Funding Approvals
2022-2023 TELEVISION development
PREMIUM
THIRTEEN DAYS
3 x 60 mins
Curio Pictures Pty Ltd
Genre Drama, Thriller, Historical
Writer Andrew Bovell
Executive Producers Jo Porter, Rachel Gardner, Marian Macgowan, Andrew Bovell
Synopsis The revisionist history of a forgotten woman at the forefront of our political landscape.
THE HOUSEMATE
6 x 60 mins
Lingo Pictures Pty Ltd
Genre Thriller, Crime, Mystery
Writer Liz Doran
Executive Producers Helen Bowden, Jason Stephens
Synopsis Three Melbourne housemates. One dead, one missing and one accused of murder. It’s a mystery that has baffled Australians, including investigative reporter Oli Groves, for nearly a decade… Until the missing housemate returns. Together with millennial podcaster Cooper Ng, Oli uncovers a dangerous web of secrets that threatens to engulf her personal life too. How far will she go before she loses herself – or endangers the ones she loves?
IMMERSION
8 x 60 mins
I Am That Pty Limited
Genre Crime, Science fiction
Director Garth Davis
Writer Matt Vesely
Producer Samantha Lang
Executive Producers Garth Davis, Emile Sherman
Synopsis When an investigation into his daughter's illness leads to signs of a shadowy government Agency experimenting with the subconscious, a police detective becomes trapped in an immersive reality.
FORGET ME NOT
8 x 30 mins
Kacie Anning
Genre Comedy
Writer/Director Kacie Anning
Producer Kacie Anning
Synopsis Famous as a child for her parents’ notorious prank-filled online channel, Sally (27) is still reckoning with her unwanted fame when an unforgivable stunt by her parents sets Sally on a crusade to wipe her own existence from the internet. Together with two other internet-famous-kids and a documentarian hoping to expose ‘sharenting’ culture, Sally will take on internet giants, trolls and hackers, but most importantly, her parents, in a bid to have her Right to Be Forgotten granted.
HOUSE OF KWA
8 x 60 mins
Wooden Horse Pty Ltd
Genre Drama
Creator Corrie Chen
Writer/Director Corrie Chen
Writers’ Room Collaborators Penelope Chai, Niki Aken, Liselle Mei, Kim Ho
Producers Jude Troy, Richard Finlayson
Executive Producers Jude Troy, Richard Finlayson, Elizabeth Bradley, Corrie Chen
Synopsis When high-profile journalist Mimi Kwa’s father sues her over his beloved sister’s will, she faces a battle with the ghosts and misdeeds of her family’s dynastic past.
UNSETTLED
8 x 60 mins
Tilt Media & Entertainment Pty Ltd
Genre Family Drama, Mystery, Indigenous Realism
Creators Nicole Sullivan, Melissa Lucashenko
Writers Melissa Lucashenko, Stuart Page
Producer Diane Robertson
Co-producer Nicole Sullivan
Executive Producers Chris Hilton, Rhoda Roberts, Simonne Overend
Synopsis In an Australian seaside town newly arrived French teenager, Sasha, discovers the body of an Indigenous child which has been mysteriously preserved for 150 years forcing two prominent families to face unsettling secrets and triggers a battle over coveted ancestral land.
UNDERCURRENT
6 x 60 mins
Sweet Shop Green Pty Ltd
Genre Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery
Creators Rebecca Ingram, Stuart Page
Writers Stuart Page, Rebecca Ingram, Jock Serong
Producer Gal Greenspan
Executive Producers Ayelet Waldman, Sharlene George
SSG Head of Scripted Rachael Turk
Synopsis When a mainland police officer is murdered on idyllic Norfolk Island, an islander finds herself caught between the fiercely independent community she loves, the much-maligned Island Administrator tasked with investigating the crime, and her own desperate need for a smoke.
MORTAL COIL
8 x 40 mins
Magpie Pictures Pty Ltd
Genre Comedy, Drama
Creator Roger Monk
Director Christiaan Van Vuuren
Writers Roger Monk, Christiaan Van Vuuren, Rebecca Ingram
Script Consultant Belinda Chayko
Producers Lois Randall, Roger Monk
Synopsis When a thrill-seeking couple find an opportunity to pay their spiralling fertility debts by turning their tourist adventure business into a niche euthanasia service, they jump - literally.
END OF.
Werner Film Productions
Genre Drama, Comedy
Director Alethea Jones
Writer Ash Flanders
Producer Joanna Werner
Script Editor Cléa Frost
Synopsis After taking a job as a legal transcriptionist, a failing performer fights a losing battle with the transcript of his own life.
THE CAILLEACH
Babadook Pty Ltd
Genre Horror
Director Jennifer Kent
Writers Jennifer Kent, Lynne Vincent McCarthy
Synopsis In 1740’s rural Ireland, the already hard lives of an elder healer and her daughter are irrevocably changed when a terrifying host of creatures begin to feed on the broken souls of their poor and remote farming community.
COMBATOMS
Big Serious Studios Pty Ltd
Genre Family, Sci-fi, Action adventure
Creator Charlotte Rose Hamlyn
Director David Peers
Writers Charlotte Rose Hamlyn, John Armstrong
Producer Katrina Peers
Synopsis When a group of kids discover super powered creatures (Combatoms) in their small town, they must race to harness their amazing abilities before a ruthless corporation can exploit them to reshape the world.
THE SUBJUGATE
Aquarius Films
Genre Thriller, Science fiction
Writer Becca Johnstone
Producers Angie Fielder, Polly Staniford
Synopsis A near-future, dystopian, sci-fi crime thriller, where two homicide detectives hunt a serial killer in a small-town religious community that has been rehabilitating surgically reformed murderers.
HAVE I SAID TOO MUCH?
Hardy White Pictures Pty Ltd
Genre Drama
Creator Amy Molloy
Director Erin White
Writers Erin White, Michelle Hardy, Amy Molloy
Producer Michelle Hardy
Executive Producers Ian Collie, Rob Gibson
Synopsis A window into life after oversharing, Have I Said Too Much? is a half-hour drama series that follows UK journalist, Amy Murphy (25) as she rebuilds her life in Australia after her controversial memoir about being widowed at a young age makes headlines around the world for the unconventional way she tried to move on. Inspired by a true story, and the memoir Wife, Interrupted by Amy Molloy.
GENERATE
A LONELY GIRL IS A DANGEROUS THING
6 x 60 mins
Thumper Pictures Pty Ltd
Genre Drama
Writer Jessie Tu
Script Editor John Collee
Producer Morgan Hind
Synopsis Jena is a Taiwanese-Australian woman and former child prodigy who is re-entering the white, male-dominated and privileged world of classical musicianship after a lengthy period out of the spotlight; in doing so she must grapple with her own understanding of her identity and power, which has been tied to this world and those that put her in it for as long as she can remember.
UNQUALIFIED
6 x 30 mins
Catherine Moore
Genre Comedy
Director Matthew Moore
Writers Catherine Moore, Genevieve Hegney
Producers Catherine Moore, Genevieve Hegney
Synopsis The story of two women who are not just living a lie but lying for a living. Uptight, ambitious, Joanne Truebody and eternally optimistic, Felicity Bacon are over 45 and virtually skill-less. This odd couple team up to open a Temporary Employment Agency — but they'll do ALL the jobs themselves. Jobs for which they are well and truly unqualified. Unqualified is for everyone who's ever felt like an imposter in the workplace and anyone who actually is one.
GOOD EGGS
6 x 30 mins
3rd Gen Productions Pty Ltd
Genre Comedy, Drama
Writer Melanie Tait
Producer Cecilia Ritchie
Synopsis Nicola is 39 and wants a family, Sarah is 40 and she’s losing her family, Zoya is 39 and she hasn’t got any family left. They haven’t seen the nuclear family work for anyone. Can a baby or two help these three friends make a family together?
MY SISTER ELLIE
Jessie Mangum
6 x 60 mins
Genre Mystery Thriller
Director Laura Scrivano
Writers Samantha Collins, Laura Scrivano
Producer Jessie Mangum
Synopsis Jen and her husband Paul land in wintery London determined to find Jen’s sister Ellie, the surrogate carrying their child, who has fled Australia and vanished. Desperate, they discover Ellie has lied about her former life in London, fuelling their fears and triggering Jen’s memories of the childhood death of Ellie’s twin Marianne. As their search continues Jen discovers how deep the lies run – are those closest to her hiding a terrible secret?
HONEYMOON
8 x 30 mins
Gina Song
Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
Writers Gina Song, Liên Ta
Synopsis In a near future with increasing global warming and decreasing fertility rates, a romantic optimist, Thea Lim, joins ‘The Honeymoon’ – a program designed to pair young people with their potential life partners. Her happily-ever-after is complicated when she begins to fall in love with her matched partner’s cynical sister, Haru.
CUSTODIANS
8 x 30 mins
Natasha Henry
Genre Comedy
Writer Natasha Henry
Synopsis A Pasifika creative lucks her way into a high stakes public relations role at a public art museum, just as the state government threatens to close it down. To keep her job and the museum open, she must singlehandedly transform their eccentric director into a woke media darling and push her moral and cultural compass to its limits.
DEBATABLE
8 x 30 mins
Unless Pictures Pty Ltd
Genre Comedy, Drama, Young Adult
Writers Jessica Tuckwell, Enoch Mailangi, Thomas Weatherall, Maddie Nixon
Development Producers Sanja Simić, Diya Eid
Executive Producers Meg O'Connell, Kurt Royan, Dan Lake
Synopsis When a recently disgraced high-school debater is moved to a small coastal town to recover from unspeakable humiliation, rumours quickly follow and she must think, talk and act fast. Even if that means joining the new school’s motley debating team and learning to speak truth to power.
SUMMER OF EVIL
Orange Entertainment Co
Genre Horror, Fantasy
Writer Michael Hudson
Producers Michael Hudson, Stephanie Westwood, Diya Eid
Synopsis An unlikely gang of youths venture on a terrifying quest deep in the bush to save the adults of their small community from a supernatural threat that has enslaved them. On their journey they'll also discover that the spooky Dreamtime stories they were told as kids aren't just stories.
GORGEOUS
Chips & Gravy Films
Genre Drama, Thriller
Writers Alexandra Keddie, Gemma Bird Matheson
Producers Alexandra Keddie, Gemma Bird Matheson
Script Consultant Jane Allen
Story Consultant Jada Alberts
Synopsis Off the back of a career defining story, Journalist Charlotte Barber returns home to Launceston, Tasmania to make a podcast; a ‘then and now’ piece juxtaposing the current 2017 Marriage Equality vote with the unsolved murder of her girlfriend’s mother 20 years earlier when homosexuality was still criminalised. As she conducts her investigations, Charlotte’s personal connection to the story becomes intertwined with her own need to confront the shame she’s held around her sexuality.
JUST CHIDI THINGS
Chika Ikogwe
Genre Comedy, Drama
Writer Chika Ikogwe
Producers Chika Ikogwe, Ana Tiwary
Executive Producer Rose Byrne
Script Editor Alexandra Cullen
Synopsis After people pleasing Chidi is suspended from med school, she does whatever it takes to avoid disappointing her Nigerian parents. She thinks everything's under control, but nosy Aunty Janice has other plans!
BHANG BHANG
Every Cloud Productions 2 Pty Ltd
Genre Mystery, Dark Comedy, Crime, Magical Realism
Creator Meleesha Bardolia
Writers Meleesha Bardolia, Marieke Hardy, Hannah Samuel
Executive Producers Mike Jones, Drew Grove
Synopsis When an Indian-Australian detective, Celeste Pritchard, investigates a high-stakes Bollywood film crime plot at a luxurious Melbourne hotel, she is forced to confront a case she herself may have caused and is thrown into a colourful, dangerous and morally ambiguous new world.
PLACED
Ambience Entertainment PTY Limited
Genre Drama
Director Partho Sen-Gupta
Writers Partho Sen-Gupta, Cathy Strickland
Producers Monica O'Brien, Megan Hutt, Faith Martin
Synopsis What happens when bureaucracy grates up against the complex realities of people's lives. Through the eyes of a Case Worker, the series lifts the lid on the high stakes and emotionally charged world of foster care where the devastation of separation and the hope of reconciliation swing on a pendulum of entangled emotions.