Performing Arts
Deloitte: Australian audiences out of love with live
The annual Deloitte review of media consumption is an equal opportunity scarer. This time, the audience is taking revenge.
Documentary powerhouse Mandy Chang gets key international role
Mandy Chang, at the ABC until this September, is the new Commissioning Editor of the BBC's Storyville.
What's On - MIFF + Sweet Country + AFTRS scholarship + competition
Sweet Country makes Adelaide Festival, as film music philosopher hits Melbourne, Hobart talks global and Optus wants to send a…
Media debate - companies argue to something larger than the marketplace
Here's a twist to the current fight about regulation to bring a rueful smile to some campaigners' lips. Maybe the…
Jobs shuffle in screen support system
There's a heap of different values on display in some new screen appointments across Australia.
What's On - Ace NITV docs + MIFF talks + good indy films
From Dunkirk on IMAX to Warwick Thornton on catch-up there's a ton of visual entertainment to ward off winter.
Kids' TV boilover continues as ACTF comes out fighting
We are betting the commercial FTA networks are learning that their assault on kids' TV is a bad mistake. Here…
Children's TV - networks try same fight over and over again
From day one, the commercial television networks have fought quotas for children's TV. Here's an elegant summary.
Knives sharpen as commercial networks fight to strangle kids' TV
The commercial FTA channels are now in the open as the stranglers of the Magic Pudding of kids' TV. Will…
Children's TV - the industry response
The community may not care about kids' TV on the FTA channels, but the industry sure does. Can it make…