Exclusive: Bryan Brown and Greta Scacchi are back for more adventures in the Australian outback after Darby and Joan was renewed for a second season by Acorn TV.
The AMC Networks-owned streamer will filming the second season of the show later this year in Australia.
Darby and Joan stars Cocktail star Brown and War and Peace’s Scacchi as former cop Jack Darby and English nurse Joan Kirkhope, respectively, who collide in the Australian outback and become entangled in a string of intriguing mysteries. Forming an unlikely investigative duo, they quickly realise the greatest mystery they face is each other.
Season two finds Jack and Joan on the hunt for the one person Jack believes can reveal the truth about his mysterious past. Jack and Joan soon realize they aren’t alone on this journey and their quest becomes a race against time. But can they really find the truth after all these years?...
The AMC Networks-owned streamer will filming the second season of the show later this year in Australia.
Darby and Joan stars Cocktail star Brown and War and Peace’s Scacchi as former cop Jack Darby and English nurse Joan Kirkhope, respectively, who collide in the Australian outback and become entangled in a string of intriguing mysteries. Forming an unlikely investigative duo, they quickly realise the greatest mystery they face is each other.
Season two finds Jack and Joan on the hunt for the one person Jack believes can reveal the truth about his mysterious past. Jack and Joan soon realize they aren’t alone on this journey and their quest becomes a race against time. But can they really find the truth after all these years?...
- 6/6/2024
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Bryan Brown and Greta Scacchi will lead the new mystery drama Darby and Joan, which Cjz is producing for Acorn TV.
The eight-part series stars Brown as a retired Australian policeman with a dog as his only company and Scacchi as a widowed English nurse. The pair meet each other and embark together on an epic odyssey in the outback of northern Australia.
Filming will begin in Queensland this month, with major production investment from Screen Australia in association with Screen Queensland.
Darby and Joan will be executive produced by Claire Tonkin, David Hannam, Matt Campbell, Bea Tammer and Catherine Mackin, with series producer Pino Amenta.
Created by Glenys Rowe and Phillip Gwynne, the series’ writers include Hannam, Beck Cole, Andrew Anastasios, Giula Sandler, Ainslie Clouston, Adam Zwar and Paul Bennett. The set-up director is David Caesar.
Cjz CEO Matt Campbell said the company was always convinced of the project’s potential.
The eight-part series stars Brown as a retired Australian policeman with a dog as his only company and Scacchi as a widowed English nurse. The pair meet each other and embark together on an epic odyssey in the outback of northern Australia.
Filming will begin in Queensland this month, with major production investment from Screen Australia in association with Screen Queensland.
Darby and Joan will be executive produced by Claire Tonkin, David Hannam, Matt Campbell, Bea Tammer and Catherine Mackin, with series producer Pino Amenta.
Created by Glenys Rowe and Phillip Gwynne, the series’ writers include Hannam, Beck Cole, Andrew Anastasios, Giula Sandler, Ainslie Clouston, Adam Zwar and Paul Bennett. The set-up director is David Caesar.
Cjz CEO Matt Campbell said the company was always convinced of the project’s potential.
- 8/5/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
MTV released a trailer for “The Challenge: Spies, Lies and Allies” and announced the first-ever “The Challenge: Fantasy League.”
The new season of the long-running franchise, which premieres Aug. 11 at 8 p.m., will showcase 17 international players alongside U.S. players. It will then roll out globally across MTV’s international networks in more than 190 countries throughout the coming months.
The trailer, which you can watch below, starts off with contestants atop cars swerving around tracks. “The Challenge” host T.J. Lavin tells contestants that the competition will be more complicated than ever before. “Agents, here on ‘The Challenge,’ the missions are harder, my eliminations — tougher. So I’ve brought 34 of the most elite agents from around the globe to test every one of your skills,” he says.
Aside from physical competition, the trailer provides a sneak peek into the contestants’ personal lives, with dancing, partying and romance being showcased between the players.
The new season of the long-running franchise, which premieres Aug. 11 at 8 p.m., will showcase 17 international players alongside U.S. players. It will then roll out globally across MTV’s international networks in more than 190 countries throughout the coming months.
The trailer, which you can watch below, starts off with contestants atop cars swerving around tracks. “The Challenge” host T.J. Lavin tells contestants that the competition will be more complicated than ever before. “Agents, here on ‘The Challenge,’ the missions are harder, my eliminations — tougher. So I’ve brought 34 of the most elite agents from around the globe to test every one of your skills,” he says.
Aside from physical competition, the trailer provides a sneak peek into the contestants’ personal lives, with dancing, partying and romance being showcased between the players.
- 8/4/2021
- by Jennifer Yuma and Ethan Shanfeld
- Variety Film + TV
Cocktail star Bryan Brown and War & Peace’s Greta Scacchi are to play two strangers trekking on the road in the Australian outback in a new Australian drama series.
Acorn TV has ordered Darby and Joan and will air the eight-part series, which comes from My Life Is Murder producer Cjz, in the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, Latin America, Australia, Spain and Portugal.
Brown plays a retired Australian policeman with a dog as his only company and Scacchi, who also featured in AMC’s The Terror, as a widowed English nurse. The pair meet each other and embark together on an epic odyssey in the outback of northern Australia.
The series, which has received major production investment from Screen Australia in association with Screen Queensland, will air in 2022.
Darby and Joan shines a light on isolated and often unseen areas of regional Australia, and a myriad of characters...
Acorn TV has ordered Darby and Joan and will air the eight-part series, which comes from My Life Is Murder producer Cjz, in the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, Latin America, Australia, Spain and Portugal.
Brown plays a retired Australian policeman with a dog as his only company and Scacchi, who also featured in AMC’s The Terror, as a widowed English nurse. The pair meet each other and embark together on an epic odyssey in the outback of northern Australia.
The series, which has received major production investment from Screen Australia in association with Screen Queensland, will air in 2022.
Darby and Joan shines a light on isolated and often unseen areas of regional Australia, and a myriad of characters...
- 8/4/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Rolf de Heer..
Award-winning director Rolf de Heer (Twelve Canoes, Charlie.s Country) has been named one of four recipients of this year's Mpa Apsa Academy Film Fund, designed to support new feature film projects at script stage.
Announced by the Motion Picture Association (Mpa) at the 10th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Apsa) in Brisbane last week, de Heer will receive a $25,000 Usd grant to develop his script Mr Ward.s Incredible Journey.
De Heer's screenplay follows the true story of Aboriginal elder Mr Ward, who tragically died in the back of a police van in the outback in 2008. De Heer will once again collaborate with David Gulpilil on the film.
The jury described the script as both .elegiac and timely. and commended de Heer and his Gulpilil for their .courage in taking on such a critical story in the ongoing history of the race relations between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in Australia today.
Award-winning director Rolf de Heer (Twelve Canoes, Charlie.s Country) has been named one of four recipients of this year's Mpa Apsa Academy Film Fund, designed to support new feature film projects at script stage.
Announced by the Motion Picture Association (Mpa) at the 10th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Apsa) in Brisbane last week, de Heer will receive a $25,000 Usd grant to develop his script Mr Ward.s Incredible Journey.
De Heer's screenplay follows the true story of Aboriginal elder Mr Ward, who tragically died in the back of a police van in the outback in 2008. De Heer will once again collaborate with David Gulpilil on the film.
The jury described the script as both .elegiac and timely. and commended de Heer and his Gulpilil for their .courage in taking on such a critical story in the ongoing history of the race relations between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in Australia today.
- 11/29/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
The chorus of voices calling for an end to the traditional, rigid release windows in Australia keeps getting louder.
Distribution consultant Thomas Mai today described the 120-day gap between theatrical and home entertainment as .obnoxious,. observing, it .doesn.t work anymore..
Mai was speaking at a panel entitled The Director as Distributor at the Australian Directors Guild conference, where the virtues of self-distribution were extolled. The panel was moderated by researcher/writer Laura Carroll Harris, whose essay Not at a Cinema Near You: Australia.s film distribution problem, has just been published by Currency Press.
Launching the essay on Thursday night, entertainment lawyer Ian Robertson backed Harris. argument that Australians must find new ways of reaching audiences. .The current system of distributing Australian-financed feature films is substantially broken, and I know that savvy and experienced Australian film makers are aware of this and are preparing for the new world ahead,...
Distribution consultant Thomas Mai today described the 120-day gap between theatrical and home entertainment as .obnoxious,. observing, it .doesn.t work anymore..
Mai was speaking at a panel entitled The Director as Distributor at the Australian Directors Guild conference, where the virtues of self-distribution were extolled. The panel was moderated by researcher/writer Laura Carroll Harris, whose essay Not at a Cinema Near You: Australia.s film distribution problem, has just been published by Currency Press.
Launching the essay on Thursday night, entertainment lawyer Ian Robertson backed Harris. argument that Australians must find new ways of reaching audiences. .The current system of distributing Australian-financed feature films is substantially broken, and I know that savvy and experienced Australian film makers are aware of this and are preparing for the new world ahead,...
- 11/8/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The chorus of voices calling for an end to the traditional, rigid release windows in Australia keeps getting louder.
Distribution consultant Thomas Mai today described the 120-day gap between theatrical and home entertainment as .obnoxious,. observing, it .doesn.t work anymore..
Mai was speaking at a panel entitled The Director as Distributor at the Australian Directors Guild conference, where the virtues of self-distribution were extolled. The panel was moderated by researcher/writer Laura Carroll Harris, whose essay Not at a Cinema Near You: Australia.s film distribution problem, has just been published by Currency Press.
Launching the essay on Thursday night, entertainment lawyer Ian Robertson backed Harris. argument that Australians must find new ways of reaching audiences. .The current system of distributing Australian-financed feature films is substantially broken, and I know that savvy and experienced Australian film makers are aware of this and are preparing for the new world ahead,...
Distribution consultant Thomas Mai today described the 120-day gap between theatrical and home entertainment as .obnoxious,. observing, it .doesn.t work anymore..
Mai was speaking at a panel entitled The Director as Distributor at the Australian Directors Guild conference, where the virtues of self-distribution were extolled. The panel was moderated by researcher/writer Laura Carroll Harris, whose essay Not at a Cinema Near You: Australia.s film distribution problem, has just been published by Currency Press.
Launching the essay on Thursday night, entertainment lawyer Ian Robertson backed Harris. argument that Australians must find new ways of reaching audiences. .The current system of distributing Australian-financed feature films is substantially broken, and I know that savvy and experienced Australian film makers are aware of this and are preparing for the new world ahead,...
- 11/8/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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