Funding Approvals
2024-2025 TELEVISION development
GENERATE
BALLPARK NORMAL
8 x 30 mins
Drama Queen Pty Ltd
Genre Comedy, Drama
Writer/Director Sofya Gollan
Producers Justine Flynn, Naomi Just
Synopsis A coming of age drama-comedy about rebelling against being labelled disabled AF.
DYNAMIC TELEVISION SCRIPTED INITIATIVE
FOX HUNT
8 x 45 mins
Digital Jellyfish t/a Lake Martin Films
Genre Thriller, Crime, Mystery
Writer Nicole Delprado
Producers Nicole Delprado, Kate Separovich
Synopsis After her unexplained disappearance five years ago, genius investigator Mackenzie Fox resurfaces to prove that she can solve any case. But with a secret past and a city full of enemies, is she now the hunter or the hunted?
Premium
THE GREATER GOOD
6 x 60 mins
Chard Media & Entertainment
Genre Drama, Thriller
Writers Stuart Page, Ruth Underwood
Producers Michael Lawrence, Christopher Chard, Nicholas Cook
Story Consultants Marisa Nathar, Justine A. Rosenthal, Peter Galvin
Synopsis The CIA runs heroin through sleepy Byron Bay to fund covert wars — but one small-town Australian woman isn’t buying the lies. After her husband’s death is staged as suicide, Margaret Mackerras begins digging, uncovering a vast conspiracy. Now hunted by killers and entangled with her husband’s murderer, she must decide: expose the truth or join the darkness. The Greater Good is from Chard Media & Entertainment and Micanical Media.
DIVA
8 x 30 mins
Ludo Studio
Genre Comedy, Drama, True Story, Sport
Writer Nick Coyle
Producers Jessica Magro, Lauren Brown
Executive Producers Charlie Aspinwall, Daley Pearson, Jason Dewhurst
Synopsis From Ludo Studio and Purple Carrot Entertainment, DIVA is inspired by a true story, and follows 21-year-old Elly as he rebels against his strict and religious Samoan life to become a professional wrestler in drag, all while trying to maintain his connection to family and culture by keeping his queer identity a secret.
ELLIE HARPER: QUICKSAND
6 x 60 mins
Photoplay Films Pty Ltd
Genre Mystery Spy Thriller returnable
Writers Felicity Packard, Larissa Behrendt, Shankari Chandran
Story Editor Christopher Kam
Story Producer Felicity Packard
Producer Karen Radzyner
Executive Producers Karen Radzyner, Shankari Chandran, Larissa Behrendt, Oliver Lawrance
Synopsis When a suspicious disappearance takes CIA agent Ellie Harper to rural Australia, her mission is simple: find the weapons intelligence leak and get out. But in this small mining town, buried secrets, missing children, rare earth minerals and a man she once loved create a lethal mix that force her to question everything – including who the real enemy is.
TRU-LUV
8 x 60 mins
Bossy Entertainment
Genre Drama, Science fiction
Writer Erica Harrison
Producer Bree-Anne Sykes
Synopsis Estranged siblings Margot and Caleb Lennon re-unite to build a company together despite their competing intentions for their product: a drug that can make people fall in love. As they grapple with conflicting ideologies and unexpected outcomes of their tech, we follow three generations of the Lennon family as TRU-LUV changes their relationships, and the world around them.
LEAN IN
8 x 60 mins
Lucy Coleman
Genre Drama, Dark Comedy, Satire
Creator/Writer/Executive Producer Lucy Coleman
Synopsis A feminist comedian joins her brother's sales firm, quickly learning she will have to play to the patriarchy to get ahead in this capitalist minefield.
HE/SHE/THEY (PKA FAIR PLAY)
8 x 30 mins
Blackfella Films Pty. Limited
Genre Romantic comedy, comedy, drama
Creator Shane Jenek (Courtney Act)
Writer Marieke Hardy
Producers Darren Dale, Penny Smallacombe
Synopsis Australia’s most eligible bachelor, a sought-after talent agent, and a famous drag queen share a surprising night of passion. But in the light of day, how will this trio navigate their unconventional entanglement and their own insecurities in a world built for couples?
MY BROTHER'S ASHES ARE IN A SANDWICH BAG
6 x 45 mins
Haven't You Done Well Productions
Genre Comedy, Drama, Musical
Director Max Miller
Writers Michelle Brasier, Sam Lingham, Hannah Carroll Chapman, Paddy Macrae, Gillian Cosgriff
Producers Monique Mulcahy, Michelle Brasier, Sam Lingham
Executive Producer Georgia Mappin
Synopsis When a country girl gets kicked out of her dream university for lack of lived experience, she stumbles head first into a literal firestorm of life experience. She is suddenly faced with 3rd degree burns, learning to walk again, the sudden loss of her father and brother and a looming hereditary illness threatening to take her too.
CHAI TIME AT CINNAMON GARDENS
8 x 60 mins
Aquarius Films Pty Ltd
Genre Drama
Writers S. Shakthidharan, Mithila Gupta, Shankari Chandran
Producer Angie Fielder
Synopsis When Anjali's estranged husband ignites a modern-day race war, Anjali and her mother Maya must confront the ghosts of their war-torn Sri Lankan past to protect their tight-knit Australian community from being destroyed.
REARRANGED
8 x 30 mins
Kindling Pictures
Genre Romance, Comedy
Writers Arka Das, Adam Dunn
Producers Imogen Banks, Emelyne Palmer
Executive Producer Imogen Banks
Synopsis When Avi’s debaucherous lifestyle gets him ‘brownmailed’ into an arranged marriage, the last thing he expects is to meet Mina, who, like Avi, couldn’t care less about settling down. Together they concoct a plan to fool their meticulous matchmakers. But can they fool fate?
THE SOMMELIER
8 x 30 mins
Clever Rabbit Productions
Genre Drama, Romantic comedy
Director Monica Zanetti
Writers Monica Zanetti, Erica Harrison, Nina Oyama
Producer Monica Zanetti
Synopsis After being engulfed in a cheating scandal in an elite wine exam. Ella tries to rebuild the crumbs of her life the scandal has destroyed by teaming up with her reluctant ex-girlfriend to create a non-alcoholic wine so elite it can compete with the most prestigious wines in the world.
AT ALL COSTS
8 x 60 mins
Rhapsody Films Pty Ltd
Genre Drama, Thriller
Producer Alice Willison
Writers Ainslie Clouston, Anna Barnes, Alice McCredie-Dando
Synopsis A mother kidnaps her baby. A father launches a relentless international manhunt. Both believe they’re protecting their child—from each other.
DEEP
8 x 52 mins
Moving Floor Entertainment
Genre Crime thriller
Writers Stephen Irwin, Leigh McGrath
Producers Stephen Irwin, Leigh McGrath
Synopsis Luke Bailey (30) is a deep-cover police officer who has infiltrated a dangerous Newcastle (NSW) criminal gang. When another undercover cop is killed, Luke is terrified the gang in which he’s embedded suspect his true identity. Luke contacts his superiors... and is ghosted. He discovers all records of his undercover assignment have been erased. Luke is now thrust into a deadly cat-and-mouse game as he seeks to maintain his deep cover and find out who betrayed him… and why.
THE OBSERVER
6 x 55 mins
Matchbox Pictures
Genre Thriller, Crime, Mystery
Writer Natasha Henry
Executive Producers Sheila Jayadev, Debbie Lee
Synopsis When a fishery observer is found dead in Pacific Island waters, detective Ellie Palm is sent to investigate.
BED ON FIRE
6 x 60 mins
Kelly Schilling
Genre Romance, intergenerational family drama
Creator/Writer Kelly Schilling
Script Editor/Story Consultant Greg Waters
Story Consultant Michaeley O'Brien
Synopsis Bed on Fire is a high-octane love story and intergenerational family drama set in and around the grand family-owned O’Reilly Motorsport Complex. It follows two lovers from opposite sides of the track – race car driver, Jack, 38, and single mum, Amber, 34 - who fall in love, but battle to fit into each other’s lives as past traumas rise to the surface and the driver’s family-owned Motorsport Complex teeters on the edge of collapse. As the O’Reilly family battle to save their legacy and their livelihoods, relationships and hearts are pushed to breaking point, leading to an ‘all or nothing’ race to the end, both on and off the track.
HOW TO PLAY HIDE AND SEEK WHEN YOU WANT TO KILL SOMEONE
6 x 48 mins
Blake E Ayshford
Genre Comedy, Drama, Family
Writers Blake Ayshford, Natasha Henry, Chris Squadrito
Synopsis When financial disaster forces an estranged father and son back under the same roof it looks like an opportunity for the pair to finally mend their relationship. And it would be, if the father hadn’t kidnapped the man who stole millions from him, and hidden him in his son’s shed.
GRACE OF THE MIDLANDS
6 x 60 mins
Rodrigo Andres Vidal Dawson
Genre Comedy, Drama
Writers Alicia Walsh, Anna McPartlin
Producers Rodrigo Vidal Dawson, Sam Atwell
Executive Producers Veronica Fury, David Collins
Synopsis In the middle of a career and relationship crisis, photojournalist Grace (45) finds herself broke, unemployed and at a crossroads. Never knowing her birth mother, Grace’s life is upended when her biological aunt in Ireland makes contact after a match on a genealogical website. Grace hightails it back from Brisbane to the small Irish town she left a lifetime ago, with the first lead she’s ever had on the woman who’s been a mystery her whole life. Grace of the Midlands is from Prod Co Tacos Entertainment (Aus) and Samson Films (Ireland).
Generate
HOW TO HUMAN
13 x 30 mins
Jem Splitter
Genre Action Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction, Family, Animation
Writer Jem Splitter
Synopsis Aliens touch down in small town Victoria – but are they friendly refugees in need of aid and shelter, or the first wave of a full-scale invasion of Earth?
SHAMEJOB
8 x 25 mins
Ensemble Films Pty Ltd
Genre Comedy
Writers Aretha Brown, William Duan, Sophia McKinnon
Producers Aretha Brown, William Duan
Synopsis After mishandling its budget, staff & students at Bourke University’s Indigenous “Dreamtime Centre” must remake its annual budget to put on the NAIDOC Ball before the University finds out.
COMPLETELY NORMAL (AND OTHER LIES)
8 x 30 mins
Flying Bark Productions Pty Ltd
Genre Drama, Comedy
Writer/Director Mohini Herse
Producer Coco Garner Davis
Executive Producers Barbara Stephen, Libbie Doherty, Jodi Matterson
Synopsis Sharp-witted teenager Stella Wilde does her absolute worst at surviving the school year as her family, school and social lives implode with the shock death of her secret boyfriend and budding friendship with his grieving ex. It is from Flying Bark Productions and Runaway Unicorn.
DADHOOD
8 x 30 mins
Genre Dramatic Comedy
Director Sunny Grace
Writers Richie Black, Sunny Grace, Andy Leonard
Producer Sunny Grace
Story Consultant Holly Lyons
Synopsis A dramatic comedy about a forty-year-old single cis man who uses surrogacy to create the family he’s always wanted, but when he accidentally gets his ex-pregnant too, life delivers way more than he expected, challenging his ideas of responsibility and privilege.
UNAPOLOGETICALLY BLACK: AFRO SISTERS
8 x 22 mins
Suzan Mutesi
Genre Teen Dramedy, Coming-of-Age, Family
Director Ronnie S. Riskalla
Writers Suzan Mutesi, Shirley Pierce, Zufi Emerson
Synopsis In a world where old money and white privilege rule, four African-Australian immigrant cousins challenge the system at an elite high school. Clapping back, navigating crushes and tackling culture clashes at home, these girls rewrite the rules while staying true to their identity, sisterhood, and survival. Narrated by Tabs through a proudly Black immigrant lens, this is culture, chaos, and coming-of-age with a crown on.
MOTHERLODE 1.0
6 x 60 mins
Photoplay Films Pty Ltd
Genre Crime Drama, Cyber suspense
Writers Stuart Page, Heidi Arena
Episode Director Scott Otto Anderson
Producer Karen Radzyner
Executive Producers Scott Otto Anderson, Oliver Lawrance, Karen Radzyner
Synopsis Rebellious computer geeks vs a police force without a clue… Game on! 1985. The internet hasn’t even arrived in Australia. PCs have barely hit the market. A group of smart, weird kids, bored out of their brains in the dead suburbs of Melbourne, are discovering they can shut down the world from their bedrooms. The police have no idea what’s happening – there aren’t even laws that cover this kind of thing yet. They’re starting from a long way back.
THE BULLY
8 x 30 mins
LateNite
Genre Drama, Thriller
Writer Jordan Prosser
Producer Nicholas Colla
Synopsis 20 years after high school, a woman sets out to ruin the life of the bully who once ruined hers.
GOOD GRIEF
8 x 45 mins
Jessica Sofarnos
Genre Drama, Tragicomedy
Creator/Writer Jessica Sofarnos
Producers Scarlett Koehne, Jessica Smith
Executive Producers Minkie Spiro, Amanda Higgs, Jessica Sofarnos
Synopsis After the unexpected death of her mother, a young woman must wade through the depths of grief and confront life’s fragility, whilst navigating the complexities of her late-20’s in Melbourne’s party scene.
JIDOO & IBIS
40 x 5 mins
Wendy Hanna
Genre Family, Animation
Writers Wendy Hanna, Michael Drake, Clare Madsen
Producer Wendy Hanna
Synopsis All grumpy grandpa Jidoo wants is to enjoy his backyard – to grow his veggies, tinker with his tools and have a snooze in the shed. But look who’s just flapped in! It’s Ibis, a cheerful larrikin, oblivious to the trouble they’re about to cause… Inspired by the real-life shenanigans between the creator’s father and the hungry bin chickens who flock to his garden, Jidoo & Ibis is a comedy series for young pre-schoolers about unexpected problems and unexpected friendship.
GOLDEN
8 x 60 mins
Film Camp
Genre Drama, Crime
Director Rhys Graham
Writers Marieke Hardy, Rhys Graham
Producer Philippa Campey
Synopsis On the iconic and sun-drenched Gold Coast, two elderly women, trying to relive the faded glamour of their past, cross paths by chance... leading to a beautiful friendship, petty crime and a series of very bloody murders.
FLIC FLAC GYMNASTICS SUPERHEROES
10 x 11 mins
Pike Salto
Genre Action Adventure, Family, Animation
Writers Nicole Delprado, Grace Rein, Andrea Kahukiwa, Holly Lyons, Sandy Greenwood, Victoria Lu, Rautini O’Brien, Caitlin Fremaux
Producers Nicole Delprado, Grace Rein, Andrea Kahukiwa
Synopsis A teenage girl gifted with the ancient power of gymnastics is recruited to a secret team of Trans-Tasman gymnastics superheroes to save the planet from old-world evils.
OGECHI'S SALON
6 x 30 mins
Beyond Entertainment Pty Ltd
Genre Comedy, Drama
Writer/Creator Chika Ikogwe
Writers Romina Accurso, Chidiebube Uba, Jack Yabsley
Producer Melinda Wearne
Executive Producer David Ogilvy
Synopsis A young Nigerian woman opens an African hair salon in Newtown and quickly learns that X-Pression braiding hair won’t be the only thing she gets tangled up in!
SHARPENED KNIVES
10 x 30 mins
Arenamedia
Genre Comedy, Drama
Creator Mararo Wangai
Writers Huna Amweero, Mararo Wangai
Producers Ivy Mutuku, Mimo Mukii, Kate Laurie
Executive Producer Robert Connolly
Synopsis Kaka is an affluent Kenyan exchange student living his dreams in the West, attending a prestigious business school on family dime and accepted amongst the white elite. When his parent’s money unexpectedly vanishes, he is forced to secretly work as a dishwasher in a restaurant kitchen full of other immigrants, and somehow keep these two worlds separate. Sharpened Knives is from Arenamedia in association with Ten Days.
A MODEL FAMILY
10 x 30 mins
Photoplay Films Pty Ltd
Genre Comedy, Drama, Science fiction, returnable
Creators Keir Wilkins, Renny Wijeyamohan, Sonia Whiteman, Karen Radzyner
Writers Keir Wilkins, Renny Wijeyamohan, Sonia Whiteman, Guy Edmonds, Emmanuelle Mattana
Producers Karen Radzyner, Linda Micsko, Renny Wijeyamohan
Executive Producers Karen Radzyner, Oliver Lawrance
Synopsis This byte-sized bunch is going nuclear. Five ultra-lifelike AIs on the run from ‘decommissioning’ (euphemism!), must pass for a human ‘nuclear' family to survive in sunny Rainy Cove.