Film
ASTRA: industry voted finalists announced
The eleventh ASTRA awards finalist list contains a fair bit of Tangle, and plenty of Australian factual and sport. They…
Production Company Acquisition: brash outsider swallows ultra-respectable Melbourne insider
WTFN, which grew from commercial television and branded content, has bought The Film Company, owned by Richard Keddie. Chalk and…
Ratings: Sunday 28th April, 2013
There is no truth to the rumour that Seven has sent of squadrons of evil audience bots to find the…
Ratings: Wednesday, 24th April 2013
With no tonsil show, Seven is feasting on the body of Nine, its knives and forks flashing in the studio…
Ratings: Thursday, 25th April 2013
The fact that Seven only just scored the big three oh gave everyone else the chance to be half-way respectable.
Screen Australian Animation Announcement: the depth behind the decisions
As we transmitted on Wednesday, Screen Australia has announced support for two short animations, and completion funding for a third.…
BRIEF: ABC buys Ricky Gervais' Derek
Ricky Gervais' half-hour comedy, which was produced by Derek Productions for Channel 4, is heading to Australia after the ABC…
MIPTV 2013: ethical tensions over branded content
While the conferences happily track the evolution of branded content and the pressure on TVCs, it takes a journalist with…
AIDC: did the bold new initiatives work?
The Australian International Documentary Conference re-invented itself for 2013, launching a raft of new initiatives which have been evolving for…
SBS & Foxtel: post-MIPTV acquisitions
SBS has acquired Shadows of Liberty: The Media Monopoly in American Journalism from First Hand, while Foxtel has picked up…