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Spate Of U.S. Remake Deals Leaves Oz Producers Mulling Future Of TV Format Sales

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday December 12, 2012 @ 3:22am PSTTags: Australia, Big Deals TV, Comedy Central, NBC, The Slap

Don Groves is a Deadline contributor based in Sydney

A significant group of Australian TV dramas and comedies, plus the film Animal Kingdom, have been the subject of U.S. remake deals in the past year. There are more in the offing and the growing trend has Oz producers considering strategies for the future of format sales. “Format deals deliver longer term, and less certain returns,” notes Nicky Davies Williams, CEO of DCD Rights, which handled global sales of The Slap, an Oz drama that NBC is prepping for an eight-episode limited series. Producers usually can’t sell remake rights up front because they need the higher license fees from local and international broadcasters to finance their productions. “You hope that everything you do is remakeable, but ultimately what you’re aiming for is that the original version gets screened in other territories,” says Matchbox Pictures’ Tony Ayres who’ll be an exec producer on the remade Slap. The original was an award-winning success at home in 2011 and also went out in such territories as the U.S., the UK and Israel. READ MORE »

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NBC Prepping Event Series From ‘Brothers & Sisters’ Creator And Parkes/MacDonald

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday October 5, 2012 @ 9:25am PDTTags: Laurie MacDonald, NBC, The Slap, Walter Parkes
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: NBC is making a major move in the event programming arena with The Slap, an eight-episode limited series based on the 2011 Australian short-run series. Brothers & Sisters creator Jon Robin Baitz will write the adaptation, … Read More »

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