Funding Approvals
2024-2025 production FUNDING
JULY 2024
AUSTIN SEASON 2
8 x 25 mins
Northern Pictures Pty Ltd
Genre Comedy
Directors Darren Ashton, Madeleine Dyer, Rebecca O’Brien
Created by Darren Ashton, Ben Miller, Joe Tucker, Lloyd Woolf
Writers Joe Tucker, Lloyd Woolf, Adam Zwar, Amy Stewart, Andy Riley, Kevin Cecil, Emma Jane Unsworth
Producer Joe Weatherstone
Executive Producers Ben Miller, Sally Phillips, Jessica Parker, Joe Tucker, Lloyd Woolf, Peter Anderson, Darren Ashton, Catherine Nebauer
Distributor ABC
International Sales ITV Studios
Synopsis As we enter season two, Austin’s publishing career takes off when “Game Of Scones: Doing Britain On The Spectrum” is picked by an international publisher. As his fame among the bespoke travelling readers grows, he falls under the professional spell of his new agent, and to the horror of his family breaks bad - behaving in a manner unbefitting his true self. Meanwhile, an Australian production company options Big Bear to adapt into a TV series. Julian and Ingrid with Austin in tow, head to Canberra, Australia, but the joy is short lived when they discover the production company wants to exclude Julian and reinvent the Big Bear brand.
August 2024
HE HAD IT COMING
8 x 22.5 mins
Jungle Entertainment
Genre Comedy, Drama, Crime
Creators/Writers Gretel Vella, Craig Anderson
Writers Emme Hoy, Belinda King, Hannah Samuel, Nick Coyle
Executive Producers Chloe Rickard, Shay Spencer
Broadcaster Stan
International Sales Fifth Season
Synopsis After their feminist art project is co-opted by a killer, two college women must form an unlikely alliance and track down the culprit.
October 2024
GNOMES
6 x 30 mins
Total Fiction Pty Ltd and Screen Invaders Pty Ltd
Genre Comedy, Horror
Creater Joel Kohn
Directors Matthias Hoene, Sian Davies, Joel Kohn
Writers Tegan Higginbotham, Paul F Verhoeven
Producers John Molloy, Richard Kelly, Joel Kohn
Broadcaster Stan
International Sales Happy Accidents
Synopsis Located in an isolated valley, this former tourism hot-spot was once famous for its Gnome factory and show-stopping garden gnome displays. But today, it’s hard to get phone reception in Nompton, let alone drum up a crowd. Nompton is little more than a sign you pass on the freeway en route to somewhere better. In a misguided effort to put Nompton back on the map, the town's ambitious mayor has spent the council's last dollars on a Gnome festival. But when ‘Gnome-a-Palooza’ takes a terrifying turn, the sleepy town's residents find themselves wishing they’d remained forgotten… and alive.
FEBRUARY 2025
TWO YEARS LATER
8 x 26 mins
Hoodlum Entertainment Pty Ltd
Genre Drama, Romantic comedy
Writer Pete Bridges
Producers Tracey Vieira, Tracey Robertson, Nathan Mayfield
Broadcaster Paramount+
International Sales Banijay Rights
Synopsis After their work commute flirtation is interrupted by the Covid pandemic, 30-somethings Ryan and Emily are reunited two years later and his impromptu proposal leads them on a series of eight dates to determine whether they should get married.
SEPTEMBER 2025
BAD COMPANY
Guesswork Television Pty Ltd
6 x 30 mins
Genre Comedy
Director Tom Peterson
Writer Anne Edmonds
Producer Andrew Walker
Executive Producers Kevin Whyte, Ben Grogan, Anne Edmonds
Broadcaster ABC
International Sales Guesswork Distribution
Synopsis When a corporate titan (Kitty Flanagan) becomes the newest CEO of the State Theatre Centre she faces the challenge of a lifetime: overthrowing the manipulative and egotistical Artistic Director (Anne Edmonds) to save the theatre from collapse.
THE KILLINGS: PARRISH STATION
6 x 60 mins
KAPS Productions Pty Ltd
Genre Drama, Thriller, Mystery
Director Daniel Nettheim
Writers Ben Jenkins, Tim Pye, Yolanda Ramke, Catherine Smyth-McMullen
Executive Producer Mark Fennessy
Producer Kerrie Mainwairing
Broadcaster Stan
International Sales ITV Studios
Synopsis A cosmic mystery intertwines with horror in a decades-long mystery.
November 2025
CAPER CREW
10 x 30 mins
Easy Tiger Productions
Genre Comedy, Family
Directors Guy Edmonds, Stef Smith, Shelly Lauman
Writers Matt Whittet, Keith Thompson, Erica Harrison, Amy Stewart, Jack Yabsley
Producers Ian Collie, Rob Gibson, Yingna Lu
Broadcaster ABC
International Sales Australian Children’s Television Foundation
Synopsis Amelia and Kai Delaney’s quiet lives are upended when their grandmother Queenie, a flamboyant con-artist, bursts in and teaches them the art of the grift—sparking a hunt for her long-lost treasure, The Woodspring Nug, and aiding their quest for confidence.
THE F WARD
6 x 60 mins
Roadshow Rough Diamond
Genre Drama
Writers Kelsey Munro, Shanti Gudgeon, Jack Yabsley, Nicholas Coyle
Producers Dan Edwards, Kelsey Munro, John Edwards
Directors Natalie Bailey, Neil Sharma
Broadcaster Stan
International Sales CBS
Synopsis The F Ward is a hospital show about underdogs who succeed. Young, talented and high-minded interns who’ve failed and are on their last chance; they must overcome their insecurities, their past and their own expectations, in a hot house environment where the stakes are life and death.
HIGH COUNTRY SEASON 2
8 x 45 mins
Curio Pictures Pty Ltd
Genre Drama, Thriller, Mystery
Set-Up Director Lucy Gaffy
Writers John Ridley, Marcia Gardner, Beck Cole, Kim Wilson
Executive Producers Jo Porter, Rachel Gardner, John Ridley, Leah Purcell
Producers Jo Porter, Rachel Gardner, Angie Fielder
Commissioning Broadcaster Foxtel in association with ABC
International Sales Sony Pictures Television
Synopsis A shocking double murder forces Sergeant Andie Whitford to confront the limits of justice, loyalty, and truth. As the mystery spirals outward, Andie must decide how far she’s willing to go to protect her community, those she loves, and herself.
UNTITLED GOALPOST PROJECT
8 x 45 mins
Goalpost Television Pty Ltd
Genre Drama, Romantic comedy
Executive Producers Rosemary Blight, Kylie du Fresne, Lauren Kisilevsky
Broadcaster Stan Entertainment Pty Ltd
Synopsis A modern retelling of a classic romance.
UNTITLED GRISTMILL PROJECT
6 x 30 mins
Gristmill
Genre Comedy
Producer Robyn Butler, MaryAnne Carroll, Wayne Hope
Director Wayne Hope
Writer Gary McCaffrie
Broadcaster ABC
International Sales Super Java Distribution Pty Ltd
UNTITLED HOODLUM ENTERTAINMENT PROJECT
6 x 50 mins
Hoodlum Entertainment Pty Ltd
Genre Drama
Writers Adam Zwar, Belinda King, Kim Ho
Executive Producers Tracey Robertson, Nathan Mayfield, Tracey Vieira, Greg Bearup
UNTITLED SOAPBOX PRODUCTIONS PROJECT
6 x 55 mins
Soapbox Productions Pty Ltd
Genre Drama, Crime
Producer Deborah Balderstone
Executive Producers Deborah Balderstone, Xavier Marchand, Daisy Gilbert, Emma Freeman, Dianne Taylor
Director Emma Freeman
Writers Dianne Taylor, Stuart Page, Belinda Chayko, Beatrix Christian
Broadcaster ABC
Distributor Federation International
International Sales Federation International
UNTITLED LINGO PICTURES PROJECT
4 x 60 mins
Lingo Pictures Pty Ltd
Genre Drama
Producer Helen Bowden, Linda Micsko
Executive Producer Jason Stephens
Writer Blake Ayshford, Sophie Miller, Magda Wozniak
Director Jennifer Leacey
Broadcaster ABC
International Sales ITV Studios