Headlines:
- How a 23 year old gal from Brisbane ended up designing the world’s most popular kids show. [Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4]
- April 1-23 | substack.com
- Speculation continues to rise about the fate of the beloved Kiwi television series Shortland Street. TVNZ has not confirmed whether the show would return next year, but said it was “not cancelled”.
- May 02 | www.nzherald.co.nz
- In 1970 actors like Gerard Kennedy and Terence Donovan marched through the streets of Melbourne carrying a coffin to symbolise the future of the industry without local quotas. It was a pivotal moment for Aussie drama.
- April 26 | tvtonight.com.au
- Gerard Kennedy, film and television actor best known from his leading roles in Hunter and Division 4, has died age 93.
- April 25 | televisionau.com
- Bluey, the animated series that captured hearts worldwide, is bringing its theatre show Bluey’s Big Play to small screens on 20 April 2025.
- March 25 | www.womensweekly.com.au
- It was 50 years today that Australian TV (finally…!) began to colour our world.
- March 01 | televisionau.com
- In an attempt to break the record for most cancellations of a primetime TV drama, Neighbours is once again bracing itself for the end of an era.
- February 21 | www.msn.com
- Paramount+ has today officially renewed Australian series NCIS: Sydney for a third season, with filming set to begin in the harbour city this Monday.
- February 21 | tvblackbox.com.au
- A former police station with a star-studded past has hit the market in Melbourne that was once home to one of Australia’s most iconic television dramas. See what it looks like now.
- February 20 | www.news.com.au
- Actor Nicholas Eadie, best known for Cop Shop, The Henderson Kids and Vietnam has died aged 66.
- January 23 | tvtonight.com.au
- Ghosts Australia will film in Perth, thanks to the Western Australian Production Attraction Incentive, and screen on both Paramount+ and Network 10 later in the year.
- January 23 | tvtonight.com.au
- Sons and Daughters actress Leila Hayes has sadly passed away, aged 85.
- January 21 | www.nowtolove.com.au
- Happy New Year from the year 1995 — 30 years ago — and television drama was on a high with new and returning titles.
- January 01 | televisionau.com
- In its 32 glorious years, Shortland Street has given us a cornucopia of memorable celebrity cameos... But last night, we saw the cameo to end all cameos, when American comedian Conan O’Brien made a brief but thrilling appearance
- December 12 | thespinoff.co.nz
- In early 1962, the ABC, responding to (entirely accurate) criticism that its local television drama had been overly dominated by foreign scripts, scheduled a season of six Australian-written television plays...
- November 15 | www.filmink.com.au
- Stars Ayesha Madon and James Majoos discuss what's coming next on the hit Australian Netflix YA series as production begins on the final season.
- November 13 | www.hollywoodreporter.com
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premieres:
- June
- 12 - Mix Tape (Showcase/Binge)
- 15 - Bay of Fires s2 (ABC)
birthdays:
- June
- 1 - Caroline Craig (1969)
- 1 - Bill Young (1950)
- 1 - Jason Donovan (1968)
- 1 - Ed Oxenbould - 2001)
- 2 - Joel Toebeck (1971)
- 4 - Rachel Griffiths (1968)
- 6 - Andrew McFarlane (1951)
- 6 - Jacinta Stapleton (1979)
- 6 - Toni Pearen (1972)
- 7 - Ria Vandervis (1984)
- 7 - Anthony Simcoe (1969)
- 7 - Gia Carides (1964)
- 9 - Jane Kennedy (1964)
- 11 - Claire Holt (1988)
- 12 - Frances O’Connor (1969)
- 12 - Kieran Darcy-Smith (1965)
- 12 - Samantha Tolj (1982)
- 12 - Tom Oliver (1938)
- 13 - Jodi Smit-McPhee (1996)
- 15 - Nina Liu (1977)
- 15 - William Snow (1960)
- 15 - Dan Paris (1973)
- 18 - Nick Tate (1942)
- 19 - Anthony Phelan (1954)
- 20 - Nicole Kidman (1967)
- 23 - Bryan Brown (1947)
- 23 - Tara Morice (1964)
- 23 - Joel Edgerton (1974)
- 27 - Teague Rook (1971)
- 28 - Sandy Gore (1950)
- 29 - Chris Egan (1984)
- 30 - Marton Csokas (1966)
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