Australia


Australia’s Optus Sport teams with DAZN

Sports group DAZN has struck a content distribution partnership with Australian telco Optus’ sports streaming service. DAZN’s newly launched cloud-native content distribution service, DAZN Connect, will deliver video IP back-up feeds to Optus Sport across its portfolio of sporting events. Optus Sports has rights to the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, UEFA Nations League […]

The TBI interview: Inside No. Nine

Hamish Turner, programme director for Australia’s Nine Network, outlines the channel’s strategy post-Fairfax Media merger. Manori Ravindran reports. With complete control of regional SVOD Stan and a diversifying content strategy, Australia’s Nine Network is poised to become an industry heavyweight. The commercial channel’s acquisition of Fairfax Media sent shockwaves across the industry when it was […]

MTV’s Teen Mom heads to Australia

MTV Australia is set for a local version of its international TV format Teen Mom. Teen Mom Australia is a ten-part series and will premiere in 2019 exclusively on MTV, on Foxtel, Foxtel Now and Fetch. Produced by WTFN, Teen Mom Australia will explore the lives of three Teen Moms from different backgrounds and different corners of Australia as they try to find […]

BBC Studios hires Washington to head up Aussie production arm

BBC Studios has hired Matchbox Pictures’ director of unscripted Kylie Washington as its first director of production in Australia. The new director will join BBC Studios in the coming months and report into its international production division, led by Anna Mallett, managing director, production and COO at BBC Studios. She will work closely with Jon […]

TVF secures swathe of deals in Australia and New Zealand

London-based factual distributor TVF International has sold a slate of shows to broadcasters in Australia and New Zealand. Inside Windsor Castle, co-commissioned by Channel 5 and Smithsonian, has been picked up by Foxtel, SBS (both Australia) and Sky Prime (NZ) while Foxtel also snapped up CBC crime doc Looking for Mike (44 minutes) and Channel […]

Aussie SVOD platform adds BBC docs

Australian on-demand platform Presto has acquired several documentaries from BBC Worldwide’s local Australasian arm. The 100-hour agreement with BBCWW Australia & New Zealand includes Brazil with Michael Palin, Michael Palin’s New Europe, Stephen Fry and the Great American Oil Spill, Fry’s Planet World and 18 Louis Theroux titles such as The Most Hated Family in […]

Netflix set for Australia in 2015

US-listed streaming service Netflix is set to continue its rapid expansion with an Australian launch in 2015. The company announced a swathe of European launches earlier this year and various reports out of Australia suggest it will set up shop in the country next year. Graham Burke, the co-CEO of movie distributor Village Roadshow told […]

New role for Lisa Higginson at Shine

Shine is looking for a new UK-based sales director following the news that Lisa Higginson is relocating from the UK to Australia. As senior sales manager, Higginson is responsible for selling Shine content to the CEE and CIS regions as well as Israel, Turkey and Greece. She is relocating to Sydney where she will take […]

Absolutely rings up South Korea deal for The Phone

Absolutely has sold quiz format The Phone into South Korea. CJ Entertainment has picked up the show for its CJ Channel with Dutch production company Park Lane on board as consultants. The deal is the first in the country for Absolutely, the formats distributor in which Kees Abrahams new start-up Imagine Nation recently acquired a […]