Headlines:
- Oakville homestead "Clare House", famously used as the "Wandin Valley Bush Nursing Hospital" in A Country Practice is up for sale.
august 21 | tvtonight.com.au
- When Packed to the Rafters came to an end in 2013, actor Angus McLaren decided it was high time for a gap year...
august 15 | thewest.com.au
- As the same-sex marriage debate rages in Australia, the ABC is going back to where it all began. The national broadcaster has announced it has started filming a telemovie that explores the gay rights movement in 1970s Australia.
august 15 | www.theherald.com.au
- Richard Roxburgh has made the lists of Australia's hottest men and with his wife, TV chef and cookbook author Silvia Colloca, is part of one of Australia's sexiest couples. But there's nothing vaguely sexy about Roxburgh in his latest TV role, reprising disgraced former detective Roger Rogerson for the mini-series Blue Murder: Killer Cop.
august 06 | thewest.com.au
- Geoffrey Wright's 1992 feature Romper Stomper is to be turned into a 6-part drama series for Stan. The film which starred Russell Crowe will see Jacqueline McKenzie and Dan Wyllie reprising their roles in a continuation of the story 25 years later.
august 01 | www.tvtonight.com.au
- Aussie Ashleigh Cummings tells Sarah Daniell about the fear of taking on the teen version of Kiwi icon Cheryl West.
july 29 | www.nzherald.co.nz
- The Australian television production industry risks losing an entire strata of producers and storytellers due to government funding cuts and the squeeze on licence fees, according to veteran producer Ewan Burnett.
july 26 | if.com.au
- When it came to putting together Foxtel's The Kettering Incident, co-creator, co-producer and writer Vicki Madden was determined to adopt a showrunner-type model, despite it not being common practice in Australia.
july 25 | if.com.au
- The sale of the period drama that stars Natalie Dormer is largest U.S. commercial deal ever for an Australian television series.
july 21 | www.hollywoodreporter.com
- In a webinar for upper primary and secondary schools, students had the opportunity to ask Australian director Jeffrey Walker about his inspirational career.
june 25 | www.youtube.com
- A high-flying financial analyst suffers kidney failure and receives a life-saving organ transplant. She throws in her job, goes through years of medical school and starts her rotation in the transplant unit of a busy Western Sydney teaching hospital where her nephrologist works... It sounds like the plot of a TV show, and it is. But what is remarkable about the new ABC drama Pulse is it is based on a true story.
july 10 | thewest.com.au
- Ronny Chieng International Student has been that rare thing in Australian sitcom: a show you want to see more of. If it was released on Netflix, you'd sit down to watch one and then realise two hours later that you'd just watched four of them.
july 12 | blog.australiantumbleweeds.com
- Welsh actor Ioan Gruffudd (Horatio Hornblower, Forever, San Andreas) will head back Down Under to play the lead in Hoodlum Entertainment's new crime drama, Harrow.
july 12 | if.com.au
- ABC has announced a new drama series Mystery Road: The Series, a six part spin-off from the 2013 Ivan Sen feature starring Aaron Pedersen.
july 12 | www.tvtonight.com.au
- Big hair, tight jeans and criminal behaviour are returning to our screens with the third season of spin-off drama Westside. This time around the Outrageous Fortune prequel series is set in 1982, the year in which the country's first Warehouse store opened and war broke out in the Falklands.
july 09 | www.stuff.co.nz
- Ahead of a Round The Twist screening at our inaugural Video Junkee festival, we caught up with Matthew Waters (AKA Bronson number three) to talk all things weird, wonderful, and 'Whirling Derfish'.
july 07 | junkee.com
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airdates:
- August
- 24 - The Wrong Girl (Ten)
- 30 - Get Krack!n (ABC)
- September
- 14 - Glitch (ABC)
- 17 - The Doctor Blake Mysteries (ABC)
- October
- 08 - A Place To Call Home (Showcase)
birthdays:
- August
- 1 - Les Hill (1973)
- 2 - Sam Worthington (1976)
- 4 - Jamie Croft (1981)
- 5 - John Jarratt (1951)
- 6 - Melissa George (1976)
- 7 - Sophie Lee (1968)
- 7 - Graeme Blundell (1945)
- 9 - Eric Bana (1968)
- 11 - Chris Hemsworth (1983)
- 12 - Kim De Lury (1970)
- 12 - Christopher Stollery (1965)
- 14 - Kate Ritchie (1978)
- 15 - Vince Poletto (1972)
- 15 - Rel Hunt (1974)
- 15 - Brooke Anderson (1981)
- 15 - Jacek Koman (1956)
- 16 - Brendan Cowell (1976)
- 17 - Noni Hazlehurst (1953)
- 17 - Shane Briant (1946)
- 17 - Shane Porteous (1942)
- 18 - Brooke Harmon (1985)
- 19 - Tammin Sursok (1983)
- 20 - Rebecca Croft (1978)
- 20 - John Noble (1948)
- 21 - Peter Weir (1944)
- 21 - Roger Oakley (1943)
- 21 - Anne-Louise Lambert (1955)
- 22 - Catherine Wilkin (1945)
- 22 - Shane Withington (1958)
- 23 - Rowena Wallace (1947)
- 24 - Rachael Carpani (1980)
- 25 - Aaron Jeffery (1970)
- 25 - Keegan Joyce (1989)
- 29 - Jay Ryan (1981)
- 30 - Kimberley Joseph (1973)
- 31 - Jack Thompson (1940)
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