Headlines:
- Renowned Australian actor Anna Torv will lead the ABC’s new six-part crime drama Dustfall, a tense and atmospheric series that explores justice, deception, and dark secrets in a small coastal town.
- November 21 | tvblackbox.com.au
- The ABC has kicked off production on its new crime drama Treasure & Dirt, with filming now underway across South Australia and promising a major boost for the state’s screen sector.
- November 21 | tvblackbox.com.au
- Hunter Page-Lochard is on a mission for First Nations storytelling to find international appeal.
- November 11 | tvtonight.com.au
- New Zealand writer and director John Banas has died, his daughter Michala Banas has announced with an emotional post on Instagram.
- November 04 | www.stuff.co.nz
- A broadly appealing drama, with inclusion, high stakes, outback vistas, ratings and critical acclaim. No wonder Ian Meadows is so happy.
- October 21 | tvtonight.com.au
- Anna Friel and Ioane Sa’ula star as hospital interns whose careers are on life support in a new medical dramedy.
- October 15 | tvtonight.com.au
- Aussies Michala Banas and Brett Tucker -who both featured in McLeod’s Daughters– are reuniting for a new eight-part New Zealand crime drama Blue Murder Motel.
- October 09 | tvtonight.com.au
- Netflix has landed Australian supernatural drama series Playing Gracie Darling. The streamer’s agreement with distributor Sony Pictures Television (SPT) covers the U.S., Latin America, numerous territories in EMEA such as Spain and the Nordics, and across Asia, including India, South East Asia, Japan and Korea.
- September 29 | deadline.com
- The stunts are big, the backdrop is vast and the characters wear their hearts on their uniforms ...just how Emma Hamilton likes RFDS.
- September 29 | tvtonight.com.au
- Funny women Anne Edmonds and Kitty Flanagan will match wits in a new ABC comedy that takes viewers behind the scenes of an iconic theatre company on the brink of bankruptcy.
- September 25 | www.thenewdaily.com.au
- Following NZ On Air’s announcement, TVNZ and South Pacific Pictures have praised the funding agency for helping to ensure Shortland Street’s survival while they develop a commercial “digital first” model for its future.
- August 01 | www.screenscribe.net
- The latest NZ On Air funding round confirms the return of Shortland Street next year, along with comedy-musical Happiness, while bankrolling a new sci-fi comedy/drama for Sky from the producers of award-winning drama After the Party.
- August 01 | www.screenscribe.net
- Dannii Minogue is poised to return to acting for the first time in 35 years after being named among the cast of an upcoming British TV series.
- July 29 | www.thenewdaily.com.au
- Actor Henri Szeps, best known from the original Mother And Son, has died at age 81.
- July 25 | televisionau.com
- The ABC is turning up the tension this winter with The Family Next Door, a gripping new six-part mystery drama set to premiere this August.
- July 06 | tvblackbox.com.au
- Actor Julian McMahon, best known for FBI: Most Wanted, Charmed, Nip / Tuck, Home & Away has died, aged 56.
- July 05 | tvtonight.com.au
- With the jury still deliberating over the fate of accused murderer Erin Patterson, the ABC has reportedly already commissioned a dramatisation of the extraordinary mushroom poisoning case.
- July 04 | www.thenewdaily.com.au
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premieres:
- November
- 02 - Ghosts Australia (Paramount+)
- 12 - Reckless (SBS)
- 15 - Return to Paradise (ABC)
- 20 - He Had it Coming (Stan)
- January
- 01 - Dear Life (Stan)
birthdays:
- November
- 1 - Tina Arena (1967)
- 1 - Toni Collette (1972)
- 3 - Angus McLaren (1988)
- 4 - Myles Pollard (1972)
- 4 - Robert Menzies (1955)
- 4 - Lani John Tupu (1955)
- 6 - Liddy Clark (1953)
- 6 - Vince Colosimo (1966)
- 7 - Melissa Bell (1972)
- 7 - Marisa Siketa (1990)
- 8 - Tom Wren (1979)
- 9 - Oliver Ackland (1979)
- 10 - Jessica Tovey (1987)
- 10 - Andrew Morley (1989)
- 11 - Ashleigh Cummings (1992)
- 12 - Kate Bell (1983)
- 14 - Michala Banas (1978)
- 14 - Brooke Satchwell (1980)
- 15 - Lewis Fitz-Gerald (1958)
- 16 - Gigi Edgley (1977)
- 16 - Tim Ferguson (1963)
- 16 - Karl Zwicky (1956)
- 21 - Marlo Kelly (2000)
- 23 - Andrew Bovell (1962)
- 24 - Dan Falzon (1974)
- 24 - Shane Bourne (1949)
- 24 - Aaron Pedersen (1970)
- 28 - Ryan Kwanten (1976)
- 28 - Kristian Schmid (1974)
- 28 - Wayne Blair (1971)
- 30 - Kate Fischer (1973)
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