Screen Australia has provided funding development for "The News of the World", a telemovie and potential 14-part miniseries follow-up which would explore the early career and rise of media mogul Rupert Murdoch. Political commentator, speech writer, journalist and filmmaker Bob Ellis is co-writing the script with Stephen Ramsay. The famously … [Read more...]
Murdoch Tale “Times” Gets Optioned
April 17, 2012 by
What's It All About? Productions has acquired film and TV rights to Harold Evans' bestseller "Good Times, Bad Times" reports Variety. Evans was the editor-in-chief of the British newspaper The Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981, championing crusading investigative reporting which lead to such famous stories as civil settlements for the British … [Read more...]
