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Bogan Pride

Produced by Big and Little Films Pty Ltd
Producers: Michael McMahon, Tony Ayres and Rebel Wilson
Director: Andrew Lancaster
Writers: Rebel Wilson
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Jenny Craig, a smart endearing teenage fugly, lives in Boonelg with her mother, Berenice, who is extremely overweight and has become confined to her bedroom. Her Aunty Sandra's become extremely annoying since her gay husband left; her best friends Amy Lee and Nigella are extremely religious; and her neighbour Nick is extremely good looking. What's a bogan girl to do? Written and created by Rebel Wilson, this quirky upbeat series is based on her own experiences growing up in Sydney's western suburbs. The series features a predominantly female ensemble cast and original musical numbers which create a truly unique bogan spectacle. (6 x 26min)

City Homicide 2

Executive Producer: John Holmes
Producer: MaryAnne Carroll
Directors: Diana Reid, Nicholas Buffalo, Paul Moloney, Jeffrey Walker, Kevin Carlin, Pino Amenta
Writers: John Banas & John Hugginson
Cast: Shane Bourne, Nadine Gardner, Daniel MacPherson, Aaron Pedersen,Damien Richardson and Noni Hazelhurst
Network: Seven

Told through the eyes of four ambitious Homicide detectives and their two superiors, City Homicide captures the gripping, fast paced atmosphere of a homicide squad. The intelligent, intriguing weekly stories are action-packed and filled with stylish sleuthing.

The Couriers

Produced by SBS
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Network: SBS

Filming begins August 2008

Crooked

Produced by Two-Tone Pictures
Producers: Paul Bellman, Matthew Holmes, Adam Wilson
Director: Matthew Holmes
Writers: Paul Bellman, Matthew Holmes, Adam Wilson
Cast: Paul Bellman, Adam Wilson, Joshua Jaegar, Rohan Harry, Tristan Hudson, Anna Cheney Holmes, Stephen DeGenaro, Pete Michell, Terry Rogers, Van Crouch, Michael Allen, Rod Ho'vel
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Based around the story of a bunch of suburban no-gooders who dream of becoming real gangsters. They want to hit it the big time in the criminal underworld, but there's one thing stopping them - none of them are really gangster material. An improvised mockumentary shot on the mean streets of Adelaide. (6 x 45 min)

Defenders of Mars

Produced by: Zenith Entertainment (UK) and Fox World Australia.
Executive Producers: Julian Scott, David Maher and David Taylor
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Writer: Stephen Gallagher
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26x30min

Dive, Olly, Dive!

Produced by Mike Young Productions, Yoram Gross EM.TV
Producers: Melanie Alexander, Mike Young
Directors: Bob Doucette, Jane Schneider
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Cast: Shane Withington, Gibson Nolte, Suzie MacKenzie, Sarah Aubrey, Julie McGregor, Catherine McGraffin
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In DIVE, OLLY, DIVE! we follow the adventures of a young, unmanned, anthropomorphic researchsubmarine-in-training named Olly, and his best friend and fellow sub-in-training Beth. (52 x 12 min)

Double the Fist series 2

Producer: Jason Harty
Directors: Craig Anderson, Doug Bain, Bryan Moses, Tony Walters
Cast: Bryan Moses, Craig Anderson, Doug Bayne, Tony Walters
Network: ABC

A team of lifestyle vigilantes destroy weakness in all aspects of modern existence, showing their audience how to be fistworthy. (8 x 26 min)

Double Trouble

Produced by: CAAMA Productions Pty Ltd
Executive Producers: Posie Graeme Evans, Ron Saunders
Producers: Jacqui North, Terry Jennings
Directors: Catriona McKenzie, Beck Cole
Writers: David Ogilvie, Michelle Torres, Beck Cole
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Network: Nine

An hilarious teen comedy about a set of identical twin Aboriginal girls separted at birth who meet up accidentally 15 years later. They concoct an outrageous scheme to switch places in order to meet their other family. One twin has been brought up in the bright lights of Sydney and the other twin grew up in a remote traditional Aboriginal community in Central Australia.

Emily Eyefinger

Produced by: Ambience Entertainment
Executive Producers: Bryan Lowe, Avrill Stark
Producers: David Webster, Donna Andrews, Justine Flynn
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Writers: Duncan Ball
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Network: Seven

Animated series based on the best selling books by Duncan Ball, Emily Eyefinger is a girl with an eye for mysteries and adventure and she's got a distinct advantage—an eye on the end of her finger—COOL! (26 episodes)

G2G

Produced by Moody Street Kids (Australia) and Title Entertainment (Canada)
Executive Producer:
Producer: Gillian Carr
Director: Gillian Carr
Writers: Ray Boseley and Katherine Sandford
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G2G follows 11-yr-old Madison Marples-Macintosh (aka MaDDie) - a unique young lady who writes the "Dear Abby" column for her school newspaper. Due to her eccentric, extrovert parents and attention seeking "look at me" best friends, our introverted lead character is always in the shadows. In fact, she much prefers standing on the peripheryŠ looking IN, rather than performing centre stage. 26 x 30 minutes, animated

The Lost Treasure of Fiji

Produced by Pirate Islands Fiji Ltd
Producers: Judith John-Story, Jonathan M. Shiff
Director: Grant Brown
Writers: Chris Anastassiades, Simon Butters, Sam Carroll, Philip Dalkin, Max Dann, Kirsty Fisher, David Hannam, Joss King, Anthony Morris, Chris Roache
Cast: Saskia Burmeister, Adelaide Clements, Jim Daly, John Noble, Kain O'Keeffe, Sera Tikotikovatu, Wame Valentine, Nathan Vernon
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[Essentially, Pirate Islands 2] Top Gamers from around the world Tyler, Kirra and Alison are in Fiji for the launch of the new computer game, 'The Lost Treasure of Fiji'. But things go awry when they find themselves pulled inside the digital world in search of Tyler's younger brother. Swashbuckling pirates and tropical dangers become all too real obstacles as they join forces to solve the game and find their way back home before it's too late. (13 x 24 min)

Master Raindrop

Produced by Big Communications, Flux Animation, Flying Bark Productions
Producers: Brent Chambers, Vincent Lim
Director: Steve Cooper
Writers: Paul Barber, Stephen Batt, Joshua Chiang, Kym Goldsworthy, Lisa Hoppe, Jeff Lawrence, Brendan Luno, Leonard Mah, John Mein, James Meldrum, Kitty Phipps, Gina Roncoli, James Walker, Anthony Watt, David Witt
Cast: Jane O'Brien, Rachel King, Sarah Aubrey, Josh Quong-Tart, Josh Anderson, David Francis, Brian Meegan
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Chronicles the journey of four young friends ­ Raindrop, Shao Yen, Jinhou and Niwa ­ across The World of A Thousand Lands in search of their master, who has been captured by the evil General Bu. 3D animation brings to life characters from Asian Legends. (26 x 24 min, animated)

Packed To The Rafters

Produced by Seven Productions
Producers: Anthony Ellis, Jo Porter
Writers: Anthony Ellis, Bevan Lee
Cast: Rebecca Gibney, Erik Thomson, Michael Caton, Jessica Marais, Hugh Sheridan, Angus McLaren
Network: Seven

Meet Dave and Julie Rafter - just your average Australians with three grown-up children. On the eve of their twenty-fifth wedding-anniversary it seems they're at last about to have the house to themselves. Offspring Rachel, Ben and Nathan have all developed into well-rounded and out-going, if exceptionally different and complex, individuals, with a raft of their own conflicts and dilemmas. But home can seem a very welcome refuge when unforeseen problems loom. Filming Feb 29 - Sept 25, 2008.

Pearlie

Produced by Sticky Pictures (Australia) and Nelvana Studios (Canada)
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Networks: Ten, YTV

An animated series based on the childrens' books by Wendy Harmer which tells the tale of a pint-sized fairy who is the caretaker of Jubilee Park. (52x12min)

Small Business In Australia (aka Very Small Business)

Produced by Gristmill Pty Ltd
Producers: Robyn Butler and Wayne Hope
Director: Daina Reid
Writers: Wayne Hope and Gary McCaffrie
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Don Angel is a small businessman - the backbone of this great country's great economy. But if that's true, it's no thanks to him. After numerous unsuccessful business ventures, now Don's one man publishing empire is hurtling towards liquidation. His debts are mounting, his stomach's killing him, his wife has left him and he's just hired Ray Leonard as his journalist. Taking his first tentative steps back into the workplace after a six-year battle with depression, Ray enters a world totally alien to him. He's come from being a noted social commentator for 'The Australian' to writing advertorial for "Wilson's Woodwind and Brass" Autumn Sale - which might just be his cure. It's a marriage made in heaven - at least until the Tax Office gets there. (6 x 30 min)

Snake Tales

Produced by Westside Film & Television Pty Ltd
Producer: Ann Darrouzet
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Writers: Anthony Watt and Alix Beane
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Snake Tales is a live action half hour tween comedy. Two completely different teenage girls from opposite ends of the world are forced to live together in a run-down snake park in Outback Australia - with only their very strange families for company. (13 x 22 min)

Strike Team (aka Scorched)

Produced by Essential Viewing in association with Firelight Productions
Executive Producer: Jo Horsburgh, Rosemary Blight, Chris Hilton
Producers: Kylie Du Fresne, Ellenor Cox
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Cast: Georgie Parker, et al
Network: Nine

Set five years in the future, Georgie Parker play the premier of NWS in this dram which and looks at water scarcity and climate change.

The Strip

Producers: Steve Knapman and Kris Wyld
Directors: Shawn Seet, Ken Cameron, Ian Barry and Garth Maxwell
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Cast: Aaron Jeffery, Vanessa Gray, Simone McAullay, Bob Morley
Network: Nine

THE STRIP centres on the characters in a criminal investigation unit as they investigate the dark world of crime in one of the sunniest and shiniest environments in Australia. Filming begins May 19, 2008

Trouble x 7

Produced by: Jonathan M Shiff Productions
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Network: Seven

A half-hour comedy drama about the complexities of living in a family of seven girls. Shot at Sydney's Serenity Cove Studios.

Miniseries

Carla Cametti

Produced by Buona Notte Productions Pty Ltd
Executive Producer: Ewan Burnett
Producers: Elisa Argenzio, Cristina Pozzan
Director: TBA
Writers: Jo Martino, Samantha Winston, Liz Doran, Kris Mrksa
Cast: TBA
Network: SBS

Carla Cametti PD is a fast-paced and fresh crime series with a young Italian female as its lead. It is a human drama with lashings of crime and a huge dollop of wit, casting an eye across the incongruity of earthy day-to day life butting up against the heightened reality of designer-dressed gangsters roaming our streets. (6x1 hour mini-series)

The Cut

Produced by
Producer: Tom Blacket
Director:
Writer: John Misto
Cast: John Wood, et al
Network: ABC

A comedic six-part mini-series looking at the soft underbelly of professional sport through the eyes of a small, family-owned sports management business.

Dirt Game

Produced by Harvey Taft Productions
Producers: Michael Harvey, David Taft
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Writers: Michael Harvey
Network: ABC

A 6-part drama series about a UK CEO who is sent out by his secretive London Board to head up a debt-ridden Australian mining firm and who - with the help of a hastily-formed Aussie crisis-management team - is under ruthless instruction to either save the company or dump it. A series about one of Australia's oldest and riskiest pursuits; about the men and women who work deep underground, or on a heaving platform at sea, or drive huge trucks inside gaping pits in burning heat so that everyone else can watch TV, or use the phone, or open the fridge. The men and women - from the faction-torn board, down to the hazardous ore face - striving to save a proud if crippled Australian firm that is about to collapse unless a UK oil-executive, an Aussie woman geologist and an ill-matched crisis management team can somehow save it.

Elephant Princess

Produced by Jonathan M Shiff Productions
Executive Producer: Jonathan M Shiff
Co-producer: Joanna Werner
Director: Rodger Hodgman, Colin Budds
Writers: Phillip Dalkin, Anthony Morris, Max Dann, Chris Anastassiades, Simon Butters, Sam Carroll, Chris Roache
Network: Ten

Phoebe Wilson suddenly finds out that she's not an average, suburban girl - she's really the Princess of a mystical kingdom! But if her exotic visitor Kuru and a magical elephant can't help her master her new magical powers soon, then everything and everyone she knows is in danger. (26 x 30 minute mini-series)

False Witness

Produced by Screentime Pty Ltd
Executive producers: Des Monaghan, Brendan Dahill, Justin Bodle
Producer: Greg Haddrick
Director: Peter Andrikidis
Writers: Ronan Glennane, Nell Greenwood, Greg Haddrick
Network:

Against the heavily researched feature backdrop of bickering intelligence agencies, fallible police forces and international tensions, False Witness is a high-octane thriller based on the West's worst nightmare: a threat they do not see coming. Filming May 12 - June 27, 2008. (2x2 hour mini-series)

K9

Produced by Stewart & Wall Entertainment Pty Ltd
Executive Producer: Grant Bradley, Jim Howell
Producers: Penny Wall, Richard Stewart, Simon Barnes
Director: TBA
Writer: Bob Baker
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K9 is a highly refined robot in the guise and personality of a dog! However - K9 is nobody's pet - he is a highly intelligent creature created from a form of 'living metal' and when we first meet this fantastic robot he is guarding an abandoned prison transportation craft. (26x30 minute mini-series)

Pixel Pinkie

Produced by Blue Rocket Productions Pty Ltd
Producer: Alicia Rackett
Director: David Gurney
Animation Director: Matthew van Rooijen
Writers: Stephen Davis, Stu Connelly
Cast: TBA
Network: Nine

Newly arrived in town, Nina desperately wants to be accepted by her peers at her new school. If only she could be part of a normal, dysfunctional single-parent family, instead of an extended family of crystal gazing, 1970's time-locked, hippie parents. Most of all, Nina wishes she had a mobile phone just like everyone else! When Nina's wish comes true, she discovers her new mobile phone has an unlikely occupant who can grant all of her wishes! But as Nina soon discovers, wishes seldom go exactly to plan. (13x24 or 26x12 minute mini-series)

Saved

Produced by Big and Little Films
Producers: Michael McMahon, Tony Ayres and Belinda Chayko
Director: Tony Ayres
Writers: Belinda Chayko
Network: SBS

Julia Weston, an attractive woman in her early thirties, becomes the advocate for Amir Ali, a young Iranian refugee held in detention. As Julia helps Amir adjust to ordinary life, she finds herself increasingly attracted to this handsome, damaged young man. But she also starts to see the subtle cracks in Amir's story. Is he really who he claims he is? Or does he have a darker, more dangerous history (2x1 hour mini-series)

Stormworld

Produced by Great Western Entertainment Pty Ltd
Executive Producer:
Producer: Paul Barron
Directors: Mark DeFriest, Edward McQueen-Mason
Writers: Alex Burrows, Robert Greenberg, Kelly Lefever, David Ogilvy
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STORMWORLD, a world of three suns, mind-distorting storms and wild coastlines. Drinking water is precious and food is limited. Best friends Jason and Lee are mysteriously washed up on the shores of this hostile landscape. They are rescued and taken to the Settlement, where a small community is trying to create civilisation and order against the forces of nature and scavengers. There is one constant to Jason and Lee's dynamic adventures - the quest to return home.

Telemovies

Blood on the Sand

Produced by: Taylor Media
Executive Producer:
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Director: Rowan Woods
Writers: Ian David
Cast: Robert Menzies, Luke Ford, Nicholas Hope, Emma Booth, Bille Brown, Anni Finsterer
Network: ABC

A true crime story which explores the relationship between violent behaviour and creative responsibility.

Gumnutz

Produced by Big Pix Pty Ltd, Flying Bark Productions
Producers: John Cook
Directors: Clive Harrison, Margaret Parkes, Jane Schneider
Writers: Phil Sanders
Cast: Voices of Ian Bliss, Jamie Croft, Ines Vaz De Sousa, Rachel King, Keith Scott, Shane Withington
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The hero of GUMNUTZ is Claude, a neurotic numbat who is forced to save his uncle's juice factory from the clutches of the villainous Hot Shot Charlie, a crafty fox. Claude has help from his feisty friend Peppa, a fellow numbat and through their adventures they learn the importance of friendship, family and responsibility.

The Informant

Produced by Screentime Pty Ltd
Executive Producers: Bob Campbell, Des Monaghan
Producers: Greg Haddrick
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Cast: William McInnes
Network: Ten

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Strike Team (aka Scorched)

Executive Producers: Rosemary Blight & Chris Hilton
Producer: Kylie Du Fresne
Co-producer, Ellenor Cox
Director: Peter Duncan
Writer: Tony Tilse
Cast: Georgie Parker, et al
Network: Nine

A telemovie set in the year 2012, on Boxing Day, when Sydney runs out of water.

Valentine's Day

Produced by December Films Pty Ltd
Producer: Tony Wright
Director: Peter Duncan
Writer: Peter Temple
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Network: ABC

Ben Valentine drifts into Cardigan, a small Australian country town seemingly past it's used by date, at just the right time. Valentine's Day makes us feel it is possible to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat!