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Bob Lee Swagger remains one of the most badass television characters ever.

The USA Network series, Shooter, was one of the finest, coming at a time when the cable network ran supreme with endless content for everyone's viewing.

With slick action sequences, subterfuge, and adrenaline-pumping thrills, the series, more often than not, was a must-see summer show for three seasons until its unfortunate cancellation.

TV Fanatic followed along with the journey from beginning to end with full coverage in our Shooter Reviews. It is still a perfectly binge-able series that you can stream on Netflix, at least until June 21, when Netflix loses the rights for it.

It bolstered an impressive cast led by none other than Ryan Phillippe. But where is the cast now? Let's find out!

Jaina Lee Ortiz - Angela Tio

Ortiz had a small arc during Shooter Season 2, guest-starring as Angela Tio, a sergeant Bob Lee served with during the Marines.

The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain (Wggb) on Wednesday joined writers and other workers in the media and entertainment sectors around the world for “Screenwriters Everywhere,” a global day of solidarity with striking Hollywood writers. The goal of the protest organized in central London was to “stand in support of the 11,500 members of Writers Guild of America West and Writers Guild of America East” who have been on strike since May 2.

The Wggb trade union, representing writers for TV, film, theater, audio, books, poetry, comedy, animation and videogames, said its members would meet up at London’s Leicester Square from around 1 p.m. local time, with the meeting point being full of symbolism: a statue of William Shakespeare in the square. Wggb president Sandi Toksvig, known as a book author and former host of The Great British Bake Off, among others, and Wggb chair Lisa Holdsworth (A Discovery of Witches,...

A better-than-expected showing for “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” (Paramount) is only one reason why this is a good box-office weekend. The expensive Hasbro toy franchise ($200 million before marketing) grossed $110 million overseas, above its $60.5 million domestic take. Greater international strength was expected, and needed: It will need well over $500 million worldwide to cover its costs and there’s intense competition ahead,starting with Warner Bros. Discovery’s “The Flash” June 16.

If summer 2023 has a shot at the hoped-for $4 billion, films like “Transformers” need robust openings. Stage two is sustaining strong runs.

That’s what #2 “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” (Sony) and #3 “The Little Mermaid” (Disney) did to buttress the weekend. The Marvel animated film, faced with the loss of most of its premium screens and “Transformers” competition, grossed more than $55 million this weekend. Ten days in, it’s already has bested the original “Spider-Verse” and stands at $225 million domestic, $377 million worldwide.

Throughout this year, artist Ben Harman has been fleshing out his Disney Dreamland art series, bringing to life beautiful images from Disney’s classic animated movies. Each of his prints is like a vertical widescreen image with meticulously recreated architecture, amazing landscapes, astounding skyscapes, and incredible detail. And more are arriving today. Bottleneck Gallery and Eyeland […]

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Bruce.

The team behind How to Talk Australians will launch their new black comedy, Bruce, exclusively online tomorrow..

The seven ep web-series is set in .an ordinary Aussie share-house that just happens to be a prison tent in Sydney Cove, 1788..

It follows Bruce Williamson (Offspring.s Richard Davies), whose plan of following his soulmate to Australia by getting arrested spectacularly backfires. Dave Lawson (Utopia, The Heckler) and Angus Sampson (The Mule, Fargo) also star..

Bruce was co-created and directed by Tony Rogers (Wilfred, How to Talk Australians), and produced by Jason Byrne (Sucker, How to Talk to Australians). Mat Blackwell (Good News Week, The Glass House) and Warwick Holt (The Project, Good News Week) wrote the script.

.Bruce has been a real labour of love,. said Byrne. .It.s so great to see the work come together on the online screen. It was a real pleasure working with Tony, Warwick and Mat.

Bruce.

The team behind How to Talk Australians will launch their new black comedy, Bruce, exclusively online tomorrow..

The seven ep web-series is set in .an ordinary Aussie share-house that just happens to be a prison tent in Sydney Cove, 1788..

It follows Bruce Williamson (Offspring.s Richard Davies), whose plan of following his soulmate to Australia by getting arrested spectacularly backfires. Dave Lawson (Utopia, The Heckler) and Angus Sampson (The Mule, Fargo) also star..

Bruce was co-created and directed by Tony Rogers (Wilfred, How to Talk Australians), and produced by Jason Byrne (Sucker, How to Talk to Australians). Mat Blackwell (Good News Week, The Glass House) and Warwick Holt (The Project, Good News Week) wrote the script.

.Bruce has been a real labour of love,. said Byrne. .It.s so great to see the work come together on the online screen. It was a real pleasure working with Tony, Warwick and Mat.

Animated sketch comedy web-series Suspect Moustache is having a one-off TV debut on May 30, screening on Sbs 2.

The five-part web series began life as a Victorian finalist in Sbs's Comedy Runway initiative, where it was one of 12 finalists each awarded $20,000 to create a web pilot.

The show combines "social satire, fantasy, and sci-fi with comedy that addresses matters from trivial to the extraordinary", according to a statement. Featured are dinosaurs, bamboo monsters, soap actors, goblins, and "a roving foetus and her proud mother".

"Obviously a cartoon lets us execute some weirder and wilder ideas that are too impractical or expensive to film live action", Lapham said.

The voice cast includes Tamiah Bantum (Please Like Me), Aaron Pedersen (Goldstone, Jack Irish), Mahalia Brown (The Wizards of Aus, Utopia) and Peter Kent (The Straits).

Suspect Moustache.was created by Fabian Lapham and funded by Film Victoria, Screen Australia and Sbs, and will...

Animated sketch comedy web-series Suspect Moustache is having a one-off TV debut on May 30, screening on Sbs 2.

The five-part web series began life as a Victorian finalist in Sbs's Comedy Runway initiative, where it was one of 12 finalists each awarded $20,000 to create a web pilot.

The show combines "social satire, fantasy, and sci-fi with comedy that addresses matters from trivial to the extraordinary", according to a statement. Featured are dinosaurs, bamboo monsters, soap actors, goblins, and "a roving foetus and her proud mother".

"Obviously a cartoon lets us execute some weirder and wilder ideas that are too impractical or expensive to film live action", Lapham said.

The voice cast includes Tamiah Bantum (Please Like Me), Aaron Pedersen (Goldstone, Jack Irish), Mahalia Brown (The Wizards of Aus, Utopia) and Peter Kent (The Straits).

Suspect Moustache.was created by Fabian Lapham and funded by Film Victoria, Screen Australia and Sbs, and will...

Celia Pacquola and Luke McGregor.

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Celia Pacquola says buying a whiteboard was the best decision she has ever made as she prepares to shoot Rosehaven — the ABC comedy series she wrote and created with Luke McGregor.

.It was only like a hundred bucks from Officeworks and it flips, it.s the greatest,. she tells If.

The whiteboard in question, despite making the comment in jest, was how Pacquola and fellow comedian McGregor mapped out their new eight-part comedy series, which starts filming on Monday in Geeveston, Tasmania

The series, which also stars McGregor (Utopia, It.s a Date, Luke Warm Sex) and Pacquola (The Beautiful Lie, Utopia, Laid) was cooked up while both were on tour for their various comedy shows.

.Luke McGregor and I knew each other from standup but became really close friends from filming Utopia seasons 1 and 2,. she says..

.There was a lot of in-between-filming. talking shit...

Celia Pacquola and Luke McGregor.

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Celia Pacquola says buying a whiteboard was the best decision she has ever made as she prepares to shoot Rosehaven — the ABC comedy series she wrote and created with Luke McGregor.

.It was only like a hundred bucks from Officeworks and it flips, it.s the greatest,. she tells If.

The whiteboard in question, despite making the comment in jest, was how Pacquola and fellow comedian McGregor mapped out their new eight-part comedy series, which starts filming on Monday in Geeveston, Tasmania

The series, which also stars McGregor (Utopia, It.s a Date, Luke Warm Sex) and Pacquola (The Beautiful Lie, Utopia, Laid) was cooked up while both were on tour for their various comedy shows.

.Luke McGregor and I knew each other from standup but became really close friends from filming Utopia seasons 1 and 2,. she says..

.There was a lot of in-between-filming. talking shit...

Rosehaven writer and creator Celia Pacquola.

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Production is set to start in Tasmania on Celia Pacquola and Luke McGregor's.Rosehaven, a new eight-part comedy series for the ABC. .

From the production base at the ABC Centre in Hobart, the series will be filmed entirely on location in the state, creating jobs for 200 Tasmanians as cast, crew and extras. ..

Eight emerging screen practitioners will also be engaged by the production in training positions funded by Screen Tasmania. .

Tasmanian actors have been cast in over 80 per cent of the sixty roles in the series.

Rosehaven stars two of Australia.s most popular comedians, Tasmanian born Luke McGregor (Utopia, It.s a Date, Luke Warm Sex) and Celia Pacquola (The Beautiful Lie, Utopia, Laid), who also wrote and created the series..

The series, which will screen in the second half of 2016, is a Guesswork Television production. .

It is produced by Andrew Walker and .co-produced by Fiona McConaghy.

Rosehaven writer and creator Celia Pacquola.

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Production is set to start in Tasmania on Celia Pacquola's Rosehaven, a new eight-part comedy series for the ABC. .

From the production base at the ABC Centre in Hobart, the series will be filmed entirely on location in the state, creating jobs for 200 Tasmanians as cast, crew and extras. ..

Eight emerging screen practitioners will also be engaged by the production in training positions funded by Screen Tasmania. .

Tasmanian actors have been cast in over 80 per cent of the sixty roles in the series.

Rosehaven stars two of Australia.s most popular comedians, Tasmanian born Luke McGregor (Utopia, It.s a Date, Luke Warm Sex) and Celia Pacquola (The Beautiful Lie, Utopia, Laid), who also wrote and created the series..

The series, which will screen in the second half of 2016, is a Guesswork Television production. .

It is produced by Andrew Walker and .co-produced by Fiona McConaghy.

Scare Campaign has secured international sales, including a deal with Metrodome Distribution in the UK..

The film, directed by Colin and Cameron Cairnes (100 Bloody Acres) and produced by Julie Ryan (Red Dog), has sold to the UK, Latin America, the Middle East, Turkey, Greece and Indonesia..

.We are thrilled that the fantastic traction Scare Campaign has gained through positive media reviews, sold out screenings and social media, has translated into an international appetite for the film., Ryan said..

The producer and directors have been doing roadshow screenings, taking the film around the country.

.The conventional wisdom is that younger Australians aren't interested in seeing local films on the big screen, but our experience with these event screenings would suggest otherwise", Colin Cairnes said..

"It has been heartening to see a predominantly young audience come to these events and clearly get a kick out of the film's many twists and turns...

Karina Holden is the head of factual entertainment at Northern Pictures.

Her list of credits include.Go Back To Where You Came From for Sbs, and.Changing Minds for the ABC..

Her new show is Luke Warm Sex, a six-part series which follows comedian Luke McGregor as he tries to get better at sex with help from sexperts, therapists, scientists, tantric practitioners and sexual empowerment coaches.

Luke Warm Sex aims to fill the gap in sex user guides in the factual landscape, said Holden.

"I had been previously at the ABC and one of the shows I had developed there was Redesign my Brain with Todd Sampson. That kind of immersive journey, where a host gets better at something, was a very successful format for the ABC. The idea was that we could do something similar but unique about sex".

One of Holden's researchers pointed her towards McGregor.

"They said...

Ahead of Scare Campaign's Australian limited theatrical release later this month, we have a trailer for the film to tide you over.

Press Release: February 3rd, 2016 – The full trailer has been released for Scare Campaign, the upcoming horror feature film from writers and directors Colin and Cameron Cairnes (100 Bloody Acres) and producer Julie Ryan (Red Dog), to coincide with the news that the film will be officially released in late March through an innovative event-style cinema release.

Scare Campaign, which recently scooped the awards at Melbourne’s Monster Fest, including ‘Best Film’ and ‘Best Direction’, will initially host themed preview screenings in February and March. These include anti-Valentines showings at Dendy Newtown and Dendy Canberra, and then a special screening at Beechworth Lunatic Asylum, the abandoned facility that provided the ominous backdrop for the film. Following this, Scare Campaign will kick off a series of event screenings around Australia...

Documentaries investigating Australia.s war in Afghanistan, the fight against the country.s ice epidemic and the state of the heath and school systems will screen on the ABC next year.

The comedy slate includes two series starring Utopia.s Luke McGregor and six pilots, with viewers voting to determine which pilot goes to a series.

The ABC also confirmed its flagship channel will be available to live-stream on iview from December and that it plans to broadcast all content in HD from next June.

ABC director of TV Richard Finlayson said at the upfronts launch: .As the national broadcaster we will continue our commitment to Australian content, delivering a high-quality, deep and diverse slate..

The factual slate includes Essential Media and Entertainment.s Afghanistan: Inside Australia.s War, which chronicles the raw experiences of Australia.s longest war, from private soldiers to prime ministers, written and directed by Victoria Pitt...

If satellite dish porn were a thing, this sentimental account of Australia’s role in broadcasting the Apollo 11 moon landing would be the genre’s pièce de résistance

Making the follow-up film to one of the most beloved Australian comedies of all time, 1997’s The Castle, was never going to be easy for director Rob Sitch and his team of writers: himself, Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner and Jane Kennedy. They are the backbone of production company Working Dog, who have made several hit TV shows (including Frontline and Utopia) and a third, far less impressive feel-good film, the 2012 romcom Any Questions for Ben?

The Dish, an unashamedly sentimental account of Australia’s role in producing signals necessary to broadcast the Apollo 11 moon landing, is a very different kettle of fish to The Castle, being both a rose-tinted celebration of the past and a picture book-style history lesson.

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Documentaries on mental health, artist Brett Whiteley, the environmental threat to our seas, the secret life of pearls and how to have better sex are in the works from Northern Pictures.

Managing director Sue Clothier and head of factual Karina Holden are driving the eclectic slate for broadcasters including National Geographic Channels International and the ABC and distributor Transmission Films.

The second series of Changing Minds: The Inside Story will screen on three consecutive nights from October 6 as part of. Mental As..., the ABC.s week-long initiative in support of Mental Health Week.

While last year.s series was filmed inside Western Sydney's Liverpool Hospital.s psychiatric ward, the sequel follows daily life in the locked mental health units of Campbelltown Hospital and in the homes of patients cared for by community mental health teams.

Good Pitch 2 Australia generated philanthropic funding for six projects including two Northern Pictures feature docs.

The producers of Comedy feature film The Heckler have embraced new Australian on-demand cinema platform tugg.com in a bid get their movie on the big screen..

The new distribution model allows filmmakers to book any cinema, any time as long as there are enough people interested in watching that film at that session. .

The Heckler will now be launched in an initial round of on-demand cinema screenings and the team behind the movies are hoping that positive word-of-mouth fuels more screenings.

Writer/Producer Steve Mitchell said a traditional cinema release required a massive amount of advertising to succeed..

"Films like ours can.t afford that and so we rely solely on word-of-mouth," he said..

"And that takes time to build. By staging one-off event screenings at various locations over a longer period, we.re hoping to build momentum without spending a fortune on marketing..

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The Water Diviner and The Babadook share top film honours and ABC’s The Code is the biggest TV winner. All the red carpet glitz, gossip and gongs from Sydney

Water Diviner and Babadook tie, but at least they’re AussieAactas red carpet: the stars arrive – in pictures

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The big winners? The Water Diviner and The Babadook for film, and The Code for its multiple awards in the telly categories.

Plenty more to celebrate and debate in the coming days. We’ll be back on Friday with the best quotes and pictures. Not to mention our weekly film column that sees Luke Buckmaster re-watching the cult classics of Australian cinema, week in week out, for your reading/viewing pleasure.

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And, breathe, we’re almost there. Cate and Debs are back on stage to lead into the final and biggest gong of the night: the award for...

Director Russell Crowe Movie up for Best Film: Australian Academy Awards 2015 nominations (photo: Actor-director Russell Crowe in 'The Water Diviner') Aacta Awards: Feature Film Categories Best Film The Babadook Kristina Ceyton and Kristian Moliere Charlie's Country Nils Erik Nielsen, Peter Djigirr and Rolf de Heer Predestination Paddy McDonald, Tim McGahan, Peter Spierig and Michael Spierig The Railway Man Chris Brown, Andy Paterson and Bill Curbishley Tracks Emile Sherman and Iain Canning The Water Diviner Andrew Mason, Keith Rodger and Troy Lum Best Director The Babadook Jennifer Kent Charlie's Country Rolf de Heer Predestination Peter Spierig and Michael Spierig The Rover David Michôd Best Actress Kate Box The Little Death Essie Davis The Babadook Sarah Snook Predestination Mia Wasikowska Tracks Best Actor Russell Crowe The Water Diviner David Gulpilil Charlie's Country Damon Herriman The Little Death Guy Pearce The Rover Best Supporting Actor Patrick Brammall The Little Death Yilmaz Erdogan...

Dave Eastgate, Lawrence Leung and Stephanie Son in Maximum Choppage.

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Head of ABC TV comedy Rick Kalowski has commissioned a stand-alone pilot, a prototype he intends to test for further pilots, and he.s developing a sitcom to be filmed in front of a studio audience.

In a further break from the traditional approach to comedy, Kalowski is developing several shows that are each built around an established performer-writer. All that is in addition to eight series which are either in production or post.

The stand-alone pilot deals with an unusual subject- mental illness. Details of that sitcom are under wraps but Kowalski tells If he.s looking for other projects that are suitable material for pilots.

The studio-based comedy could be the ABC.s first since Mother and Son, the Geoffrey Atherden-created classic which ran until 1994. The show is being developed with writer . producer Marieke Hardy and would...

Comedies from Matchbox Pictures, Princess Pictures, Working Dog and The Bondi Hipsters are among the highlights of ABC-tv.s 2014 schedule.

The drama slate includes the previously announced Anzac Girls (Screentime), which stars Georgia Flood, Antonia Prebble, Laura Brent, Anna McGahan and Caroline Craig in the saga of five young military nurses from Australia and New Zealand during the Gallipoli and Western Front campaigns; The Code (Playmaker Media), a political thriller about two brothers who stumble across information that people in power will kill to keep secret, starring Ashley Zukerman and Dan Spielman; and Old School (Matchbox), which features Bryan Brown and Sam Neill as a retired crim and ex-cop who solve crimes and unravel scams while avoiding the wrath of the police and the underworld.

Among the other dramas are Janet King (Screentime), a legal drama starring Marta Dusseldorp; crime thriller The Broken Shore (Essential Media); second series of The...