Headlines:
- Legal complications made this true story about Pasquale Barbaro tricky to tell. Writer-director Gregor Jordan works hard to inject energy.
- september 14 | www.screenhub.com.au
- The cast of Australian drama Packed To The Rafters return in Back To The Rafters, which begins screening on Amazon Prime Video on September 17.
- september 14 | www.stuff.co.nz
- Bold, ruthless and darkly humorous, New Gold Mountain brings to the screen for the very first time, the remarkable and untold story of the Chinese miners who arrived in the Victorian Goldfields in their thousands in the 1850s to try to make their fortune.
- september 09 | tvblackbox.com.au
- RGM Productions has secured funding for a musical adaptation of Round the Twist through the federal government's RISE program.
- september 07 | www.timeout.com
- When the stars of Packed to the Rafters reunited for the first read-through for the long-awaited reboot, there were hugs and tears.
- august 31 | www.nzherald.co.nz
- Stan doubles down on high-school drama, true crime, and feelgood holiday flicks with its new Australian productions
- august 23 | www.screenhub.com.au
- Screen Australia has announced two live action series and two animated children’s projects that will share in $3.2 million of production funding.
- august 20 | tvblackbox.com.au
- The Newsreader is a great piece of television drama but one thing doesn’t ring true. Commercial newsrooms in 1986 were not as diverse as the program pretends and definitely not so Asian.
- august 16 | thenewdaily.com.au
- Nearly 30 projects will share in $975,000 of story development funding from Screen Australia, including a television series inspired by the 1999 film Two Hands from director Gregor Jordan, and a family feature film from the producers of Bluey.
- july 26 | www.if.com.au
- Actor Dieter Brummer, best known as Shane Parrish in Home & Away, has died aged just 45.
- july 26 | tvtonight.com.au
- Fresh faces lead the cast of the ABC and Fremantle Australia’s children’s comedy-drama The PM’s Daughter, now shooting in Canberra.
- july 05 | www.if.com.au
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premieres:
- September
- 16 - Back to the Rafters (Amazon)
- 26 - Fires (ABC)
- October
- 13 - New Gold Mountain (SBS)
birthdays:
- September
- 1 - Natalie Bassingthwaighte (1975)
- 1 - Melissa George (1976)
- 4 - Kevin Harrington (1959)
- 4 - Noah Taylor (1969)
- 5 - Aaron Pedersen (1970)
- 5 - Alicia Banit (1990)
- 5 - Jack Charles (1943)
- 6 - Aleetza Wood (1978)
- 10 - William McInnes (1963)
- 10 - Jay Laga'aia (1963)
- 12 - Pippa Grandison (1970)
- 12 - Rachel Ward (1957)
- 12 - Hayley McElhinney (1974)
- 14 - Sam Neill (1947)
- 16 - Mary Coustas (1964)
- 16 - Janet Andrewartha (1952)
- 17 - Bruce Spence (1945)
- 18 - Don Hany (1975)
- 18 - Josh Quong Tart (1975)
- 18 - Nicole da Silva (1981)
- 19 - Jeremy Lindsay Taylor (1973)
- 20 - Peter Phelps (1960)
- 21 - Anthony Hayes (1977)
- 21 - David Wenham (1965)
- 25 - Robyn Nevin (1942)
- 25 - Colin Friels (1952)
- 26 - Brett Climo (1964)
- 27 - Ella Scott Lynch (1982)
- 28 - Marzena Godecki (1978)
- 28 - Sean Scully (1947)
- 28 - Matt Day (1971)
- 28 - Naomi Watts (1968)
- 29 - Mark Mitchell (1955)
- 30 - Kaarin Fairfax (1959)
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