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Showtime exec honoured at ASTRA Conference
Showtime’s Executive Producer Kim Vecera has been awarded the first ASTRA Pioneer Award at the Women in Television Breakfast earlier today.
The award acknowledges contribution through leadership, innovation and creativity and support for the development of subscription television in Australia.
For Showtime Australia, Vecera has executive produced Season 3 of Love My Way, Satisfaction Seasons 1, 2 and 3, and Tangle Seasons 1 and 2 and is currently executive producing Cloudstreet.
Her other credits include Whatever Happened To That Guy?,:30 Seconds, Australia’s Next Top Model, Love Bytes, Dangerous, and Seasons 1 and 2 of …
2008-09 Production Report
Screen Australia has released the findings of its annual Production Report on the state of film and television.
Never wanting to paint a bleak picture, it manages to find optimism with a healthy state of production, if boosted by the big investment of George Miller’s Happy Feet 2 and the $100m Hollywood animation Guardians of Ga’Hoole in Sydney.
TV Tonight has taken a look at the television sector separately, and the results are still very good. While series / serials were down, mini-series (which also includes telemovies) were up.
The …
Happy 70th Pete Smith!
And how can we not acknowledge the 70th Birthday celebrations of one Mr. Pete Smith, who joined Nine in 1963, and is still entrenched with the network.
Best known for his work on such shows as Sale of the Century (make that “Saaaaaaale of the Century”), In Melbourne Tonight and many years as the voice of Channel Nine (“we apologise for this break in transmission”), Smith is widely known for being one of the nicest, and funniest, in the biz. He has seen it all and is always generous with his time …
The freedom to Moon
Peter Moon has nothing but praise for Foxtel, and who can blame him? They’ve embraced his new series which is a pitch to come back Lazarus-like (or possibly Kirstie Alley / Larry David-like) in a comedy where he freely admits he’s climbing his way back from the bottom of the heap.
Moon says the idea first came to him following a forum at the National Screenwriter’s Conference by Foxtel executives.
“Kim Vecera and Brian Walsh did a presentation during which they said Foxtel now has 1.4m households and they wanted to spend some …
Whatever Happened to That Guy?
There is a scene in the second episode of Whatever Happened to That Guy? where former Fast Forward star Peter Moon, playing Peter Moon, goes to audition for an advertisement.
When he gets there he finds out it’s an ad for erectile dysfunction treatment.
Seated in the room waiting for their chance to read are John Blackman, Pete Smith, Red Symons, Wilbur Wilde and Michael Veitch.
It’s a moment that sums up the self-irreverant tone of Moon’s new comedy in which he sends himself up mercilessly.
The series opens with Moon in bed laughing at …
Airdate: Whatever Happened To That Guy?
Peter Moon’s self-devised (and doubtless self-ironic) comedy series Whatever Happened To That Guy? will premiere on Monday May 25 at 8.30pm on The Comedy Channel.
The eight-part series about a character called Peter Moon, a former star of Fast Forward and breakfast radio in the late eighties and nineties (sound familiar?). But his career has tapered off and he is but a dim memory in the mind of the public. Sounds like the closest thing we’ll get to a local Curb Your Enthusiasm…
According to publicity notes, Moon is now an unemployed baby …
Foxtel rocks into 2009
Foxtel has joined the procession of new programme announcements, with a raft of Australian-produced and international shows, some of which launch as early as December.
The channels owned & operated by Foxtel include FOX8, FOX Classics, Arena, Comedy, Crime & Investigation, History, Biography and the W Channel.
The titles include 15 local productions, starting with An Aussie Goes Calypso in December and reality competition The Phone in January. Both will air on FOX8.
To be presented by Justin Melvey, The Phone sees two hidden mobile phones ringing somewhere in a city. When a stranger …
Local Shear Genius and Contender coming
Amongst the new shows announced for Foxtel in 2009 is a local version of hair-styling reality series Shear Genius. The US version featured Aussie born Tabatha Coffey, whose blunt style won her enough interest for her own series Tabatha’s Salon Takeover. Will Foxtel bring her here for this?
It’s lucky for Foxtel that Nine decided against producing Million Dollar Salon, as it had planned earlier this year.
Andrew Denton’s produced 8 part satirical drama set in the advertising industry is titled 30 Seconds.
There is also the fifth series of FOX8’s Australia’s Next Top …
Whatever Happened to That Guy?
As noted here earlier, comedian Peter Moon is putting together a self-referential comedy series about the diminishing spotlight of a once-glorious comic. Moon, who hit the heights of television sketch comedy in Fast Forward, will, naturally, play himself.
Whatever Happened to That Guy? is an 8 part series coming to the Comedy Channel this summer. Alex Ristevski, The Comedy Channel Manager, said “I have no doubt that this team will deliver to us all a most intriguing and hilarious story. It’s just a shame that it’s taken the demise of …