Headlines:
- South Australia is set to take centre stage in a new Australian television drama, with production officially underway on a star-studded ABC series featuring some of the country’s most recognisable faces.
- October 22 | glamadelaide.com.au
- Tegan Higginbotham turns terracotta into horror and comedy for a new Stan series.
- October 07 | tvtonight.com.au
- From fresh-faced nurse on A Country Practice to national treasure, Georgie Parker reflects on nearly 40 years in living rooms, the passage of time and why she has no plans to retire anytime soon.
- August 26 | thewest.com.au
- Streaming services are spending more than six times the amount that free-to-air networks do on Australian television drama, according to a new report from Screen Australia.
- August 19 | mumbrella.com.au
- Chris Hammer wrote the book Treasure & Dirt, but he had no idea how the TV series was going to end, and had to watch it himself.
- August 20 | www.abc.net.au
- Much-loved and trailblazing actor Deborah Mailman will be inducted into the Logie Hall of Fame on Sunday — the first of three inductees this year.
- August 15 | tvtonight.com.au
- Australian Disney+ drama The Artful Dodger has been renewed for a third and final season, with the streaming platform promising ‘more grit, bigger heists and bolder hijinks’.
- August 05 | www.screenhub.com.au
- Shortland Street has been given a lifeline, with NZ On Air committing to $2.3 million in funding for the next year, with episodes increasing from three to four nights a week... It will be the soap’s 35th year on screen.
- August 03 | www.nzherald.co.nz
- The new series takes the Wentworth story beyond prison walls and into a new world of redemption and survival. It follows a group of former inmates as they attempt to rebuild their lives on the outside.
- July 24 | tvtonight.com.au
- Netflix has unveiled Queenstown, its first locally commissioned New Zealand series, with production now underway in the South Island’s famous alpine resort.
- July 21 | www.theaureview.com
- Terence Donovan, theatre, film and television actor, has died peacefully in Melbourne at age 90.
- July 20 | televisionau.com
- A beheading in the outback kicks off this terrific six-part series, in which the greatest pleasure is not solving the crime but learning about the peculiar locals
- July 20 | www.theguardian.com
- Comedy drama, The F Ward, is the latest Australian medical show. And it’s a good one.
- July 16 | www.thenewdaily.com.au
- Kiwi actor Sir Sam Neill has died, his family has announced.
- July 13 | www.rnz.co.nz
- Sam Neill, the Northern Ireland-born, New Zealand raised actor who found fame in Australia and overseas, has died at the age of 78.
- July 13 | televisionau.com
- With a change of location to Malaysia, sources tell me production company Endemol Shine is struggling to make a reduced budget work, and the whole thing is already turning into a sh*t show.
- July 08 | tvblackbox.com.au
- Three decades since satirical news mockumentary Frontline broke into Australian lounge rooms, mercilessly skewering the ratings-obsessed world of current affairs, star Alison Whyte is still regularly approached by eager fans.
- May 24 | www.thesenior.com.au
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premieres:
- October
- 29 - Happiness - series 3 (NZ - Three)
- November
- 11 - Austin series 3 (ABC)
birthdays:
- November
- 1 - Tina Arena (1967)
- 1 - Toni Collette (1972)
- 3 - Angus McLaren (1988)
- 4 - Myles Pollard (1972)
- 4 - Robert Menzies (1955)
- 4 - Lani John Tupu (1955)
- 6 - Liddy Clark (1953)
- 6 - Vince Colosimo (1966)
- 7 - Melissa Bell (1972)
- 7 - Marisa Siketa (1990)
- 8 - Tom Wren (1979)
- 9 - Oliver Ackland (1979)
- 10 - Jessica Tovey (1987)
- 10 - Andrew Morley (1989)
- 11 - Ashleigh Cummings (1992)
- 12 - Kate Bell (1983)
- 14 - Michala Banas (1978)
- 14 - Brooke Satchwell (1980)
- 15 - Lewis Fitz-Gerald (1958)
- 16 - Gigi Edgley (1977)
- 16 - Tim Ferguson (1963)
- 21 - Marlo Kelly (2000)
- 24 - Dan Falzon (1974)
- 24 - Shane Bourne (1949)
- 24 - Aaron Pedersen (1970)
- 28 - Ryan Kwanten (1976)
- 28 - Kristian Schmid (1974)
- 28 - Wayne Blair (1971)
- 30 - Kate Fischer (1973)
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