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Warship captures life on the high seas
Another observational documentary is in production, this time filming a working Australian warship.
Warship, being made by WA-based Prospero Productions (Navy Divers), has been filming aboard the HMAS Toowoomba for the past five months.
The series will capture the working life of its 190-member crew during an operational deployment to the Middle East.
A three man film crew has followed the ship’s journey from Fremantle to the Persian Gulf and Red Sea, visiting foreign ports, conducting counter-terrorist and anti-piracy patrols and working with the giant nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz.
Their biggest moment involved …
ABC elevates Foreign Correspondent timeslot
The ABC is promoting Foreign Correspondent to a new timeslot: 8:00pm Tuesdays, 90 minutes earlier than its current 9:30pm slot.
Hosted by Mark Corcoran, the 17 year old show features international stories with journalists and camera operators based around the world. Director of ABC TV, Kim Dalton today announced it will have a new time slot from April 14.
“The world is currently focused on international issues, so the move of Foreign Correspondent to 8pm will allow a wider audience to gain a better understanding of these dynamic changes, from an Australian perspective,” …
Navy Divers
I don’t know about you, but I’m as good as done with all these factual series. They’ve forced their way into our primetime schedules and taken over the party like a boorish gatecrasher. Just about everybody else on the guest list has made polite apologies and gone home early. Except for Charlie Sheen, he just refuses to leave.
There was also a time when factual series used to be called documentaries. That’s when they were made by filmmakers, who actually had a statement to make and raised ethical questions and proffered conclusions …
Airdate: Navy Divers
If customs, cops, doctors and lifesavers are good enough for the commercials, and the air force is ok with SBS, why not the navy for the ABC?
Later this month we’ll be getting the documentary series, Navy Divers (ABC hates the observational or factual term, you see).
Yes it will be hell for the 27 men training for their CDAT, but entertaining for viewers sitting at home on the couch. Only 14 will make it ….kinda like Navy Idol?
This production is produced by A Prospero Productions with the assistance of ScreenWest and Screen …