ABC Hands Pilot Order To ‘Dark Horse’, Adaptation Of Australian Drama ‘Total Control’, From William Jehu Garroutte & Jessica Goldberg

His fellow original judges Marcia Hines and Mark Holden are also not returning.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterHulu has ordered the animated comedy “Koala Man” to series.The series hails creator and executive producer Michael Cusack, with Benji Samit and Dan Hernandez onboard as executive producers and showrunners. “Rick and Morty” and “Solar Opposites” co-creator Justin Roiland will also executive produce along with Princess Pictures and Bento Box.

Disco Elysium: The Final Cut has been refused classification by the Australian Classification Board, which may hamper the game’s physical release.Disco Elysium is an open-world RPG where players control a detective with a unique skill system at their disposal.

On Thursday, Foxtel reportedly confirmed it is in the final stages of negotiation to re-secure the rights to the cooking show, which is based on the UK’s BBC version.

EXCLUSIVE: Signature Entertainment has acquired mob crime-drama The Birthday Cake for UK-Ireland and Australia/New Zealand.

Indigenous Australian actress and writer Leah Purcell is set to debut her first feature as a director, The Drover's Wife (Legend of Molly Johnson), at SXSW's Narrative Spotlight this month. The film, one of three Australian projects screening as part of the annual festival's online program, in its basic form tells the story of a woman raising her children in the outback while her husband is absent, though its themes of gender, identity and class make it a robust character study.

Bento Box Entertainment, the Fox Entertainment-owned animation studio, has launched an animation studio in Australia with Princess Pictures, the company behind Chris Lilley’s comedy Summer Heights High.

heartbreaking loss at the Australian Open. The 39-year-old tennis legend first purchased the home in October 2017 for $6,680,000. Spanning 6,000 square feet, the five-bedroom, seven-bathroom abode is located in the upscale Beverly Hills Post Office neighborhood in the guard-gated Summit Estates.Newly built four years ago, the three-story contemporary Spanish style home offers scenic city views across the valley. Amenities include a wine cellar, yoga room, a full bar and a gym. The outdoors is

A Liberal National Party MP in Queensland, Australia has come under fire for a disparaging tweet about Meghan Markle, days after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex aired their frustrations with the British media and royal family in an interview with Oprah Winfrey.

On Saturday, Australia celebrated its LGBTQI communities as Sydney held the annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. But, there was no rest for homophobes. In a shocking incident ABC Sydney crime reporter Mark Reddie and his gay friends were targeted by homophobic hoons just hours after the parade. “We were leaving a Mardi Gras party and there was a group of four of us.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) denied Oscar-frontrunner “Nomadland” a best picture win when it handed out its international awards Saturday. But AACTA showed its heart for another popular choice, giving its best lead actor prize to the late Chadwick Boseman for his part in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.”The AACTA International Awards are normally presented in person in Los Angeles with a live link back to Australia.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorEmerald Fennell’s “Promising Young Woman” has won Best Picture at the 10th Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) International Awards.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefOscar-nominated Richard Linklater, producer Basil Iwanyk and “Shadow In The Cloud” director Roseanne Liang headline the speakers line-up at the Australian International Screen Forum set to take place later this month (March 21-26, 201).The event’s industry program showcases innovative Australian and international content, and features conversations with leading film industry mentors and talent from Australia and the U.S.Proceedings kick off with an industry-only

An Australian member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association said on an Australian morning TV show that the organization hadn’t previously considered the absence of Black journalists “a problem” to be “focused” on.

The controversy over the lack of Black representation at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the body that organizes the Golden Globe Awards, rumbles on as an Australian HFPA member admitted that the organization did not see the lack of Black journalists as a "problem" and that the body was previously not really "focused" on upping Black representation.

The Avalanches have been announced as the winner of the 2020 Australian Music Prize for their album, ‘We Will Always Love You’.The winner of the $20,000 (£11,200) prize was announced in a ceremony earlier today (March 3), hosted by Australian presenter Jane Gazzo.

His impressions might be famous but Eddie Murphy admits he has trouble with Australian accents.

Michael Gudinski, the Australian music pioneer whose Mushroom Group would become the template for independent music companies and who, with his rambunctious, exuberant personality, became the face of his country’s music scene, has died. He was 68.