Aussie titles on show at LA Screenings next week
Buyers converging on LA to view pilots from major studios will see new Aussie titles.
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Australian TV execs will be in California next week for the annual LA Screenings, in which buyers converge to view pilots from major studios.
These will also include Australian productions and co-productions:
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Starring Jacob Elordi and Odessa Young the new five-part drama series, based on Richard Flanagan’s novel, has been adapted by writer Shaun Grant and directed by Justin Kurzel, and will launch on Prime Video. Elordi and Young are joined by Ciarán Hinds as the older Dorrigo Evans, and Olivia DeJonge , Heather Mitchell, Thomas Weatherall, Show Kasamatsu, Charles An, and Simon Baker.
Good Cop, Bad Cop
Stan’s 8 part series, a co-production with CW & Roku, it follows Lou (Leighton Meester) and Henry (Luke Cook), a sister and brother detective team in a smalltown USA police force. They must contend with colourful residents, a serious lack of resources and their very complicated dynamic with each other and their police chief, Big Hank (Clancy Brown) – who happens to be their father.
Austin
ABC’s co-pro with ITV produced by Northern Pictures and Lincoln Pictures is set between Australia and the UK and stars Michael Theo (Love On The Spectrum), Ben Miller (Bridgerton, Death in Paradise) and Sally Phillips (Veep, Bridget Jones’s Diary). When much-loved children’s author Julian Hartswood inadvertently causes a social media storm, his career and that of his illustrator wife Ingrid appears to be over until Austin, the neurodiverse son that Julian never knew existed, turns up out of the blue.
Four Years Later
Upcoming SBS drama from Easy Tiger (Colin From Accounts and The Twelve) follows newlyweds Yash and Sridevi’s turbulent time apart and subsequent reconnection between Jaipur, India, and Sydney, Australia. With two timelines, two worlds, told through dual perspectives, the series is a love story exploring intimacy and belonging.
Also screening is NBC’s Laid, based on the Australian series of the same name created by Marieke Hardy & Kirsty Fisher.
Source: Deadline
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3 Responses
A decade ago US network piloted 100 shows a year for fall and some as mid-season replacements. Last season they made 14 pilots and only 6 were given orders. So a lot less competition these days. I will likely only get to see Austin and Four Years Later. The Narrow Road To The Deep North I should get around to reading.
There were strikes all round in US, but LA screenings is more than US network orders.
Interesting new drama titles on offer, my personal pick would be The Narrow Road to the Deep North, which features the Burma Death Railway, it would be challenging work for the actors.