Despite an Australian dollar hovering at US$1.05, Matchbox Pictures has landed an “Australia for America” television series for NBC. Camp is a co-production with Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun’s production company BermanBraun, and will go into production, in Australia, in March.
Camp is a 13 x 1 hour dramedy, created by producers, Liz Heldens (Love Bites, Mercy) and Peter Elkoff (Gossip Girl, Mercy). Heldens and Elkoff executive produce with Berman, Braun and Gene Stein, while Matchbox Pictures’ Helen Panckhurst will produce at the Australian end. The series “has rich and dysfunctional characters in that great setting where millions of families and young people go each summer: camp,” according to NBC Entertainment president, Jennifer Salke.
