Two critically acclaimed dramas from ABC Commercial’s content catalogue, The Secret River (2 x 85’ HD or 4 x 45’ HD) and Redfern Now: Promise Me (1 x 90’ HD) won prestigious peer-voted categories at the 2016 TV Week Logie Awards, Australia’s annual television industry awards ceremony. In a great night for ABC Television, these two dramas received awards for: Most Outstanding Miniseries or Telemovie: The Secret River Most Outstanding Supporting Actor: Tim Minchin, The Secret River Most … [Read more...] about ABC wins at Logie Awards
The Secret River
Australia’s ABC to adapt award-winning novel, “The Secret River”
Australia’s ABC has committed to the development of acclaimed Australian novel, The Secret River, by author Kate Grenville, as a television mini-series. The novel won the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 2006 and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in the same year. Through the deeply personal story of a young couple, William and Sal Thornhill, The Secret River dramatises the colonisation of Australia and the escalating conflict between the original Indigenous inhabitants and the newly … [Read more...] about Australia’s ABC to adapt award-winning novel, “The Secret River”
