SBS summons the God Squad

SBS has a new animated series in the pipeline which send-ups gritty police dramas.

God Squad will see the gods of various past and present religions play the principal roles as cops and criminals. Crazy stuff.

The project is one of several which received funding from Screen Australia earlier this week. ABC’s Sporting Nation, featuring John Clarke, was also included in the latest funding round.

GOD SQUAD
ZAC Toons Australia Pty Ltd
Producers Troy Zafer, Jemma Cook
Writers Brendan Luno, Chad Fifer
Director Nick Kempt
Co-director Emma Camden
Broadcaster SBS
Distribution Mercury Mobile (Australia)

National Documentary Program:

THE BOMBING OF DARWIN: AN AWKWARD TRUTH
Artemis
Producer/Executive Producer Brian Beaton
Writer Russell Vines
Director TBA
Broadcaster The History Channel
Sales Off The Fence
Synopsis The true story behind Australia’s worst disaster, the bombing of Darwin during World War II.

SINGAPORE 1942
Electric Pictures
Producer Andrea Quesnelle
Executive Producers Andrew Ogilvie, Trevor Graham
Writer/Director Don Featherstone
Broadcasters SBS, BBC Scotland, Discovery Asia, UKTV
Synopsis The fall of Singapore shattered myths, brought an empire to its knees and changed the destiny of millions of people.

SPORTING NATION
Princess Pictures Pty Ltd
Producer Andrea Denholm
Executive Producers Laura Waters, Yael Bergman, Andrea Denholm
Series Producer Jeff Stilson
Writers John Clarke, Jeff Stilson
Director Bruce Permezel
Broadcaster ABC
Sales ABC Commerical
Synopsis Australia is a sporting nation. In Australia, to be a properly accredited member of society, you’ve got to either play or watch sport. John Clarke, arguably Australia’s greatest natural athlete, kicks around with legendary sporting heroes, amateur athletes and the country’s loudest fans in a documentary series that barracks for and rips into Australian sport, past and present.

THE YEARS THAT MADE US: AUSTRALIA BETWEEN THE WARS
Beyond Screen Productions
Producers Mark Hamlyn, Renee Kennedy
Executive Producer Mark Hamlyn
Writer/Presenter Chris Masters
Director Stuart Goodman
Broadcaster ABC
Synopsis Chris Masters investigates a crucial but sometimes overlooked period of Australian history, the between the war years from the 1920s to the 1940s. When the guns stopped sounding another battle began. The maturing of a nation and its people can often be found less through war than the struggle for peace. This series traces three key themes each connecting this important era to the present. While Federation in 1901 is a formal beginning and Gallipoli in 1915, a symbolic coming of age, in the following years when the soldiers returned, the people endured a depression and then steeled themselves for yet another war, vital steps to nationhood were negotiated.