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Spoilers: Rodger Corser comes face to face with his former Last Man Standing co-star Travis McMahon tonight on Rush.

These scenes air tonight and next week in the TEN drama….

Matt Passmore lands (another) US lead

Another US lead for another Aussie actor….

Matt Passmore has won the lead role in a drama pilot Sugarloaf for the A&E cable network.

He takes up the role after being released from his previous casting as the lead in Masterwork, written by Prison Break’s Paul T. Scheuring.

He will play Jim Longworth, an ex-Chicago cop who gets shot by his ex-captain who wrongfully accused him of having an affair with his wife. After getting kicked off the force, he receives a payout and joins the police in a small Florida town.

A&E had been …

Lights, camera, Rush.

The script has all the makings of a furious scene. The cast are poised to sprint on cue. But how does a director bring a script to life, and more specifically, create a visual DNA for Rush?

TV Tonight recently spoke with director Daniel Nettheim on the set of the TEN drama.

Nettheim is, like many directors in Australian drama, one of several regulars employed to work on any given series. They are hired because they are good at being thrust into the frenetic cycle of series television who can hit the ground …

Timing is everything

ABC’s newest drama The Cut takes to the airwaves tonight at a time when Australian drama continues a resurgence.

For actor Matt Passmore it’s has been an optimistic climate of late. He knows too well how difficult it can be to time things with audiences. In 2005 Last Man Standing struggled to build an audience on Seven, despite a good critical reception.

“It’s quite cyclical and moves in waves,” he said. “Last Man Standing was just at the wrong time for drama. Every job you do you never quite know how it will …