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Tangle cast passing the baton
In Showcase’s latest drama, Tangle, it’s hard not to notice the emergence of a new generation of young actors.
Justine Clarke, Ben Mendelsohn and Matt Day, once familiar to us as teenage actors, are all now playing thirty-something adults, and even parents of their own teen characters.
As Justine Clarke told TV Tonight, it’s been a curiosity to all concerned.
“What’s been the most refreshing for all of us is we’re moving into a mature age bracket, watching all these young actors,” she says. “They’ve all been wonderful kids. And it’s quite fast television …
Jason Clarke wins CBS deal
Australian actor Jason Clarke, who had a lead role in Showtime’s Brotherhood series, has signed a talent deal with CBS, to star in a drama pilot targeted for next season.
He is the third actor from an unnamed 2009 CBS drama pilot about a U.S. attorney, to land a future place within the network.
Adam Jamal Craig and Eddie Cibrian were added as regulars to NCIS: Los Angeles and CSI: Miami, respectively.
Prior to his US success, Clarke appeared in Halifax FP, Heartbreak High, Wildside, Murder Call, Home and Away, Murder Call, White Collar …
Casting 101 at East West drama
If you take a look at East West 101 on SBS next week you will be witness to two significant directions amongst its cast.
One is the extraordinary number of actors with multicultural backgrounds.
The other is the emergence of new faces.
Both are deliberate decisions by Steve Knapman and Kris Wyld, producers of the 7 part crime drama for SBS.
Having already worked on the edgy Wildside for the ABC, their approach to making drama, and in particular to casting, sets them apart from many of their peers. A number of roles are played …
Good Cop, Bad Cop.
“I’ve worked in television very little,” says David Field. “I have such a strange relation with the business, I always have.”
As Detective Superintendent Terry Jarvis on Seven’s City Homicide, this stage and film actor is getting used to the machinations of network television, even where it requires opening up and giving interviews to press.
“There’s always been a certain amount of fear and respect,” he told TV Tonight. “I guess I haven’t played the game with anyone very much. I’ve always tended to be a little bit on the outer, …
Sea Patrol
Last year was a shining year for Australian drama. We had it all: Underbelly, City Homicide, Packed to the Rafters, Rush, East of Everything, Bed of Roses, Satisfaction and many more. While they weren’t all worthy of a place in the Hall of Fame, we were spoiled rotten.
Now that Nine has Underbelly in hiatus, all eyes are on its returning, glossy flagship, Sea Patrol. When the series first began two seasons ago, it was clear there was real money up there on the screen.
Two years on there have been subtle tweaks …
Jason Clarke, legal eagle.
Australian actor Jason Clarke (Brotherhood) will join the ensemble of an untitled CBS’ U.S. Attorney drama pilot.
The project revolves around a team of federal prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s office in Manhattan.
Clarke will play the powerful, charismatic section chief who oversees four lawyers and a handful of paralegals in their overlapping cases.
His local credits include Murder Call, Wildside, Home and Away, Blue Heelers, All Saints, Farscape, White Collar Blue and Stingers.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
Drama Exec leaving SBS
One of the best in the biz, Drama Executive Sue Masters, is leaving SBS citing personal reasons.
Masters has only been with SBS since April, previously with TEN and the ABC. During her tenure SBS has produced or developed Carla Cametti P.D, Bogan Pride, and Swift and Shift Couriers plus second seasons of East West 101 and The Circuit -she will remain as an Executive Producer on series two of The Circuit.
Masters has previously worked on dramas including Brides of Christ, The Secret Life of Us, Wildside, Seachange, RAW FM, …
The Rush identity
Television crews are always at the mercy of the elements. 90km winds and torrential rain were bearing down on the cast and crew from Rush yesterday. It was the last thing director Andrew Prowse needed when all he wanted to capture was a crucial scene of a gunman taking potshots at his lead characters. But Prowse was pragmatic, and with over two decades of television under his belt it wasn’t hard to see why.
As a director who has worked on Wildside, Heartbreak High, All Saints, McLeod’s Daughters, Farscape and even Wonder …
The Strip
The Gold Coast is a picture perfect setting for a crime franchise. There is plenty of potential to be mined from its sun-drenched, holiday backdrop of beaches, hotels, resorts, skyscrapers, amusement parks and casino. It’s Miami in Oz.
Visually, The Strip is CSI: Miami in Oz (without the CSI). It is glamorously photographed with lots of sumptuous montages of sparkling surf, aerial shots and golden sands. It’s a postcard enough to tempt any viewer for an hour.
But all the golden-hue filters in the world can’t disguise obvious dialogue, dull plotting, unlikable characters …