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The ABC will premiere the third season of its award-winning comedy series Fisk on Sunday, 20 October at 8pm, airing on ABC TV and ABC iview. The show stars Australian comedian Kitty Flanagan, who returns as Helen Tudor-Fisk, joined by an ensemble cast including Julia Zemiro, Marty Sheargold, and Aaron Chen. The season will run […]

Fisk Season 3 Premieres October 20 on ABC Australia: Cast, Trailer, and Guest Stars Revealed...

Fisk season 3 is confirmed, with Kitty Flanagan returning as Helen Tudor-Fisk, promising new challenges from the characters. The show has been praised for clever writing and stellar performances; season 3 is anticipated to premiere before end of 2024. Anticipation grows as details of Fisk season 3 remain sparse, leaving fans eager for more of Helen's quirky adventures.

The Fisk TV show is a standout Australian series that has captivated audiences with its unique blend of comedy and drama set within the peculiar world of wills and probate law, and the series will return for season 3. Since its debut, the show has released two successful seasons, showcasing the quirky yet relatable adventures of Helen Tudor-Fisk, a lawyer navigating the complexities of her profession and personal life. Played by the talented Kitty Flanagan, who is also the creator of the series, Helen's character brings a fresh and humorous perspective to the legal drama genre.

These days, legacy can be a burden for television. Whether it’s the legacy of a beloved property poised to be bastardized via reboot, the legacy of a network or star, the legacy of a brilliant debut now hinging upon equal or better subsequent installment, there are legacies intertwined in too many new shows, hanging in the balance as studios and streamers churn out new stories.

But legacy doesn’t matter so much to Maya Lopez (Alaqua Cox) the lead of Marion Dayre’s “Echo,” now streaming in full on Disney+. Whether it’s her family, her employer, or the stories passed down to her as a child, Maya is more interested in forging her own path than appeasing various players around her. Like “Echo” itself, she stands alone and stands tall — distinct and imposing compared to any imitation.

On her path to becoming the eponymous Echo, Maya is a...

The successful Australian ABC Television series Fisk may return for Season 3.

Season 3 of Fisk was commissioned by ABC in November 2021 and released in 2022. It was filmed in North Melbourne, the same as Season 1, but this time without as many restrictions due to the pandemic.

Starring (and written by) Kitty Flanagan as Helen Tudor-Fisk, she has won three separate awards for her work on the show. Fisk also won Best Television Comedy Series at the 2021 Aacta Awards.

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Fisk, created by Kitty Flanagan and Vincent Sheehan, is an Australian comedy show that aired on ABC Television in 2021. This is a six-episode-long situational comedy about a law firm based in Melbourne that deals with wills and probates. The first episode of the show was released in March 2020 and the last in April of the same year. This is a small show, but it delivers what everyone expects from it.

Fisk Season 1 begins with Helen Tudor-Fisk, played by the impeccable Kitty Flanagan, and her life taking a sudden turn ever since her divorce. Her husband left her for another woman, and Helen’s life at forty-seven has come to a standstill. She does not intend to remain sad forever, which is why she moved to Melbourne from Sydney to start over with her family around her. She has a father who has come out as gay and an aunt who...

Netflix’s latest limited series starring Matthew Broderick and “Orange is the New Black” alum Uzo Aduba, “Painkiller” opened atop the top 10’s English TV list with 7.2 million total views. Thus, ending “The Lincoln Lawyer” Season 2’s second run in first place following the release of part 2. The procedural drama moved to No. 2 with 5.2 million total views as Season 1 came in at No. 8, earning 2.2 million views during the Aug. 7-13 viewing window.

Gal Gadot’s “Heart of Stone” led the Netflix Top 10 as the action-thriller opened to 33.1 million views. Elsewhere on the film chart is “Untold: Johnny Football,” which landed in third with 7.7 million and “Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir, The Movie” (5.6 million views) and “Happiness for Beginners” (5 million views), maintaining their three-week runs on the list.

Meanwhile, Season 8 of “Gabby’s Dollhouse” cracked the English TV list at No. 3 with 4.1 million total views. With a runtime of 2 hours and 26 minutes,...

Latest BBC Comedy From ‘Fleabag’ Maker Sets Cast

Dinosaur, the latest BBC series from Fleabag maker Two Brothers Pictures, has set cast and commenced filming. David Carlyle (It’s A Sin), Lorn Macdonald (Bridgerton) and Danny Ashok (Roadkill) are aboard along with a range of support cast, while co-creator Ashley Storrie plays the lead of Nina, an autistic woman in her 30s who adores her life living with her sister and best friend Evie. When Evie rushes into an engagement after only six weeks and makes Nina her maid of honor, Nina is floored. Co-created by Matilda Curtis, the show has commenced filming in Scotland and will air on BBC Three and BBC Scotland. Two Brothers also makes hit BBC shows The Tourist and Back to Life.

Canada’s Blue Ant Merges With Marblemedia

Canada’s Blue Ant Media has merged production and distribution operations with Netflix’s Blown Away outfit Marblemedia.

Logies Load Up On ‘The Twelve’, ‘Colin From Accounts’

Australia’s annual celebration of TV this weekend named Sam Neill as the country’s most popular actor for his role in courtroom drama series “The Twelve.” The Foxtel and Binge show was the numerical winner on the evening in a tie with Binge’s “Colin From Accounts.” Both shows picked up a trio of awards. Sonia Kruger was named Australia’s most popular TV personality for her roles on “The Voice,” “Dancing With the Stars” and “The Masked Singer.”

2023 Logies Winners List

Gold Logie for most popular personality on Australian TV: Sonia Kruger, “The Voice,” “Dancing with the Star” and “Big Brother,” Seven Network

Bert Newton Award for most popular presenter: Tony Armstrong, “A Dog’s World” with Tony Armstrong, ABC

Silver Logie: Most popular Australian actor: Sam Neill, “The Twelve,” Foxtel & Binge

Silver Logie: Most popular Australian actress: Kitty Flanagan,...

Warning: Contains spoilers for X-Men #20 The conclusion to X-Men #20 revealed a dangerous twist for the mutants of Krakoa, with Kingpin and Typhoid Mary, villains of both the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Marvel Comics, seeking amnesty on the X-Men's Krakoa after the recent events of Devil's Reign.

Wilson Fisk and Mary Walker are both classic villains, traditionally appearing as foes of the New York City-based hero Daredevil. The Kingpin has appeared as a major villain in the McU's Daredevil and Hawkeye series, and Typhoid Mary was presented as complicated but deadly villain in the Iron Fist show.

X-Men #20 - written by Gerry Duggan with art by Stefano Caselli and Federico Blee - dramatically ends with Typhoid Mary and Kingpin appearing before Sage through a Krakoan gateway. Fisk declares that he is seeking Krakoan amnesty through his marriage to Mary, who is a mutant herself. This move will cause no...

The new Marvel Snap game features a wealth of comic book accurate locations. Marvel Snap is a digital collectible card game, in which players place their decks in head-to-head collision. Players will naturally focus on building their own decks in Marvel Snap, perhaps by focusing on a particular high-cost powerhouse character such as Onslaught and Apocalypse, but the game's true magic lies in a wild card factor.

Every round of Marvel Snap features three locations, lifted straight from the comics and with unique attributes. This means the outcome of a game is about more than who has the better deck; it also tests a player's adaptability, because the locations may actually work against the cards in hand. A player who's focused on ongoing effects will likely struggle, for example, if they are faced with the Isle of Silence - a location that "silences" ongoing effects. Sometimes the locations will work...

With the future of Australian TV drama under the microscope, there was always going to be added interest in the ABC’s 2022 slate.

The public broadcaster will deliver in the genre in its 90th year, officially announcing at today’s upfronts new series Significant Others and Savage River.

They join titles Mystery Road: Origin, Troppo, and Barons in a drama line-up that is noticeably larger than what has so far been announced by the commercial free-to-air platforms.

ABC director of entertainment and specialist Michael Carrington told If the broadcaster was pleased to be able to meet demand in the space.

“It’s something our audiences want and I’m thrilled we’re able to provide it,” he said.

“Drama is a really expensive genre. It takes a lot of effort, resources, craft skills, etc. to build a drama series, as well as a lot of time.

“Obviously we are investing...

Anousha Zarkesh and Nathan Lloyd have once again led the charge at the annual Casting Guild of Australia (Cga) Awards, scooping the major prizes across television and film at Saturday’s virtual ceremony.

Lloyd followed up his two awards from last year with Best Casting in a TV Drama, TV Miniseries and Telemovie for The Newsreader, and a second consecutive Achievement in Casting gong for web series All My Friends Are Racist.

Zarkesh – also a multiple winner in 2020 – took out Best Casting in A Feature Film for her work on High Ground.

‘High Ground’

Of the other television and film categories, Kirsty McGregor won Best Casting in a TV Comedy for Fisk, while Daisy Hicks received ‘Best Casting in a Short Film’ for Tough.

The Cga also highlighted its annual list of Rising Stars as part of the ceremony, with the 2021 group made up of Albert Mwangi (Bump), BeBe Bettencourt...

The casting directors behind Nitram, The Dry, High Ground, and The Furnace will battle it out in the feature film category of the Casting Guild of Australia Awards to be held later this month.

Nominees across eight categories were announced today ahead of the virtual ceremony on November 20.

Nikki Barrett has two nominations in the feature film, getting a nod for The Furnace and also Nitram with Alison Telford and Kate Leonard. Rounding out the category is High Ground‘s Anousha Zarkesh and The Dry‘s Jane Norris.

Barrett also features in the Best Casting in a TV Drama, TV Miniseries and Telemovie nominees for her work on Fires, going up against Eden‘s Danny Long – who has a total of four nominations – The Newsreader‘s Nathan Lloyd and Wakefield‘s Marianne Jade.

For Best Casting in a TV Comedy, Kirsty McGregor is recognised for Fisk and season two of Frayed,...

The editors behind Nitram, I Met A Girl, The Furnace and June Again will compete for this year’s Ellie Award for Best Editing in Feature Drama, while the television drama category will be a contest between those who cut Wakefield, The Tailings, Jack Irish, Eden and Bump.

The annual awards of the Australian Screen Editors (Ase) will be held in early February with the hope that travel restrictions between states will have eased.

“It’s been a tough two years and we think we all deserve to be together in person to celebrate these fine achievements in editing, and the results of everybody’s hard work during such difficult times,” Ase president Danielle Boesenberg tells If.

In addition to the feature film prize, I Met A Girl editor Melanie Annan will also be in contention for Best Editing in Documentary and Series for Three Songs for Benazir, shared with Christoph Wermke.

Aacta has revealed those in contention for the major film, television and short-form prizes at this year’s awards, with High Ground leading the charge in the film categories and The Newsreader ahead in television.

The nominations follow those revealed for feature documentary in July, with the technical craft categories still to come.

Aacta also announced today that this year’s awards will move from The Star to the Sydney Opera House, with the ceremony to be held December 8.

There has also been a change in broadcast partners from Seven to 10, where the ceremony will air first followed by an encore on Fox Arena on Foxtel, Binge, and Aacta TV.

High Ground has earned eight nominations, including Best Film. Also nominated for the night’s major prize are Nitram, which earned seven nods, The Dry, which has six, as well as The Furnace, Penguin Bloom and Rams.

The Best Indie Film Award,...

Shaun Grant and Harry Cripps are among the writers aiming to win consecutive prizes at this year’s Awgie Awards.

Grant, who won the adaptation prize with Cripps for Penguin Bloom in 2020 and for the True History of the Kelly Gang in 2019, is nominated this year for his work on Nitram, against the Here Out West writing team of Nisrine Amine, Bina Bhattacharya, Matias Bolla, Claire Cao, Arka Das, Dee Duygu Dogan, Vonne Patiag and Tien Tran; Falling for Figaro‘s Ben Lewin and Allen Palmer; and The Furnace‘s Roderick MacKay in the original feature film category.

Cripps and Robert Connolly have been recognised for The Dry, which is one of two nominees for the feature film adaptation award alongside Babyteeth, written for the screen by the original playwright Rita Kalnejais.

In the television categories, Tony McNamara’s The Great is pitted against Wakefield, Five Bedrooms and Wentworth for...

More finalists have been revealed for the 2022 Screen Producers Australia (Spa) Awards, with voting now open for Comedy Program or Series Production of the Year, Light Entertainment Series Production of the Year, and Reality Series Production of the Year.

The field for Comedy Program or Series Production of the year comprises eight finalists, including the fifth and final season of What Horse? and Guesswork Television’s Rosehaven, as well as Porchlight Films’ Fisk, which won Best Series Award in the comedy competition at Series Mania France last month.

The other categories feature a strong contingent from Endemol Shine Australia, which has two finalists in Light Entertainment Series Production of the Year and four nods in Reality Series Production of the Year.

The announcement is part of a staggered release of the award categories, with a new round of finalists to be unveiled and open for voting each fortnight.

Spa CEO...

French TV event Series Mania came to a close yesterday with the handing out of its awards. Scroll down for the full list of winners.

In the International Competition, Icelandic series Blackport took the top prize, while in the French Competition, Jeune Et Golri was crowned best series. The audience award also went to a French series, Germinal. Croatian show The Last Socialist Artefact took best series in the International Panorama strand.

The event unveiled its audience numbers for this year, with more than 54,000 participants across its physical and digital platforms for the festival, and 2,500 across its physical and digital incarnations of the Forum program.

“Given the fantastic response we have received the last few days, we can say with certainty Series Mania was a tremendous success and far exceeded our expectations,” said Laurence Herszber, President of Series Mania. “Additionally, we are delighted to announce that two of our big winners tonight,...

Porchlight Films’ Fisk has triumphed at Series Mania in France, taking out the Best Series Award in the comedy competition.

The legal comedy was one of only seven series chosen for the competition screening, joining Bloods (US), Brigade Mobile (France), Frank of Ireland (Ireland and UK), Hacks (USA), Georges and Ferdinand Tribulations (France), and Starstruck (UK).

Written, co-directed, and starring comedian Kitty Flanagan, the ABC-ordered comedy follows Helen Tudor-Fisk (Flanagan), a previously a high-end contracts solicitor who finds herself in the low rent world of wills and probate when she takes the job at Gruber & Gruber, following a humiliating marriage breakdown and professional fall from grace.

Speaking about the win, Flanagan said it was pleasing to see the program resonate globally.

“I’m absolutely thrilled, especially when you look at the competition, we were certainly the scrappy underdog in the fight,” she said.

“It’s incredibly satisfying to learn that...

There will be a strong Australian contingent at Series Mania in France this year, including Jungle Entertainment’s Wakefield, Aquarius Films’ The Unusual Suspects, Porchlight Films’ Fisk and Lazy Susan Films’ Iggy & Ace.

2020 saw the international TV festival initially forced to cancel outright before moving industry meetings and networking online. This year it returns, after two postponements, as an in-person event in Lille August 26 to September 3, with an accompanying special digital program.

Series Mania Forum, the industry arm of Series Mania, is set for August 30 – September 1.

Dramas Wakefield, commissioned by the ABC, and The Unusual Suspects, by Sbs, will each compete in the Panorama section.

ABC-ordered comedy Fisk, written, directed by and starring Kitty Flanagan, will be shown in the comedy strand, while Iggy and Ace, an upcoming short-form drama series for Sbs On Demand, will make its world premiere in the web series competitive section.

Two other Australian shows...