News Feature by: David Tiley
Friday 5 October, 2007
The International Documentary Association has gone through an elaborate process to decide the best 25 documentaries in the word. What could possibly go wrong with that?

Friday 5 October, 2007
Network Ten has made a string of announcements in the last week, that reveal more about how its online strategy is working, and how it is more focused on the internet than most of its rivals.

Friday 5 October, 2007
We have a theory about last night's ratings: Seven has learnt to broadcast a cunning hypnotic signal which says DO NOT CHANGE THE CHANNEL.

Friday 5 October, 2007
All proceeds in an orderly manner, since we seem to like them doctor shows.

Friday 5 October, 2007
The Australian Communications and Media Authority has found that Channel Seven Melbourne breached the Commercial Television Industry Code of Practice by incorrectly classifying three episodes of Home and Away, one featuring teenage sex, and the other two pole dancing. Seven defended itself on the grounds that what was good for the chickens was OK for the chicks.

Friday 5 October, 2007
ACMA has released a generic load of figures for commercial television expendigure during 2005-06, carefully aggregated to minimise the value of the data.

News Feature by: David Tiley
Friday 5 October, 2007
Another skirmish in the playground wars between the current affairs and reality TV gangs in the commercial broadcasters has embroiled some bits of the Christian church. Maybe that is not such a good idea.

Wednesday 3 October, 2007
Joost is surely a fragment of the future - and we can now see that it looks pretty good.

Wednesday 3 October, 2007
In one of the year's stranger prizes, 'Lucky Miles' won the Scripts Magazine Editorial Award for Best Script and will now be translated into Russian and published by Scripts Magazine. Meanwhile, 'Homesong Stories' continues its festival run.

Wednesday 3 October, 2007
' .. if they want to produce programming that they want to sell internationally, they need to start with the international market and work backwards.' All the way to Geelong, in the case of Worldwide Entertainment. Rob Ruminski reports on a little gang that grew.

Wednesday 3 October, 2007
Money for nothing and the seminar for free. The Australian Film Television and Radio School has announced that due to huge demand, it will now run its national Producer Rebate Seminars free-of-charge.

Wednesday 3 October, 2007
FremantleMedia is taking Japanese format ‘Hole in the Wall’ to MIPCOM. “Contestants must strike the correct pose and fit through a hole in the wall as it speeds towards them.”

Wednesday 3 October, 2007
We know children's TV in the UK is in trouble, as ITV exits the terrain and the BBC moves it from BBC1 to BBC2. But a new study reveals that British tots from Cornwall to the Clyde are watching the kind of foreign muck our tots have been dancing to for generations.

News Feature by: Paul Budde
Wednesday 3 October, 2007
After two years of trying to hold on to its monopoly it looks as though Telstra is finally facing the inevitable � that it is not going to get away with it. It came tantalisingly close to this in February 2007, but it was too greedy and the government had to say no. Paul Budde hears the bell tolling.

Wednesday 3 October, 2007
The Lonely Planet deal has gone round the world, picked up by all the major English language financial press rooms. But some of them seem a tad confused.

Wednesday 3 October, 2007
Thanks to Dendy Films, we have 10 double-passes to give away for Control.

News Feature by: Anne Richey
Wednesday 3 October, 2007
Screen Hub toiler Anne Richey, found a story which left her dancing with rage after she watched the Youtube trailer. We think she has a right to be pissed off.

News Feature by: David Tiley
Wednesday 3 October, 2007
Political image management in the digital era is a tricky business, particularly if you happen to be the Minister responsible for a national broadcaster under fire. And if your staff is still using Photoshop 2.2.

Tuesday 2 October, 2007
The nominations for the Asia Pacific Screen Awards are out and thirty-four films from nineteen countries have been nominated. Australia has only managed two nominations.

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
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.

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.