Brian Walsh.
Belying fears that Foxtel would cut back on local commissions following the Federal Government’s media reforms, the pay TV platform expects to have three Australian dramas in production next year.
Two are intended to be returning series: a fresh take on the crime genre to replace Wentworth, the other a family drama to fill the gap left by A Place to Call Home.
Brian Walsh, who heads the Foxtel Originals division that was created in a restructure in August orchestrated by group CEO Patrick Delany, today reaffirmed the company’s commitment to drama, factual and lifestyle programming after the government halved the obligation on pay drama channels to invest 10 per cent of their annual revenues on local content.
“The new quota system will provide some confidence to the production sector but by no means does it indicate that that is the limit to which we are investing in local production,...
Belying fears that Foxtel would cut back on local commissions following the Federal Government’s media reforms, the pay TV platform expects to have three Australian dramas in production next year.
Two are intended to be returning series: a fresh take on the crime genre to replace Wentworth, the other a family drama to fill the gap left by A Place to Call Home.
Brian Walsh, who heads the Foxtel Originals division that was created in a restructure in August orchestrated by group CEO Patrick Delany, today reaffirmed the company’s commitment to drama, factual and lifestyle programming after the government halved the obligation on pay drama channels to invest 10 per cent of their annual revenues on local content.
“The new quota system will provide some confidence to the production sector but by no means does it indicate that that is the limit to which we are investing in local production,...
- 10/29/2020
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Beverley McGarvey, Angus Ross and Michael Healy.
For Australia’s commercial free-to-air networks, arguably the biggest threat to losing eyeballs is not each other but the seemingly inexorable rise of streaming services led by Netflix, Stan, Disney+ and Amazon.
However executives at the Seven, Nine and 10 Networks are confident their hefty investment in broad slates of unique Australian programming and their increasingly popular BVoD services will retain viewers.
“The 8.30 pm-9 pm drama audiences are certainly under attack from streaming competition,” Angus Ross, Seven’s director of network programming, tells If.
“We concentrate investment in news, sport, Home and Away and year-round 7.30 pm stripped programming – all uniquely Australian content that differentiates us from the offerings of the SVoD players. All programming is also available on our 7plus service, so viewers can watch at any time.”
Michael Healy, Nine Entertainment’s director of television, says: “Australian content is at our heart and...
For Australia’s commercial free-to-air networks, arguably the biggest threat to losing eyeballs is not each other but the seemingly inexorable rise of streaming services led by Netflix, Stan, Disney+ and Amazon.
However executives at the Seven, Nine and 10 Networks are confident their hefty investment in broad slates of unique Australian programming and their increasingly popular BVoD services will retain viewers.
“The 8.30 pm-9 pm drama audiences are certainly under attack from streaming competition,” Angus Ross, Seven’s director of network programming, tells If.
“We concentrate investment in news, sport, Home and Away and year-round 7.30 pm stripped programming – all uniquely Australian content that differentiates us from the offerings of the SVoD players. All programming is also available on our 7plus service, so viewers can watch at any time.”
Michael Healy, Nine Entertainment’s director of television, says: “Australian content is at our heart and...
- 1/15/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
‘Informer 3838.’
French-based entertainment giant Banijay’s takeover of the Endemol Shine Group (Esg) will create the world’s biggest independent production and distribution company with a catalogue of nearly 100,000 hours.
Esg’s owners The Walt Disney Company, which picked up its stake as part of its buy-out of 21st Century Fox assets last year, and Apollo Global Management have agreed to sell the firm for a reported $US2.2 billion.
Esg consists of 120 production companies with an estimated 66,000 hours of scripted and non-scripted programming and more than 4,300 registered formats including Black Mirror, Versailles, The Millennium Trilogy, Peaky Blinders, Temptation Island and The Island.
In Australia, the deal unites Banijay’s Screentime, the maker of the Nine Network’s upcoming crime drama Informer 3838 , Seven’s Sas: Who Dares Wins and 10’s Playing for Keeps, Trial By Kyle and Hughesy We Have a Problem, with Endemol Shine Australia, home to MasterChef Australia,...
French-based entertainment giant Banijay’s takeover of the Endemol Shine Group (Esg) will create the world’s biggest independent production and distribution company with a catalogue of nearly 100,000 hours.
Esg’s owners The Walt Disney Company, which picked up its stake as part of its buy-out of 21st Century Fox assets last year, and Apollo Global Management have agreed to sell the firm for a reported $US2.2 billion.
Esg consists of 120 production companies with an estimated 66,000 hours of scripted and non-scripted programming and more than 4,300 registered formats including Black Mirror, Versailles, The Millennium Trilogy, Peaky Blinders, Temptation Island and The Island.
In Australia, the deal unites Banijay’s Screentime, the maker of the Nine Network’s upcoming crime drama Informer 3838 , Seven’s Sas: Who Dares Wins and 10’s Playing for Keeps, Trial By Kyle and Hughesy We Have a Problem, with Endemol Shine Australia, home to MasterChef Australia,...
- 10/27/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
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