Wednesday 3 October, 2007
Dancing with the Stars does a happy dance.

Tuesday 2 October, 2007
Australia continues researching the criminal mind.

Monday 1 October, 2007
BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, has acquired a majority stake in Australian travel publisher and producer Lonely Planet from founders Maureen and Tony Wheeler. The Wheelers will retain a 25% shareholding in the company.

Monday 1 October, 2007
What makes one pitch succeed where another fails? God knows. Luckily, so did the panel for this session, as most of them dole out the funds. Keith Barclay watches the gang go through some very familiar moves.

Monday 1 October, 2007
Before you can get to the audience you deserve, you have to go to the audience you need; funders, programmers, and distributors. Keith Barclay works out who we are all really trying to please.

Monday 1 October, 2007
'Cynically optimistic' was how Alex Lee, DocNZ Summit Producer, described his view of the future of documentary film in NZ. Keith Barclay runs an observation over a whole conference, and comes out on the side of hope.

Monday 1 October, 2007
David Batty is undoubtedly one of the most endearing ratbags of Australian documentary, and producer Jeni McMahon gets huge kudos for wrangling him. Their mini-doc is a finalist at the 2007 MIPCOM Mobile and Internet media Awards.

Monday 1 October, 2007
ABC Content Sales is taking �Summer Heights High� to MIPCOM, along with �The Chaser�s War On Everything� (8 x 30�) and �Bindi: Jungle Girl� (26 x 30�), and the possibly penguin-toasting �Mawson�. Note to self: do not mix up the pitches.

Monday 1 October, 2007
The first strike action of this negotiating round in Hollywood could come very soon, spearheaded by the writers who think they have found the soft underbelly of the Hollywood system.

Monday 1 October, 2007
New distributor on the block All Interactive Entertainment will hit Australian cinema screens with their first release on November 1. Two of these films star Steve Buscemi.

Monday 1 October, 2007
You are in a studio, presenting a telephone quiz show. There is only one camera and no chance of cutting away. What could possibly go wrong?

Monday 1 October, 2007
The BBC can't put a foot right in the balance the budget tango. And no-one is happy, not even all the agents.

Monday 1 October, 2007
Ten skites over record win. We draw some culturally significant conclusions.

Friday 28 September, 2007
In some quarters, Leonard Retel Helmrich is close to a God. Keith Barclay grabbed a corner of his masterclass at the Doc NZ Summit, and desperately tried to work out how to turn diagrams, images and examples in the pallid medium of prose.

Friday 28 September, 2007
The Doc NZ Summit 2007, run from 24–26 Sept in auckland, was dedicated to Currency and Convergence. Keith Barclay contemplates that wonderful pot of gold, 'Alternative Funding'. To mix a verbal metaphor, it was called "Brave New World'.

Friday 28 September, 2007
The word on the street is that the FFC's in-trays are a bear pit of competing applications, as the venerable organisation is lined up to be pulverised and then remodelled into something different next year. So who left the latest funding round full of joy?

Monday 24 September, 2007
Special offer to our New Zealand subscribers: Thanks to DOCNZ, we have 20 tickets to give away to any of the DOCNZ nationwide screenings.

News Feature by: Alex Prior
Thursday 20 September, 2007
General Manager Alaric McAusland explains the deal behind Atlab bringing EFilm (a subsidiary of the US Deluxe Laboratories) to Australia – all rumours aside, it’s an exclusive license covering Australia, New Zealand and Asia.