was spent on 169 drama productions in Australia in 2023/24, a 29 percent decline from the previous year. The local expenditure took a hit due to a decline in high-budget production activity across ...

The report shows a total of $1.7 billion was spent on drama production in Australia, with $929 million of that dedicated to ...

Hollywood’s 2023 writers’ and actors’ strikes have had a delayed impact locally, pushing screen production in Australia to its lowest level since the beginning of COVID. The sector recorded ...

Very often, TV shows get labelled as ‘the best you’ve ever seen’ but when it comes to You Can’t Ask That, it is genuinely a ...

Screen Australia‘s latest Drama Report reveals a sharp 29% drop in total industry expenditure for 2023-24, with spending ...

Australia has experienced a "collapse" of investment in drama production, according to the country's screen producers body.

Nicolas Cage in The Surfer.Credit: Stan However, the second clear trend is a negative for the sector: the decline of free-to-air TV as a commissioner of original Australian drama and comedy.

Thirty-six Australian features with theatrical distribution in place went into production in Australia in the 12 months to ...

Notably international TV and streaming drama productions have gone from A$575M in 2021/22, when many productions shifted to Australia to avoid COVID lockdown restrictions, to just A$122M in 2023/24.