Meg O’Connell.
Thanks to Screen Queensland’s Enterprise Funding, Meg O’Connell is adding two execs at her banner Unless Pictures to help drive her slate and grow the business.
One new hire is her frequent collaborator, producer Jackson Lapsley Scott. The other, yet to be chosen, will be a development producer.
The producer/creator/writer is teaming up again with writer Anna Barnes on vertical murder mystery series Apollo under the Snapchat and Screen Australia joint initiative.
O’Connell and Barnes were among the creatives behind the Ludo Studio/ABC iview comedy Content and the ABC’s Retrograde.
Set at an exclusive boarding school for children of the elite, Apollo will be a co-production between Unless Pictures and Kurt Royan and Dan Lake’s Orange Entertainment.
The plot revolves around the murder of the class president, which leads to a spate of killings. A student turned private detective investigates...
Thanks to Screen Queensland’s Enterprise Funding, Meg O’Connell is adding two execs at her banner Unless Pictures to help drive her slate and grow the business.
One new hire is her frequent collaborator, producer Jackson Lapsley Scott. The other, yet to be chosen, will be a development producer.
The producer/creator/writer is teaming up again with writer Anna Barnes on vertical murder mystery series Apollo under the Snapchat and Screen Australia joint initiative.
O’Connell and Barnes were among the creatives behind the Ludo Studio/ABC iview comedy Content and the ABC’s Retrograde.
Set at an exclusive boarding school for children of the elite, Apollo will be a co-production between Unless Pictures and Kurt Royan and Dan Lake’s Orange Entertainment.
The plot revolves around the murder of the class president, which leads to a spate of killings. A student turned private detective investigates...
- 8/31/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Pallavi Sharda, Ilai Swindells and Maria Angelico.
The ABC has ordered a six-part narrative comedy from Unless Pictures and Orange Entertainment centred on Covid-19 isolation, due to start filming – remotely – this month before airing in July.
Titled Retrograde, the series follows the lives of a group of 30-something friends, as they drown their sorrows at a ‘virtual bar’ during the pandemic. It will star Pallavi Sharda, Ilai Swindells, Maria Angelico, Esther Hannaford and Nick Boshier, with guest star Ronny Chieng.
The cast will film from their respective locations, activated by remote technical operators and working with an overarching technical director, as they record a group video chat that forms the central storyline. In addition to the main eps, there will be extended digital content to deepen audience engagement.
The full synopsis: “Gemma is about to embark on an exciting career in Korea when Covid-19 crashes her farewell party. Faster than...
The ABC has ordered a six-part narrative comedy from Unless Pictures and Orange Entertainment centred on Covid-19 isolation, due to start filming – remotely – this month before airing in July.
Titled Retrograde, the series follows the lives of a group of 30-something friends, as they drown their sorrows at a ‘virtual bar’ during the pandemic. It will star Pallavi Sharda, Ilai Swindells, Maria Angelico, Esther Hannaford and Nick Boshier, with guest star Ronny Chieng.
The cast will film from their respective locations, activated by remote technical operators and working with an overarching technical director, as they record a group video chat that forms the central storyline. In addition to the main eps, there will be extended digital content to deepen audience engagement.
The full synopsis: “Gemma is about to embark on an exciting career in Korea when Covid-19 crashes her farewell party. Faster than...
- 6/10/2020
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
“The Daily Show” correspondent Ronny Chieng was a young boy living in Singapore when “South Park” first debuted in 1997. The country had made headlines by banning the cartoon for being too crude — and that, of course, only made the budding comedian want to see the show even more.
“I was 10 years old and it made the news for being banned,” he said. “We only caught glimpses of it.”
But that also meant that Chieng didn’t get into “South Park” until college, when he fell hard for the show. “I watched one episode, and then started watching backwards. With ‘South Park,’ if you’ve never watched it before or have fallen off it, you reverse binge. Watching it backwards actually gives you an appreciate for how immediate it was.”
Chieng, most recently seen in this summer’s smash film “Crazy Rich Asians,” said he’s inspired by how “South Park” is written.
“I was 10 years old and it made the news for being banned,” he said. “We only caught glimpses of it.”
But that also meant that Chieng didn’t get into “South Park” until college, when he fell hard for the show. “I watched one episode, and then started watching backwards. With ‘South Park,’ if you’ve never watched it before or have fallen off it, you reverse binge. Watching it backwards actually gives you an appreciate for how immediate it was.”
Chieng, most recently seen in this summer’s smash film “Crazy Rich Asians,” said he’s inspired by how “South Park” is written.
- 9/24/2018
- by Michael Schneider
- Indiewire
Critically praised series Ronny Chieng: International Student is coming to the Comedy Central App. All seven episodes of the half-hour scripted series will be available for streaming Monday, August 13, as Comedy Central’s first-ever app exclusive series.
“We’re thrilled to expand our relationship with Ronny and give his fans here in the U.S. access to this truly binge-worthy series all at once,” said Tanya Giles, General Manager, Comedy Central. “We’ve been waiting for the right project to launch in its entirety as an app-exclusive and Ronny’s name-recognition combined with the habits of many Daily Show fans who stream it via the Comedy Central App, make this the perfect series to premiere on the platform.”
Ronny Chieng: International Student is loosely based on the Daily Show correspondent’s real life experience as a Chinese law student in Australia. Co-written by Chieng and Declan Fay, the series...
“We’re thrilled to expand our relationship with Ronny and give his fans here in the U.S. access to this truly binge-worthy series all at once,” said Tanya Giles, General Manager, Comedy Central. “We’ve been waiting for the right project to launch in its entirety as an app-exclusive and Ronny’s name-recognition combined with the habits of many Daily Show fans who stream it via the Comedy Central App, make this the perfect series to premiere on the platform.”
Ronny Chieng: International Student is loosely based on the Daily Show correspondent’s real life experience as a Chinese law student in Australia. Co-written by Chieng and Declan Fay, the series...
- 6/28/2018
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Hounds of Love..
In a David and Goliath battle, the screenplays for Ben Young.s debut feature Hounds of Love and Mel Gibson.s Hacksaw Ridge will compete for the original feature film prize at this year.s Awgie Awards.
That pits a low-budgeted film scripted by Young, which has grossed $125,000 in three weeks at six Australian cinemas, against the $US40 million WW2 drama written by Andrew Knight with Robert Schenkkan, which has amassed $US175.3 million worldwide.
There is only one nomination for the feature film adaptation category so the winner almost certainly will be Luke Davies for Lion, based on Saroo Brierley.s memoir.
The 50th Annual Awgie Awards presented by the Australian Writers. Guild will be handed out in Sydney on Friday August 25.
Individual category winners will be eligible for the Major Award, given to the most outstanding script of the year. Past winners have included the writers...
In a David and Goliath battle, the screenplays for Ben Young.s debut feature Hounds of Love and Mel Gibson.s Hacksaw Ridge will compete for the original feature film prize at this year.s Awgie Awards.
That pits a low-budgeted film scripted by Young, which has grossed $125,000 in three weeks at six Australian cinemas, against the $US40 million WW2 drama written by Andrew Knight with Robert Schenkkan, which has amassed $US175.3 million worldwide.
There is only one nomination for the feature film adaptation category so the winner almost certainly will be Luke Davies for Lion, based on Saroo Brierley.s memoir.
The 50th Annual Awgie Awards presented by the Australian Writers. Guild will be handed out in Sydney on Friday August 25.
Individual category winners will be eligible for the Major Award, given to the most outstanding script of the year. Past winners have included the writers...
- 6/20/2017
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Fancy Boy.
New six-part sketch comedy show.Fancy Boy.commences production in Melbourne this week.
The show stars John Campbell, Stuart Daulman, Greg Larsen, Henry Stone, Jonathan Schuster and Anne Edmonds.
.Fancy Boy made their name as a transgressive and weird live act, willing to go to places others wouldn.t", ABC.s Head of Entertainment Jon Casimir said.
"But what really marks their work is not just the boldness of their intent, it.s the heart and insight that underpins it. Fancy Boy sketches make you laugh but surprisingly, they also make you feel..
Evan Shapiro, the Executive Vice President at NBCUniversal.s Digital Enterprises and head of Us streaming comedy channel Sees, said that .The Fancy Boys are the freshest set of sketch voices I.ve seen in a long time - they are a whole new level of weird, even by Australian standards."
A December Media production...
New six-part sketch comedy show.Fancy Boy.commences production in Melbourne this week.
The show stars John Campbell, Stuart Daulman, Greg Larsen, Henry Stone, Jonathan Schuster and Anne Edmonds.
.Fancy Boy made their name as a transgressive and weird live act, willing to go to places others wouldn.t", ABC.s Head of Entertainment Jon Casimir said.
"But what really marks their work is not just the boldness of their intent, it.s the heart and insight that underpins it. Fancy Boy sketches make you laugh but surprisingly, they also make you feel..
Evan Shapiro, the Executive Vice President at NBCUniversal.s Digital Enterprises and head of Us streaming comedy channel Sees, said that .The Fancy Boys are the freshest set of sketch voices I.ve seen in a long time - they are a whole new level of weird, even by Australian standards."
A December Media production...
- 5/30/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Production has begun today on a new ABC sketch comedy series from comedian Sam Simmons, a former Triple J presenter and finalist of Edinburgh Comedy Festival’s top award in 2011.
Called Problems, there will be four initial episodes with the series slated for late 2012.
The production company behind the show is Guesswork Television, the production arm of Token Group, one of the main talent management firm for comedy in Australia.
Kevin Whyte, Ep for Problems and MD for Token Group, told Encore: “Each episode will have a story arc from Sam and built around that will be characters and sketches, some in Sam’s ‘world’ and others in a world of their own. It will be set in the suburbs but is not a riff on suburban life, Australia is the suburbs and their cream brick endlessness provide a great backdrop for our odd little world.”
Trent O’Donnell, a...
Called Problems, there will be four initial episodes with the series slated for late 2012.
The production company behind the show is Guesswork Television, the production arm of Token Group, one of the main talent management firm for comedy in Australia.
Kevin Whyte, Ep for Problems and MD for Token Group, told Encore: “Each episode will have a story arc from Sam and built around that will be characters and sketches, some in Sam’s ‘world’ and others in a world of their own. It will be set in the suburbs but is not a riff on suburban life, Australia is the suburbs and their cream brick endlessness provide a great backdrop for our odd little world.”
Trent O’Donnell, a...
- 9/30/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
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