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2010 Logies: Who didn’t make the cut already?
Sarah Wilson was Presenter on the highest rating show in 2009 -but it wasn’t enough to land her on the shortlist for 2010 Logie Nominations.
The Masterchef host is now out of the race for Best Presenter and Gold Logie before the race even begins. But she is in good company.
Yesterday’s list of possible contenders published by TV Week again utilised a voting system it has employed in recent years: an individual numerical code for each actor, actress and presenter as a way of facilitating the results. It contrasts with a historical …
AFI Awards: Industry winners
The ABC and SBS were the big winners in the television categories at the AFI Industry Awards, held in Melbourne on Friday night ahead of the major awards to be handed out tonight.
Amongst the winners were Review with Myles Barlow (pictured), Spicks and Specks and First Australians, while TEN picked up the Children’s Drama award for The Elephant Princess.
The AFI Industry Awards ceremony was hosted by Josh Lawson.
AFI Award for Best Children’s Television Drama
The Elephant Princess. Jonathan M. Shiff, Joanna Werner. Network Ten
AFI Award for Best Children’s Television Animation
Figaro Pho. Luke …
2009 AFI Awards: Nominees
The ABC, SBS and Pay Television dominate the Television nominees in the 2009 AFI Awards.
Leading the drama nominations were False Witness (UKTV, pictured), Underbelly (Nine Network) and East West 101 (SBS). Two were produced by Screentime and East West 101 by Knapman / Wyld.
In comedy The Librarians (ABC1), Review with Myles Barlow (ABC1), and Very Small Business (ABC1) received several nominations.
In light entertainment it was again a public broadcaster battle between Spicks and Specks (ABC1), The Gruen Transfer (ABC1) and RocKwiz (SBS ONE).
Seven’s adult drama nominations were confined to Packed to …
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 …
Tara Morice heads up Dance Academy
Strictly Ballroom’s Tara Morice will head up the ABC’s new children’s drama series, Dance Academy, which begins shooting in Sydney today.
Joining her in the 26-part series are Home & Away’s Jordan Rodrigues, AFI Best Young Actor nominee Tom Green, Dena Kaplan (Flight of the Conchords) and Tim Pocock (X-Men Origins: Wolverine).
Newcomer Xenia Goodwin plays 15-year-old, ‘Tara Webster’,who has grown up on a farm in outback Australia and has always dreamt of becoming a dancer. When she makes it into the National Academy of Dance, the best school in the country, …
Tassie dreams of kids’ TV
Looks like Tasmania is hoping to increase its output of children’s television programming with the announcement of a special initiative between Screen Tasmania and the Australian Children’s Television Foundation (ACTF).
For many years it is Victoria that has led the way with the lucrative children’s genre, thanks largely to producers such as Jonathan M. Shiff’s Elephant Princess plus Crawford’s The Saddle Club, while Queensland has picked up pace with Animalia, WA had Lockie Leonard and Sydney is busy with the ABC’s My Place series.
With ABC3 on the horizon there is also a …
Elephant Princess, H20: just add global sales
Australia’s reputation for producing quality children’s programmes continues with news that Barcelona-based producer/distributor Imira Entertainment has found new broadcast homes for H2O – Just Add Water and The Elephant Princess.
Free-to-air network SIC, and Nickelodeon have bagged Portuguese rights to The Elephant Princess (26×26′), and all 78×26′ episodes of H2O – Just Add Water.
Nickelodeon has also snapped up The Elephant Princess for Spain, alongside Spanish broadcaster TVE, which has taken the free-TV rights.
Also in Portugal, LNK has taken home entertainment rights to H2O – Just Add Water while in Mexico En Pantalla …