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Bectu Launches Biggest Ever Survey

British broadcasting union Bectu is launching what it is calling its largest ever survey of those working behind the scenes in TV and film. The union is asking workers across the UK’s creative industries about their experiences and views on key issues facing the sector, including pay, employment practices, mental health and wellbeing and finances. The move comes with the freelance workforce in a perilous position, with thousands exiting the sector as they struggle for work and grapple with low pay and poor conditions. Bectu has repeatedly stressed that this is worsening as time goes on. “Creative industry workers are critical to our economy and to our social and cultural fabric,” said Bectu head Philippa Childs. “But data on creative workers is lacking. The freelance nature of the creative industries means that freelancers often fall through data gaps on employment statistics, while without formal employment structures,...

The bodily mutations in The Substance left you wanting more? Well, has Australian writer-director Michael Shanks got a movie for you, with more bone-crunching contortions, sticky goop and subcutaneous disturbance than you could dream of. Not to mention supernatural cult craziness. Dave Franco and Alison Brie are terrific playing a codependent couple going through a troubled patch while moving to a small town where the woods hide ghastly secrets. When Brie’s schoolteacher Millie early on suggests in exasperation that maybe it would be better to split up now rather than later when it’s more painful, she has no idea how prophetic those words will be.

It’s hard to say much about the freaky blast of body horror romance that is Together without wading into spoiler territory, but a syrupy Spice Girls hit from 1996 provides clues. As does a prologue in which searchers comb the lush forest — regional Victoria,...

Power Rangers isn't a series famous for its equal treatment of its characters. While Red, Pink, and Sixth Rangers can typically count on getting plenty of attention, it's a total gamble whether a season will give Rangers of every other color a decent amount of focus. Despite being in every season, Blue Power Rangers especially are often overlooked.

Some Blue Rangers are underrated because they come from less popular teams or seasons, while others simply aren't given anything to do by the more well-liked seasons they star in. When they aren't following in Billy Cranston's footsteps as their team's resident genius, they're often left without a defined role on their teams. And with how Blue Rangers tend to be more serious characters, not even their well-written personalities can stand out next to the louder ones around them.

Flynn Was Born to Be a Superhero

Flynn McAllister is a fairly popular Blue Ranger,...

Hunter n Hornet.

Nztv has acquired the Australian appisode series Hunter n Hornet for their on-demand catalogue.

The Screen Australia multiplatform funded series. notable notches on the belt include an Adg Online directing win for director/creator Sonny Vrebac as well as being a finalist in the C21 short form awards and finalist for the Nytvf drawcard development deal with Orchard TV.

The show centres around two lovelorn losers who are too scared to talk to girls, so they resort to practicing seduction routines on one another in order to end their womenless lives.

Vrebac said the response to the series had been great..

"The show has travelled all around the world and attracted several distribution offers, as well as development interest for a TV series," he said..

"We.re now looking for the right fit with the TV version, since the bulk of the action is set in La.

Sonny Vrebav and Alijin Abella in Hunter n Hornet..

Hunter n Hornet, a new Australian comedy series made primarily for iPhone viewing, follows the plight of two wannabe Lotharios and their struggle to seduce women.

Created by Nida graduates Sonny Vrebac and Aljin Abella, the 21 part series focusses on loveless characters Sade and Cade and their journey throughout Sydney hot spots in pursuit of finding their dream women. Too scared to actually speak to the women they covet, Sade and Cade practice their pick-up techniques on each other instead.

.Initially it started off as a writing exercise,. Vrebac tells If. .I had a feature film idea and I just finished reading Robert McKee.s scriptwriting book [Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting] and it was sort of saying that instead of tackling the whole feature film, you really need to master a scene first.

.And so this idea came about. It was just me and a...