006 - April 2025 Industry News: Content Quotas, Screen Australia Survey & Series Mania Wrap-Up

In this episode of We Interrupt This Broadcast we look at the global state of the screen industry after Series Mania, check in on content quotas in the lead-up to the federal election, look at the results of Screen Australia’s recent industry survey, and discuss 10 years of Netflix in Australia.

Plus: Chris Oliver-Taylor to Totem Global, Matt Vitins to Northern Pictures, the most popular job in Australia, and more...

00:00 Intro

00:58 Reflecting on our first Deep Dive episodes

02:25 Content quotas and the federal election

03:51 Screen Australia industry survey results

06:27 Series Mania wrap-up & a global downturn in production

08:47 A change in genres towards comedy & cozy crime

10:13 Ten years since Netflix arrived in Australia

11:55 Industry movements & the most popular job in the country

12:41 What’s in production around the country

13:50 What we’re watching this month

16:26 What we’re looking forward to at Screen Forever

18:20 Episode wrap-up & our Streaming Quotas bonus episode

18:34 Acknowledgement of Country & Podcast Credits

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Hosted by ⁠⁠Julie Eckersley⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Kirsty Stark⁠⁠.

Produced & edited by ⁠⁠Leonie Marsh⁠⁠.

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