Tag: Screen Australia

SBS and Screen Australia have commissioned the eight-part drama anthology Erotic Stories, exploring lust, desire and longing.

Screen Australia’s latest Drama Report reveals an all-time high expenditure in Australia on scripted screen production of A$2.29 billion ($1.5 billion), made up of a record spend on Australian titles of A$1.51 billion ($750 million) and A$777 million ($506 million) on foreign productions.

Screen Australia has established the NCIS: Sydney Script Department Program, a collaboration with Endemol Shine Australia (a Banijay company) and Paramount+.

Lingo Pictures is producing The Messenger, based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Australian author Markus Zusak (The Book Thief), for ABC, with major production investment from Screen Australia.

According to Screen Australia’s annual Drama Report, expenditure on drama production in Australia has exceeded A$1.17 billion ($807.3 million), made up of a record A$768 million ($530 million) spend on Aussie stories, including official co-productions.

Channel Seven, Screen Australia and Endemol Shine Australia have aligned for RFDS (working title), a new Australia-set action-drama series.

Keshet International (KI) has selected the political drama Black B*tch (working title) as the second project to receive an investment from its Content Fund.

Screen Australia’s annual Drama Report shows a record high expenditure on local stories, with A$718 million ($510 million) spent on homegrown productions, up 7 percent on last year.

According to Screen Australia’s 27th annual Drama Report, overall drama expenditure in Australia totaled nearly A$1.3 billion ($1 billion) in 2016-17, compared to the previous four years when the figure hovered between A$830 million and A$870 million.