Screen Tasmania has launched Comedy Concentrate, a short-form comedy development program for emerging screen practitioners.
The program is a match-funded intiative, with approximately $40,000 from Screen Australia and $50,000 from Screen Tasmania.
Comedy Concentrate will run from October until March next year, and will involve a number of high profile experts working with emerging Tasmanian comedy makers to develop and shoot pilots for short-form comedy series.
Initially up to 15 teams will take part in a two day workshop run by comedy experts including ABC head of comedy Rick Kalowski, Doug Anthony All-Star and author of The Cheeky Monkey Tim Ferguson, alongside Screen Australia.s interactive and multiplatform investment manager, Mike Cowap.
The best projects will be selected to work with mentor producers Kacie Anning (Fragments of Friday, The Minister for Men) and Nathan Earl (Plonk, The Checkout, Review with Myles Barlow), and they will ultimately be given a production budget to shoot a pilot.
The program is a match-funded intiative, with approximately $40,000 from Screen Australia and $50,000 from Screen Tasmania.
Comedy Concentrate will run from October until March next year, and will involve a number of high profile experts working with emerging Tasmanian comedy makers to develop and shoot pilots for short-form comedy series.
Initially up to 15 teams will take part in a two day workshop run by comedy experts including ABC head of comedy Rick Kalowski, Doug Anthony All-Star and author of The Cheeky Monkey Tim Ferguson, alongside Screen Australia.s interactive and multiplatform investment manager, Mike Cowap.
The best projects will be selected to work with mentor producers Kacie Anning (Fragments of Friday, The Minister for Men) and Nathan Earl (Plonk, The Checkout, Review with Myles Barlow), and they will ultimately be given a production budget to shoot a pilot.
- 8/8/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
The Weekend Shift.
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Lee Lin Chin is set to star in new Sbs comedy web pilot.The Weekend Shift.produced by Sbs 2.s The Feed.
The pilot premieres Monday 9 May on Sbs On Demand.
The show is a new scripted comedy pilot that follows the team behind the fictional Sbs Weekend News and their struggles with ratings, budget cuts and getting Lee Lin out of the pub and into the studio..
In the tradition of.Frontline, 30 Rock.and.The Larry Sanders Show,.The Weekend Shift.is a self-deprecating look at a B Team of dysfunctional misfits who put the 'weak' in Weekend News.
Nick Smith (Miles Bence —.Fresh Blood), a thirty-something supervising producer old beyond his years thanks to stress and sleepless nights, leads the team including journalists Laura Knight (Madeleine Madden —.Tomorrow When the War Began), Emily Wright (Renee Lim —.Please Like Me), social media guy Craven (Chris Leben...
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Lee Lin Chin is set to star in new Sbs comedy web pilot.The Weekend Shift.produced by Sbs 2.s The Feed.
The pilot premieres Monday 9 May on Sbs On Demand.
The show is a new scripted comedy pilot that follows the team behind the fictional Sbs Weekend News and their struggles with ratings, budget cuts and getting Lee Lin out of the pub and into the studio..
In the tradition of.Frontline, 30 Rock.and.The Larry Sanders Show,.The Weekend Shift.is a self-deprecating look at a B Team of dysfunctional misfits who put the 'weak' in Weekend News.
Nick Smith (Miles Bence —.Fresh Blood), a thirty-something supervising producer old beyond his years thanks to stress and sleepless nights, leads the team including journalists Laura Knight (Madeleine Madden —.Tomorrow When the War Began), Emily Wright (Renee Lim —.Please Like Me), social media guy Craven (Chris Leben...
- 5/3/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Plonk, a satirical look at the trials and tribulations of making a serious wine show, screened on Eleven last year after premiering on YouTube.
Now there.s a second series of six-half episodes which will premiere on Svod service Stan in June.
Produced by One Stone Pictures and ITV Studios Australia, the comedy stars The Chaser.s Chris Taylor, Joshua Tyler and creator/co-executive producer Nathan Earl.
Shot in Adelaide, the Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale, Clare Valley, Coonawarra and the Adelaide Hills, the sequel picks up 12 months after the cancellation of the fictitious Plonk program at the end of season one.
There will be cameos from foodie Maggie Beer, sommelier Matt Skinner, comedian Greg Fleet and Sa Premier Jay Weatherill.
Screen Australia, the South Australian Tourism Commission and the South Australian Film Corporation are supporting the production.
Graeme Mason, Screen Australia CEO, said: .We.re proud to support Nathan and...
Now there.s a second series of six-half episodes which will premiere on Svod service Stan in June.
Produced by One Stone Pictures and ITV Studios Australia, the comedy stars The Chaser.s Chris Taylor, Joshua Tyler and creator/co-executive producer Nathan Earl.
Shot in Adelaide, the Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale, Clare Valley, Coonawarra and the Adelaide Hills, the sequel picks up 12 months after the cancellation of the fictitious Plonk program at the end of season one.
There will be cameos from foodie Maggie Beer, sommelier Matt Skinner, comedian Greg Fleet and Sa Premier Jay Weatherill.
Screen Australia, the South Australian Tourism Commission and the South Australian Film Corporation are supporting the production.
Graeme Mason, Screen Australia CEO, said: .We.re proud to support Nathan and...
- 3/9/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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