Headlines:
- Asher Keddie and Richard Roxburgh will lead an ensemble cast in the new four-part SBS original drama The Hunting.
- january 18 | tvtonight.com.au
- Screen Australia has announced $7.5 million in production funding for two feature film projects, four television series and one web series.
- january 14 | mediaweek.com.au
- Neighbours actor Darius Perkins has died aged 54. The star, who played the original Scott Robinson when the show started in 1985, had been battling cancer.
- january 05 | www.entertainmentdaily.co.uk
- Australian actor Penny Cook, who starred in the TV drama series A Country Practice, has died aged 61. In a statement released via her management company, Cook's family said she died of cancer last night.
- december 27 | www.abc.net.au
- Actor Terry McDermott, one of the founding cast members of the long-running series Homicide, has died at the age of 91.
- december 23 | televisionau.com
- Fox TV has ordered a pilot based on South Pacific Pictures’ Filthy Rich, which aired on TVNZ 2 for two seasons.
- december 20 | www.screenscribe.net
- Seven is not proceeding with more of The Blake Mysteries in 2019, all but signalling the end for the Doctor Blake franchise.
- december 19 | tvtonight.com.au
- Rebel Wilson and David Wenham will star in Australian drama series “Les Norton.” Adapted from the novels of Robert G. Barrett, the show is presented by The Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Screen Australia.
- december 18 | variety.com
- Director Andrew Prowse, whose credits include Farscape, Heartbreak High and The Heights, died earlier this month.
- december 17 | tvtonight.com.au
- With most television or film creations, there’s a golden rule directors put in place before the cameras start to roll: follow the script... Patrick Brammall is more than happy to throw that rule out the window.
- december 11 | www.canberratimes.com.au
- Actress Judy McBurney has passed away at the age of 70 after a near four-year battle with cancer on Saturday morning.
- december 01 | www.dailymail.co.uk
- Ballarat, 1963. A group of scouts are sitting around a camp fire at night, listening to ghost stories, their eyes wide with mock fear. By morning the horror will be real... Welcome back to the not-so- cosy crime of The Blake Mysteries, where everything we knew and loved about The Doctor Blake Mysteries returns. Well, almost.
- november 29 | thewest.com.au
- Actor Samuel Johnson has hit out at the lack of diversity on Australian screens, labelling local TV a "blandfest"... Johnson, 40, said the local industry had "globalised" and left actors who didn't fit the Hollywood superhero mould struggling to find work.
- november 29 | www.theage.com.au
- Nine Entertainment Co chief executive Hugh Marks has announced Rebecca Gibney will be back on the network reprising her iconic Jane Halifax role.
- november 27 | thewest.com.au
- Nine Entertainment Co chief executive Hugh Marks has announced Rebecca Gibney will be back on the network reprising her iconic Jane Halifax role.
- november 27 | thenewdaily.com.au
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airdates:
- January
- 30 - Rosehaven (ABC)
- February
- 03 - The Cry (ABC)
- 22 - The Heights (ABC)
birthdays:
- January
- 1 - Debra Lawrance (1957)
- 1 - Richard Roxburgh (1964)
- 1 - Radha Mitchell (1973)
- 1 - Maeve Dermody (1985)
- 1 - Lara Robinson (1998)
- 2 - Damien Bodie (1985)
- 3 - Kerry Armstrong (1958)
- 8 - Lauren Hewett (1981)
- 8 - Steve Jacobs (1967)
- 10 - Jeremy Sims (1966)
- 10 - Marnie Reece-Wilmore (1974)
- 11 - Holly Brisley (1978)
- 13 - Adam Zwar (1972)
- 13 - Annie Jones (1967)
- 16 - Charlotte Best (1994)
- 18 - Petra Jared (1979)
- 18 - Sean Keenan (1993)
- 19 - Nash Edgeron (1973)
- 20 - Jane Hall (1971)
- 20 - Jodie Dry (1974)
- 20 - Dena Kaplan (1989)
- 20 - Kimberley Davies (1973)
- 21 - Marnie Kennedy (1994)
- 21 - Freya Stafford (1977)
- 21 - Rove McManus (1974)
- 21 - Sarah Lambert (1970)
- 22 - Abi Tucker (1973)
- 22 - Damian Walshe-Howling (1970)
- 23 - Rebekah Elmaloglou (1974)
- 24 - Melissa Tkautz (1974)
- 29 - Jessica Marais (1985)
- 29 - Isabel Lucas (1985)
- 29 - Lynne McGranger (1953)
- 29 - Maggie Kirkpatrick (1941)
- 31 - Anthony LaPaglia (1959)
- 31 - Sophie Katanis (1979)
- 31 - Robert Grubb (1950)
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