming by 2018, boosting funding to record levels.
Foxtel has revealed its 2016 slate, which includes a raft of new Australian commissions and programming across drama, lifestyle and factual.
As commissioning editor of Drama for Foxtel Networks, Penny Win developed hits like Wentworth, now Foxtel’s longest running drama. Elevated to Head of Drama in 2014, Win now oversees the entire slate, including this year’s much-hyped The Kettering Inc