Film
Screen Australia: documentary production for August 2013
$3.2m invested, total budget of $10m, on ten documentaries, adding up to 20 hours, with only four one offs.
Ratings: Wednesday 7th August 2013
Nothing really broke through though Offspring at 1.07m gave Ten a surprisingly high 23.4%.
Ratings: Thursday, 8th August 2013
SBS on 8.3%. Maybe the boys were ugly because Seven only took 619,000 out of the prospect of marrying them.
Film Victoria: some new shows and a horse that refuses to die
In the first production round, Film Victoria has put $3.2m into eight projects, one of which is pretty close to…
Open Channel: launched into permanence, pumped up with training money
Open Channel, the Melbourne Screen Resource Centre, officially opened its new premises on the Docklands Studio site, with a federal…
Amanda Higgs: getting Lost With The Boys
Amanda Higgs (Time Of Our Lives, Secret Life Of Us) thinks that broadcasters are wrong about the appeal of teenage…
Brief: ASTRA ad figures continue to grow in otherwise dreary landscape
ASTRA has published the advertising growth figures for the last six months, during which it simply brings to our attention…
Ratings: Tuesday, 6th August 2013
The X-Factor comes through for Seven while Under the Dome just pips Big Brother.
Ratings: Monday, 5th August 2013
Nine tops. Misery for Ten. The cricket on GEM did the deed, despite Seven's one and two on the main…
March of the Moguls: geoblocking and the end of our version of civilisation
The notion of territorial sales is at the heart of our entire system of monetisation - the thing that is…