Headlines:
- Anna Friel and Ioane Sa’ula star as hospital interns whose careers are on life support in a new medical dramedy.
- October 15 | tvtonight.com.au
- Aussies Michala Banas and Brett Tucker -who both featured in McLeod’s Daughters– are reuniting for a new eight-part New Zealand crime drama Blue Murder Motel.
- October 09 | tvtonight.com.au
- Netflix has landed Australian supernatural drama series Playing Gracie Darling. The streamer’s agreement with distributor Sony Pictures Television (SPT) covers the U.S., Latin America, numerous territories in EMEA such as Spain and the Nordics, and across Asia, including India, South East Asia, Japan and Korea.
- September 29 | deadline.com
- The stunts are big, the backdrop is vast and the characters wear their hearts on their uniforms ...just how Emma Hamilton likes RFDS.
- September 29 | tvtonight.com.au
- Funny women Anne Edmonds and Kitty Flanagan will match wits in a new ABC comedy that takes viewers behind the scenes of an iconic theatre company on the brink of bankruptcy.
- September 25 | www.thenewdaily.com.au
- Following NZ On Air’s announcement, TVNZ and South Pacific Pictures have praised the funding agency for helping to ensure Shortland Street’s survival while they develop a commercial “digital first” model for its future.
- August 01 | www.screenscribe.net
- The latest NZ On Air funding round confirms the return of Shortland Street next year, along with comedy-musical Happiness, while bankrolling a new sci-fi comedy/drama for Sky from the producers of award-winning drama After the Party.
- August 01 | www.screenscribe.net
- Dannii Minogue is poised to return to acting for the first time in 35 years after being named among the cast of an upcoming British TV series.
- July 29 | www.thenewdaily.com.au
- Actor Henri Szeps, best known from the original Mother And Son, has died at age 81.
- July 25 | televisionau.com
- The ABC is turning up the tension this winter with The Family Next Door, a gripping new six-part mystery drama set to premiere this August.
- July 06 | tvblackbox.com.au
- Actor Julian McMahon, best known for FBI: Most Wanted, Charmed, Nip / Tuck, Home & Away has died, aged 56.
- July 05 | tvtonight.com.au
- With the jury still deliberating over the fate of accused murderer Erin Patterson, the ABC has reportedly already commissioned a dramatisation of the extraordinary mushroom poisoning case.
- July 04 | www.thenewdaily.com.au
- "I received a call from the Network thanking me for all my hard work and dedication to the show but for next season they are ‘going in a different direction’."
- June 30 | tvtonight.com.au
- Jonathan La Paglia will not return as host of Australian Survivor in 2026, confirming recent reports that the long-serving presenter is stepping away after 10 years.
- June 30 | tvblackbox.com.au
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premieres:
- October
- 01 - RFDS (Seven)
- 14 - NCIS Sydney (Paramount+)
- 30 - Son of a Donkey (Netflix)
- November
- 02 - Ghosts Australia (Paramount+)
- 15 - Return to Paradise (ABC)
birthdays:
- October
- 1 - Cariba Heine (1988)
- 3 - Francis Greenslade (1962)
- 5 - Guy Pearce (1967)
- 8 - Martin Henderson (1974)
- 8 - Simon Burke (1961)
- 9 - Brett Partridge (1965)
- 10 - Geoff Morrell (1948)
- 11 - Marcus Graham (1963)
- 11 - Claudia Black (1973)
- 12 - Hugh Jackman (1968)
- 12 - Kate Beahan (1974)
- 13 - William Zappa (1948)
- 13 - Wayne Pygram (1959)
- 14 - Mia Wasikowska (1989)
- 15 - Leeanne Walsman (1980)
- 16 - Martin Sacks (1959)
- 17 - Phoebe Tonkin (1988)
- 17 - Rhys Muldoon (1965)
- 18 - Lisa Chappell (1968)
- 18 - Liz Burch (1954)
- 18 - Peter Best (1943)
- 19 - Tiriel Mora (1958)
- 20 - Dannii Minogue (1971)
- 20 - Gracie Gilbert (1992)
- 22 - Brook Sykes (1986)
- 22 - John Howard (1952)
- 24 - Lincoln Lewis (1987)
- 24 - Raelee Hill (1972)
- 25 - Belinda Cotterill (1974)
- 25 - Lenore Smith (1958)
- 27 - Paul Tassone (1969)
- 27 - Melanie Vallejo (1979)
- 28 - John Stanton (1944)
- 29 - Claudia Buttazzoni (1978)
- 30 - Stefan Dennis (1958)
- 30 - Garry McDonald (1948)
- 30 - Brendan McKensey (1985)
- 31 - Christie Hayes (1986)
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