South Australia’s TV Minilab has announced the five finalists who will pitch their projects to TV networks in Sydney next week.
The finalists are producer Melissa Sheldrick, writer Ryder Grindle, writer/directors Alexis West and Matt Vesely, and the producer/writer team of Caroline Man and Ruth Estelle.
The projects were selected by a panel including Kris Noble, Sue masters and TV Minilab mentor Gus Howard.
The inaugural TV Minilab brought together 28 creatives for a four-week intensive program, including masterclasses with Gus Howard, Ric Pellizzeri, Des Monaghan, Tony Morphett, Tim Ferguson and Lisa McCune. The initiative forms part of a major focus on attracting and building television production in South Australia.
The finalists are producer Melissa Sheldrick, writer Ryder Grindle, writer/directors Alexis West and Matt Vesely, and the producer/writer team of Caroline Man and Ruth Estelle.
The projects were selected by a panel including Kris Noble, Sue masters and TV Minilab mentor Gus Howard.
The inaugural TV Minilab brought together 28 creatives for a four-week intensive program, including masterclasses with Gus Howard, Ric Pellizzeri, Des Monaghan, Tony Morphett, Tim Ferguson and Lisa McCune. The initiative forms part of a major focus on attracting and building television production in South Australia.
- 12/3/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
SYDNEY -- Australian format firm Endemol Southern Star has promoted Rory Callaghan to managing director following the resignation of Kris Noble, the company said Thursday.
Formerly managing director of Granada Productions Australia, Callaghan has been with Southern Star for 18 months.
ESS, a joint venture of Endemol and Australian independent production and distribution company the Southern Star Group, produced "Big Brother", 'Deal or No Deal," "1 v 100" and, as of next year, a revival of the "Gladiators" franchise here.
Callaghan is assuming overall responsibility for all of the production activities of Endemol Southern Star as well as retaining his production role at Southern Star's factual and drama division, Southern Star Entertainment.
Noble, a 37-year veteran of the Australian TV industry and the executive producer of "Big Brother" for four years, said his stepping aside was a "lifestyle decision" but that he will remain with Southern Star as a consultant working on the company's drama development and production.
Callaghan's appointment comes as ESS and "Big Brother" broadcaster Network Ten negotiate terms for an eighth season of the reality show next year.
Formerly managing director of Granada Productions Australia, Callaghan has been with Southern Star for 18 months.
ESS, a joint venture of Endemol and Australian independent production and distribution company the Southern Star Group, produced "Big Brother", 'Deal or No Deal," "1 v 100" and, as of next year, a revival of the "Gladiators" franchise here.
Callaghan is assuming overall responsibility for all of the production activities of Endemol Southern Star as well as retaining his production role at Southern Star's factual and drama division, Southern Star Entertainment.
Noble, a 37-year veteran of the Australian TV industry and the executive producer of "Big Brother" for four years, said his stepping aside was a "lifestyle decision" but that he will remain with Southern Star as a consultant working on the company's drama development and production.
Callaghan's appointment comes as ESS and "Big Brother" broadcaster Network Ten negotiate terms for an eighth season of the reality show next year.
- 9/21/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
SYDNEY -- Hugh Marks, the new CEO of Australian production and distribution major Southern Star Group (SSG), has shuffled his senior management team on the production side of the business, making two key internal promotions and poaching Granada Productions Australian managing director, Rory Callaghan, for a role with joint venture company Endemol Southern Star. Marks, who was elevated to CEO of the Southern Star Group following the retirement of long-time SSG executive chairman Neil Balnaves last month, has upped SSG chief operating officer Kim Anderson to chief executive of Southern Star Entertainment and Kris Noble to managing director of Endemol Southern Star (ESS). Callaghan has been tapped to fill Noble's shoes as director of programs at ESS and will take up his position with the company in January.
- 10/10/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
SYDNEY -- Kris Noble, former head of drama at Nine Network and most recently executive producer of the Australian Big Brother 4, has been appointed director of programs for Endemol Southern Star, the joint venture between Australia's Southern Star Group and international producer Endemol Entertainment, the companies said today. Noble was one of a group of executives who left the Nine Network under a management restructure at the end of 2002. At Nine, he was in charge of productions including dramas Water Rats and McLeod's Daughters; children's series Hi-5; and Australia's Funniest Home Videos.
SYDNEY -- The Australian version of the long-running U.K. hybrid sitcom/talk series The Kumars at No. 42, to be produced by Granada Prods. for the Seven Network, will be directed by Kris Noble, the former head of drama at the Nine Network. Noble exited Nine at the end of last year during a management shake-up that has seen the departure -- voluntary and otherwise -- of a number of top-level execs. Noble also will have executive producer credit on the Australian series, which will be called Greeks on the Roof and star local comedienne Mary Coustas. It will feature a Greek family instead of the original's Indian clan. The U.S. version of the show, The Ortegas, about an upper-middle-class Mexican family in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley, is being produced by Gavin Polone's NBC-based Pariah TV. Rory Callaghan, Granada Prods.' head of programs, sealed the deal for the Australian series with U.K.-based Hat Trick Prods. Callaghan is also a former Nine Network executive. He was head of light entertainment until he quit to join Granada last year and worked closely with Noble for several years. "I'm thrilled that a man of Kris' talents is on board," Callaghan said.
- 3/11/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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