Australia
Beyond: launches 180 hours at MIPTV
Beyond Distribution is heading to MIPTV with 180 hours of premium factual, crime and children’s series.
Sustainability: documentary, philanthropy and the public interest
Blocked from access to public money and airwaves, documentary makers are forming alliances with the philanthropic sector. The Documentary Australia…
Media Reform: Greens extract unexpected concession for screen sector
The Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Convergence Review and Other Measures) Bill 2013, utterly unchanged after desperate lobbying by the screen sector,…
Haute Cuisine
Catherine Frot is Hortense Laborie, a chef whose life is tipped upside down when she is appointed as personal cook…
Open Channel: the case of the vanishing students
Open Channel has a nifty scriptwriting course which provides excellent development support for projects. Last year, from ten projects, three…
Box Office: 17/03/13 figures still dull as The Sapphires heads for US release
Goddess opens fourth on the national top twenty league tables. Sadly, it secured that slot with relatively low figures.
Figaro Pho: selling like hot chocolate
Kids series The Adventures of Figaro Pho (from the Chocolate Liberation Front and Ambience Entertainment) is selling well ahead of…
Ratings: Sunday 17th March 2013
Ten did well with the F1 Grand Prix at 1.226m. Biggest Loser down at 815,000
Ratings: Monday 18th March 2013
Ten's halo effect from 23% last night, courtesy of the Grand Prix, seems to be nothing. Nada.
Ratings: Tuesday, 19th March 2013
Seven slaughters opposition with a kitchen show and an Australian serial.