Headlines:
- Miss S, the new Chinese scripted format adaptation of the globally popular Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, will air across South East Asia following a drama deal struck by leading independent distributor all3media international with WarnerMedia Entertainment Networks Asia Pacific... This is the first Australian television series to have been re-versioned in China.
- september 16 | tva.onscreenasia.com
- Wentworth completed its final filming on Friday, bringing to an end 100 episodes of the acclaimed Foxtel series.
- september 07 | tvtonight.com.au
- Matchbox Pictures’ ‘genre-bending’ four-parter Hungry Ghosts breaks new ground with a story set among a Vietnamese-Australian community where the trauma of the Vietnam War is reawakened in the form of ghosts.
- august 24 | dramaquarterly.com
- SBS today announced the talented and award-winning creative team behind its new original Australian fiction commission The Unusual Suspects, as pre-production commences in Sydney.
- august 17 | tvblackbox.com.au
- As ACTF head Jenny Buckland emphasises, the sector is adaptable, is attracting new creators and sells well. It has everything going for it – sort of.
- august 14 | www.artshub.com.au
- The Fires, set to air on ABC, is a serialised anthology inspired by the extraordinary stories of the people who survived last summer’s catastrophic fire season and continue to endure their aftermath today.
- august 13 | thewest.com.au
- Thomas Jane (The Expanse) is set to star in and executive produce the new crime drama series Troppo. The series will be an adaptation of Candice Fox’s crime novel Crimson Lake which is set in Queensland, Australia.
- august 07 | www.flickeringmyth.com
- Filming of the third season of Hoodlum Entertainment/the ABC’s Harrow resumed on Monday in Brisbane and South-East Queensland after star Ioan Gruffudd came out of quarantine.
- august 05 | www.if.com.au
- John Wood has opened up about the real reason Channel 7 chose to axe Blue Heelers.
- august 04 | www.dailytelegraph.com.au
- The gripping new eight-hour drama is based in Australia’s red centre, where the modern-day heroes of the Royal Flying Doctor Service navigate private lives as turbulent and profound as the heart stopping emergencies they attend.
- august 03 | tvblackbox.com.au
- Having built their production company into an impressive conveyor of dreams, David Maher and David Taylor are getting ready to leave.
- july 31 | www.artshub.com.au
- Season 2 of Ms. Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries will premiere in Australia on Acorn TV before a later broadcast through Seven.
- july 29 | tvtonight.com.au
- The actor playing the latest 'Top Dog' talks about her role in the iconic prison drama, on the eve of its eighth season.
- july 28 | www.artshub.com.au
- Created by Bevan Lee, the TV drama guru told Mediaweek it is his best yet, and from the man who has All Saints, Always Greener, Packed to the Rafters and Winners & Losers on his IMDB credits, it is quite a claim.
- july 22 | www.mediaweek.com.au
- Shooting of the second series of Jonathan M. Shiff Productions’ The Bureau of Magical Things resumed in Queensland on June 29, one of the first to restart after the lockdown.
- july 20 | www.if.com.au
- Facing the prospect that the Federal Government will impose local content spending obligations on SVOD services, Netflix asserts it wants the right to negotiate how much it invests over the next three years.
- july 06 | www.if.com.au
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premieres:
- September
- 15 - Mean Mums [NZ]
- 15 - Golden Boy [NZ]
birthdays:
- September
- 1 - Natalie Bassingthwaighte (1975)
- 1 - Melissa George (1976)
- 2 - Darcy Bonser (1986)
- 4 - Kevin Harrington (1959)
- 4 - Jocelyn Moorhouse (1963)
- 4 - Noah Taylor (1969)
- 5 - Aaron Pedersen (1970)
- 5 - Alicia Banit (1990)
- 5 - Jack Charles (1943)
- 6 - Clarissa House (1954)
- 10 - William McInnes (1963)
- 10 - Jay Laga'aia (1963)
- 12 - Pippa Grandison (1970)
- 12 - Rachel Ward (1957)
- 12 - Hayley McElhinney (1974)
- 15 - Paula Duncan (1952)
- 16 - Mary Coustas (1964)
- 17 - Baz Luhrmann (1962)
- 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 - 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)
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