Features
Screen Forever 2013: Merchant Ivory - do you mind if I borrow your phone?
Merchant Ivory may sound utterly respectable, but it was a prime exponent of the chancers' art of conjuring a film…
Screen Forever 2013: Co-Financing with the USA
A session at Screen Forever looked at some of the ins and outs of financing a feature film with some…
Screen Forever 2013: the future of television
Israeli format guru Avi Armoza had the floor to himself, and was able to provide a unique perspective on television…
CJZ Acquisition: puts a Greenstone in its pocketses
Cordell Jigsaw Zapruder, the Australian independent production company which has expanded from factual into television drama, has now formally acquired…
Ratings: Wednesday, 13th November 2013
Exit Big Brother, which climaxed last Wednesday, and Home and Away gains a cool 190,000. Guess it had the same…
Ratings: Thursday, 14th November 2013 - of Geeks and woodland creatures
With not much around, Beauty and the Geek carried Seven to dominance, though the show lost 250,000 punters.
Leaping Frog: WA distribution company has modest intentions and a long tongue
Leap Frog Films has recently announced that it is distributing three international features in Australia, as it jumps backwards into…
Brief: Dr Blake gets into BBC1
UK viewers will be startled to find an actual ABC commissioned drama on BBC1. Never happened before, according to production…
Ratings: Tuesday, 12th November 2013 - Keating defeats shark
Keating did 886,000 on the five city prelims. What does that imply? Both Ten and the ABC claw up towards…
APSA: turning out to be a treat
Saved at the eleventh hour by a local council which turned out to have more vision than the State government,…