Headlines:
- The ABC's Head of Scripted talks about the challenges of scheduling a new 30-part drama. Call it soap if you want, she says, just watch it.
- march 20 | www.screenhub.com.au
- The ABC's new soap opera The Heights is a nuanced representation of the diversity and community of life on a social housing estate.
- march 05 | theconversation.com
- Filming is underway in Albany, Western Australia, on Itch — a new live-action series for ABC ME.
- february 25 | tvtonight.com.au
- Bridie McKim was in her first year at Brisbane's Mount St Michael's College when a teacher took her aside after drama class and told her she showed promise.
- february 22 | www.abc.net.au
- for the last few years, long-form adult drama has all but disappeared from our screens, replaced by high budget, short-run shows. With that has also come a reduced number of training opportunities for emerging writers and directors, something that producers, writers and directors alike have lamented.
- february 21 | www.if.com.au
- Every Cloud Production partners Deb Cox and Fiona Eagger have been excited about their new drama, and their first on commercial TV.
- february 19 | mediaweek.com.au
- The WA-trained former Wanted star leads a stellar cast in Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries.
- february 15 | thewest.com.au
- In the infancy of Australian film and television there was a tendency to hedge actresses into a type: they either played victims or bitches, housewives or harridans. There was rarely room to move. Carmen Duncan, who died at the weekend after a battle with cancer, moved with a rare elegance and had a towering presence inside the camera frame which challenged those barriers.
- february 3 | www.smh.com.au
- Filming the first three seasons of ABC-TV comedy Rosehaven, its creators and stars Celia Pacquola and co-star Luke McGregor learned a lot about Tasmanian accommodation, and what to pack for seven weeks of winter filming.
- january 23 | thenewdaily.com.au
- Stan has announced that Stan Original Series THE OTHER GUY, created by and starring leading Australian comedy talent Matt Okine, has been commissioned for a second season.
- january 23 | tvblackbox.com.au
- 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
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airdates:
- February
- 18 - Bad Mothers (Nine)
- 19 - Fresh Eggs (TVNZ2)
- 21 - Ms. Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries (7)
- 22 - The Heights (ABC)
- March
- 04 - Secret City: Under the Eagle (Fox Showcase)
birthdays:
- March
- 1 - James Fraser (1993)
- 2 - Belinda Giblin (1950)
- 2 - Ben Oxenbould (1969)
- 3 - Carla Bonner (1973)
- 4 - Steve Bastoni (1966)
- 5 - Hanna Mangan Lawrence (1991)
- 6 - Lara Cox (1978)
- 6 - Yael Stone (1985)
- 7 - Cameron Daddo (1965)
- 8 - Gerard Kennedy (1932)
- 8 - Alexandra Davies (1977)
- 8 - Matt Nable (1972)
- 9 - John Doyle (1953)
- 9 - Ian Rawlings (1959)
- 10 - Beth Buchanan (1972)
- 11 - Simone Buchanan (1968)
- 13 - Gillian Alexy (1986)
- 15 - Val Lehman (1943)
- 15 - Robyn Malcolm (1965)
- 17 - Rob Sitch (1962)
- 18 - Hamish Michael (1980)
- 19 - Simmone Mackinnon (1973)
- 23 - Peter Mochrie (1959)
- 23 - Mouche Phillips (1973)
- 23 - Clayton Watson (1977)
- 24 - Brian Vriends (1964)
- 25 - Peter O'Brien (1960)
- 26 - Luke Ford (1981)
- 27 - Corey Page (1971)
- 30 - Debbie Byrne (1957)
- 30 - Matt Doran (1976)
- 30 - Alan Fletcher (1957)
- 31 - Paul Mercurio (1963)
- 31 - Damon Herriman (1970)
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