5 model new Stan Originals Important Incident, Sunny Nights, Watching You, Good Cop / Unhealthy Cop, Nugget
Returning Originals: Black Snow, Bump, Poker Face, Scrublands and Ten Pound Poms
Drag Race Down Below returns with new host Michelle Visage
4 model new Stan Authentic Documentaries – Trailblazers, Revealed: Bribe, Inc., Revealed: KillJoy and Revealed: Malka Leifer
New casts embrace Leighton Meester, Clancy Brown, Joe Klocek, Pia Miranda advert David Lyons Alice Englert and Essie Davis
Stan has introduced a mammoth slate of latest drama and unscripted titles at a showcase held on the Sydney Opera Home at this time.
Model new drama commissions embrace Important Incident, Watching You and Sunny Nights, Nugget in addition to Good Cop/Unhealthy Cop starring Leighton Meester and Clancy Brown.
The slate additionally sees the return of Black Snow with Travis Fimmel, plus Bump, Poker Face with Natasha Lyonne, Ten Pound Poms and Scrublands.
Alice Englert, Essie Davis and Thomas Weatherill will star in Publicity, a uncooked psychological thriller that follows a photographer who returns to her hometown after the demise of her buddy. The LGBTQIA+ sequence, Invisible Boys, presently filming in Western Australia will see rising Australian Joseph Zada, Aydan Calafiore, Zach Blampied and Joe Klocek, alongside Pia Miranda and David Lyons.
4 model new Authentic Documentaries, have been introduced, together with Trailblazers, the transformational journey of Australian girls’s soccer and three documentaries from the investigatory Revealed slate; Revealed: Bribe, Inc., uncovering international corruption within the oil business, Revealed: KillJoy, the story of a household murder and Revealed: Malka Leifer, a harrowing abuse scandal in Melbourne. The Revealed slate is a collaboration with Australia’s main documentary filmmakers, together with 9’s award-winning journalists, from 60 Minutes, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.
Stan has tripled its Australian content material over the previous three years and commissioned extra Australian scripted content material than every other streamer or business broadcaster in FY23.
Stan Chief Govt Officer Martin Kugeler mentioned: “Stan is exceptionally properly positioned in an evolving SVOD panorama, with a clearly differentiated technique specializing in worthwhile progress. Our important funding in Australian premium Stan Originals is a key a part of our success and we proceed to amass international hits like Yellowstone and The Strolling Useless for Australian audiences. This yr,for the primary time, we may also stream the Olympic and Paralympic Video games stay and on-demand on Stan.
“The breadth and depth of our premium unique content material, and the way in which through which we market them, supported by the attain of the 9 Group, permits us to compete with worldwide streamers and solidifies our place as some of the profitable single territory SVOD streamers on the planet.”
Stan Chief Content material Officer Cailah Scobie mentioned: “Stan has all the time championed distinctive storytelling and premium Australian content material throughout all genres, and this world-class slate of 25 titles exemplifies this. We stay steadfast in our dedication to championing recent and established creatives, and elevating Australian storytelling via our collaborations with the most effective native and worldwide expertise.”
“Whereas our focus is all the time on Australian audiences, Stan continues to showcase our authentic productions on a worldwide stage via our worldwide partnerships with the world’s largest studios and distributors. Stan Originals join with Australians, and with this various and consequential line-up, we proceed to ship what audiences have informed us they need on their screens.”
Stan Head of Originals Amanda Duthie mentioned: “Curating, growing and commissioning a slate of such various magnificence depends on the daring, ardour and large will of a variety of display screen creatives. Fortunately for Stan, that is in abundance with all our collaborators. The Stan Originals slate nurtures the daring and the fearless, drawing throughout skilled and new expertise, and delving into display screen tales – documentaries, options and sequence – that don’t inform us what we expect we all know, however what we have to know.”
Important Incident From creator Sarah Bassiuoni, psychological drama sequence Important Incident follows a police officer who, in pursuit of a teenage suspect onto a busy prepare platform, knocks a bystander onto the prepare tracks, critically injuring him. As an intense investigation commences, the lives of the pursued and the pursuer are thrown into turmoil. Premiering in 2024 and starring Akshay Khanna, Zoë Boe, Roxie Mohebbi, Hunter Web page-Lochard, Jai Waetford, Jackson Heywood and Zindzi Okenyo, with Simone Kessell and Erik Thomson. Directed by Neil Sharma and Daniel Nettheim, the sequence is produced by Matchbox Photos, which is a part of Common Worldwide Studios, a division of Common Studio Group. Main manufacturing funding from Display Australia and Stan. Financed with assist from Display NSW. Worldwide gross sales by All3Media Worldwide. Put up, digital and visible results supported by Display NSW. Developed with help of Display Australia.
Sunny Nights Beginning manufacturing in 2024, darkly-comedic sequence Sunny Nights is about how slightly little bit of solar, a change of surroundings, and a contact of violent crime may also help an individual discover their true self. The sequence follows two siblings who enterprise to Sydney decided to develop their struggling spray tan enterprise, however once they get caught up within the metropolis’s prison underworld, they need to determine how one can keep alive, out of jail, and within the black. Directed by Trent O’Donnell, with writers Marieke Hardy, Lally Katz, Clare Sladden, Niki Aken, Ty Freer and Nick Keetch. A Jungle Leisure and Echo Lake Leisure Manufacturing, with main manufacturing funding from Stan in affiliation with Display Australia. Further finance supplied by Display NSW via the Made in NSW Fund. Worldwide gross sales by Cineflix and Echo Lake Leisure.
Watching You Based mostly on J.P Pomare’s novel The Final Friends, the Stan Authentic Sequence Watching You is a gripping psychological thriller. After her passionate one-night stand is captured by hidden cameras, Lina units out to unmask an insidious voyeur who threatens to destroy her life. Watching You is customized for tv by creators Alexei Mizin and Ryan van Dijk and produced by Lingo Photos’ Jason Stephens and government produced by Lingo Photos’ Helen Bowden. Produced in affiliation with ITV Studios, who will handle worldwide distribution.
Good Cop / Unhealthy Cop Stan continues its worldwide collaboration with international content material leaders, with procedural comedic drama Good Cop / Unhealthy Cop co-commissioned with The CW and Roku and starring Leighton Meester (Gossip Lady) and Clancy Brown (Billions). The sequence follows Lou (Meester) and Henry, a sister and brother detective group in a small Pacific Northwest police drive who should deal with vibrant residents, a critical lack of assets, and their very difficult dynamic with one another and their police chief, Massive Hank (Brown) – who occurs to be their father. From Will & Grace author John Quaintance, with Stan Authentic Sequence Inhabitants 11 creator Phil Lloyd as co-executive producer, manufacturing for the eight-part sequence is because of start this yr in Queensland. Director and Govt Producer Trent O’Donnell will arrange the sequence, alongside Natalie Bailey, Gracie Otto and Corrie Chen. Becoming a member of John Quaintance and Phil Lloyd are writers Steve Joe, Julie de Fina, Steve Toltz, Clare Sladden and Sarinah Masukor. A Jungle Leisure and Future Shack Leisure, supported by the Queensland Authorities via Display Queensland’s Manufacturing Attraction Technique. Good Cop / Unhealthy Cop is produced in affiliation with and distributed by ITV Studios. .
Nugget (WT) Stan continues its slate of homegrown Christmas productions in 2024, with the Stan Authentic Movie Nugget getting into manufacturing later this yr. When her beloved household canine Nugget falls sick over Christmas, a metropolis dermatologist should return house to confront each her dysfunctional household, and the mortality of the one member of the family that brings all of them collectively. Principal manufacturing funding from Display NSW. Filmed and publish produced in NSW with the help of Display NSW. Directed by Imogen McCluskey, produced by Naomi Simply, government produced by Rob Gibson and Ian Collie, and written by Vic Zerbst and Jenna Owen.
Stan pronounces the forged of two new Stan Originals.
Publicity Alice Englert, Essie Davis, Mia Artemis, Thomas Weatherall, and Sean Keenan lead the forged of the Stan Authentic Sequence Publicity. A psychological thriller filmed in Sydney and Port Kembla, Publicity follows a photographer returning to her hometown after the demise of her finest buddy, who discovers the hidden secrets and techniques of their relationship and the reality of the tragedy. Created by screenwriter Lucy Coleman (Scorching Mess) and directed by Bonnie Moir (Love Me), Publicity is produced via Thirdborn by government producers Nicole O’Donohue, with Shaun Grant and Justin Kurzel. Main manufacturing funding from Display Australia and Stan. Financed with assist from Display NSW. Worldwide gross sales by All3Media Worldwide. Put up, digital and visible results supported by Display NSW.
Invisible Boys From Logie and AACTA award-winning creator/director Nicholas Verso, the Stan Authentic Sequence Invisible Boys will full manufacturing this month in Perth and Geraldton, WA. Based mostly on Holden Sheppard’s multi-award successful LGBTQIA+ novel, Invisible Boys is a 10-episode LGBTQIA+ drama starring Joseph Zada, Aydan Calafiore, Zach Blampied, Joe Klocek, Pia Miranda and David Lyons, produced by Tania Chambers for Feisty Dame Productions and Nicholas Verso for Asphodel Movies. Main manufacturing funding from Display Australia in affiliation with Stan. Financed with assist from Screenwest, Lotterywest, and the WA Regional Display Fund. Distributed internationally by Banijay Rights. Developed with help of Display Australia.
Stan Originals Scripted Returning Sequence
5 breakout Originals returning, unique to Stan.
Black Snow S2 With manufacturing commencing in Queensland, the second season of the Stan Authentic Sequence Black Snow, produced by Goalpost Photos, will see Travis Fimmel reprise his position as Detective Cormack, as he tackles two separate lacking individuals instances. One is skilled, as he investigates the disappearance of Zoe Jacobs, who disappeared from her personal twenty first party in 2003. And the opposite is private, as Cormack searches desperately for his personal youthful brother, who went lacking once they have been kids. After a smash-hit first season, Director Sian Davies, Govt Producer Rosemary Blight and Sequence Creator Lucas Taylor return to the sequence and Helena Brooks joins as Director. Black Snow season two is produced in affiliation with All3Media Worldwide and Sundance Now and with monetary assist from Display Queensland, Display NSW and Metropolis of Gold Coast.
Bump S5 Australia’s favorite household will return, with the Stan Authentic Sequence Bump confirmed for a fifth season. One in all Stan’s most beloved Originals since 2021, Nathalie Morris, Carlos Sanson Jr, Claudia Karvan and Angus Sampson will reprise their roles. Produced by Roadshow Tough Diamond and its founders Dan Edwards and John Edwards, together with co-creators Claudia Karvan and Kelsey Munro. Financed with assist from Display NSW. ITV is managing worldwide gross sales.
Scrublands S2 After an unimaginable launch on Stan in November 2023, the Stan Authentic Sequence Scrublands is returning. On this adaptation of Chris Hammer’s best-selling second novel Silver, to be filmed in Western Australia, Martin Scarsden has returned to his coastal hometown, Port Silver, to arrange a brand new life with accomplice Mandy Bond. When he arrives to search out his childhood buddy Jasper brutally murdered and Mandy the prime suspect, Martin makes it his obligation to search out the actual assassin and absolve Mandy. Within the course of, he confronts hidden truths about Port Silver and his personal lengthy buried previous. Directed by Ben Younger, with writers Felicity Packard, Jock Serong and Fiona Kelly. Co-commissioned by Stan and the 9Network, from Straightforward Tiger and Third Act Tales, produced by Ian Collie, Rob Gibson, Martha Coleman and Felicity Packard. Govt Producers Michael Healy and Andy Ryan from the 9Network and Cailah Scobie and Alicia Brown for Stan. Main manufacturing funding from Screenwest, Lotterywest and the WA Regional Display Fund. Developed and Produced with the help of Screenwest and Lotterywest. Worldwide gross sales are dealt with by Abacus Media Rights.
Poker Face S2 After a star-studded, addictive first season, Rian Johnson’s Stan Authentic Sequence Poker Face will return. Starring Natasha Lyonne, the mystery-of-the-week sequence follows Charlie Cale, who has a unprecedented means to find out when somebody is mendacity. She hits the street along with her Plymouth Barracuda and with each cease encounters a brand new forged of characters and unusual crimes she will be able to’t assist however resolve. The primary season featured an all-star visitor forged together with Adrien Brody, Chloë Sevigny, Benjamin Bratt and Nick Nolte.
Ten Pound Poms S2 The smash hit Stan Authentic Sequence Ten Pound Poms will return for a second sequence, with Michelle Keegan, Warren Brown and Faye Marsay all set to reprise their roles alongside Australian actors Rob Collins, Leon Ford and Stephen Curry. A co-production between Stan and the BBC, Ten Pound Poms is produced by Eleven and written and created by the BAFTA award-winning Danny Brocklehurst, who additionally government produces. Becoming a member of Danny on the writing group is Australia’s Ryan Griffen alongside Smita Bhide. Season two is directed by Australia’s Ana Kokkinos and the UK’s Tom McKay. The sequence is supported by Display NSW via the Made in NSW Fund.
Stan Originals Unscripted
Drag Race Down Below The Stan Authentic Sequence Drag Race Down Below will return later this yr for a fourth season, with worldwide icon Michelle Visage confirmed as the brand new host. Additionally introduced is the return of Aussie comic Rhys Nicholson, who can be joined on the primary stage by Down Below’s glittering drag royalty. That is the primary time Down Below queens have been enlisted for his or her experience to guage and mentor a brand new forged of fierce native queens all vying to be Down Below’s subsequent Drag Race Famous person. A World of Surprise manufacturing in collaboration with Warner Bros. NZ for Stan Originals in Australia, WOW Presents Plus in every single place else.
Trailblazers Showcasing the transformational journey of the Matildas, Australia’s beloved nationwide Ladies’s Soccer group, the Stan Authentic Documentary Trailblazers will premiere on Stan forward of the Olympic Video games Paris 2024. Created by an all-female manufacturing group, the Stan Authentic Documentary Trailblazers options previous Matildas legends together with first captain Julie Dolan, and present stars: Captain Sam Kerr, Vice-Captain Steph Catley, Mary Fowler, Ellie Carpenter, Teagan Micah, Melissa Barbieri, Kate Gill and Moya Dodd. Trailblazers additionally options contributions from ex Socceroos Captain and Stan Sport commentator Craig Foster, Coach Tommy Sermanni and the primary Indigenous feminine participant Karen Menzies. Trailblazers is a Savage Movies, Milestone Movies and LM Movies Manufacturing. Principal Manufacturing Funding from Mecca M-Energy in affiliation with Display Australia and VicScreen. Developed with the help of VicScreen.
Stan additionally pronounces three model new Authentic Documentaries in its investigatory Revealed slate.
Revealed; Bribe, Inc. Extremely acclaimed The Age and 60 Minutes journalist Nick McKenzie uncovers international corruption within the oil business within the Stan Authentic Documentary Revealed: Bribe, Inc. Analyzing Monaco-based enterprise Unaoil’s international bribery scandal and solely that includes the whistleblower who introduced the crimes into the open, Bribe, Inc. particulars the corporate’s audacious corruption and ensuing widespread injury, investigating a slew of multi-million greenback bribes paid on behalf of among the largest corporations on the planet. An Australian Canadian collaboration, produced by 1441 Productions, directed by Peter Klein, written and produced by Peter Klein and Calyn Shaw.
Revealed: Killjoy The story of a household murder, Revealed: KillJoy presents the distinctive view of household violence from the angle of the kid. Kathryn Pleasure, whose father killed their mom once they have been three months previous, embarks on a journey to uncover their mom’s buried story. Produced by Lisa Albert, with affiliate producers Kathryn Pleasure and Jess Hill (See What You Made Me Do). Venture Advisor Ivan O’Mahoney (Firestarter: The Story of Bangarra, Folau). Directed by Vincenzo Lamberti (Intervention: Tales from the Inside). A Fringe Dweller Movies manufacturing for Stan. Principal manufacturing funding from Display Australia in affiliation with The Put up Lounge, VicScreen and Shark Island Basis. Developed with help from Shark Island Basis, VicScreen and Display Australia.
Revealed: Malka Leifer Revealed: Malka Leifer explores a harrowing abuse scandal in Melbourne. After years of unspeakable abuse by the hands of their headmistress, three sisters close to the top of a quest for justice twenty years within the making. Raised in an remoted ultra-orthodox Jewish neighborhood, hidden in plain sight in Melbourne’s southeast, the sisters are lastly set to face their tormentor in courtroom. It marks the end result of a saga of betrayal, conspiracy, worldwide intrigue and deep trauma that has taken an enormous private toll. Will the sisters get justice and if that’s the case, at what worth? Principal manufacturing funding from Display Australia in affiliation with Stan. Financed with assist from Display NSW, VicScreen and philanthropy by way of Documentary Australia. The movie is produced by Ivan O’Mahoney for In Movies, Joel Pearlman and Edwina Waddy Roadshow Movies, and directed by Adam Kamien, in affiliation with Fremantle, who may also deal with worldwide distribution of the sequence.
Stan Originals Nonetheless to Premiere
Inhabitants 11 Premiering Thursday, American actor and government producer Ben Feldman leads the Stan Authentic Sequence Inhabitants 11, a comedy crime thriller filmed in Western Australia’s Kimberley Area. Impressed by true occasions, Inhabitants 11 is a couple of man who goes lacking from a tiny outback city of solely twelve residents, and his estranged son, who journeys from the U.S. to search out him. The second sequence to be co-commissioned by Stan and Lionsgate, Trent O’Donnell (New Lady, Hacks) directs and government produces the sequence from Jungle Leisure.
The Tattooist of Auschwitz Premiering Might 2, and starring Harvey Keitel and Melanie Lynskey, the Stan Authentic Sequence The Tattooist of Auschwitz is a six-part restricted drama sequence based mostly on the worldwide best-selling novel by Heather Morris, and impressed by the real-life story of Lali and Gita Sokolov, who met whereas prisoners within the Auschwitz focus camp through the Holocaust of World Conflict II.
Windcatcher After twelve years, Jessica Mauboy returns to the display screen in her first movie since The Sapphires. A heartwarming household characteristic, the Stan Authentic Movie Windcatcher premieres March 28 and follows the unlikely friendship between Percy Boy and his two pals as they band collectively to take the native faculty sports activities day title from a gaggle of grade 5 bullies. Stan’s first co-commission with the Australian Kids’s Tv Basis.
The Surfer A psychological thriller starring Nicolas Cage, Julian McMahon and Miranda Tapsell, the Stan Authentic Movie The Surfer is an intensely unnerving characteristic movie shot in Yallingup, WA. When a person returns to Australia to purchase again his household house after a few years within the U.S. he’s humiliated in entrance of his teenage son by a gaggle of native surfers. Wounded, he defies them and stays on the seashore. Battle escalates and he is delivered to the sting of his sanity.
Thou Shalt Not Steal Directed by AACTA Award-winning filmmaker Dylan River, the Stan Authentic Sequence Thou Shalt Not Steal stars Sherry-Lee Watson, Will McDonald, Miranda Otto and Noah Taylor. An eight-episode street sequence set in Central and South Australia through the Nineteen Eighties, the sequence follows a younger Aboriginal delinquent trying to find the reality behind a mysterious household secret, who escapes from detention and reluctantly groups up with a clumsy teenager. Collectively they flee her small central desert neighborhood on a deadly journey throughout the outback.
Revealed: Otto by Otto Impressed to make an intimate household portrait, Gracie Otto directs this feature-length Stan Authentic Documentary Revealed: Otto by Otto about her father, Barry Otto, whose profession in Australian theatre, movie and tv has spanned greater than 50 years. That includes interviews with Barry’s collaborators, Revealed: Otto on Otto takes audiences on a journey via Australia’s theatre business within the 70s and 80s.
Revealed: How To Poison A Planet Revealed: How To Poison A Planet, (beforehand titled Protected To Drink), exposes the stunning contamination of poisonous chemical compounds that sparked a global environmental disaster and tells the story of the devastating impacts on contaminated communities who’re preventing for justice. In collaboration with Walkley Award-winning journalist Carrie Fellner and The Sydney Morning Herald, spanning from the US to a small Aboriginal neighborhood in Australia, taking by itself David and Goliath battle, Revealed: Methods to Poison A Planet investigates how using a product as seemingly innocent as firefighting foam, has resulted in contamination of communities all around the world. Revealed: Methods to Poison A Planet is produced by iKandy Movies in affiliation with Display Australia, Shark Island Basis and Display NSW.
Revealed: Renee Gracie Revealed: Renee Gracie follows Australia’s first feminine race automobile driver as she makes an attempt to re-enter V8 racing after being pushed out of the game and turning into a multi-millionaire via on-line grownup leisure. Written and directed by Frances Elliott and Samantha Marlowe, produced by Cody Greenwood, and government produced by Nick Batzias and Charlotte Wheaton. Produced by Rush Movies. Worldwide gross sales by Rush Movies.
Alongside the present slate of worldwide drama, Stan pronounces it’s the unique house of a slate of brand name new acquisitions, together with action-packed thriller Nightsleeper, a high-octane sequence following the hacking of a prepare from Fremantle, Joan starring Sophie Turner as real-life prison mastermind Joan Hannington from All3Media, history-bending drama sequence Spartacus: Home of Ashur, a sequel sequence from STARZ/Lionsgate arriving greater than a decade after the unique sequence’ conclusion, Crimson Eye from Sony Photos Tv, a high-octane thriller set on a red-eye flight with Richard Armitage and Jing Lusi in lead roles, and suspense drama Looking Wives from Lionsgate, based mostly on the bestselling novel.
Stan can be the house of three model new sequence within the Strolling Useless Universe – Useless Metropolis, Daryl Dixon and The Ones Who Reside, with Useless Metropolis and Daryl Dixon already confirmed for a second season. Different highlights from Stan’s unique slate embrace A Good Lady’s Information to Homicide, in addition to returning favourites corresponding to Hacks, All American, Sullivan’s Crossing, Ru Paul’s Drag Race All Stars, Bel Air, From, Energy E book II: Ghost, Energy E book IV: Power and Twisted Steel.
And this November, the ultimate season of the worldwide phenomenon Yellowstone starring Oscar®-winner Kevin Costner will premiere solely on Stan, seeing the conclusion of a sequence that rapidly grew to become a worldwide hit and the #1 drama on U.S. cable tv.
