You only have to say ‘The Kates’ to bring up a brand of comedy that is both individually distinctive
while also a dual entity. With credits such as 'The Katering Show', 'Get Krack!n', and the recent 'Deadloch', Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan speak to If about their creative connection.
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while also a dual entity. With credits such as 'The Katering Show', 'Get Krack!n', and the recent 'Deadloch', Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan speak to If about their creative connection.
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- 7/13/2023
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
Kevin Whyte.
Kevin Whyte’s Token Group is weathering the pandemic thanks to its diversified businesses which encompass talent management, live touring, TV production and distribution.
“It will be a brutal two years but we will come through this; we have reserves to fall back on,” said Whyte, who founded the group nearly 30 years ago.
“I’m worried about where the young, entrepreneurial businesses will be coming out of this,” he told Screen Producers Australia CEO Matt Deaner in a webinar today. “They’re the ones that we will all have to look out for.”
During the pandemic the group’s Guesswork Television kept shooting The Weekly with Charlie Pickering for the ABC, which enabled the producers to experiment with new ideas.
Whyte tells If he is figuring out the logistics of when and how to film the next series of the ABC’s Hard Quiz in Melbourne later this year.
Kevin Whyte’s Token Group is weathering the pandemic thanks to its diversified businesses which encompass talent management, live touring, TV production and distribution.
“It will be a brutal two years but we will come through this; we have reserves to fall back on,” said Whyte, who founded the group nearly 30 years ago.
“I’m worried about where the young, entrepreneurial businesses will be coming out of this,” he told Screen Producers Australia CEO Matt Deaner in a webinar today. “They’re the ones that we will all have to look out for.”
During the pandemic the group’s Guesswork Television kept shooting The Weekly with Charlie Pickering for the ABC, which enabled the producers to experiment with new ideas.
Whyte tells If he is figuring out the logistics of when and how to film the next series of the ABC’s Hard Quiz in Melbourne later this year.
- 8/12/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Miranda Tapsell and Nakkiah Lui in ‘Get Krack!n’ (Photo credit: ABC).
The nine creative teams comprising 13 individuals who will take part in the inaugural Bunya Talent Indigenous Hub in Los Angeles in March were announced today.
Presented in association with Netflix Australia and Screen Australia’s Indigenous Department, the five-day talent incubator is aimed at mid-career Indigenous writers, showrunners, directors and producers.
The 13 will develop and pitch their projects and attend meetings and presentations by executives from Netflix and other industry practitioners.
The feature film and TV series ideas encompass comedy, drama and the supernatural. The event will take place at Charlie’s, Australians in Film’s hub for business, project development and networking for the Australian screen community in La.
At the end of the incubator, one participant’s work will be selected to proceed to further development with Bunya Productions as producers, receiving up to $20,000 in further development...
The nine creative teams comprising 13 individuals who will take part in the inaugural Bunya Talent Indigenous Hub in Los Angeles in March were announced today.
Presented in association with Netflix Australia and Screen Australia’s Indigenous Department, the five-day talent incubator is aimed at mid-career Indigenous writers, showrunners, directors and producers.
The 13 will develop and pitch their projects and attend meetings and presentations by executives from Netflix and other industry practitioners.
The feature film and TV series ideas encompass comedy, drama and the supernatural. The event will take place at Charlie’s, Australians in Film’s hub for business, project development and networking for the Australian screen community in La.
At the end of the incubator, one participant’s work will be selected to proceed to further development with Bunya Productions as producers, receiving up to $20,000 in further development...
- 1/29/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Rick Kalowski.
The ABC’s highly respected head of comedy Rick Kalowski today announced his resignation after more than six years in the post.
After commissioning and overseeing the production of 80 titles, spanning pilots, series, digital content and podcasts, the executive tells If he is exhausted and needs a break.
He will stay in place until February to give the ABC ample time to recruit a successor and will pursue new career opportunities in the Australian and global screen industry. He’s having discussions about his next move but nothing is locked in.
Arguably he will step down after one of the ABC’s most distinctive and successful years in comedy, with hits such as Frayed, the fourth season of Utopia, the second of Squinters and the finales of Get Krack!n and The Letdown.
Among other shows produced under his watch, including several commissioned by his predecessor Debbie Lee, were Rosehaven,...
The ABC’s highly respected head of comedy Rick Kalowski today announced his resignation after more than six years in the post.
After commissioning and overseeing the production of 80 titles, spanning pilots, series, digital content and podcasts, the executive tells If he is exhausted and needs a break.
He will stay in place until February to give the ABC ample time to recruit a successor and will pursue new career opportunities in the Australian and global screen industry. He’s having discussions about his next move but nothing is locked in.
Arguably he will step down after one of the ABC’s most distinctive and successful years in comedy, with hits such as Frayed, the fourth season of Utopia, the second of Squinters and the finales of Get Krack!n and The Letdown.
Among other shows produced under his watch, including several commissioned by his predecessor Debbie Lee, were Rosehaven,...
- 12/11/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Jon Casimir.
Jon Casimir is joining Kevin Whyte’s Guesswork Television in the new role of managing director, based at the production company’s Surry Hills office.
Starting next February, the co-creator of Gruen and You Can’t Ask That will work alongside creative director Todd Abbott, head of production Frank Bruzzese and general manager Heather Pritchard.
Casimir previously was CEO of Legacy Media, in which he was partnered with Andrew Denton and has been shelved after producing two seasons of Andrew Denton’s Interview for the Seven Network.
Kevin Whyte, group MD of the Token Group, said: “We have worked with Jon in many guises for many years and admired his smarts, taste and faith in artists. I can’t imagine anyone better to take on this new role and spearhead this next phase at Guesswork.”
Casimir tells If: “Andrew and I have gone our separate ways again, though...
Jon Casimir is joining Kevin Whyte’s Guesswork Television in the new role of managing director, based at the production company’s Surry Hills office.
Starting next February, the co-creator of Gruen and You Can’t Ask That will work alongside creative director Todd Abbott, head of production Frank Bruzzese and general manager Heather Pritchard.
Casimir previously was CEO of Legacy Media, in which he was partnered with Andrew Denton and has been shelved after producing two seasons of Andrew Denton’s Interview for the Seven Network.
Kevin Whyte, group MD of the Token Group, said: “We have worked with Jon in many guises for many years and admired his smarts, taste and faith in artists. I can’t imagine anyone better to take on this new role and spearhead this next phase at Guesswork.”
Casimir tells If: “Andrew and I have gone our separate ways again, though...
- 12/3/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Charlotte Nicdao.
Charlotte Nicdao is starring alongside Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham, Rob McElhenney, Imani Hakim, David Hornsby, Danny Pudi and Jessie Ennis in a comedy series commissioned by Apple.
Co-written and executive produced by McElhenney and Charlie Day and now shooting in Los Angeles, the untitled half-hour series is set in a video game development studio.
The producers say it will “explore the intricacies of the human condition through hilarious and innovative ways.”
Abraham is playing C.W. Longbottom, a seasoned writer who works at the studio, where McElhenney is Ian, the creative director. Nicdao is Poppy, the lead engineer, with Hornsby as David, a hapless, emasculated producer.
Pudi portrays Brad, an alpha male who works in the monetization department at the studio. Hakim is Dana, a sweet and studious game tester who loves gaming. Ennis is Jo, David’s over-eager assistant.
The project marks McElhenney and Day’s...
Charlotte Nicdao is starring alongside Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham, Rob McElhenney, Imani Hakim, David Hornsby, Danny Pudi and Jessie Ennis in a comedy series commissioned by Apple.
Co-written and executive produced by McElhenney and Charlie Day and now shooting in Los Angeles, the untitled half-hour series is set in a video game development studio.
The producers say it will “explore the intricacies of the human condition through hilarious and innovative ways.”
Abraham is playing C.W. Longbottom, a seasoned writer who works at the studio, where McElhenney is Ian, the creative director. Nicdao is Poppy, the lead engineer, with Hornsby as David, a hapless, emasculated producer.
Pudi portrays Brad, an alpha male who works in the monetization department at the studio. Hakim is Dana, a sweet and studious game tester who loves gaming. Ennis is Jo, David’s over-eager assistant.
The project marks McElhenney and Day’s...
- 2/3/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
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