Amazon Prime Video unveiled a slate of six new Australian originals for 2023 at a showcase in Sydney tonight, together with first seems at three Australian scripted dramas that the streamer has already introduced.
Described as a part of a drive to extend funding into Australian-produced content material, Amazon confirmed 4 docuseries and documentary options, one 90-minute dwell particular and a collection of stand-up specials from comedians together with Dave Hughes, Tommy Little and Lizzy Hoo.
Docuseries embrace a second season of The Test, that includes the Australian males’s cricket staff and filmed within the run-up the primary Ashes Test match, with Pat Cummins taking up the captaincy within the wake of Tim Paine’s choice to resign. Amazon Studios produced the four-part collection with Cricket Australia and Whooshka Media.
Feature-length doc, Hot Potato: The Story Of The Wiggles, tells the story of worldwide sensation The Wiggles, the kids’s leisure group that had a brand new lease of life amusing locked-down tots throughout the pandemic. Produced by Augusto, Frog Productions and SAM Content, the present is billed as “both a celebration and exploration of more than thirty years of The Wiggles phenomenon and their re-emergence into the cultural zeitgeist in 2022.”
Australian dance establishment Brent Street is given the docuseries therapy in Dance Life, following aspiring dancers striving for fame. Produced by EQMedia, Biscuit Tin and Creative Bubble, the five-part documentary collection is at the moment taking pictures in Sydney.
The Defenders tells the story of Hakeem al-Araibi, a Bahraini footballer turned political refugee, who was arrested whereas on honeymoon in Thailand below an invalid Interpol warrant. The feature-length doc is produced by Sweetshop & Green.
The slate of latest originals additionally contains Princess Pictures’ Hugh van Cuylenburg G.E.M, a 90-minute dwell particular by the best-selling writer of The Resilience Project on optimistic psychological well being methods. The comedy specials embrace Dave Hughes: Ridiculous, Tommy Little: Pretty Fly For A Dickhead, Lizzy Hoo: Hoo Cares, Joel Creasey: Queen Of The Outback, and Rhys Nicholson’s Big Queer Comedy Concert.
“Prime Video is proud to announce that 2023 will be its biggest year for launching Australian content to local and international customers, with a record nine new Australian Amazon Originals launching next year,” mentioned Hushidar Kharas, head of Prime Video Australia and New Zealand.
Tyler Bern, head of content material, Prime Video Australia, New Zealand and Canada, added that the streamer has introduced 23 Australian Original commissions since 2019. “We have been actively developing, commissioning, and acquiring local projects, and we are thrilled that our Australian customers are connecting with our local content.”
Amazon additionally introduced first seems of beforehand introduced scripted exhibits Class Of ’07, a few tidal wave hitting the 10-year reunion of an all-girls school and produced by Matchbox Pictures; crime collection Deadloch, written and govt produced by Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan; and novel adaptation The Lost Flowers Of Alice Hart, produced by Made Up Stories, Amazon Studios and Fifth Season, and starring Sigourney Weaver.
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