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Australian Guild of Screen Composers elects new president
Guy Gross has been elected President of the Australian Guild of Screen Composers. He succeeds Clive Harrison. Gross is one of Australia’s leading composers with credits including East West 101,...
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NBC to adapt The Slap
NBC is close to finalising a deal to adapt The Slap for the US market. Deadline reports Brothers & Sisters creator Jon Robin Baitz will write the adaptation and executive produce with Matchbox...
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The Slap, The Amazing Race Australia up for International Emmys.
Nominees have been announced for the 2012 International Emmys. From Australia, The Slap from Matchbox Pictures / ABC / Screen Australia is nominated for Drama Series. It competes with Braquo (France),...
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Strange Calls: another ABC series getting US adaptation
Another ABC series is set to have a US adaptation, but in a first, this time it’s landed a US nod before the Australian series has even aired. Strange Calls premieres next Tuesday night on ABC2, based...
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Jack Irish
It’s impossible not to notice that the ABC’s Drama slate is on fire right now. There are new shows coming at us left, right and centre. Telemovies, series, comedies, US adaptations approved,...
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ABC1 replays The Slap
If you’ve heard enough about The Slap but you missed it last year, ABC begins a repeat of the miniseries from tonight. The eight-part series begins at 10:10pm. This has picked up a slew of awards and...
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Fast-tracking fails to lift TEN’s Super-Sunday
It was always going to be a tough battle, especially for the coveted 8:30pm timeslot, but TEN’s new-look Super Sunday didn’t fire last night. Once again it has fallen behind the ABC despite new...
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2012 Screen Music Awards: nominees
The Australasian Performing Right Association and the Australian Guild of Screen Composers have announced nominees for the 2012 Screen Music Awards. Leading the TV nominations is ABC mini-series The...
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Airdate: Never Did Me Any Harm
Next week STUDIO presents Never Did Me Any Harm, a dance theatre piece that was Recorded live at Sydney Festival 2012, inspired by Christos Tsiolkas’ bestselling book The Slap. The production from...
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FOX to pilot US version of Rake
The US adaptation of Rake starring Greg Kinnear is headed to FOX , after interest from both broadcast and cable networks. Paul Attanasio, originally attached as showrunner is no longer involved because...
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Jeremy Sims, still wild about story.
Jeremy Sims readily admits he isn’t in the position yet of being able to sit back and work whenever he pleases, but as actor, director and producer, working in TV, film and theatre he’s nothing if not...
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Devil’s Dust
The last in ABC’s current wave of new local dramas will premiere this Sunday night -and it may just have left the best until last. Devil’s Dust is the sombre story of the fight for legal justice by...
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ABC dominates Screen Music Awards 2012
ABC TV shows were the big winners at the 2012 Screen Music Awards last night in Melbourne with The Slap, Mabo, Giggle & Hoot amongst the TV category winners. Nine’s Underbelly: Razor and Gasp! also...
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Amazing Race Australia wins International Emmy
The Amazing Race Australia has won an International Emmy Award in New York as Best Non-Scripted Entertainment Program. The award was accepted by activeTV president Michael McKay and host Grant Bowler....
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TV Tonight Awards: one week to vote
House Husbands, Offspring, Karl Stefanovic, The Shire, Shaun Micallef, Homeland, Paul Henry, Sunrise, Two and a Half Men, Q & A -just some of the votes currently polling well in the TV Tonight...
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Programmer’s Wrap 2013: ABC1
Brendan Dahill is rightly proud of ABC’s Drama slate. After years of neglect and lack of funding it is now arguably the jewel in the broadcaster’s crown. As Channel Controller, Dahill has kicked off a...
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Josh Thomas from stand-up to sex scenes
When the very self-deprecating Josh Thomas performs his stand-up routine he likes to touch on awkward subjects. “In my stand-up I talk about things that people don’t usually talk about or are...
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Please Like Me, Puberty Blues selected for French TV festival
Two Australian shows have been invited to appear in Official Selection at the Series Mania Television Festival in Paris. One is Puberty Blues and the other is Josh Thomas’ Please Like Me, which...
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Please Like Me
Even Josh Thomas is the first to admit he’s a bit unconventional. “Sometimes I have a face that looks like a 50 year old baby,” he admits. Self-deprecation is a big part of his stand-up act and an...
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Sophie Lowe cast as Alice in Wonderland
Australian actress Sophie Lowe (The Slap, Satisfaction) has landed the role of Alice in Wonderland role in the Once Upon a Time spin-off, Once: Wonderland. Producers will shoot a short “teaser”...
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