‘Colin From Accounts’ Streamer Binge Unveils 2024 Slate: “We Have 30 Years Of Proving Our Ambition Behind Us”
26.10.2023 - 09:19
/ deadline.com
Alison Hurbert-Burns, content chief at Colin From Accounts streamer Binge, has told Deadline “the proof is in the pudding” as the platform’s Australian pay-TV parent Foxtel unveiled its 2024 slate today.
In an exclusive interview ahead of the slate reveal, Binge Executive Director Hurbert-Burns talked up the reach of the streaming platform and Foxtel, which is Australia‘s leading pay service.
“I’m a believer in the proof being in the pudding and the good content finding its way through,” she said. “The differentiator for us is we don’t do anything unless it’s exceptional, and we have nearly 30 years of proving that ambition.”
Foxtel launched in 1995 and has been in its current form, with News Corp as majority owner, since 2018. Binge launched during the pandemic in May 2020 and has quickly established itself as a major player in original content in Australia. The CBS Studios and Easy Tiger-produced comedy Colin From Accounts is the best example, winning multiple awards and selling globally.
Among the streamer’s slate is the hotly anticipated season 2 of the sitcom, created and written by stars Harriet Dyer and Patrick Brammall. Production will begin in Sydney in coming months following a delay after the writers put down their pens in unity with the WGA during the writers strike. Brammall is a WGA member and Dyer expressed concern earlier this year in an interview with Variety about how continuing might impact her future membership.
“As an Australian program it was outside of the strike, but they just felt it was the right thing to do,” said Hurbert-Burns. Spoiler alert coming: Asked what season two of the rom-com about two ill-matched lovers who unite over an injured dog, she said: “We left Colin season one with them
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