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EXCLUSIVE: Australian psychological crime drama Critical Incident will premiere on streamer Stan after the Olympic Games on August 12. You can watch an exclusive trailer above and view a selection of first-look images below. The contemporary crime series from Sarah Bassiuoni is set in the complex…

EXCLUSIVE: Many people decided the office was no longer for them after the Covid-19 pandemic, but not so Felicity Ward, or her new alter-ego, Hannah Howard. Comedian and actress Ward is starring in The Office Australia, one of the most hotly anticipated series outside of the U.S., marking the first time a…

Last week, Australia’s screen industries were celebrating an increase in the country’s Location Offset scheme, but this week “great angst” is washing through the production community. That’s according to Screen Producers Australia CEO Matthew Deaner, who has warned that while the government keeps…

EXCLUSIVE: Will Forte (The Last Man on Earth, Bodkin) and D’Arcy Carden (The Good Place, Barry) have been cast as leads in darkly comic drama series Sunny Nights for Australian streamer Stan. As we revealed in March, Trent O’Donnell is directing and exec producing, and Echo Lake Entertainment is among the…

EXCLUSIVE: Prime Video has handed Darwin detective duo Dulcie Collins and Eddie Redcliffe another case. We can reveal the streamer has greenlit a second season of Deadloch, the Australian crime comedy that was a breakout hit for Amazon last year, with leads Kate Box and Madeleine Sami…

The Australian screen industry is celebrating after the country’s Location Offset scheme was raised to 30%. The legislation, which was announced in May, was made law today and officially came into effect on July 1. It raises the rebate for TV and film productions shooting in the country from the…

EXCLUSIVE: Stan is saying goodbye to the Chalmers-Davis family. The Australian streamer has put a fifth and final season of Bump into production, with filming underway in Sydney. The comedy-drama is Stan’s longest-running local scripted series, with the first season having launched back in January…

EXCLUSIVE: Stuff the British Stole, the Australian-Canadian doc series about the impact of British colonialism, is being remade as a six-part scripted heist caper. Anchuli Felicia King, who wrote on HBO’s The Sympathizer and The Baby and Deadloch for Prime Video, is creating and writing the series…

Oscar-winning Australian director Adam Elliot is at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival with his long-awaited second stop-motion feature Memoir of a Snail, which world premieres in the main competition. Set in 1970s Australia, the movie gathers a starry cast led by Succession star Sarah…

Commissioning by streamers in Australia has plummeted to a new low, according to a new report published today by the Aussie industry union Screen Producers Australia (SPA).  The SPA's report surveyed its members with 80% of respondents citing "Less" or "Much Less" commissioning interest from…

EXCLUSIVE: Luke Carroll (The Artful Dodger), Debra Lawrance (Please Like Me) and David Roberts (Please Like Me) are among the new stars of Australian drama Scrublands, which is gearing up for its second season on Stan and 9 Network. Also starring alongside returning leads Luke Arnold and Bella…

EXCLUSIVE: Australia is set to welcome some of the biggest names in Hollywood to a new industry conference, Future Vision. Beef creator Lee Sung Jin, The Bear co-showrunner Joanna Calo and Big Little Lies producer Bruna Papandrea will feature at the event, which will be held in Melbourne on July…