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Fox’s nascent sales house has struck its first third-party distribution agreement for a TV series, taking rights to Australian docu-soap Billion Dollar Playground. Fox Entertainment Global (FEG) will sell tape and format around the world to the show that is scheduled to launch on Foxtel’s streamer Bin…

Foxtel/Binge Topper Amanda Laing Exiting Foxtel and Binge’s Chief Commercial and Content Officer Amanda Laing has resigned and is exiting later this year. She joined the Australian TV giant in 2018 and has overseen the launch of streamer Binge, which is behind worldwide comedy hit Colin From…

EXCLUSIVE: The team behind Binge’s newly-crowned biggest original, Strife, are headed back to the writers’ room. The drama series — from Big Little Lies, Nine Perfect Strangers and Anatomy of a Scandal producer Made Up Stories in partnership with Fifth Season — has quickly usurped Colin From Accounts…

Breakout Australia comedy Colin From Accounts is back in production. An official green light of Season 2 of the hit Binge sitcom came in August, after writers and stars Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer chose to down their pens in solidarity with WGA strike in the U.S. over the summer. Exec…

EXCLUSIVE: Teresa Palmer (The Clearing, The Fall Guy), Miranda Richardson (Good Omens, Spider) and Danielle Macdonald (The Tourist, Patti Cake$) and a host of other names have joined Nicole Kidman’s light-hearted Australian drama series The Last Anniversary. The Foxtel drama for Aussie streamer Binge…

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EXCLUSIVE: Alison Hurbert-Burns, content chief at Colin From Accounts streamer Binge, has told Deadline “the proof is in the pudding” as the platform’s Australian pay-TV parent Foxtel unveiled its 2024 slate today. In an exclusive interview ahead of the slate reveal, Binge Executive Director…

EXCLUSIVE: Hugo Weaving is leading Australian streamer Binge’s first original film, How to Make Gravy. The Lord of the Rings and The Matrix star will lead an ensemble cast alongside side Daniel Henshall (Snowtown, Mystery Road: Origin) in the feature. Brenton Thwaites (Titans, Pirates of the Cari…

Channel 4 Takes Another JFK Doc The UK’s Channel 4 has acquired a doc on the late U.S. President John F Kennedy. The network has struck a deal with Espresso Media International for the hour-long doc on the first day of Mipcom. JFK: 24 Hours That Changed The World comes from Coleman Television and…

Australia’s producers have called out streamers for offering “unfair” commissioning deals with “unrealistic” budgets, a study has revealed. Screen Producers Australia’s second Commissioning Survey revealed streamers ranked the lowest in overall deal fairness across the industry. The streamers…

Australia’s Foxtel Group, which is majority-owned by News Corp., has set an expanded rights deal for the WWE in Australia, including a streaming shift reminiscent of the wrestling outfit’s U.S. alliance with Peacock. The WWE Network, formerly a stand-alone streaming service, will be subsumed into Binge, a Foxtel…

Greg Russo will bring his knowledge of adapting video games for screen to Binge, which has tapped the Mortal Kombat scribe to write and direct its upcoming live-action System Shock series. Set to stream exclusively on Binge.com, an an upcoming gaming entertainment streaming platform, System Shock is based on Nightdive…