Headlines:
- Netflix has been on a roll this year and its next big Australian original series is Territory. The series will be released on October 24, 2024 and could just keep the streamer’s momentum going.
- July 18 | www.mediaweek.com.au
- A new workplace comedy for ABC centres around crisis management PR firm who battle weekly public relations crises from celebrities, sports stars and corporate titans.
- July 12 | tvtonight.com.au
- Shortland Street will screen three nights a week from next year as part of a funding overhaul to save the long-running soap.
- July 05 | www.screenscribe.net
- This bingeworthy new drama will drag you down the rabbit hole, as the best thing Asher Keddie has done since Offspring.
- July 02 | tvtonight.com.au
- Ryan Moloney will farewell Ramsay Street later this year after a long and impressive career with the iconic Australian soap, Neighbours.
- June 27 | www.tvcentral.com.au
- The successful factual series will become a six-part scripted heist drama created and written by Anchuli Felicia King and produced by Wooden Horse.
- June 27 | www.screenhub.com.au
- Fans of Aussie and Irish television are in for a treat as a new co-production begins filming in Ireland after wrapping up in Sydney last month.
- June 26 | www.msn.com
- Austin is a fantastic new Aussie comedy that nails it from the first episode. Whoever decided to centre a sitcom around Michael Theo, based on his work in Love On The Spectrum, is a deadset genius
- June 7 | www.mediaweek.com.au
- Theo and Nathan Saidden are taking their Superwog characters to Netflix with new series, Son of a Donkey. Production has begun on the six-part comedy, which picks up with Theo just as he moves out of his home to claim his independence — until he’s faced with the harsh realities of adulthood.
- May 31 | if.com.au
- Bluey won't save us — the latest ACMA report shows the devastating consequences of the Coalition’s decision to remove local content quotas for children’s television in 2021.
- May 30 | www.crikey.com.au
- Once upon a time in Australia, suburban lounge rooms were sacred ground for watching locally made dramas on free-to-air TV. They featured our favourite stars delivering compelling and authentic Aussie storylines... But an extensive study by Queensland University of Technology has found that Australian TV drama has nosedived in the past two decades.
- May 28 | www.thenewdaily.com.au
- Making new Australian television drama in an age of global competition is a continual challenge. How do we support it? And how do we determine its cultural value?
- May 25 | thesaturdaypaper.com.au
- Exposure, a new Australian drama series about grief and truth comes to Stan this June
- May 24 | www.screenhub.com.au
- Actor Brian Wenzel, best known for A Country Practice has died aged 94.
- May 06 | tvtonight.com.au
- Tanzyn Crawford and Cliff Curtis are great as a father and daughter who must raise $26,000 by whatever means necessary
- April 23 | www.theguardian.com
- Unexpected coda to cartoon’s powerhouse season finale based on 'real moment’ from a British reporter's life
- April 23 | www.cbc.ca
- Marta Dusseldorp starred as crown prosecutor Janet King for three years. Now she finds herself working more and more behind the camera.
- April 22 | www.abc.net.au
- Why 'The Sign,' an episode of a kids cartoon about a dog family, has adults in tears.
- April 15 | www.cbc.ca
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premieres:
- July
- 4 - Fake (Paramount+)
- 4 - Madam (NZ, TV3)
- 5 - Troppo (ABC/Prime)
- 8 - Little J & Big Cuz (ABC Kids/NITV)
- 11 - The Twelve (Showcase/Binge)
birthdays:
- July
- 1 - Nick Giannopoulos (1963)
- 2 - Andrew Curry (1972)
- 2 - Grant Dodwell (1952)
- 3 - Jane Allsop (1975)
- 4 - Ben Tari (1972)
- 4 - Scott Major (1975)
- 4 - Ray Meagher (1944)
- 5 - Stephanie McIntosh (1985)
- 5 - Kip Gamblin (1975)
- 6 - Geoffrey Rush (1951)
- 8 - Ian McFadyen (1948)
- 10 - Danielle Horvat (1991)
- 10 - Jeffrey Walker (1982)
- 14 - Kristy Wright (1978)
- 14 - John Wood (1946)
- 14 - Deborah Mailman (1972)
- 14 - Joy Smithers (1963)
- 17 - Matthew Holmes (1976)
- 18 - Shaun Micallef (1962)
- 18 - Andy Anderson (1947)
- 18 - Grant Bowler (1968)
- 19 - Ivar Kants (1949)
- 24 - Chris Haywood (1948)
- 24 - Rose Byrne (1979)
- 25 - Christopher Gabardi (1969)
- 26 - Madeleine West (1979)
- 26 - Abe Forsythe (1981)
- 26 - Jonny Pasvolsky (1972)
- 27 - George Kapiniaris (1962)
- 27 - Jeremy Callaghan (1967)
- 27 - Ewen Leslie (1980)
- 27 - Indiana Evans (1990)
- 28 - Rachel Blakely (1968)
- 30 - Simon Baker (1969)
- 30 - Philip Quast (1957)
- 31 - Brittany Byrnes (1987)
- 31 - Ernie Dingo (1956)
- 31 - Christian Byers (1993)
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