Tag: miniseries

Producer Ian Collie looks at how Jack Irish has evolved as Guy Pearce’s private eye shifts from telemovies to his own ABC TV series.

Never underestimate the intern. That’s one take-home message from Cleverman, the six part drama series that premieres at the Berlinale Film Festival before its ABC TV debut later this year.

Written and wrapped at breakneck speed, script producer Timothy Hobart talks about the ride that has been Wanted and why we need more shows like it.

Here’s a dozen times Australian locations became their own pivotal characters in television.

As audiences fragment, TV markets become increasingly global and the cost and risk of creating home-grown television increases, Screen Australia's role in supporting locally-made series is more vital than ever.

Find out what the top-rating Australian TV dramas were across the free-to-air networks in 2015.

The world of documentary storytelling is growing increasingly diverse – and ever-more compelling – as this year’s International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) attendees knew only too well.

Behind the counters of ubiquitous Australian kebab shops, a treasure trove of drama and heart was just waiting to be discovered for SBS doco Kebab Kings.

Where does the finance for TV drama come from? How do producers put together budgets for individual projects? How has this changed compared to ten years ago?

Screen Australia’s data paints a picture of a typical recent year of production compared with ten years ago.

You bet it’s entertaining. But it’s also expensive. The 47 dramas that went into production in the 2014/15 financial year cost $332 million. Where did all this money come from?

Many options for format rights to Australian shows have been sold abroad in the past five years, but that’s been the end of the road for the majority. Where production has occurred, very few have gone to a second series in the same territory, and generally that has to happen for there to be any chance of real upside.