That was a good year for drama on 10, but not reflective of what theyâre currently doing with Neighbours back in the schedule as I donât believe there are any new FTA first commissions coming this year.
Heat and Riptide were both only commissioned off the back of Neighbours being cancelled and were co-commissions with 5 in the UK.
The Secret She Keeps, The Appletonâs Ladiesâ Potato Race, NCIS: Sydney and Five Bedrooms were all Paramount+ exclusives that got a run on FTA.
My Life Is Murder is now basically a NZ series, plus is a AcornTV exclusive and gets a very delayed broadcast on FTA here.
North Shore and whatever episodes of Neighbours they aired in that period were really the only wholly free-to-air focused commissions from the network out of that list.
Even Neighbours isnât really free-to-air focused being a partnership with Amazon.
Thatâs a good point, the show is mostly propped up by Amazon now.
Still, not quite as bad as 9 - even though they invest a lot in Australian originals on Stan.
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Prof Terry Flew and Dr Rob Nicholls from the University of Sydneyâs media and communications department say funds from a levy on digital advertising could be invested in journalism.
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