8 x 60 mins / Mystery Drama / Showcase (2016)
Anna Macy (played by Elizabeth Debicki) returns to her home town of Kettering, Tasmania. She left the town under a cloud 15 years earlier after her best friend Gillian disappeared. Back now, she finds that the old animosities remain. Moreover, the strange phenomena that accompanied Gillian's disappearance remain and another girl has disappeared.
Awards:
AACTA Award Best Mini-series
AACTA Award Best Lead Actress
8 x 60 mins / Romantic Comedy / Playmaker media (2016)
The Wrong Girl is an Australian drama series, based on Zoe Foster Blake’s book of the same name, that first aired on Network Ten. The series follows the life of television producer Lily Woodward, as she seeks a successful romance, a dynamic career and settled family.
4 x 60 mins / Drama Series / Matchbox Pictures (2016)
Danny yearns to win swimming gold at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. He is taken under the wing of highly regarded coach, Frank Torma and develops a friendship/rivalry with teammate Martin Taylor which inspires Danny to become a world record holder.
6 x 60 min eps / Drama / for Foxtel (Showcase) (2014)
The year is 1988. It is 35 years after the events of Fred Schepisi’s classic film, The Devil’s Playground. Tom Allen, now in his 40s and recently widowed, is a respected Sydney psychiatrist and father of two children. A practising Catholic, Tom accepts an offer by the Bishop of Sydney to become a counsellor of priests. During these sessions, he will uncover a scandal and become embroiled in the Church’s attempts to cover it up. Tom’s quest for justice will push him to his limits, and reveal a side of Church power and official corruption he could never have imagined.
Starring: Simon Burke, John Noble, Don Hany, Jack Thompson and Toni Collette.
Directors: Rachel Ward and Tony Krawitz
Awards :
2014: Best Telefeature or Mini Series at 4TH AACTA Awards
6 x 60 mins / Drama Series / Screentime (2016)
The drama centres around a part-time country pub singer, portrayed by Jessica Mauboy, who has a chance meeting with a wealthy city hotelier and rediscovers information about her family and history.
2 x 90 mins / Docudrama Telemovie / Endemol Shine (2016)
The series charts the highs of Peter Brock’s motor racing career and the lows of his personal life. It covers his action packed career and his association with Holden for almost 40 years including a public split involving the controversial device the Energy Polariser.
2 x 90 mins / Docudrama Telemovie / Endemol Shine (2017)
Based on true events, Killer Cop is a sequel to the award winning 1995 mini-series Blue Murder. Set in 1990s, 2000s and 2010s in Sydney, the miniseries continues the story of the life of former Detective Roger “the Dodger” Rogerson.
6 x 60 mins / Teen Drama / Ambience Entertainment (2016)
A group of teenagers return from a camping trip to find themselves in the middle of an unexpected war. Among only a few Australians still free, they must learn to defend themselves against the hostile invaders.
6 x 60 mins / Drama Series / Endemol Australia (2015)
A grand, complex love story. It's also an engaging contemporary re-imagining of the greatest tragic romance of all time, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. But The Beautiful Lie is more than a great love story. It's a sprawling saga of adultery, scandal, manners and mayhem — about the fates of three enmeshed families across three generations.
Series 1 - 3 : 39 x 60 min eps / Adult Drama / for Nine Network (2012 - 2014)
Warm, funny and entertaining, House Husbands gives a real perspective on the way we live today. A drama about four modern families with one thing in common: the men are in charge of raising the kids. Just because you have kids doesn’t mean you ever need to stop acting like one.
Awards:
2013: Logie Award for Most Popular Drama Series
Series 1 - 3 : 66 x 60 min eps / Romantic Comedy / for Seven Network (2011 – 2013)
The lives of four best friends are bound together by their shared experience of being "the losers" in high school. Ten years later, they realise they are really winners once they are reunited at their school reunion and afterwards, win the Oz Lotto.
Awards:
2012: Logie for Most Popular New Female Talent.
13 x 30 mins / Teen Drama / Werner Films and Blackfella Films (2015)
The series follows five Indigenous kids venturing a long way from home to the city to pursue their dreams in sport, music and academia. For some it’s the opportunity of a lifetime, for others it’s a last chance. For all of them, family is the last thing they expect to find.
Awards:
AACTA Award Best Children’s Television Series
2 x 90 mins / Docudrama Telemovie / Seven Network (2015)
The two part mini-series tells the remarkable story of Peter Allen's rise from country New South Wales to the Hollywood Hills, becoming part of American royalty along the way.
Awards:
ACCTA Award for best Mini-series
Logie Award for most outstanding newcomer
2 x 90 mins / Docudrama Telemovie / FremantleMedia (2015)
Twenty-eight-year-old Mary Donaldson has all but given up on love when one night she goes to the pub and meets a prince. But falling in love is the easy part, compared to what it takes for an Australian girl to become the future Crown Princess of Denmark.
6 x 1 hour drama series / ABC (2015)
When Senior Constable James Hayes, a police officer in the small town of Yoorana, is called out to the local cemetery in the middle of the night, he makes a discovery that turns his world upside down. Six people have inexplicably risen from the dead in perfect health.
Awards:
AACTA Award Best Television Drama Series
AACTA Award Best Original Music Score in Television
Mini-series / Foxtel Showcase (2015)
Three journalists, Charles Bean, Ellis Ashmead Bartlett and Phillip Schuler, arrive at Gallipoli with the invading British and Allied troops in 1915. They will report the war but are prevented from getting out the true story of an unfolding disaster. From encampment in Cairo to Anzac Cove to the evacuation, this is the story of journalists who will not accept that truth be the first casualty. This is the story of the men who will not shut up. The actions of these men will help change the course of the campaign, ensure that a strategic disaster becomes a legend of human heroism, and leave an impregnable mark on each of their lives.
Awards:
AACTA Award for Best Cinematography in Television
AACTA Award for Best Sound in Television
Series 1-2 : 17 x 60 min eps / Adult Drama / for Network Ten (2012 – 2014)
Based on the iconic 1979 novel by Gabrielle Carey and Kathy Lette, Puberty Blues revolves around the family and friends of Debbie and Sue, two inseparable teenage girls who are progressing through the coming of age process.
Awards:
2013: ACCTA Award for Best Television Drama Series
8 x 60 min eps / Adult Drama / for ABC (2011)
The Slap is a bold, provocative television drama series that forensically examines the mores and morality of contemporary middleclass life. Based on Christos Tsiolkas’ bestselling novel, this 8 –part drama series traces the shattering repercussions of a single event upon a group of family and friends.
Awards:
2012: AFI for Best Telefeature or Mini Series
2012: AFI for Best Direction in Television
2012: ASE Award for Best Television Mini Series
2012: Silver Logie for Most Outstanding Drama Series
Series 1-4 : 52 x 60 min eps / Adult Drama / for Nine Network (2008 – 2011)
Underbelly is the hit Australian true-crime franchise, which dramatises infamous eras of crime throughout Australia’s history. The hugely successful original Underbelly,about Melbourne’s gangland war, was preceded by “A Tale of Two Cities”, “The Golden Mile”, “Razor” and a series of telemovies.
Awards:
2009: Logie for Most Outstanding Mini-Series
2009: Silver Logie for Most Outstanding Drama
3 x 120 min / Adult Drama / for Nine Network (2011)
The Underbelly Files are a series 3 stand-alone telemovies telling true stories of infamous Australian crimes. The first, Tell Them Lucifer Was Here, tells the story of the 1998 killings of police officers Gary Silk and Rod Miller. In Infiltration detective Colin McLaren, who posed as a shady art dealer, infiltrates the Australian branch of the Calabrian Mafia. The final installment The Man Who Got Away, recounts the amazing true story of British-Australian drug smuggler David McMillan, the only man ever to escape from Bangkok’s Klong Prem prison.
