US cablenet BYUtv has nabbed US rights to an Australian children’s action-adventure series about a science-obsessed teenager.

Australia’s Seven Studios is shedding staff in a reorganisation following the resignation of Therese Hegarty, CEO of the production house owned by Seven West Media

The systemic shortage of studio space in New Zealand will be eased with the opening next month of X3 Studios, a 30-minute drive south of Auckland’s city centre.

Troubled New Zealand TV and radio broadcaster MediaWorks is making 130 staff redundant as it downsizes and restructures.

Australian pay TV platform Foxtel’s low-cost entertainment SVoD service Binge launched today, targeting younger audiences who eschew Foxtel and are hooked on streaming content.

The Australian government is bankrolling an initiative to send more than 1,000 hours of local television programming to the country’s Pacific neighbours.

Australian production companies Film Art Media and Good Thing Productions have each optioned books by Oz writers and plan to turn them into TV series.

Australia’s Network 10 has commissioned a series of Family Feud primetime specials two years after axing the gameshow.

New Zealand satcaster Sky is raising funds from shareholders and new institutional investors as it weathers the coronavirus pandemic.

UK-based start-up Abacus Media Rights has boarded an Australian observational docuseries that focuses on a couple self-isolating in the outback.