Features
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.
Brief: a generation quivers as Melbourne Demon rises for one night only
Hayden Keenan and Gai Steele have created a truly remarkable moment to celebrate the presentation of their four part documentary,…
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…
Tim Winton's The Turning: insert happy adjective here
Tim Winton’s The Turning, the group film produced by Robert Connolly and Maggie Miles, emerged from its cone of silence…
Judy Adamson: funeral details
Judy Adamson, a stalwart of Film Australia, died last Friday at the age of 84.
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…