Australian TV Veterans Launch Lantern Pictures to Implant Creative Showrunner System Down Under
variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief A trio of seasoned Australian television industry figures are launching a new production company, Lantern Pictures.
They aim to produce a slate of independent TV content and to help implant the U.S. system of creative showrunners into the Australian scene.
The announcement was made on Wednesday by prominent writer and showrunner Sarah Lambert, director Jane Manning and former Foxtel media executive Andrew Lambert.
They unveiled the new company at a seminar held during the ongoing Screen Forever convention in Queensland’s Gold Coast. The company is understood to be working on close to a dozen new projects, many with a significant female leaning, some flowing from Manning’s pen, others in partnership arrangements.
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