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ABC and Screen Australia Announces the Kaleidoscope Project

ABC Children’s and Screen Australia have partnered on an exciting new funding program to showcase and amplify the work of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CaLD) Australian creatives and content makers. The Kaleidoscope Project will fund up to four individuals or teams to make a standalone film that reflects and captures what it’s like to be…

Superwog Season 2 Goes into Production

Off the back of their smash hit #1 trending first season, ABC and Screen Australia have announced that a second series of the irreverent comedy series Superwog is going into production this week in Melbourne. Created by and starring brothers Theodore and Nathan Saidden, the new episodes will dive further into Superwog’s volatile family as…

Bluey Series Three Announced

ABC, BBC Studios and Screen Australia have announced that the award-winning animation series Bluey has been greenlit for a new series. Starring Australia’s favourite Blue Heelers, series three will commence production in Brisbane later this year and for the first time, will be audio described. There’s no telling what adventures Bluey, her family and friends…

ABC Launches New Series ‘Retrograde’ on July 8th

ABC and Screen Australia are thrilled to announce that the new six-part narrative comedy series, Retrograde, premieres Wednesday 8 July on ABC and iview. Developed, produced, and post-produced entirely under strict COVID-safe guidelines, Retrograde follows the lives of a group of thirty-something friends as they drown their sorrows at a virtual bar in the time…

Victorian Government Partners with the ABC

Primary school students now have access to interactive learning resources to support their remote and flexible learning thanks to a partnership between the Victorian Government and the ABC. Minister for Education James Merlino announced this week that the first set of 15 learning activities connected to educational programs are screening on ABC ME (20-24 April)…

Filming Commenced on ABC Drama Wakefield

ABC, Screen Australia and Screen NSW are thrilled to announce that production is underway on the intriguing eight-part drama series Wakefield. Made by Jungle Entertainment (Mr InBetween, No Activity, A Moody Christmas) in partnership with BBC studios, Wakefield explores the fine line between sanity and madness, with humour and heart. Delving into the hidden world…

New Shaun Micallef Documentary On the Sauce

ABC and Screen Australia has announced a new 3 x 60’ documentary, Shaun Micallef’s On The Sauce, to be hosted by award-winning ABC favourite, Shaun Micallef, and produced by CJZ. Shaun Micallef drank neither wisely nor well back in his university days and swore off it in his mid-twenties. Now his sons have hit drinking…

Craig Reucassel Presenting Two Documentaries in 2020

Craig Reucassel returns to ABC in 2020 hosting two new documentaries funded by Screen Australia. The Fight for Planet A: The Climate Challenge will shine a spotlight on the nation’s growing climate change concerns, while Big Weather (and how to survive it) explores Australia’s unpredictable and extreme weather conditions. Craig Reucassel, host of the two…