Paul Fletcher and Scott Morrison.
Financial support from the Federal Government for the hundreds of thousands of screen industry practitioners who lost their jobs during the pandemic could be imminent.
Communications Minister Paul Fletcher has confirmed the government is looking to assist the arts and entertainment and screen sectors “which might need longer term support.”
Fletcher also reiterated that the government is consulting with Screen Australia and the film and TV industry on the major stumbling block facing new productions: mitigating the Covid-19 insurance risk.
“The government is very focused on stimulating the economy, creating jobs, and getting people back at work safely,” a spokesperson for the Minister tells If.
“As the Prime Minister has said, work is being done beyond the broad strokes of JobKeeper and JobSeeker, with the government looking closely at a range of sectors – including the arts and entertainment and screen sectors – which might need longer term support.
Financial support from the Federal Government for the hundreds of thousands of screen industry practitioners who lost their jobs during the pandemic could be imminent.
Communications Minister Paul Fletcher has confirmed the government is looking to assist the arts and entertainment and screen sectors “which might need longer term support.”
Fletcher also reiterated that the government is consulting with Screen Australia and the film and TV industry on the major stumbling block facing new productions: mitigating the Covid-19 insurance risk.
“The government is very focused on stimulating the economy, creating jobs, and getting people back at work safely,” a spokesperson for the Minister tells If.
“As the Prime Minister has said, work is being done beyond the broad strokes of JobKeeper and JobSeeker, with the government looking closely at a range of sectors – including the arts and entertainment and screen sectors – which might need longer term support.
- 6/3/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Catfish Australia’s Casey Donovan.
An Australian version of the long-running MTV dating show Catfish and a Sydney riff on Crazy Rich Asians are among the shows that will screen on Network 10’s second annual Pilot Week.
Casey Donovan and documentarian Patrick Abboud will host Eureka Productions’ Catfish Australia while Screentime’s Sydney’s Crazy Rich Asians will follow six well-to-do Asians in Sydney and their fixer, a format created by Johnny Lowry.
The line-up also includes Cjz’s Part Time Privates, a sitcom created by and starring Heidi Arena and Thank God You’re Here’s Nicola Parry as two mums-turned-private eyes; Matchbox Pictures and Two Scoop Media’s I Am…Roxy!, which will delve into the daily life of publicist and talent manager Roxy Jacenko; and Screentime’s My 80 Year Old Flatmate, a reality show in which older Aussies rent their rooms to young people.
As happened last year,...
An Australian version of the long-running MTV dating show Catfish and a Sydney riff on Crazy Rich Asians are among the shows that will screen on Network 10’s second annual Pilot Week.
Casey Donovan and documentarian Patrick Abboud will host Eureka Productions’ Catfish Australia while Screentime’s Sydney’s Crazy Rich Asians will follow six well-to-do Asians in Sydney and their fixer, a format created by Johnny Lowry.
The line-up also includes Cjz’s Part Time Privates, a sitcom created by and starring Heidi Arena and Thank God You’re Here’s Nicola Parry as two mums-turned-private eyes; Matchbox Pictures and Two Scoop Media’s I Am…Roxy!, which will delve into the daily life of publicist and talent manager Roxy Jacenko; and Screentime’s My 80 Year Old Flatmate, a reality show in which older Aussies rent their rooms to young people.
As happened last year,...
- 5/27/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
(L-r) Kevin Whyte, Lisa Wang and Todd Abbott accepting Spa’s Comedy Television Production of the Year award for ‘Please Like Me’ s2.
The screen industry needs to stop cutting writers’ fees and to do a lot better in providing career paths for writers, according to Guesswork Television MD Kevin Whyte.
Chiming with the concerns of the Australian Writers’ Guild and Cjz executives Nick Murray and Matt Campbell, Whyte tells If: “Working out how we can make Australia an attractive and lucrative place to be a television writer, which means we put stories and ideas first and foremost, is critically important.
“The struggling artist cliché is wearing a bit thin. The industry should focus on creating career paths, not just so people stay but to entice people in into the industry.
“I am not saying there is an easy solution but as our budgets come under more and more pressure...
The screen industry needs to stop cutting writers’ fees and to do a lot better in providing career paths for writers, according to Guesswork Television MD Kevin Whyte.
Chiming with the concerns of the Australian Writers’ Guild and Cjz executives Nick Murray and Matt Campbell, Whyte tells If: “Working out how we can make Australia an attractive and lucrative place to be a television writer, which means we put stories and ideas first and foremost, is critically important.
“The struggling artist cliché is wearing a bit thin. The industry should focus on creating career paths, not just so people stay but to entice people in into the industry.
“I am not saying there is an easy solution but as our budgets come under more and more pressure...
- 3/11/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Jacqueline Elaine.
Two weeks ago If published an article, ‘Cjz addresses drama budgets, shortage of writers and original concepts’, in which Cjz claimed that high production and development costs and the lack of Australian writing talent were making it more and more difficult to create Australian drama.
“There are work practices which make it impossible to make drama at the price it should be made at,” Cjz managing director Nick Murray told If.
CEO Matt Campbell went on to say that “it is the greatest struggle to find writers in this country at the moment as they get sucked up into the Us and UK . . . Everyone is after the same people. We are having to look far and wide for writers.”
The Australian Writers’ Guild rejects these notions. While we acknowledge that there are challenges specific to creating high-quality drama, Cjz fails to identify the real ones.
There are widespread...
Two weeks ago If published an article, ‘Cjz addresses drama budgets, shortage of writers and original concepts’, in which Cjz claimed that high production and development costs and the lack of Australian writing talent were making it more and more difficult to create Australian drama.
“There are work practices which make it impossible to make drama at the price it should be made at,” Cjz managing director Nick Murray told If.
CEO Matt Campbell went on to say that “it is the greatest struggle to find writers in this country at the moment as they get sucked up into the Us and UK . . . Everyone is after the same people. We are having to look far and wide for writers.”
The Australian Writers’ Guild rejects these notions. While we acknowledge that there are challenges specific to creating high-quality drama, Cjz fails to identify the real ones.
There are widespread...
- 3/10/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Michael Dixon.
I’ve only been writing a short time by industry standards, after spending 10 years on strategy and technology for the resources sector and consulting for other industries.
In between, I spent the last five years knocking out two Masters degrees, in International Relations and an Mba.
I’m not currently working full time and am looking for a new gig. I’ve written mainly spec scripts and have a couple of feature scripts in development and one completed. I’ve also engaged in general arts advocacy through personal or official channels.
To date, I have:
• Had heads of departments’ proactively offer to read my work but after a year and a half of follow ups, there are just more promises to get around to reviewing or handballing to the EA/university graduate. ‘I’m just terribly busy.’
• Approached agencies for representation, to be told, ‘No one wants to...
I’ve only been writing a short time by industry standards, after spending 10 years on strategy and technology for the resources sector and consulting for other industries.
In between, I spent the last five years knocking out two Masters degrees, in International Relations and an Mba.
I’m not currently working full time and am looking for a new gig. I’ve written mainly spec scripts and have a couple of feature scripts in development and one completed. I’ve also engaged in general arts advocacy through personal or official channels.
To date, I have:
• Had heads of departments’ proactively offer to read my work but after a year and a half of follow ups, there are just more promises to get around to reviewing or handballing to the EA/university graduate. ‘I’m just terribly busy.’
• Approached agencies for representation, to be told, ‘No one wants to...
- 3/8/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
(L-r): Nadine Garner, Sophie Wright, Nick Russell, Stephen Curry and Paul Denny in ‘Mr Black’.
Cjz MD Nick Murray and CEO Matt Campbell are grappling with three major issues facing the screen industry as the company ramps up its production and development slates.
They identify the challenges as the rising cost of drama budgets; a shortage of top-class writers given the talent drain to the Us and UK; and finding original concepts for factual and factual entertainment shows.
Murray questions why drama is more expensive to produce than comedy, observing: “I don’t know that the additional money that goes into drama is necessarily visible on screen to the audience.
“The costs of drama are going up and we need to be making it cheaper. There are work practices which make it impossible to make drama at the price it should be made at. We should be employing people differently or with more flexibility,...
Cjz MD Nick Murray and CEO Matt Campbell are grappling with three major issues facing the screen industry as the company ramps up its production and development slates.
They identify the challenges as the rising cost of drama budgets; a shortage of top-class writers given the talent drain to the Us and UK; and finding original concepts for factual and factual entertainment shows.
Murray questions why drama is more expensive to produce than comedy, observing: “I don’t know that the additional money that goes into drama is necessarily visible on screen to the audience.
“The costs of drama are going up and we need to be making it cheaper. There are work practices which make it impossible to make drama at the price it should be made at. We should be employing people differently or with more flexibility,...
- 2/27/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Lucy Lawless, Bernard Curry and Ebony Vagulans.
Wentworth’s Bernard Curry and Nida grad Ebony Vagulans will star alongside Lucy Lawless in Cjz mystery drama My Life Is Murder, which enters production today in Melbourne for Network 10.
Lawless (Xena: Warrior Princess) plays Alexa Crowe, a compelling, charismatic and complex homicide detective. Fearless and unapologetic, her unique insights into the darker quirks of human nature allow her to prod, provoke and push every felon’s right and wrong buttons as she unravels the truth behind the most baffling and bizarre crimes.
As If has previously reported, the 10-part series, backed by Screen Australia and Film Victoria, has already sold to Acorn TV in the Us via Dcd Rights.
The series producer is Elisa Argenzio with Cjz’s head of development Claire Tonkin, and the EPs Nick Murray, Lawless and writer Tim Pye. The start-up director is Leah Purcell, who will...
Wentworth’s Bernard Curry and Nida grad Ebony Vagulans will star alongside Lucy Lawless in Cjz mystery drama My Life Is Murder, which enters production today in Melbourne for Network 10.
Lawless (Xena: Warrior Princess) plays Alexa Crowe, a compelling, charismatic and complex homicide detective. Fearless and unapologetic, her unique insights into the darker quirks of human nature allow her to prod, provoke and push every felon’s right and wrong buttons as she unravels the truth behind the most baffling and bizarre crimes.
As If has previously reported, the 10-part series, backed by Screen Australia and Film Victoria, has already sold to Acorn TV in the Us via Dcd Rights.
The series producer is Elisa Argenzio with Cjz’s head of development Claire Tonkin, and the EPs Nick Murray, Lawless and writer Tim Pye. The start-up director is Leah Purcell, who will...
- 2/11/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Logo is looking for love. The cabler has given the greenlight to the new Finding Prince Charming TV show. Hosted by Lance Bass, the new dating competition series is the first to feature a cast of all gay men. Bass was a contributor on The Meredith Vieira Show, which was cancelled in January, after two seasons, by NBC-Universal Domestic Television.The Finding Prince Charming TV series is produced by Brian Graden Media and executive produced by Brian Graden and Dave Mace, with Fred Birckhead and Nick Murray. Chris McCarthy, Pamela Post and Stevenson Greene executive produce for Logo. Jen Passovoy serves as producer. Finding Prince Charming is in production and will debut on Logo in fall, 2016.Read More…...
- 7/12/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
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