Erin Good is an exciting new writer/director in the Australian Screen Indstry. She's produced a couple of series for Tik Tok, including her latest, Krystal Klairvoyant, which has been nominated for a Rose D'Or and C21 Internatinoal Media Awards

77: Grainne Brunsdon (Director of Content, Screen Australia)

Dec 20th, 2023 22m 37s

This is the first in a series of interviews I recorded at Content London 2023. Grainne is a highly experienced, strategic executive in the creative industries and current Director of Contant at Screen Australia. Before this she was the Head of

76: Ben Lewin Pt 1 (The Sessions)

Apr 11th, 2023 41m 25s

Ben Lewin is an Australian writer and director. Despite contracting Polio at the age of 6, he's had a long and distinguished career in both TV and film. His TV credits include Rafferty's Rules and his best known films include Paperback Romance

75: Libby Butler & Lewis Mulholland (Loving Captivity)

Sep 18th, 2020 56m 33s

Libby Butler (Neighbours and Erinsbrough High) and newcomer lewis Mulholland chat about their web series "Loving Captivity", which they wrote, funded and produced whilst living through the Melbourne lockdowns. We chat about their writing proce

74: Caden Pearson (Emerging star writer and director)

Sep 9th, 2020 21m 44s

Caden is an early-career Indigenous screenwriter, director, and producer from Cairns in Far North Queensland, Australia. He proudly got his start writing for The Epoch Times Australia during the Beijing Olympics in 2008. In his current lifetime

73: Roger Simpson (Halifax: Retribution)

Aug 25th, 2020 52m 52s

Roger Simpson is a giant of Australian drama and shouldn't need an introduction! If you've watched Aussie drama, you've seen one of his shows. In this ep he chats about the resurrection of a very popular series of tele films, that first from 1

72: Content London - Elizabeth Kilgarriff (Firebird Pictures)

Apr 14th, 2020 37m 35s

As Commissioning Editor for Drama in England and Scotland, Elizabeth Kilgarriff commissioned projects like Bodyguard, Poldark and Luther to name just a few of her hits. But now she's branched out and heads up her own production company, Firebi

71: Micharne Cloughley (Law & Order: SVU)

Apr 2nd, 2020 57m 59s

This episode is another story of Aussie writer made good overseas. I first met Micharne whilst working on Celebrity Apprentice a few years ago and now she's on the writing staff of Law & Order: SVU, the longest running US live-action series

70: Carly Heaton (Foxtel Executive in Charge of Drama Production)

Jan 9th, 2020 11m 31s

This is the third in my series of interviews from the recent Content London Drama Summit. Carly Heaton is Executive in charge of Drama Production at Australia's cable TV broadcaster, Foxtel. In this quick episode, we talk about what sorts of s

69: Content London 2019 - Stuart Menzies (The Cry)

Dec 30th, 2019 20m 19s

This is the second interview in a series from the recent Content London Drama Summit. I got to chat to experienced producer Stuart Menzies outside by Regents Canal, to talk about Content London and various other issues pertaining to the indust

68: Content London 2019 - Phillippa Collie Cousins (UKTV)

Dec 19th, 2019 19m 42s

Phillippa Collie Cousins is a BAFTA Award winning director of The Deadness of Dad starring Rhys Ifans, she's currently the Drama Commissioner for UKTV, Britain's largest multichannel broadcaster. In the first of a series of interviews recorded

67: Libby Butler (Erinsborough High)

Dec 2nd, 2019 49m 38s

This episode I talk to Libby Butler, the Script Producer of the new Neighbours spinoff, Erinsborough High. Libby was in-house at Neighbours for many years before going freelance and working on other shows including the new ABC serial, The Heigh

Ep 65: Joshua Tyler (Top End Wedding)

Sep 4th, 2019 1h

Joshua Tyler co-wrote hit Australian film Top End Wedding with the star of the movie Miranda Tapsell. We talk about how the film and his collaboration with Miranda came about, all aspects of the film and we delve into the rest of his career as

Ep 66: Monica Zanetti (My Life Is Murder)

Aug 20th, 2019 1h 3m

Monica is an emerging writer, having written for Sisters and Tonightly with Tom Ballard. Her latest effort on TV is ep 5 of Network 10's My Life is Murder "Another Bloody Podcast", which you can see tomorrow night (Wed 21 Aug) at 8:40pm. Monic

Ep 64: Nina Oyama (Tonightly)

May 20th, 2019 58m 48s

Nina Oyama is a stand-up comedian who's also written for Tonightly, The Chaser's Election Desk and sitcom in ABC Iview's Fresh Blood Pilot Season initiative; a show she created with her friend Angus Thompson and also acted in ABC's Utopia. Yo

Ep 63: Tim Lee (Mystery Road)

May 8th, 2019 1h 11m

Tim Lee is an accomplished screenwriter who has written for Rescue Special Ops, Serangoon Road, Doctor Doctor and Mystery Road. His path into screenwriting took many twists and turns however, resulting in a story of perseverance that has led t

Ep 62: Stephen Vagg

Mar 19th, 2019 44m 56s

Following on from my podcasts with Stephen Vagg in Eps 49 and 50, finally we talk about his own career. It's a great chat, talking about his time as Script Producer of Neighbours, his writing and living in LA.

Ep 61: Emma Gordon and Shaun Topp

Jan 23rd, 2019 58m 3s

Emma and Shaun are a husband and wife writing team who met whilst working in the Neighbours writer's room. Individually, they've written Neighbours, Home & Away and Winners & Losers, where they also worked in house as Script Producer and Assoc

Ep 60: Felicity Packard (Pine Gap)

Jan 5th, 2019 57m 43s

Felicity Packard is a super experienced writer and producer, having worked on Janet King, Wolf Creek, Anzac Girls, Underbelly and going back to GP. In this episode we talk about her career, Wolf Creek and the recent ABC and Netflix show, Pine

Ep 59: AWG Write Night - The Gestation Fixation

Oct 10th, 2018 1h 3m

Recorded live at Knox Street Bar in Sydney on Tuesday 9th October. Every series that has found its way onto our screens has only gotten there after a long and sometimes painful development. But what exactly is involved in this process and how c

Ep 58: Joe Murphy pt 2 (Younger)

Oct 3rd, 2018 54m 5s

Finally the second part to the interview with Aussie writer of Stan. and TV Land's Younger, created by Darren Star (Sex And The City) and starring Sutton Foster and Hilary Duff. If you're new to the podcast, you can listen to part 1 of the inte

Ep 57: AWG Write Night - Alana Valentine in Conversation with Noelle Janaczewska

Sep 18th, 2018 1h 5m

Recorded live at Knox St Bar on in Chippendale, Sydney on 11 September, two internationally acclaimed playwrights, Alana Valentine and Noëlle Janaczewska, discuss documentary theatre and the creative process. How do we best transform real exper

Ep 56: Nick Watson (Final Space)

Aug 31st, 2018 1h

Nick Watson is another Aussie who's made it in Hollywood. After moving to LA and doing whatever work he could, Nick and his writing partner landed a gig writing the second season of Final Space for TBS network (Netflix internationally). It's

Ep 55: Michael Chamberlin (Tonightly)

Aug 17th, 2018 40m 8s

Michael Chamberlin is a stand-up comedian, podcast host (Junktime AFL Podcast ) and currently head writer of Tonightly with Tom Ballard. We run through a typical day in the Tonightly writer's room, how Michael came to write for comedy shows and

Ep 54: Ellie Beaumont & Drew Proffitt (Dead Lucky)

Aug 2nd, 2018 1h 1m

This episode, I sat down with Ellie Beaumont and Drew Proffitt the showrunners of new SBS crime thriller, Dead Lucky. We talk all things Dead Lucky, what they learned from their first showrunning experience on House Husbands and lots more.