Exclusive: Sundance Now has picked up the U.S. rights to Australian drama Bad Mothers starring Treadstone’s Tess Haubrich.
The AMC Networks-owned streaming service will launch the eight-part drama on May 7 after acquiring the rights from Red Arrow Studios International.
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The drama explores the underbelly of modern motherhood through the prism of four very different women as they juggle life’s big issues: love, family, careers, infidelity and murder.
Starring Haubrich, Mandy McElhinney (Love Child), Jessica Tovey (Wonderland), and Shalom Brune-Franklin (The Heart Guy), along with Daniel MacPherson (Strike Back) and Don Hany (East West 101) with guest star Golden Globe nominee Melissa George (The Good Wife...
The AMC Networks-owned streaming service will launch the eight-part drama on May 7 after acquiring the rights from Red Arrow Studios International.
More from DeadlineSundance Now Snaps Up Carrie-Anne Moss' Norwegian Detective Series 'Wisting' In Drama Deal With Banijay'a Discovery Of Witches': Female Creative Team Finds That It Takes A CovenAmanda Knox to Expand Podcasting Role With SundanceTV and Sundance Now - TCA
The drama explores the underbelly of modern motherhood through the prism of four very different women as they juggle life’s big issues: love, family, careers, infidelity and murder.
Starring Haubrich, Mandy McElhinney (Love Child), Jessica Tovey (Wonderland), and Shalom Brune-Franklin (The Heart Guy), along with Daniel MacPherson (Strike Back) and Don Hany (East West 101) with guest star Golden Globe nominee Melissa George (The Good Wife...
- 4/8/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Kris Mrksa.
Kris Mrksa loves writing Australian dramas but his primary focus now is creating projects for UK producers – and cracking the Us market.
The in-demand screenwriter has created two miniseries for the UK’s New Pictures and is developing two shows for the same producer and another for Lookout Point and Expanded Media.
After signing with ICM he is also looking at opportunities in the Us. “Nothing firm yet, but I have been talking to a few people and there are some interesting projects being discussed,” he tells If.
His first UK commission was Requiem, a six-part supernatural drama/thriller which starred Lydia Wilson as an accomplished cellist whose life is turned upside down after her mother’s suicide, produced by New Pictures for BBC One and Netflix.
New Pictures and ITV then commissioned him to create White House Farm, a crime drama based on the infamous case of Jeremy Bamber,...
Kris Mrksa loves writing Australian dramas but his primary focus now is creating projects for UK producers – and cracking the Us market.
The in-demand screenwriter has created two miniseries for the UK’s New Pictures and is developing two shows for the same producer and another for Lookout Point and Expanded Media.
After signing with ICM he is also looking at opportunities in the Us. “Nothing firm yet, but I have been talking to a few people and there are some interesting projects being discussed,” he tells If.
His first UK commission was Requiem, a six-part supernatural drama/thriller which starred Lydia Wilson as an accomplished cellist whose life is turned upside down after her mother’s suicide, produced by New Pictures for BBC One and Netflix.
New Pictures and ITV then commissioned him to create White House Farm, a crime drama based on the infamous case of Jeremy Bamber,...
- 8/27/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Richard Carter.
Australian film and television actor Richard Carter died last Saturday after a brief illness. He was 65.
Carter appeared in numerous TV series in the 1980s and 1990s including Wildside, Rafferty’s Rules, A Country Practice, Bangkok Hilton and Police Rescue.
His film credits included Bootmen, Gettin’ Square, The Man Who Sued God, voice roles in both editions of Happy Feet and The Great Gatsby.
Producer Trish Lake recalls Carter’s memorable line in Jonathan Teplitzky’s 2003 crime drama Gettin’ Square – “It’s un-Australian,” delivered in outraged tones to Timothy Spall when talking about the “super cops” and their coercive powers, observing, “He will be greatly missed and always remembered.”
He had regular roles as Mick Corella in Rake, Mick Deakin in East West 101 and Ted Hudson in White Collar Blue. In his final screen appearance he played the Bullet Farmer in Mad Max: Fury Road.
His agency...
Australian film and television actor Richard Carter died last Saturday after a brief illness. He was 65.
Carter appeared in numerous TV series in the 1980s and 1990s including Wildside, Rafferty’s Rules, A Country Practice, Bangkok Hilton and Police Rescue.
His film credits included Bootmen, Gettin’ Square, The Man Who Sued God, voice roles in both editions of Happy Feet and The Great Gatsby.
Producer Trish Lake recalls Carter’s memorable line in Jonathan Teplitzky’s 2003 crime drama Gettin’ Square – “It’s un-Australian,” delivered in outraged tones to Timothy Spall when talking about the “super cops” and their coercive powers, observing, “He will be greatly missed and always remembered.”
He had regular roles as Mick Corella in Rake, Mick Deakin in East West 101 and Ted Hudson in White Collar Blue. In his final screen appearance he played the Bullet Farmer in Mad Max: Fury Road.
His agency...
- 7/15/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Fayssal Bazzi. (Photo: Amelia J Dowd)
Actor Fayssal Bazzi’s father is Lebanese and his mother is Syrian, so for much of his career he was determined to avoid being typecast as Arabic characters, particularly criminals and terrorists.
After scoring the lead role in Mark Grentell’s comedy-drama The Merger, he has enjoyed a higher profile and portrayed a diverse range of characters.
“I just want to play characters whose ethnicity is incidental and I’ve been lucky to be able to do that in the past few years,” he tells If.
Earlier this year he played the son-in-law of Damon Herriman’s seedy night club owner in the second season of FX/Foxtel’s Mr Inbetween, created by and starring Scott Ryan and directed by Nash Edgerton. That was his second collaboration with Herriman following Abe Forsythe’s 2015 Cronulla race riot drama Down Under.
Currently he is in Adelaide shooting Stateless,...
Actor Fayssal Bazzi’s father is Lebanese and his mother is Syrian, so for much of his career he was determined to avoid being typecast as Arabic characters, particularly criminals and terrorists.
After scoring the lead role in Mark Grentell’s comedy-drama The Merger, he has enjoyed a higher profile and portrayed a diverse range of characters.
“I just want to play characters whose ethnicity is incidental and I’ve been lucky to be able to do that in the past few years,” he tells If.
Earlier this year he played the son-in-law of Damon Herriman’s seedy night club owner in the second season of FX/Foxtel’s Mr Inbetween, created by and starring Scott Ryan and directed by Nash Edgerton. That was his second collaboration with Herriman following Abe Forsythe’s 2015 Cronulla race riot drama Down Under.
Currently he is in Adelaide shooting Stateless,...
- 6/23/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Top (l-r) Sophie Hawkshaw, Zoe Terakes; Bottom (l-r) Rachel House, Marta Dusseldorp.
As a teenager Monica Zanetti searched in vain for gay rom-coms which she could watch with her mother, while Neil Armfield’s same-sex romantic drama Holding the Man was a major influence.
That has inspired the writer-director to make her feature directing debut on Ellie & Abbie (& Ellie’s Dead Aunt), which, unlike Armfield’s film has a happy ending.
Shooting in Sydney started today, starring Marta Dusseldorp, fellow Janet King alumni Julia Billington, Kiwi Rachel House, Zoe Terakes and newcomer Sophie Hawkshaw.
Zanetti adapted the screenplay from her eponymous play which was staged in 2017 at The Depot Theatre in Marrickville, her second feature credit after Jonnie Leahy’s 2014 drama Skip Deep.
Hawkshaw’s Ellie is 18 and struggling to find the courage to ask classmate Abbie (Terakes) to the formal. Luckily her aunt Tara (Billington), a lesbian who died in the 80s,...
As a teenager Monica Zanetti searched in vain for gay rom-coms which she could watch with her mother, while Neil Armfield’s same-sex romantic drama Holding the Man was a major influence.
That has inspired the writer-director to make her feature directing debut on Ellie & Abbie (& Ellie’s Dead Aunt), which, unlike Armfield’s film has a happy ending.
Shooting in Sydney started today, starring Marta Dusseldorp, fellow Janet King alumni Julia Billington, Kiwi Rachel House, Zoe Terakes and newcomer Sophie Hawkshaw.
Zanetti adapted the screenplay from her eponymous play which was staged in 2017 at The Depot Theatre in Marrickville, her second feature credit after Jonnie Leahy’s 2014 drama Skip Deep.
Hawkshaw’s Ellie is 18 and struggling to find the courage to ask classmate Abbie (Terakes) to the formal. Luckily her aunt Tara (Billington), a lesbian who died in the 80s,...
- 4/23/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Screenworks Composing Bootcamp mentors.
Screenworks is offering four emerging composers from regional areas of Nsw, Victoria and Queensland the chance to undertake a tailored mentoring program with some of Australia’s most accomplished screen composers.
The mentors for this year’s bootcamp, which has received additional support from Apra Amcos, include: Adam Gock, The D.A’s Office Bryony Marks, inSync Music, Rhonda Davidson-Irwin (outgoing CEO of Music Australia) and Guy Gross (Farscape, East West 101, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert).
Participants will also receive an all-expenses-paid trip to a metro centre so that the selected participants can shadow their mentor, meet composers and immerse themselves in the screen composing industry. In an effort from both Apra Amcos and Screenworks to address the gender imbalance in the Australian and New Zealand music industry, at least 50 per cent of selected participants will be female.
Screenworks CEO Ken Crouch...
Screenworks is offering four emerging composers from regional areas of Nsw, Victoria and Queensland the chance to undertake a tailored mentoring program with some of Australia’s most accomplished screen composers.
The mentors for this year’s bootcamp, which has received additional support from Apra Amcos, include: Adam Gock, The D.A’s Office Bryony Marks, inSync Music, Rhonda Davidson-Irwin (outgoing CEO of Music Australia) and Guy Gross (Farscape, East West 101, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert).
Participants will also receive an all-expenses-paid trip to a metro centre so that the selected participants can shadow their mentor, meet composers and immerse themselves in the screen composing industry. In an effort from both Apra Amcos and Screenworks to address the gender imbalance in the Australian and New Zealand music industry, at least 50 per cent of selected participants will be female.
Screenworks CEO Ken Crouch...
- 2/19/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Acorn TV is going global. The Svod service is launching in thirty new countries including Australia and India.
The service launched in the U.S. and Canada in 2011 before rolling out to twelve Latin American countries in 2018, will now be available across Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, India, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Venezuela, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Bahamas, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados, Grenada, St. Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica, Antigua, Barbuda and Belize.
Available for $4.99 per month, the service is launching with a raft of UK titles including Martin Clunes’ Doc Martin, Daniel Craig’s Sword of Honour, The Bletchley Circle, Lynda La Plante’s The Commander and Above Suspicion, The Secret Agent, Traffik, Benedict Cumberbatch’s The Last Enemy as well as Irish drama Jack Taylor, Australian cop drama East West 101 and documentaries including Britain...
The service launched in the U.S. and Canada in 2011 before rolling out to twelve Latin American countries in 2018, will now be available across Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, India, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Venezuela, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Bahamas, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados, Grenada, St. Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica, Antigua, Barbuda and Belize.
Available for $4.99 per month, the service is launching with a raft of UK titles including Martin Clunes’ Doc Martin, Daniel Craig’s Sword of Honour, The Bletchley Circle, Lynda La Plante’s The Commander and Above Suspicion, The Secret Agent, Traffik, Benedict Cumberbatch’s The Last Enemy as well as Irish drama Jack Taylor, Australian cop drama East West 101 and documentaries including Britain...
- 12/11/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Shane Jacobson in 'Kenny', written and directed by brother Clayton. The two will join forces again on 'Sibling Rivalry'.
The brothers behind Kenny,.Shane and Clayton Jacobson, are set to reunite for a new film, black comedy Sibling Rivalry..
The feature is one of four film projects and seven television dramas supported by Screen Australia in its latest $8.8 million funding round..
The pair will co-star in the film, which revolves around two brothers who, with their mother at death.s door, go to extreme lengths to protect their inheritance.
Clayton will direct the film and produce along with Jason Byrne (Sucker, How to Talk Australians). The script has been penned by Jamie Browne (The Mule, Secret Daughter, Please Like Me), with Tait Brady (The BBQ, Little Acorns, Healing) and Julia Adams (Mako Mermaids,The Day My Butt Went Psycho) executive producing..
Among the other projects funded...
The brothers behind Kenny,.Shane and Clayton Jacobson, are set to reunite for a new film, black comedy Sibling Rivalry..
The feature is one of four film projects and seven television dramas supported by Screen Australia in its latest $8.8 million funding round..
The pair will co-star in the film, which revolves around two brothers who, with their mother at death.s door, go to extreme lengths to protect their inheritance.
Clayton will direct the film and produce along with Jason Byrne (Sucker, How to Talk Australians). The script has been penned by Jamie Browne (The Mule, Secret Daughter, Please Like Me), with Tait Brady (The BBQ, Little Acorns, Healing) and Julia Adams (Mako Mermaids,The Day My Butt Went Psycho) executive producing..
Among the other projects funded...
- 5/11/2017
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Kris Mrksa.
Filming has begun in Wales on Requiem, a 6x60' drama created and written by Aussie writer Kris Mrksa, commissioned by BBC One and co-produced by Netflix.
In 1994 a toddler disappears from a small Welsh town, never to be seen again. Twenty-three years later, talented young cellist Matilda, played by Lydia Wilson (Star Trek Beyond, About Time), has her life turned upside down by her mother.s inexplicable suicide..
In the wake of the tragedy Matilda begins to question everything she thought she knew about herself, embarking on a quest that leads her to that same Welsh village, where the secrets she uncovers threaten to unravel her very identity.
Also in the cast is Animal Kingdom.s James Frecheville, playing an Australian who arrives in town and may not be all that he seems.
This is the first show Mrksa, whose credits include East West 101, Underbelly, Devil.s Dust and Janet King,...
Filming has begun in Wales on Requiem, a 6x60' drama created and written by Aussie writer Kris Mrksa, commissioned by BBC One and co-produced by Netflix.
In 1994 a toddler disappears from a small Welsh town, never to be seen again. Twenty-three years later, talented young cellist Matilda, played by Lydia Wilson (Star Trek Beyond, About Time), has her life turned upside down by her mother.s inexplicable suicide..
In the wake of the tragedy Matilda begins to question everything she thought she knew about herself, embarking on a quest that leads her to that same Welsh village, where the secrets she uncovers threaten to unravel her very identity.
Also in the cast is Animal Kingdom.s James Frecheville, playing an Australian who arrives in town and may not be all that he seems.
This is the first show Mrksa, whose credits include East West 101, Underbelly, Devil.s Dust and Janet King,...
- 4/3/2017
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Hyde & Seek.
Hyde & Seek will premiere on Nine October 3, the same airdate as Seven's new series The Secret Daughter. Matt Nable (Hacksaw Ridge, Arrow, Gallipoli) plays Gary Hyde, a detective hunting the killer of his best mate and partner. . Together with his new partner Claire McKenzie (Emma Hamilton, The Tudors, Mary: The Making of a Princess), Afp boss Jackie Walters (Mandy McElhinney, House of Hancock, Love Child) and Asio chiefs (Jindabyne's Deborra-lee Furness and Puberty Blues' Jeremy Lindsay Taylor, Gary uncovers a criminal underbelly of murder and fraud as he's thrust into the secretive world of homeland security. . The show also stars Zoe Ventoura (Packed to the Rafters), Tai Hara (Home and Away), Claire Lovering (San Andreas), Andrew McFarlane (Devil.s Playground, Love Child), and Aaron Fa.oso (East West 101). In a statement, Nine.s heads of drama Andy Ryan and Jo Rooney said they were thrilled...
Hyde & Seek will premiere on Nine October 3, the same airdate as Seven's new series The Secret Daughter. Matt Nable (Hacksaw Ridge, Arrow, Gallipoli) plays Gary Hyde, a detective hunting the killer of his best mate and partner. . Together with his new partner Claire McKenzie (Emma Hamilton, The Tudors, Mary: The Making of a Princess), Afp boss Jackie Walters (Mandy McElhinney, House of Hancock, Love Child) and Asio chiefs (Jindabyne's Deborra-lee Furness and Puberty Blues' Jeremy Lindsay Taylor, Gary uncovers a criminal underbelly of murder and fraud as he's thrust into the secretive world of homeland security. . The show also stars Zoe Ventoura (Packed to the Rafters), Tai Hara (Home and Away), Claire Lovering (San Andreas), Andrew McFarlane (Devil.s Playground, Love Child), and Aaron Fa.oso (East West 101). In a statement, Nine.s heads of drama Andy Ryan and Jo Rooney said they were thrilled...
- 9/20/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Noah Taylor and Yael Stone (and soundie) on set. (Photo: Sean O'Reilly)
An old shed on Glebe Island wharf, littered with boat-building machinery and tools, sets the tone for one of the dramatic final scenes of Sbs.s new four-part series, Deep Water, starring Noah Taylor and Yael Stone..
Stone and Taylor play detectives investigating a brutal murder case which appears to be connected to the real-life gay hate crimes that swept through Sydney in the .80s and .90s.
But it was a more recent murder which spurred Blackfella Films. producers Darren Dale and Miranda Dear to get the series moving.
Dear and Dale, coincidentally were both in Potts Point, Sydney, when a particularly violent murder took place.
.He [Darren] was leaving and I was heading in and we both saw fire engines, ambulances, police cars and Darren stopped at the Atm near the building and heard from residents what had happened,...
An old shed on Glebe Island wharf, littered with boat-building machinery and tools, sets the tone for one of the dramatic final scenes of Sbs.s new four-part series, Deep Water, starring Noah Taylor and Yael Stone..
Stone and Taylor play detectives investigating a brutal murder case which appears to be connected to the real-life gay hate crimes that swept through Sydney in the .80s and .90s.
But it was a more recent murder which spurred Blackfella Films. producers Darren Dale and Miranda Dear to get the series moving.
Dear and Dale, coincidentally were both in Potts Point, Sydney, when a particularly violent murder took place.
.He [Darren] was leaving and I was heading in and we both saw fire engines, ambulances, police cars and Darren stopped at the Atm near the building and heard from residents what had happened,...
- 8/31/2016
- by Brian Karlovsky
- IF.com.au
Matt Nable.
Matt Nable (Fell, Hacksaw Ridge, Arrow), Deborra-lee Furness (Correlli, Jindabyne), Mandy McElhinney (House of Hancock, Love Child), Emma Hamilton (The Tudors, Mary: The Making of a Princess) and Zoe Ventoura (Packed to the Rafters) are set to star in Hyde and Seek, a new series from Nine.
The series revolves around Detective Gary Hyde (Nable), whose best friend is killed in a seemingly random attack.
Together with his new partner Claire McKenzie (Hamilton), Hyde uncovers a criminal conspiracy that will threaten his life and endanger his young family.
Also joining the cast are Tai Hara (Home and Away), Claire Lovering (San Andreas), Andrew McFarlane (Devil.s Playground, Love Child), Aaron Fa.aoso (East West 101) and Stephanie Panozzo.
Hyde and Seek is being made for the Nine by Matchbox Pictures and distributed by NBCU..
Executive producers are Jo Rooney and Andy Ryan from the Nine Network and Debbie Lee (Glitch,...
Matt Nable (Fell, Hacksaw Ridge, Arrow), Deborra-lee Furness (Correlli, Jindabyne), Mandy McElhinney (House of Hancock, Love Child), Emma Hamilton (The Tudors, Mary: The Making of a Princess) and Zoe Ventoura (Packed to the Rafters) are set to star in Hyde and Seek, a new series from Nine.
The series revolves around Detective Gary Hyde (Nable), whose best friend is killed in a seemingly random attack.
Together with his new partner Claire McKenzie (Hamilton), Hyde uncovers a criminal conspiracy that will threaten his life and endanger his young family.
Also joining the cast are Tai Hara (Home and Away), Claire Lovering (San Andreas), Andrew McFarlane (Devil.s Playground, Love Child), Aaron Fa.aoso (East West 101) and Stephanie Panozzo.
Hyde and Seek is being made for the Nine by Matchbox Pictures and distributed by NBCU..
Executive producers are Jo Rooney and Andy Ryan from the Nine Network and Debbie Lee (Glitch,...
- 4/14/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Kerrie Mainwaring.
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Screentime, a Banijay Group company, has appointed producer Kerrie Mainwaring as head of production - scripted.
Mainwaring has produced projects including Peter Allen: Not The Boy Next Door, Catching Milat, Inxs: Never Tear Us Apart as well as new production.Brock..
Previously head of production - drama for Southern Star, Mainwaring's other credits include Paper Giants: Magazine Wars, Howzat: Kerry Packer.s War, Puberty Blues and Wild Boys - as well as having line produced Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo and Rescue Special Ops. .Her earlier credits include East West 101, Spirited and the first series of Rake.
.Working alongside head of drama, Greg Haddrick, and reporting to chief executive, Rory Callaghan, Mainwaring will be responsible for the management of the company.s drama slate including budgeting and reporting.
..I am delighted to be joining the team at Screentime, and to be continuing the collaboration with Rory Callaghan,...
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Screentime, a Banijay Group company, has appointed producer Kerrie Mainwaring as head of production - scripted.
Mainwaring has produced projects including Peter Allen: Not The Boy Next Door, Catching Milat, Inxs: Never Tear Us Apart as well as new production.Brock..
Previously head of production - drama for Southern Star, Mainwaring's other credits include Paper Giants: Magazine Wars, Howzat: Kerry Packer.s War, Puberty Blues and Wild Boys - as well as having line produced Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo and Rescue Special Ops. .Her earlier credits include East West 101, Spirited and the first series of Rake.
.Working alongside head of drama, Greg Haddrick, and reporting to chief executive, Rory Callaghan, Mainwaring will be responsible for the management of the company.s drama slate including budgeting and reporting.
..I am delighted to be joining the team at Screentime, and to be continuing the collaboration with Rory Callaghan,...
- 4/8/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Noah Taylor in the Spierig Bros' Predestination.
Noah Taylor and Orange is the New Black's Yael Stone will star in Sbs.s new four-part crime drama series, Deep Water, produced by Blackfella Films.
Joining them in the crime thriller are Stone's husband Dan Spielman (The Code, Accidental Soldier, Offspring), William McInnes (The Time of Our Lives, The Slap), Danielle Cormack (Wentworth, Rake, Miss Fisher.s Murder Mysteries), Craig McLachlan (The Doctor Blake Mysteries), Ben Oxenbould (The Kettering Incident, Old School, Rake), Simon Burke (Devil.s Playground), John Brumpton (Catching Milat, Miss Fisher.s Murder Mysteries) and others..
Sbs are billing Deep Water as its first "cross-genre, cross-platform event which will include a four-part drama series, a feature documentary and unique online web series and content".
The series is executive produced by Sbs.s Sue Masters, produced by Blackfella Films. Miranda Dear and Darren Dale and written by Kris Wyld...
Noah Taylor and Orange is the New Black's Yael Stone will star in Sbs.s new four-part crime drama series, Deep Water, produced by Blackfella Films.
Joining them in the crime thriller are Stone's husband Dan Spielman (The Code, Accidental Soldier, Offspring), William McInnes (The Time of Our Lives, The Slap), Danielle Cormack (Wentworth, Rake, Miss Fisher.s Murder Mysteries), Craig McLachlan (The Doctor Blake Mysteries), Ben Oxenbould (The Kettering Incident, Old School, Rake), Simon Burke (Devil.s Playground), John Brumpton (Catching Milat, Miss Fisher.s Murder Mysteries) and others..
Sbs are billing Deep Water as its first "cross-genre, cross-platform event which will include a four-part drama series, a feature documentary and unique online web series and content".
The series is executive produced by Sbs.s Sue Masters, produced by Blackfella Films. Miranda Dear and Darren Dale and written by Kris Wyld...
- 3/21/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Richard Brancatisano.and.Andrea Demetriades
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Director Peter Andrikidis was bowled over by the audience reactions to his romantic comedy Alex & Eve when it screened at the Greek Film Festival at Palace.s Norton Street Leichhardt cinemas on Sunday.
It was the first time he.d seen the film with a paid audience and he marvelled at their rollercoaster of emotions, from laughter to tears to laughter.
After several decades in the business Andrikidis knows not to get carried away - festival patrons don.t always reflect mainstream tastes - but the omens are favourable in the lead up to the opening this Thursday. After all, Oddball shows broad. Aussie comedies can resonate effectively.. .
.I am optimistic but you never know,. says the director, acknowledging that some of what he regarded as his best TV works did not succeed while programs he was less happy with did so.
Exhibitors are supporting...
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Director Peter Andrikidis was bowled over by the audience reactions to his romantic comedy Alex & Eve when it screened at the Greek Film Festival at Palace.s Norton Street Leichhardt cinemas on Sunday.
It was the first time he.d seen the film with a paid audience and he marvelled at their rollercoaster of emotions, from laughter to tears to laughter.
After several decades in the business Andrikidis knows not to get carried away - festival patrons don.t always reflect mainstream tastes - but the omens are favourable in the lead up to the opening this Thursday. After all, Oddball shows broad. Aussie comedies can resonate effectively.. .
.I am optimistic but you never know,. says the director, acknowledging that some of what he regarded as his best TV works did not succeed while programs he was less happy with did so.
Exhibitors are supporting...
- 10/20/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Veteran writer and executive producer David Ogilvy has been appointed head of Beyond.s new scripted drama division, marking the company's return to the genre after 11 years.
The former ABC executive will develop scripted content across a broad range of genres for local and international markets, working with emerging and established writing, directing and producing talent.
Beyond's last drama series was Stingers, which wrapped production in 2004 after eight seasons on the Nine Network.
Ogilvy joins from ABC TV where he was commissioning editor of fiction since 2012. His credits as Ep at the ABC include The Code, Rake, Anzac Girls, Janet King, Hiding, Mabo, An Accidental Soldier, Paper Giants: Magazine Wars and The Straits.
Previously he worked as a writer and script producer on a broad range of adult and children.s drama.. His writing credits include East West 101, The Strip, Young Lions, Lockie Leonard, Dance Academy, Outriders, Blue Water High and Escape from Jupiter.
The former ABC executive will develop scripted content across a broad range of genres for local and international markets, working with emerging and established writing, directing and producing talent.
Beyond's last drama series was Stingers, which wrapped production in 2004 after eight seasons on the Nine Network.
Ogilvy joins from ABC TV where he was commissioning editor of fiction since 2012. His credits as Ep at the ABC include The Code, Rake, Anzac Girls, Janet King, Hiding, Mabo, An Accidental Soldier, Paper Giants: Magazine Wars and The Straits.
Previously he worked as a writer and script producer on a broad range of adult and children.s drama.. His writing credits include East West 101, The Strip, Young Lions, Lockie Leonard, Dance Academy, Outriders, Blue Water High and Escape from Jupiter.
- 10/14/2015
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
One of Australia.s most experienced screenwriters has criticised sexism in casting which she says discriminates against women who aren.t deemed attractive and those from ethnic backgrounds.
Kristen Dunphy says this bias in casting often works against the stereotypes which writers are striving to avoid.
A screenwriter for 20 years, her extensive credits include Essential Media and Entertainment.s upcoming Sbs drama The Principal, Blackfella Films and Werner Film Productions. ABC3 indigenous teen drama Ready for This, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, The Straits, East West 101, Wildside, Heartbreak High and G.P.
.Talented actresses who are overweight, unattractive, unusual looking or just plain ordinary are still rarely cast, unless the show.s a comedy,. she writes in the latest edition of Aftrs. Lumina, which is dedicated to gender equality in the screen industry.
.It seems there is no such thing as a vital female who is not also young, thin and beautiful.
Kristen Dunphy says this bias in casting often works against the stereotypes which writers are striving to avoid.
A screenwriter for 20 years, her extensive credits include Essential Media and Entertainment.s upcoming Sbs drama The Principal, Blackfella Films and Werner Film Productions. ABC3 indigenous teen drama Ready for This, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, The Straits, East West 101, Wildside, Heartbreak High and G.P.
.Talented actresses who are overweight, unattractive, unusual looking or just plain ordinary are still rarely cast, unless the show.s a comedy,. she writes in the latest edition of Aftrs. Lumina, which is dedicated to gender equality in the screen industry.
.It seems there is no such thing as a vital female who is not also young, thin and beautiful.
- 6/2/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Us studios have bought the format rights to Offspring, Fat Cow Motel and East West 101. Word of the deals emerged today during panel sessions at Spa.s Screen Forever conference. Endemol Worldwide Distribution has sold Offspring to Us producer Mandeville Television, which has done a script deal with the ABC network. Mandeville Television president Laurie Zaks told If that if the show gets the go-ahead it will be produced by herself and Mandeville principals David Hoberman and Todd Leiberman. She said she hoped the show.s creators, John Edwards and Imogen Banks, will be involved in the Us remake. During a panel on Selling Formats to the Us, Hoodlum Entertainment.s Tracey Robertson said a format deal for mystery Fat Cow Motel has been signed with the ABC network, negotiated by her Us agent ICM. In turn she said ABC has funnelled the project to ABC Studios and a writer has been attached.
- 11/18/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Australian actor Matt Nable has scored the role of the super villain Ra's Al Ghul in the upcoming third season of The CW's "Arrow".
Ra's is the leader of the League of Assassins, and father of Nyssa al Ghul (Katrina Law). He's also a ruthless strategist, a master of martial arts, and a shaper of history.
Nable will make his debut in the season's fourth episode "The Magician". He's best known for his work as Boss Johns in "Riddick" and Pennock in "Killer Elite," and on acclaimed Australian TV series "Underbelly" and "East West 101".
At the same time, a new 90-second promo for the upcoming third season has gone online, check it out below:
Source: Deadline...
Ra's is the leader of the League of Assassins, and father of Nyssa al Ghul (Katrina Law). He's also a ruthless strategist, a master of martial arts, and a shaper of history.
Nable will make his debut in the season's fourth episode "The Magician". He's best known for his work as Boss Johns in "Riddick" and Pennock in "Killer Elite," and on acclaimed Australian TV series "Underbelly" and "East West 101".
At the same time, a new 90-second promo for the upcoming third season has gone online, check it out below:
Source: Deadline...
- 9/4/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Pioneering New Zealand TV producer Caterina de Nave, who was Sbs.s Commissioning Editor for Drama, Comedy and Entertainment from 2009 until. her retirement earlier this year, died in Sydney on Sunday, aged 67.
She had leukemia. At Sbs her commissions ranged from dramas Better Man and East West 101 to the award-winning comedy Housos.
She began her TV career in Auckland in the early 70s, initially as a script editor on Play School. She was the first female to be appointed Head of Entertainment at Tvnz..
She then became Head of Development at South Pacific Pictures, the then in-house subsidiary of Tvnz , where she helped to develop, create and produce Shortland Street, the first Kiwi drama series to screen five nights a week.
In 2000 she joined TV3 as Head of Drama and Comedy, where she commissioned strip club series The Strip, Outrageous Fortune and bro'Town and executive produced the comedies The...
She had leukemia. At Sbs her commissions ranged from dramas Better Man and East West 101 to the award-winning comedy Housos.
She began her TV career in Auckland in the early 70s, initially as a script editor on Play School. She was the first female to be appointed Head of Entertainment at Tvnz..
She then became Head of Development at South Pacific Pictures, the then in-house subsidiary of Tvnz , where she helped to develop, create and produce Shortland Street, the first Kiwi drama series to screen five nights a week.
In 2000 she joined TV3 as Head of Drama and Comedy, where she commissioned strip club series The Strip, Outrageous Fortune and bro'Town and executive produced the comedies The...
- 8/18/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Sbs is relaunching Sbs 2 in April as a youth-oriented, multi-platform channel.
It is the first rebrand since the channel (then called Sbs Two) was launched in June 2009. Working under severe budget-constraints, it broadcast (and re-broadcast) a similar mix of main channel content including world film, drama, documentaries, international news and sport. However, Sbs finally received a major funding boost from the government in 2012 allowing chief executive Michael Ebeid to begin a process to revitalise the public broadcaster..
Sbs 2 now plans to focus on audiences aged 16-39 with a passion for emerging cultural ideas and experiences. Its content will include the channel.s first commissioned program - a 15-minute daily news and current affairs program - and dedicated sport programming.
It will also launch "Back 2 Back" episode viewing - where viewers get to watch an entire series of selected new programs via Sbs On Demand before broadcast on Sbs 2.
.We know...
It is the first rebrand since the channel (then called Sbs Two) was launched in June 2009. Working under severe budget-constraints, it broadcast (and re-broadcast) a similar mix of main channel content including world film, drama, documentaries, international news and sport. However, Sbs finally received a major funding boost from the government in 2012 allowing chief executive Michael Ebeid to begin a process to revitalise the public broadcaster..
Sbs 2 now plans to focus on audiences aged 16-39 with a passion for emerging cultural ideas and experiences. Its content will include the channel.s first commissioned program - a 15-minute daily news and current affairs program - and dedicated sport programming.
It will also launch "Back 2 Back" episode viewing - where viewers get to watch an entire series of selected new programs via Sbs On Demand before broadcast on Sbs 2.
.We know...
- 2/19/2013
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
The second series of ABC1.s Miss Fisher.s Murder Mysteries begins shooting in Melbourne this week.
The 13-part series stars Essie Davis (The Slap, cloudstreet) as detective Phryne Fisher alongside Ashleigh Cummings (Puberty Blues, Dance Academy), Nathan Page (Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo, Redfern Now), Hugo Johnstone-Burt (Rake, cloudstreet), Miriam Margolyes (Harry Potter The Chamber of Secrets), Tammy MacIntosh (Crownies, East West 101), Travis McMahon (Howzat! Kerry Packer.s War), Anthony Sharpe (City Homicide), and Richard Bligh (The Mystery of a Hansom Cab).
Davis'.performance in the first series was recently recognised with an Aacta.nomination for Best Lead Actress in a Television Drama.
The second series of Miss Fisher.s Murder Mysteries is based on a number of Kerry Greenwood.s Phryne stories: the Dead Man.s Chest and.Unnatural Habits novels, and various short stories; as well as new crimes from the creators of series one.
The 13-part series stars Essie Davis (The Slap, cloudstreet) as detective Phryne Fisher alongside Ashleigh Cummings (Puberty Blues, Dance Academy), Nathan Page (Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo, Redfern Now), Hugo Johnstone-Burt (Rake, cloudstreet), Miriam Margolyes (Harry Potter The Chamber of Secrets), Tammy MacIntosh (Crownies, East West 101), Travis McMahon (Howzat! Kerry Packer.s War), Anthony Sharpe (City Homicide), and Richard Bligh (The Mystery of a Hansom Cab).
Davis'.performance in the first series was recently recognised with an Aacta.nomination for Best Lead Actress in a Television Drama.
The second series of Miss Fisher.s Murder Mysteries is based on a number of Kerry Greenwood.s Phryne stories: the Dead Man.s Chest and.Unnatural Habits novels, and various short stories; as well as new crimes from the creators of series one.
- 2/17/2013
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
The second series of ABC1.s Miss Fisher.s Murder Mysteries begins shooting in Melbourne this week.
The 13-part series stars Essie Davis (The Slap, cloudstreet) as detective Phryne Fisher alongside Ashleigh Cummings (Puberty Blues, Dance Academy), Nathan Page (Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo, Redfern Now), Hugo Johnstone-Burt (Rake, cloudstreet), Miriam Margolyes (Harry Potter The Chamber of Secrets), Tammy MacIntosh (Crownies, East West 101), Travis McMahon (Howzat! Kerry Packer.s War), Anthony Sharpe (City Homicide), and Richard Bligh (The Mystery of a Hansom Cab).
Davis'.performance in the first series was recently recognised with an Aacta.nomination for Best Lead Actress in a Television Drama.
The second series of Miss Fisher.s Murder Mysteries is based on a number of Kerry Greenwood.s Phryne stories: the Dead Man.s Chest and.Unnatural Habits novels, and various short stories; as well as new crimes from the creators of series one.
The 13-part series stars Essie Davis (The Slap, cloudstreet) as detective Phryne Fisher alongside Ashleigh Cummings (Puberty Blues, Dance Academy), Nathan Page (Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo, Redfern Now), Hugo Johnstone-Burt (Rake, cloudstreet), Miriam Margolyes (Harry Potter The Chamber of Secrets), Tammy MacIntosh (Crownies, East West 101), Travis McMahon (Howzat! Kerry Packer.s War), Anthony Sharpe (City Homicide), and Richard Bligh (The Mystery of a Hansom Cab).
Davis'.performance in the first series was recently recognised with an Aacta.nomination for Best Lead Actress in a Television Drama.
The second series of Miss Fisher.s Murder Mysteries is based on a number of Kerry Greenwood.s Phryne stories: the Dead Man.s Chest and.Unnatural Habits novels, and various short stories; as well as new crimes from the creators of series one.
- 2/17/2013
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
Wentworth, the new drama based on iconic Australian TV series Prisoner, starts production in Melbourne next week.
The 10-part series will be filmed on a purpose-built women.s prison, the Wentworth Detention Centre, where inmates and corrections staff will be forced to forge unlikely friendships to survive on the inside.
The cast includes Danielle Cormack (Underbelly Razor, Rake) as Wentworth.s latest arrival, suburban wife and mum Bea Smith; Nicole Da Silva (Rush, East West 101) as Gen Y lesbian Franky Doyle; Celia Ireland (Laid, All Saints) as earthy Liz Birdsworth; and Shareena Clanton as young Aboriginal woman Doreen Anderson.
Catherine McClements (Rush, Water Rats) and Kate Atkinson (Offspring, Rush) play Governor Meg Jackson and her deputy Vera Bennett. Aaron Jeffery (Underbelly Badness, McLeod.s Daughters) and Robbie Magasiva (Shortland Street) are corrections officers Matthew .Fletch. Fletcher and Will Jackson. Leeanna Walsman (Underbelly Badness) plays progressive and crusading lawyer Erica Davidson.
The 10-part series will be filmed on a purpose-built women.s prison, the Wentworth Detention Centre, where inmates and corrections staff will be forced to forge unlikely friendships to survive on the inside.
The cast includes Danielle Cormack (Underbelly Razor, Rake) as Wentworth.s latest arrival, suburban wife and mum Bea Smith; Nicole Da Silva (Rush, East West 101) as Gen Y lesbian Franky Doyle; Celia Ireland (Laid, All Saints) as earthy Liz Birdsworth; and Shareena Clanton as young Aboriginal woman Doreen Anderson.
Catherine McClements (Rush, Water Rats) and Kate Atkinson (Offspring, Rush) play Governor Meg Jackson and her deputy Vera Bennett. Aaron Jeffery (Underbelly Badness, McLeod.s Daughters) and Robbie Magasiva (Shortland Street) are corrections officers Matthew .Fletch. Fletcher and Will Jackson. Leeanna Walsman (Underbelly Badness) plays progressive and crusading lawyer Erica Davidson.
- 10/3/2012
- by Staff reporter
- IF.com.au
The Australian Guild of Screen Composers has elected Guy Gross as President. Gross’s on screen composition and scoring credits include East West 101, Farscape and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Gross replaces outgoing president Clive Harrison.
The announcement:
The Australian Guild of Screen Composers is pleased to advise Guy Gross has been elected President of the Agsc, succeeding Clive Harrison on his retirement as Agsc President.
Guy Gross has been an active member of the Agsc since its inception and was Vice-President since 2008. He has been instrumental in many Agsc initiatives, most recently as a member of both the Agsc Rates and the Contracts Committee.
He has actively lobbied for screen composers and last month Guy addressed members of Federal Parliament as a Speaker at the launch of the PwC report on The Economic Contribution of Australia’s Copyright Industries for the Australian Copyright Council.
“Due...
The announcement:
The Australian Guild of Screen Composers is pleased to advise Guy Gross has been elected President of the Agsc, succeeding Clive Harrison on his retirement as Agsc President.
Guy Gross has been an active member of the Agsc since its inception and was Vice-President since 2008. He has been instrumental in many Agsc initiatives, most recently as a member of both the Agsc Rates and the Contracts Committee.
He has actively lobbied for screen composers and last month Guy addressed members of Federal Parliament as a Speaker at the launch of the PwC report on The Economic Contribution of Australia’s Copyright Industries for the Australian Copyright Council.
“Due...
- 9/27/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
The pay-tv industry.s lobby group offered every federal Member of Parliament free Foxtel packages worth almost $200,000 last year.
A joint effort by Fairfax newspapers and journalism students at the University of Technology Sydney culminated in a digital database detailing the perks received by members of Parliament. The list, made available on the Sydney Morning Herald website, reveals strong links with the screen industry, where everything from free DVDs to glamorous celebrity dinners to overseas trips worth thousands of dollars was claimed by MPs dating back to the 2010 election.
The most common gift or service offered to MPs from the screen industry was free Foxtel subscriptions provided by the Australian Subscription Television and Radio Association (Astra).
The association said the service .is provided to ensure MPs have an understanding of the breadth and diversity of channels available on subscription television. The offer is made directly to Federal members advising that...
A joint effort by Fairfax newspapers and journalism students at the University of Technology Sydney culminated in a digital database detailing the perks received by members of Parliament. The list, made available on the Sydney Morning Herald website, reveals strong links with the screen industry, where everything from free DVDs to glamorous celebrity dinners to overseas trips worth thousands of dollars was claimed by MPs dating back to the 2010 election.
The most common gift or service offered to MPs from the screen industry was free Foxtel subscriptions provided by the Australian Subscription Television and Radio Association (Astra).
The association said the service .is provided to ensure MPs have an understanding of the breadth and diversity of channels available on subscription television. The offer is made directly to Federal members advising that...
- 9/11/2012
- by Anthony Soegito
- IF.com.au
The ABC and HBO Asia have collaborated on a new series Serangoon Road to feature a string of Australian actors Don Hany, Maeve Dermody, Rachael Blake and Michael Dorman.
The series is created by Paul Barron and his Peter Andrikidis and Tony Tilse will direct the 10×1 hour series produced by Great Western Entertainment and Singapore’s Infinite Studios.
As well as the ABC and HBO Asia, ScreenWest and international distributors Conten Media Corporation are finance partners.
Cameras have begun to roll in Singapore.
The announcement:
In a major collaboration between ABC TV and HBO Asia the cameras are currently rolling in Singapore on Serangoon Road, an Australia/Singapore prime-time drama co-production.
The co-production companies participating in this 10 x 1hr series are Perth’s Great Western Entertainment and Singapore’s Infinite Studios. The financing partners include ScreenWest, ABC TV and ABC Commercial, HBO Asia and international distributors Content Media Corporation.
Serangoon...
The series is created by Paul Barron and his Peter Andrikidis and Tony Tilse will direct the 10×1 hour series produced by Great Western Entertainment and Singapore’s Infinite Studios.
As well as the ABC and HBO Asia, ScreenWest and international distributors Conten Media Corporation are finance partners.
Cameras have begun to roll in Singapore.
The announcement:
In a major collaboration between ABC TV and HBO Asia the cameras are currently rolling in Singapore on Serangoon Road, an Australia/Singapore prime-time drama co-production.
The co-production companies participating in this 10 x 1hr series are Perth’s Great Western Entertainment and Singapore’s Infinite Studios. The financing partners include ScreenWest, ABC TV and ABC Commercial, HBO Asia and international distributors Content Media Corporation.
Serangoon...
- 9/10/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Screen Australia will invest almost $20 million across 12 screen projects including futuristic Western The Rover, starring Robert Pattinson and Guy Pearce.
The film is the latest collaboration between producer Liz Watts and writer-director David Michôd, following the success of their crime-thriller Animal Kingdom in 2010. FilmNation Entertainment acquired the majority of worldwide rights to The Rover at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year while Village Roadshow will distribute the film in Australia.
Screen Australia has also backed three other feature films: drama Felony, written by Joel Edgerton and directed by Matthew Saville (Noise); Healing, a redemptive prison drama starring Don Hany (East West 101) and Hugo Weaving; and Aim High in Creation, a hybrid documentary-drama about the late Kim Jong-il from writer/director Anna Broinowski (Forbidden Lie$).
Screen Australia chief executive Ruth Harley said the four Australian features have huge potential. "The Rover is a powerful, well-crafted script from a talented team with an impressive cast,...
The film is the latest collaboration between producer Liz Watts and writer-director David Michôd, following the success of their crime-thriller Animal Kingdom in 2010. FilmNation Entertainment acquired the majority of worldwide rights to The Rover at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year while Village Roadshow will distribute the film in Australia.
Screen Australia has also backed three other feature films: drama Felony, written by Joel Edgerton and directed by Matthew Saville (Noise); Healing, a redemptive prison drama starring Don Hany (East West 101) and Hugo Weaving; and Aim High in Creation, a hybrid documentary-drama about the late Kim Jong-il from writer/director Anna Broinowski (Forbidden Lie$).
Screen Australia chief executive Ruth Harley said the four Australian features have huge potential. "The Rover is a powerful, well-crafted script from a talented team with an impressive cast,...
- 7/25/2012
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
The next in a string of ‘ripped from the headlines’ drama series, Bikie Wars was shot on location in Sydney’s west in just 42 days. Georgina Pearson is transported back to the ‘80s on the set of Ten’s new crime mini-series.
Behind an unassuming roller door on a quiet street in Sydney’s inner west, director Peter Andrikidis is recreating history. Encore is on the set of Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms, a period drama of sorts, completed in a six-week shoot plagued by non-stop rain.
Stepping inside the makeshift sound stage transports you back to the 1980s. Six motorbikes guard the entrance while an old Holden sedan, riddled with bullet holes, is out the back. This may not be the original 1984 headquarters of bikie gangs the Bandidos or the Comancheros depicted in the series, but it certainly feels like it could be.
Based on the book Brothers in Arms...
Behind an unassuming roller door on a quiet street in Sydney’s inner west, director Peter Andrikidis is recreating history. Encore is on the set of Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms, a period drama of sorts, completed in a six-week shoot plagued by non-stop rain.
Stepping inside the makeshift sound stage transports you back to the 1980s. Six motorbikes guard the entrance while an old Holden sedan, riddled with bullet holes, is out the back. This may not be the original 1984 headquarters of bikie gangs the Bandidos or the Comancheros depicted in the series, but it certainly feels like it could be.
Based on the book Brothers in Arms...
- 6/19/2012
- by Zoe Ferguson
- Encore Magazine
The winning webseries in the 2011 Movie Extra Webfest 2.0 competition, Event Zero, has now been released in its entirety.The first episode launched on May 22 as a teaser to the rest of the series, and has received over 9000 views, many of which were from you, our readers! So if you enjoyed Episode 1, check out the rest of the webseries below. About Event Zero: Created by Enzo Tedeschi and Julian Harvey (producers of The Tunnel), Event Zero stars a host of Australian actors including Zoe Carides (Crownies, Out of the Blue), Valentino Del Toro (Gabriel, Underbelly: Infiltration), Harry Pavlidis (Gabriel, East West 101, All Saints) and Steve Davis (The Tunnel). As well as collaborations with several directors including Carlo Ledesma (The Tunnel), Andrew Traucki...
- 6/11/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Movie Extra Webfest 2.0 winning web-series, Event Zero, has just premiered on Movie Extra's YouTube Channel. The first episode of the seven-part series has been embedded below for your viewing pleasure. It looks fantastic. About Event Zero: Created by Enzo Tedeschi and Julian Harvey (producers of The Tunnel), Event Zero stars a host of Australian actors including Zoe Carides (Crownies, Out of the Blue), Valentino Del Toro (Gabriel, Underbelly: Infiltration), Harry Pavlidis (Gabriel, East West 101, All Saints) and Steve Davis (The Tunnel). As well as collaborations with several directors including Carlo Ledesma (The Tunnel), Andrew Traucki (The Reef) and Shane Abbess (Gabriel).Event Zero tells seven interconnected stories of people caught up in an event much bigger than they are. A report comes in of a...
- 5/22/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Anthony Hayes as Bernie Banton
A two part mini-series about the James Hardie asbestos tragedy will wrap filming today, a day after the High Court handed down a decision on the company’s directors.
The High Court found the seven directors of the asbestos manufacturer had committed breaches over the company’s asbestos compensation fund.
The mini-series Devil’s Dust, scheduled for the ABC and based on real events and people, follows three men, Bernie Banton an asbestos suffer and former James Hardie worker played by Anthony Hayes, Adam Bourke who discovered Hardie was selling a carcinogenic product, played by Don Hany and Matt Peacock, an ABC journalist, played by Ewen Leslie.
Ewen Leslie
Matt Peacock
As Matt Peacock reported on last night’s 7:30 Report: “James Hardie was Australia’s biggest producer of asbestos cement. In 2001, Meredith Hellicar and her fellow directors moved the company offshore, leaving behind a...
A two part mini-series about the James Hardie asbestos tragedy will wrap filming today, a day after the High Court handed down a decision on the company’s directors.
The High Court found the seven directors of the asbestos manufacturer had committed breaches over the company’s asbestos compensation fund.
The mini-series Devil’s Dust, scheduled for the ABC and based on real events and people, follows three men, Bernie Banton an asbestos suffer and former James Hardie worker played by Anthony Hayes, Adam Bourke who discovered Hardie was selling a carcinogenic product, played by Don Hany and Matt Peacock, an ABC journalist, played by Ewen Leslie.
Ewen Leslie
Matt Peacock
As Matt Peacock reported on last night’s 7:30 Report: “James Hardie was Australia’s biggest producer of asbestos cement. In 2001, Meredith Hellicar and her fellow directors moved the company offshore, leaving behind a...
- 5/4/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Filming has begun on the new series of crime drama Underbelly in Sydney, it has been confirmed. The latest instalment - titled Underbelly: Badness - will be set between 2001 and the present day and focuses on the story of crime boss Anthony Perish. The Slap star Jonathan Lapaglia, who was nominated for an Aacta award earlier this year, will play Perish, with Matt Nable (East West 101) cast as Detective Inspector Gary Jubelin, head of the force who brought Perish to justice. Aaron Jeffery and former Home and Away star Jodi Gordon will appear in supporting roles. "Underbelly: Badness is a riveting (more)...
- 4/17/2012
- by By Kate Goodacre
- Digital Spy
The Australian Director’s Guild has announced its nominees for the 2012 Adg Awards
Across the various categories, the nominations include Justin Kurzel for Snowtown, Matthew Saville for The Slap, Tony Krawitz for The Tall Man, Paul Scott for documentary series Outback Fight Club and Bruce Hunt for Subaru Xv’s Carwash.
The ceremony will be held as part of the Adg’s 30th anniversary at the Australian Maritime Museum in Sydney on May 11.
Kingston Anderson, general manager of the Adg said: “This will be the largest celebration and Awards ceremony the Adg has ever hosted and will be an opportunity to highlight the many achievements of Adg members over the past 30 years and the significant role they have played in the development of the Australian screen industry, as well as to honour the best directors of 2012.”
The nominations are:
Feature film
Brendan Fletcher - Mad Bastards
Justin Kurzel – Snowtown
Julia Leigh...
Across the various categories, the nominations include Justin Kurzel for Snowtown, Matthew Saville for The Slap, Tony Krawitz for The Tall Man, Paul Scott for documentary series Outback Fight Club and Bruce Hunt for Subaru Xv’s Carwash.
The ceremony will be held as part of the Adg’s 30th anniversary at the Australian Maritime Museum in Sydney on May 11.
Kingston Anderson, general manager of the Adg said: “This will be the largest celebration and Awards ceremony the Adg has ever hosted and will be an opportunity to highlight the many achievements of Adg members over the past 30 years and the significant role they have played in the development of the Australian screen industry, as well as to honour the best directors of 2012.”
The nominations are:
Feature film
Brendan Fletcher - Mad Bastards
Justin Kurzel – Snowtown
Julia Leigh...
- 4/16/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Two of Australia’s top casting directors have merged with offices in Sydney, Melbourne and the Gold Coast.
Tom McSweeney and David Newman apart have cast Australian, Us and UK productions such as Ghostship, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader and Scooby Doo, Red Dog and The Pacific.
The new merged company will be called McSweeney Newman Casting.
McSweeney is a member of the Casting Society of America and sat on the board of directors for 20 years prior to his move to Australia.
Newman was previously with Christine King Casting on productions such as Pj Hogan’s forthcoming Mental, The Cairnes brothers’ 100 Bloody Acres and East West 101.
The duo said in an announcement: “Founded on the mission to foster talent and provide a creative environment where actors can work freely and not be hounded by the pressures of ‘having to get the gig’, we believe that...
Tom McSweeney and David Newman apart have cast Australian, Us and UK productions such as Ghostship, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader and Scooby Doo, Red Dog and The Pacific.
The new merged company will be called McSweeney Newman Casting.
McSweeney is a member of the Casting Society of America and sat on the board of directors for 20 years prior to his move to Australia.
Newman was previously with Christine King Casting on productions such as Pj Hogan’s forthcoming Mental, The Cairnes brothers’ 100 Bloody Acres and East West 101.
The duo said in an announcement: “Founded on the mission to foster talent and provide a creative environment where actors can work freely and not be hounded by the pressures of ‘having to get the gig’, we believe that...
- 4/5/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Ten has revealed a big name cast for its Cronulla period drama Puberty Blues.
Many of the actors have worked with the Southern Star production team on previous shows. The producers of the series – which will go beyond the book Puberty Blues and potentially leave the door open for ten to do further series – will be Imogen Banks and John Edwards. Filming for the current series of Offspring has just wrapped.
The cast includes Claudia Karvan (The Secret Life of us, Love My Way, Spirited), Jeremy Lindsay Taylor (Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms, Underbelly), Susie Porter (Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms, East West 101), Dan Wyllie (Love my Way, Animal Kingdom), Susan Prior (All Saints, Animal Kingdom), Rodger Corser (Rush, Underbelly, Spirited), Ashleigh Cummings (Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Tomorrow When the War Began), Brenna Harding (Packed to the Rafters, My Place), Sean Keenan, Ed Oxenbould, Charlotte Best, Katie Wall,...
Many of the actors have worked with the Southern Star production team on previous shows. The producers of the series – which will go beyond the book Puberty Blues and potentially leave the door open for ten to do further series – will be Imogen Banks and John Edwards. Filming for the current series of Offspring has just wrapped.
The cast includes Claudia Karvan (The Secret Life of us, Love My Way, Spirited), Jeremy Lindsay Taylor (Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms, Underbelly), Susie Porter (Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms, East West 101), Dan Wyllie (Love my Way, Animal Kingdom), Susan Prior (All Saints, Animal Kingdom), Rodger Corser (Rush, Underbelly, Spirited), Ashleigh Cummings (Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Tomorrow When the War Began), Brenna Harding (Packed to the Rafters, My Place), Sean Keenan, Ed Oxenbould, Charlotte Best, Katie Wall,...
- 4/1/2012
- by mumbrella
- Encore Magazine
The nominations for the 2012 TV Week Logies were announced on Sunday, with long-running soap Home and Away and Nine.s Underbelly: Razor leading the pool with seven nominations each.
Home and Away, which has been on air since 1988, received its nominations in the public-voted categories. It is up against Offspring, Packed To The Rafters, Winners And Losers and Underbelly: Razor for most popular drama series.
Esther Anderson (who plays Charlie Buckton) is nominated for both the gold logie for most popular TV personality and the silver logie for most popular actress. Veteran Ray Meagher (aka Alf Stewart) will compete against stars from Wild Boys, Packed to the Rafters and Offspring for most popular actor, while Dan Ewing, Steve Peacocke and Demi Harman are nominated in the most popular new talent categories.
Underbelly: Razor was acknowledged by both the public and industry peers. It earned nods for most popular series, actress...
Home and Away, which has been on air since 1988, received its nominations in the public-voted categories. It is up against Offspring, Packed To The Rafters, Winners And Losers and Underbelly: Razor for most popular drama series.
Esther Anderson (who plays Charlie Buckton) is nominated for both the gold logie for most popular TV personality and the silver logie for most popular actress. Veteran Ray Meagher (aka Alf Stewart) will compete against stars from Wild Boys, Packed to the Rafters and Offspring for most popular actor, while Dan Ewing, Steve Peacocke and Demi Harman are nominated in the most popular new talent categories.
Underbelly: Razor was acknowledged by both the public and industry peers. It earned nods for most popular series, actress...
- 3/19/2012
- by Amanda Diaz
- IF.com.au
Production begins on ABC telemovie Dangerous Remedy in Melbourne this week.
Produced by Ned Lander for Eclipse Films, producer of Radiance and Who Do You Think You Are?, Dangerous Remedy is directed by Ken Cameron, who helmed Underbelly, Wildside and Brides of Christ and written by Kris Wyld, who wrote East West 101 and Wildside.
A true story based on events beginning in 1969, Dangerous Remedy is the story of a doctor, Bert Wainer, who uncovers an illegal abortion racket protected by corrupt homicide detectives and organised by the medical establishment.
The cast is led by Jeremy Sims, with Willam McInnes, Susie Porter, Maeve Dermody and Mark Leonard Winter as well as Gary Sweet and Caroline Craig. The project is executive produced by Andrew Myer.
Lander said: “This is a story of the remarkable Dr Bertram Wainer – a passionate and flawed man whose campaign challenged and changed our society.”
Carole Sklan,...
Produced by Ned Lander for Eclipse Films, producer of Radiance and Who Do You Think You Are?, Dangerous Remedy is directed by Ken Cameron, who helmed Underbelly, Wildside and Brides of Christ and written by Kris Wyld, who wrote East West 101 and Wildside.
A true story based on events beginning in 1969, Dangerous Remedy is the story of a doctor, Bert Wainer, who uncovers an illegal abortion racket protected by corrupt homicide detectives and organised by the medical establishment.
The cast is led by Jeremy Sims, with Willam McInnes, Susie Porter, Maeve Dermody and Mark Leonard Winter as well as Gary Sweet and Caroline Craig. The project is executive produced by Andrew Myer.
Lander said: “This is a story of the remarkable Dr Bertram Wainer – a passionate and flawed man whose campaign challenged and changed our society.”
Carole Sklan,...
- 3/18/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
FIlming has begun on a new ABC1 telemovie about Dr Bert Wainer and two extraordinary women who exposed the deadly impact that Melbourne's anti-abortion laws had in the 1960s.
Dangerous Remedy is currently shooting in Melbourne and stars Jeremy Sims (Corridors of Power, Fireflies, Underbelly Files), William McInnes (Curtin, East West 101, Look Both Ways), Susie Porter (East West 101, Sisters of War, East of Everything), Maeve Dermody (Paper Giants, Miss Fisher.s Murder Mysteries, Beautiful Kate), Mark Leonard Winter (Balibo, Van Dieman.s Land, Blame), as well as Gary Sweet and Caroline Craig.
The political-thriller is set in 1969 and follows Bert Wainer, a local Gp, who embarks on a campaign for law reform after the death of a young woman. He discovers an illegal abortion ring protected by corrupt homicide detectives, allowing the medical establishment, media and politicians to ignore the impact of anti-abortion laws.
ABC TV head of fiction,...
Dangerous Remedy is currently shooting in Melbourne and stars Jeremy Sims (Corridors of Power, Fireflies, Underbelly Files), William McInnes (Curtin, East West 101, Look Both Ways), Susie Porter (East West 101, Sisters of War, East of Everything), Maeve Dermody (Paper Giants, Miss Fisher.s Murder Mysteries, Beautiful Kate), Mark Leonard Winter (Balibo, Van Dieman.s Land, Blame), as well as Gary Sweet and Caroline Craig.
The political-thriller is set in 1969 and follows Bert Wainer, a local Gp, who embarks on a campaign for law reform after the death of a young woman. He discovers an illegal abortion ring protected by corrupt homicide detectives, allowing the medical establishment, media and politicians to ignore the impact of anti-abortion laws.
ABC TV head of fiction,...
- 3/18/2012
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
FIlming has begun on a new ABC1 telemovie about Dr Bert Wainer and two extraordinary women who exposed the deadly impact that Melbourne's anti-abortion laws had in the 1960s. Dangerous Remedy is currently shooting in Melbourne and stars Jeremy Sims (Corridors of Power, Fireflies, Underbelly Files), William McInnes (Curtin, East West 101, Look Both Ways), Susie Porter (East West 101, Sisters of War, East of Everything), Maeve Dermody (Paper Giants, Miss Fisher.s Murder Mysteries, Beautiful Kate), Mark Leonard Winter (Balibo, Van Dieman.s Land, Blame), as well as Gary Sweet and Caroline Craig. The political-thriller is set in 1969 and follows Bert Wainer, a local Gp, who embarks on a campaign for law reform after the death of a young woman. He discovers an illegal abortion...
- 3/18/2012
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
TV heavyweights Karl Stefanovic, Adam Hills and Asher Keddie are among the main contenders for the top prize at the 2012 TV Week Logie Awards.
For the second year in a row, the Today presenter, the Spicks and Specks host and the Paper Giants actress look likely to claim the top award – the viewer-voted Gold Logie – which last year was claimed by Stefanovic.
They will be challenged by Ten’s Carrie Bickmore, Hamish Blake from Hamish & Andy’s Gap Year and Seven’s Esther Anderson.
The list of contenders in full:
TV Week Gold Logie – Most Popular Personality on TV
Adam Hills (Spicks And Specks, ABC1/Adam Hills In Gordon St Tonight, ABC1) Asher Keddie (Nina Proudman, Offspring, Network Ten /Ita Buttrose, Paper Giants: The Birth Of Cleo, ABC1) Carrie Bickmore (The Project, Network Ten) Esther Anderson (Charlie Buckton, Home And Away, Channel Seven) Hamish Blake (Hamish & Andy’s Gap Year,...
For the second year in a row, the Today presenter, the Spicks and Specks host and the Paper Giants actress look likely to claim the top award – the viewer-voted Gold Logie – which last year was claimed by Stefanovic.
They will be challenged by Ten’s Carrie Bickmore, Hamish Blake from Hamish & Andy’s Gap Year and Seven’s Esther Anderson.
The list of contenders in full:
TV Week Gold Logie – Most Popular Personality on TV
Adam Hills (Spicks And Specks, ABC1/Adam Hills In Gordon St Tonight, ABC1) Asher Keddie (Nina Proudman, Offspring, Network Ten /Ita Buttrose, Paper Giants: The Birth Of Cleo, ABC1) Carrie Bickmore (The Project, Network Ten) Esther Anderson (Charlie Buckton, Home And Away, Channel Seven) Hamish Blake (Hamish & Andy’s Gap Year,...
- 3/18/2012
- by Robin Hicks
- Encore Magazine
Sbs has commissioned a new food and travel show called Destination Flavour.
The ten part series will be hosted by Masterchef winner Adam Liaw, Renee Lim of Sbs’s Food Investigators and drama East West 101 and Lily Serna of the network’s Letters and Numbers.
Produced inhouse the show will travel to providores, food producers and the country’s top culinary regions, as well as restaurants and eateries.
The traveling within the show will be primarily within Australia.
Michael Ebeid, Sbs MD said in a press release: “Destination Flavour will perfectly complement our existing stable of top shelf commissioned food and travel programs. This Sbs production, featuring three exciting young talents in Adam, Renee and Lily, will be a wonderful celebration of Australia’s cultural and culinary riches.”...
The ten part series will be hosted by Masterchef winner Adam Liaw, Renee Lim of Sbs’s Food Investigators and drama East West 101 and Lily Serna of the network’s Letters and Numbers.
Produced inhouse the show will travel to providores, food producers and the country’s top culinary regions, as well as restaurants and eateries.
The traveling within the show will be primarily within Australia.
Michael Ebeid, Sbs MD said in a press release: “Destination Flavour will perfectly complement our existing stable of top shelf commissioned food and travel programs. This Sbs production, featuring three exciting young talents in Adam, Renee and Lily, will be a wonderful celebration of Australia’s cultural and culinary riches.”...
- 3/14/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
The entertainment industry is calling for more funding to bolster Sbs's drama and documentary production.
The Friends of Sbs, a parliamentary group convened by MPs Steve Georganas, Paul Fletcher and Senator Scott Ludlam, will hold a lunch in Canberra on Thursday where Australian producers, performers and industry leaders will call on the government to provide Sbs with more financial support.
Among the lunch delegates will be Julia Zemiro (RocKwiz), Bruce Spence (R.A.N.); producers Penny Chapman (The Slap), Nick Murray (Go Back to Where You Came From), Joe Connor (RocKwiz); director Mark Joffe (Neighbours, Wild Boys); Screen Producers Association of Australia (Spaa) president and producer Brian Rosen, Spaa executive director Geoff Brown; and Actors Equity director Sue McCreadie.
.Sbs is unique in the world as a multicultural broadcaster and should be considered a national treasure,. Zemiro said in a statement. .Sbs needs our continued support. It plays a critical...
The Friends of Sbs, a parliamentary group convened by MPs Steve Georganas, Paul Fletcher and Senator Scott Ludlam, will hold a lunch in Canberra on Thursday where Australian producers, performers and industry leaders will call on the government to provide Sbs with more financial support.
Among the lunch delegates will be Julia Zemiro (RocKwiz), Bruce Spence (R.A.N.); producers Penny Chapman (The Slap), Nick Murray (Go Back to Where You Came From), Joe Connor (RocKwiz); director Mark Joffe (Neighbours, Wild Boys); Screen Producers Association of Australia (Spaa) president and producer Brian Rosen, Spaa executive director Geoff Brown; and Actors Equity director Sue McCreadie.
.Sbs is unique in the world as a multicultural broadcaster and should be considered a national treasure,. Zemiro said in a statement. .Sbs needs our continued support. It plays a critical...
- 3/14/2012
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
Aaron Fa'aoso pleaded guilty to two charges in court yesterday morning (March 13). The Australian actor, best known for his roles in new ABC drama The Straits and East West 101, was charged after damaging a cash register at The Heritage nightclub in Cairns on October 16, 2011. According to The Cairns Post, Fa'aoso got drunk during a night out in the weeks after filming for The Straits wrapped in Far North Queensland. The court heard that the incident occurred shortly before midnight, and Fa'aoso was arrested by police outside the club soon afterwards. He was charged with wilful damage and drunk or disorderly behaviour. Fa'aoso's (more)...
- 3/14/2012
- by By Rebecca Davies
- Digital Spy
A two part mini-series about the James Hardie asbestos tragedy goes into production on March 19 for the ABC.
Produced by FremantleMedia Australia, Devil’s Dust will star Don Hany of East West 101 and Offspring, Anthony Hayes of The Slap and upcoming Beaconsfield and Ewen Leslie of Sleeping Beauty and Mabo.
The mini-series is based on the book Killer Company by ABC journalist Matt Peacock, who is played by Leslie.
Synopsis: Devil’s Dust follows the story of three men, Bernie Banton, asbestos sufferer, Adam Bourke and Matt Peacock whose lives and careers are bound together by a tragedy that becomes a scandal, and then a fast-moving battle through the corridors of corporate, political and media power. At the heart of the story are the 60,000 Australians likely to die of asbestos disease by 2030.
ABC TV Head of Fiction, Carole Sklan said: “This is a powerful, inspiring drama which has attracted...
Produced by FremantleMedia Australia, Devil’s Dust will star Don Hany of East West 101 and Offspring, Anthony Hayes of The Slap and upcoming Beaconsfield and Ewen Leslie of Sleeping Beauty and Mabo.
The mini-series is based on the book Killer Company by ABC journalist Matt Peacock, who is played by Leslie.
Synopsis: Devil’s Dust follows the story of three men, Bernie Banton, asbestos sufferer, Adam Bourke and Matt Peacock whose lives and careers are bound together by a tragedy that becomes a scandal, and then a fast-moving battle through the corridors of corporate, political and media power. At the heart of the story are the 60,000 Australians likely to die of asbestos disease by 2030.
ABC TV Head of Fiction, Carole Sklan said: “This is a powerful, inspiring drama which has attracted...
- 2/24/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
The cast for a new ABC telemovie about the Australian James Hardie asbestos saga has been revealed. Logie winner Don Hany, who is best known for his roles in Offspring and East West 101, will play a spin doctor in Devil's Dust, while The Slap's Anthony Hayes will play Bernie Banton, the worker who fought for compensation for asbestos victims. Hayes told the Herald Sun: "It is a very important story to tell. It is something that shocked me when I read the script. I knew parts of it, but not the full extent. By 2030, there will be more deaths in Australia from asbestos than from Wwi. It is horrific, it is absolutely horrific." The actor described Banton, who died in 2007 after a battle with cancer caused by asbestos, as an inspiring figure. "A (more)...
- 2/23/2012
- by By Rebecca Davies
- Digital Spy
Don Hany, Anthony Hayes and Ewen Leslie have been cast in an ABC TV series which follows the James Hardie asbestos scandal: Devil.s Dust.
The two-part mini-series, written by Kris Mrksa, is being produced by FremantleMedia Australia (Fma) and is based on the book Killer Company by ABC journalist Matt Peacock. Production begins on March 19 in Sydney.
Don Hany (Offspring, East West 101) plays Adam Bourke, who becomes aware that James Hardie is selling a product that causes the death of thousands of people. Anthony Hayes (The Slap, Changi) plays courageous James Hardie worker Bernie Banton, who battled for compensation for asbetos victims, while Ewen Leslie (Sleeping Beauty, Three Blind Mice) plays ABC journalist Matt Peacock.
ABC TV head of fiction Carole Sklan said: .This is a powerful, inspiring drama which has attracted an outstanding cast and creative team. ABC TV is proud to present the human story at...
The two-part mini-series, written by Kris Mrksa, is being produced by FremantleMedia Australia (Fma) and is based on the book Killer Company by ABC journalist Matt Peacock. Production begins on March 19 in Sydney.
Don Hany (Offspring, East West 101) plays Adam Bourke, who becomes aware that James Hardie is selling a product that causes the death of thousands of people. Anthony Hayes (The Slap, Changi) plays courageous James Hardie worker Bernie Banton, who battled for compensation for asbetos victims, while Ewen Leslie (Sleeping Beauty, Three Blind Mice) plays ABC journalist Matt Peacock.
ABC TV head of fiction Carole Sklan said: .This is a powerful, inspiring drama which has attracted an outstanding cast and creative team. ABC TV is proud to present the human story at...
- 2/23/2012
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
Don Hany, Anthony Hayes and Ewen Leslie have been cast in an ABC TV series which follows the James Hardie asbestos scandal: Devil.s Dust. The two-part mini-series, written by Kris Mrksa, is being produced by FremantleMedia Australia (Fma) and is based on the book Killer Company by ABC journalist Matt Peacock. Production begins on March 19 in Sydney. Don Hany (Offspring, East West 101) plays Adam Bourke, who becomes aware that James Hardie is selling a product that causes the death of thousands of people. Anthony Hayes (The Slap, Changi) plays courageous James Hardie worker Bernie Banton, who battled for compensation for asbetos victims, while Ewen Leslie (Sleeping Beauty, Three Blind Mice) plays ABC journalist Matt Peacock. ABC TV head of fiction Carole Sklan said: .This...
- 2/23/2012
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
Peter Andrikidis is one of Australia's most respected directors. The Straits marks the third series where he has worked with rising talent Aaron Fa.Aoso, and the first to be based on aspects of his life.
.He.s had a pretty hard life . he.s got a lot to say,. Andrikidis says, who first worked with Fa'Aoso on crime series East West 101 and the soon-to-be released bikie telemovie Brothers in Arms.
"Aaron.s grown so much from East West one to East West three . he.s just learnt so much. He.s like a sponge and he just keeps getting better and better. Certainly, with this character [Noel Montebello] there.s a balance of humour and also, he has a heavy touch as well, so getting the tone of the show right was the big thing with all that cast, so it.s not corny stuff and it still has dramatic levels.
.He.s had a pretty hard life . he.s got a lot to say,. Andrikidis says, who first worked with Fa'Aoso on crime series East West 101 and the soon-to-be released bikie telemovie Brothers in Arms.
"Aaron.s grown so much from East West one to East West three . he.s just learnt so much. He.s like a sponge and he just keeps getting better and better. Certainly, with this character [Noel Montebello] there.s a balance of humour and also, he has a heavy touch as well, so getting the tone of the show right was the big thing with all that cast, so it.s not corny stuff and it still has dramatic levels.
- 2/7/2012
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
Peter Andrikidis is one of Australia's most respected directors. The Straits marks the third series where he has worked with rising talent Aaron Fa.Aoso, and the first to be based on aspects of his life. .He.s had a pretty hard life . he.s got a lot to say,. Andrikidis says, who first worked with Fa'Aoso on crime series East West 101 and the soon-to-be released bikie telemovie Brothers in Arms. "Aaron.s grown so much from East West one to East West three . he.s just learnt so much. He.s like a sponge and he just keeps getting better and better. Certainly, with this character [Noel Montebello] there.s a balance of humour and also, he has a heavy touch as well, so getting the tone of the show right was the...
- 2/7/2012
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
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