Amazon Prime Video Unveils Slate Of Australian Originals – Deadline

Amazon Prime Video unveiled a slate of six new Australian originals for 2023 at a showcase in Sydney tonight, together with first seems at three Australian scripted dramas that the streamer has already introduced. 

Described as a part of a drive to extend funding into Australian-produced content material, Amazon confirmed 4 docuseries and documentary options, one 90-minute dwell particular and a collection of stand-up specials from comedians together with Dave Hughes, Tommy Little and Lizzy Hoo. 

Docuseries embody a second season of The Take a look at, that includes the Australian males’s cricket staff and filmed within the run-up the primary Ashes Take a look at match, with Pat Cummins taking over the captaincy within the wake of Tim Paine’s resolution to resign. Amazon Studios produced the four-part collection with Cricket Australia and Whooshka Media.

Function-length doc, Scorching Potato: The Story Of The Wiggles, tells the story of worldwide sensation The Wiggles, the youngsters’s leisure group that had a brand new lease of life amusing locked-down tots throughout the pandemic. Produced by Augusto, Frog Productions and SAM Content material, the present is billed as “each a celebration and exploration of greater than thirty years of The Wiggles phenomenon and their re-emergence into the cultural zeitgeist in 2022.”

Australian dance establishment Brent Road is given the docuseries therapy in Dance Life, following aspiring dancers striving for fame. Produced by EQMedia, Biscuit Tin and Inventive Bubble, the five-part documentary collection is presently capturing in Sydney. 

The Defenders tells the story of Hakeem al-Araibi, a Bahraini footballer turned political refugee, who was arrested whereas on honeymoon in Thailand below an invalid Interpol warrant. The feature-length doc is produced by Sweetshop & Inexperienced. 

The slate of recent originals additionally consists of Princess Photos’ Hugh van Cuylenburg G.E.M, a 90-minute dwell particular by the best-selling writer of The Resilience Mission on optimistic psychological well being methods. The comedy specials embody Dave Hughes: Ridiculous, Tommy Little: Fairly Fly For A Dickhead, Lizzy Hoo: Hoo Cares, Joel Creasey: Queen Of The Outback, and Rhys Nicholson’s Huge Queer Comedy Live performance.

“Prime Video is proud to announce that 2023 might be its largest yr for launching Australian content material to native and worldwide clients, with a report 9 new Australian Amazon Originals launching subsequent yr,” stated Hushidar Kharas, head of Prime Video Australia and New Zealand. 

Tyler Bern, head of content material, Prime Video Australia, New Zealand and Canada, added that the streamer has introduced 23 Australian Authentic commissions since 2019. “Now we have been actively growing, commissioning, and buying native initiatives, and we’re thrilled that our Australian clients are connecting with our native content material.” 

Amazon additionally introduced first seems of beforehand introduced scripted exhibits Class Of ’07, a few tidal wave hitting the 10-year reunion of an all-girls faculty and produced by Matchbox Photos; crime collection Deadloch, written and government produced by Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan; and novel adaptation The Misplaced Flowers Of Alice Hart, produced by Made Up Tales, Amazon Studios and Fifth Season, and starring Sigourney Weaver.