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SPA 2014: Selling formats - two models and a bastard amid a haze of detail
Selling format rights into the US market is like selling ice to the Inuit - great bragging rights and a…
SPA 2014: ABC under pressure, ups original content
ABC Head of TV whistles insouciantly at budget cuts with low cost comedy.
SPA 2014: Foxtel: continues to increase local production, and local formats
SVOD, FTA or Foxtel? In that battle for brand loyalty, Foxtel knows that local content is an increasingly handy weapon.
SPA 2014: freeze frame on the post revolution
VFX truly is the producer's friend, in the battle to contain costs and control the vasty deeps.
SPA 2014: When Did ‘New Media’ Become So Antiquated?
Digital content is about building parallel universes - but do any of them have a cash economy? The jury is…
SPA 2014: Graeme Mason meditates in public
Screen Australia (mildly) contemplates a white label future
SPA 2014: Tim Worner and the mighty Seven
Success compels attention as Seven’s Tim Worner talks cost-cutting and production.
SPA 2014/ ABC and SBS Cuts: on for $300m
With the cuts to the ABC and SBS confirmed, the remarks of their CEOs at SPA make more sense. Now…
No pain, no gain? The abuse of power in arts education
Does Whiplash, the new film by American Damien Chazelle, glorify or denounce the behaviour of an obsessive teacher?
SPA 2014: making a play for tasty awards
In which a pride of producers turn out to be an island of sanity in a world of steel-eyed gambling…