The Nine Network is channelling tens of millions of dollars freed up from the end of its output deal with Warner Bros. into a record investment in local content.
Spending on local production will continue to rise over the next three years to the point where the network invests $100 million more per year than currently, executives said at the upfronts presentation today.
While Nine retains the first-run rights to The Big Bang Theory, director of programming and production Andrew Backwell said the broadcaster decided to relinquish the re-runs (subsequently acquired by Seven) because it preferred to spend the money on local content.
The 2016 line-up includes the Matchbox Pictures drama Hide & Seek, Cjz.s previously announced two-part Alan Bond miniseries House of Bond and a new factual series, Prison: First & Last 24 Hours.
Daryl Somers will return to TV as the host of You.re Back in the Room, a FremantleMedia Australia...
Spending on local production will continue to rise over the next three years to the point where the network invests $100 million more per year than currently, executives said at the upfronts presentation today.
While Nine retains the first-run rights to The Big Bang Theory, director of programming and production Andrew Backwell said the broadcaster decided to relinquish the re-runs (subsequently acquired by Seven) because it preferred to spend the money on local content.
The 2016 line-up includes the Matchbox Pictures drama Hide & Seek, Cjz.s previously announced two-part Alan Bond miniseries House of Bond and a new factual series, Prison: First & Last 24 Hours.
Daryl Somers will return to TV as the host of You.re Back in the Room, a FremantleMedia Australia...
- 10/28/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Escapade Media has secured world rights, excluding New Zealand, to Jump Films. WW1 TV drama When We Go To War.
Aired on Tvnz's TV One earlier this year, the 6-hour series was scripted by Gavin Strawhan, directed by Peter Burger and produced by Robin Scholes (Once Were Warriors, Mr. Pip, Broken English).
The plot follows the experiences of New Zealand soldiers in the trenches, the nurses caring for the wounded in Egypt and. the impact of the war on the families back home over nine months of the Gallipoli campaign..
The story centres around a powerful and conflicted love story between Bea Smith (Esther Stephens), a woman ahead of her time who is nursing in Egypt alongside her lover William (Tom O'Sullivan), a dedicated doctor.
It also explores the effect the battlefield has on Charles Smith (Ido Drent), a lawyer turned officer, his brother Harry (Milo Cawthorne),. the family's black sheep,...
Aired on Tvnz's TV One earlier this year, the 6-hour series was scripted by Gavin Strawhan, directed by Peter Burger and produced by Robin Scholes (Once Were Warriors, Mr. Pip, Broken English).
The plot follows the experiences of New Zealand soldiers in the trenches, the nurses caring for the wounded in Egypt and. the impact of the war on the families back home over nine months of the Gallipoli campaign..
The story centres around a powerful and conflicted love story between Bea Smith (Esther Stephens), a woman ahead of her time who is nursing in Egypt alongside her lover William (Tom O'Sullivan), a dedicated doctor.
It also explores the effect the battlefield has on Charles Smith (Ido Drent), a lawyer turned officer, his brother Harry (Milo Cawthorne),. the family's black sheep,...
- 8/18/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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