Headlines:
- Aaron Jeffery (Wentworth, McLeod's Daughters) will return to the Underbelly franchise for the lead role of Mark "Chopper" Read in Nine's miniseries, Underbelly: Chopper.
may 29 | www.tvtonight.com.au
- It's hard to imagine a time when Marta Dusseldorp wasn't one of the small screen's favourite women... For the versatile star, playing steely prosecutor Janet in the series spin-off from 2011's Crownies is exhilarating yet exhausting.
may 19 | www.heraldsun.com.au
- Things have come full circle for Sigrid Thornton. Appearing in Wentworth, a contemporary take on life behind bars, takes her back some 35 years to her work on Prisoner. It was her longest stint on a television series and she learnt much from older actors such as Sheila Florance and Maggie Kirkpatrick.
may 19 | www.smh.com.au
- SundanceTV is set to co-produce the second season of Celia Pacquola and Luke McGregor's Rosehaven with the ABC, What Horse?, and Guesswork Television.
may 18 | if.com.au
- Legal dramas and police procedurals... routinely address their wider social and political contexts... Acclaimed Australian legal drama Janet King is no exception.
may 14 | thewest.com.au
- Phoebe Tonkin (The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, H2O Just Add Water), Joel Jackson (Peter Allen: Not the Boy Next Door, Deadline Gallipoli) and Leeanna Walsman (Seven Types of Ambiguity, Cleverman, Wentworth) are amongst the cast members of upcoming SBS drama Safe Harbour.
may 15 | www.tvtonight.com.au
- It might well be the most gruesome moment in the history of the multi award-winning drama Wentworth. And that's saying something.
may 10 | www.news.com.au
- SBS has commissioned a new 4 part crime thriller from the writers of House Husbands. Dead Lucky, which has been funded by Screen Australia, takes place on a perfect Sydney day, when the lives of two feuding detectives, a share-house of international students, a pair of corrupt shop owners, a grieving widow and a gunman all collide, leaving one dead and another missing.
may 11 | www.tvtonight.com.au
- Nicole da Silva... tells Kate Waterhouse about losing her anonymity, the strangest place she has been recognised and the TV shows she is binge watching herself.
may 07 | www.smh.com.au
- Offspring actress Deborah Mailman is lending her voice to Australia's first animation to feature Indigenous Australians and their culture.
may 07 | www.smh.com.au
- Showbiz veteran Val Jellay, best known for The Flying Doctors, has died aged 89. Son and performer Marty Fields shared the sad news online today after her hospitalisation earlier this week.
may 06 | www.tvtonight.com.au
- Australian actor and vaudevillian Val Jellay, best known for her role in The Flying Doctors and double act with husband Maurie Fields, has died at age 89
may 06 | www.abc.net.au
- kids' TV in this country is in a dire state... Free-to-air TV networks have to commission certain amounts of children's programs each year. But in recent years there's been a dismaying lack of new live action shows, or recognisably Australian content. Instead, local children's TV has become dominated by animation with little sense of place.
april 26 | theconversation.com
- A #savekidsTV campaign has been launched in response to TV networks wanting to ditch their commitment to Children's Television... Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young launched the campaign today on behalf of the Australian Children's Television Foundation and Screen Producers Australia
april 27 | www.tvtonight.com.au
- Actor Hugo Weaving speaks to Ben Neutze about returning to TV for ABC's Seven Types of Ambiguity and why it gives him 'the shits' that Australians look down their noses at our own own arts and culture.
april 18 | indaily.com.au
- Although filming has ceased, the show is not over for Ballarat. The city's Sovereign Hill theme park is holding an exhibition for the next few months, looking behind the camera at the show's sets and costumes.
april 19 | www.abc.net.au
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airdates:
- June
- 05 - Here Come the Habibs (Nine)
- 05 - Wanted (Seven)
- 07 - Ronny Chieng: International Student (ABC)
- 15 - The Family Law (SBS)
- 29 - Cleverman (ABC)
birthdays:
- May
- 2 - Anna McGahan (1988)
- 3 - Richard Sutherland (1971)
- 5 - Dieter Brummer (1976)
- 6 - Alan Dale (1947)
- 6 - Gina Riley (1961)
- 7 - Justin Melvey (1969)
- 10 - Rachel Gordon (1976)
- 11 - Anita Hegh (1972)
- 11 - Holly Valance (1983)
- 11 - Justin Rosniak (1977)
- 12 - Glenn Robbins (1956)
- 12 - Anthony Brandon Wong (1965)
- 14 - Cate Blanchett (1969)
- 14 - Ada Nicodemou (1977)
- 16 - Celia Ireland (1966)
- 19 - Claudia Karvan (1972)
- 21 - Brett Tucker (1972)
- 21 - Josephine Mitchell (1965)
- 21 - Inge Hornstra (1974)
- 21 - Belinda Bromilow (1975)
- 22 - Gary Sweet (1957)
- 25 - Jansen Spencer (1981)
- 25 - Kick Gurry (1978)
- 26 - Jolene Anderson (1980)
- 26 - Marieke Hardy (1976)
- 26 - Rachael Blake (1971)
- 27 - Sara Wiseman (1972)
- 28 - Kylie Minogue (1968)
- 29 - Louise Siversen (1958)
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