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Catherine Tate’s latest sitcom Queen Of Oz has been given the chop after a single series, the BBC have confirmed.

Catherine Tate is currently riding high on the huge success of the long awaited Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials. Written by returning showrunner Russell T Davies, the episodes saw Tate reprise her role as Donna Noble opposite David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor.

However Queen Of Oz, Tate’s latest foray into sitcom, has been cancelled after a single series, the BBC has confirmed.

The six-part series followed Tate as Princess Georgiana, the “spare to the British throne”. With her party girl lifestyle and constant public scandals threatening the monarchy’s future, she is moved to Australia to become their Queen, along with her new staff – director of communications Zoe (Jenna Owen), private secretary Bernard (Robert Coleby), head of security Marc (Rob Collins), personal assistant Matthew (William McKenna), lady...

Sam Neill, Sue Milliken, Anthony Buckley (Photo credit: Peter Jackson).

The 71st Australian International Movie Convention wrapped last week, with a delegation of just over 1,000 converging on the Gold Coast for the five-night-four-day convention.

Seven features screened at Aimc, including three Australian films: Don.t Tell — attended by cast members Jack Thompson Am, Rachel Griffiths, Sara West, Gyton Grantley, Martin Sacks and Robert Coleby; Jasper Jones — introduced by director Rachel Perkins; and Transmission's Oscar contender Lion — attended by mother and son Sue and Saroo Brierley, on whose story the film is based.

Sam Neill followed in the footsteps of Jack Thompson, winning the Aimc Lifetime Achievement award, and used the occassion to read out amusing testimonials from the likes of Bryan Brown, Rob Sitch and John Cleese congratulating him on his award..

Neill.s Hunt for the Wilderpeople director Taika Waititi watched on, fresh from the set of Thor: Ragnarok,...

Sam Neill, Sue Milliken, Anthony Buckley (Photo credit: Peter Jackson).

The 71st Australian International Movie Convention wrapped last week, with a delegation of just over 1,000 converging on the Gold Coast for the five-night-four-day convention.

Seven features screened at Aimc, including three Australian films: Don.t Tell — attended by cast members Jack Thompson Am, Rachel Griffiths, Sara West, Gyton Grantley, Martin Sacks and Robert Coleby; Jasper Jones — introduced by director Rachel Perkins; and Transmission's Oscar contender Lion — attended by mother and son Sue and Saroo Brierley, on whose story the film is based.

Sam Neill followed in the footsteps of Jack Thompson, winning the Aimc Lifetime Achievement award, and used the occassion to read out amusing testimonials from the likes of Bryan Brown, Rob Sitch and John Cleese congratulating him on his award..

Neill.s Hunt for the Wilderpeople director Taika Waititi watched on, fresh from the set of Thor: Ragnarok,...

The premiere of season 3 of A Place to Call Home on Foxtel's SoHo has attracted a a consolidated cumulative audience of 500,000 viewers.

According to OzTam figures, that ranks as the third most watched drama series in subscription TV history, trailing Game of Thrones and Wentworth.

The Sunday September 27 broadcast of A Place to Call Home scored. an overnight consolidated audience of 255,000, the most watched program ever on SoHo and the fourth most popular series on pay TV this year behind Game of Thrones, Selling Houses Australia and The Flash.

The figures vindicate the decision by Foxtel executive director of television Brian Walsh to commission two series of the Seven Productions show created by Bevan Lee after the Seven Network elected not to renew it..

Walsh said: .We are knocked out by this outstanding result. It is a timely reminder that Australians love great Australian story telling and quality drama which is well conceived,...

Mark Joffe will direct the Nine Network telemovie on the world.s richest woman Gina Rinehart and the troubled Hancock/Rinehart dynasty.

Joffe (A Place to Call Home, Wild Boys) will start shooting at the end of this month in Sydney and Western Australia.

Love Child.s Mandy McElhinney will play Rinehart in the telepic produced by Cordell Jigsaw Zapruder.s Michael Cordell, Claudia Karvan and Paul Bennett.. Karvan won't have an on-camera role.

Set primarily in 1980-2002, the plot follows the public feud between Gina and her father Lang Hancock.s second wife Rose Lacson, her struggles to rebuild the company following her father.s death, and her recent battles with her children over their multi-billion dollar inheritance.

Lang and Gina are inseparable, the perfect team, and Gina is confident she will soon inherit the family business. But their relationship is rocked by a series of tumultuous events.

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A new trailer has been released for the upcoming drama Tracks.

Directed by John Curran, Tracks stars Mia Wasikowska as Robyn Davidson, who leaves her city life when she decides to go on a solo trek through 1,700 miles of Australian desert with only her dog and four camels for company.

Tracks also features Girls star Adam Driver as National Geographic photographer Rick Smolan, who begins to catalogue her voyage.

Tracks is based on Davidson's memoir of her experience and is adapted into a screenplay by Marion Nelson.

It also stars Melanie Zanetti, Robert Coleby, Jessica Tovey and Emma Booth.

Wasikowska has previously starred in films including Stoker, Only Lovers Left Alive and Alice in Wonderland.

The biographical drama opens in UK cinemas on April 25. No Us dates have been announced.

Wolf Creek star John Jarratt is directing his first feature, StalkHer, a gritty black comedy in which he co-stars with Kaarin Fairfax, on the Gold Coast.

Directing oneself can.t be easy but the degree of difficulty is even greater here because Jarratt.s character is tied to a chair for most of the film.

The screenplay is by Kris Maric, who is partnered with Craig Kocinski and Jarratt in production company Ozpix Entertainment.

Maric likens the plot to an Australian version of Misery meets Who.s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Jarratt.s character breaks into Fairfax.s house with evil intent and the tables are turned numerous times.

.It.s a cat-and-mouse game where you are not sure who is the cat and who is the mouse,. she tells If from the set at the Village Roadshow Studios. Shooting started last Friday.

The executive producer is former Roadshow and Disney executive Alan Finney,...

On TV this Monday: Raw gets Rock’d, Barney and Robin try to kiss and not tell, CBS’ Men brings on the crazy and Gabrielle Giffords reflects on her shooting. Here are 10 programs to keep on your radar.

8 pm WWE Monday Night Raw (USA Network) | The Rock aka “The People’s Champion” returns to Boston for a special live three-hour episode. I suspect this will make our Meg Masters very excited; no one call her tonight during primetime.

8 pm Terra Nova (Fox) | While interning for the colony’s greatest scientist (Monarch Cove‘s Robert Coleby), Maddy’s life is put...

Know what makes us happy? When we watch a new trailer and within ten seconds someone gets their eye blown clear out of their skull. Well, you get that and more from the official trailer debut of writer/director Joseph Sims' new movie Bad Behaviour.

Sims' Bad Behaviour stars the lovably maniacal John Jarratt as well as Robert Coleby, Georgina Symes, Dwaine Stevenson, Jean Kittson, Roger Ward and Lindsay Farris.

Dig on the trailer, and then hit up the link below to visit the official Bad Behaviour website. For even more visit the official Bad Behaviour Facebook page!

Synopsis

The weekend is about to kick off. With the ocean calm, the weather warm and the sun setting over the hills, two psychopathic siblings - Emma and Peterson - pit stop on their road trip of bloodshed at the sleepy beach-side town of Cecil Bay.

'Bad Behaviour' will have...

Courtesy of the producers, we have passes to Joseph Sims’ film Bad Behaviour at the Australian Film Festival in Sydney.

Bad Behaviour is, according to its creators, a black comedy/neo-noir picture. It follows two psychopathic siblings – Emma and Peterson – on a road trip of bloodshed, as they encounter a debt collector, a cop confronting the people who murdered his son, and a man who finds his wife is cheating on him.

Bad Behaviour will screen at 7pm on March 7 at the Ritz Cinema in Sydney.

The film stars John Jarratt, Robert Coleby, Georgina Symes, Dwaine Stevenson, Jean Kittson, Roger Ward and Lindsay Farris. It was written and directed by Joseph Sims, and produced by Kris Maric, Steven Caldwell and Craig A Kocinski.

To win, email encoregiveaways@gmail.com and tell us, when was the last time you behaved badly?...

Joseph Stephen Sims' new flick 'Bad Behaviour' may have everybody's favourite outback psycho John Jarratt amongst its cast but it's not just 'Wolf Creek's Mick Taylor involved in the killing in this new Aussie slasher. The intersecting storys in 'Bad Behaviour' combine a number of tales involving murder and revenge and it all looks like jolly good fun. Along with Jarratt the movie stars Robert Coleby, Georgina Symes, Dwaine Stevenson, Jean Kittson, Roger Ward and Lindsay Farris. Check out the full plot synopsis, trailer and poster below....

Nice weather. Good tunes. Hot chicks. Plentiful alcohol. Sounds like a damned good time, doesn't it? Add a couple of psychos into the mix to maim and dismember the party-goers, and now we're really talking!

That's exactly what you're in for with writer/director Joseph Sims' new movie, Bad Behaviour, starring the lovably maniacal John Jarratt as well as Robert Coleby, Georgina Symes, Dwaine Stevenson, Jean Kittson, Roger Ward and Lindsay Farris.

Check out the teaser trailer, the plot crunch, and some artwork below. For more visit the official Bad Behaviour website and Bad Behaviour Facebook page!

Synopsis

The weekend is about to kick off. With the ocean calm, the weather warm and the sun setting over the hills, two psychopathic siblings - Emma and Peterson - pit stop on their road trip of bloodshed at the sleepy beach-side town of Cecil Bay.

'Bad Behaviour' will have you...

Official Synopsis: “The weekend is about to kick off. With the ocean calm, the weather warm and the sun setting over the hills, two psychopathic siblings – Emma and Peterson, pit stop on their road trip of bloodshed at the sleepy beach-side town of Cecil Bay. ‘Bad Behaviour’ will have you on the precipice of intrigue as you are thrown into: Emma and Peterson’s encounter with their fierce predator and debt collector Voyte Parker, a cop confronting the people who murdered his son, and the day a man finds his wife is cheating on him. ‘Bad Behaviour’ joins the intersecting storylines of murderers, coppers, teachers and teenagers; exposing their eventual demise. This black comedy/neo-noir picture embodies the very same ‘cool’ of the beach side town it’s set in, providing you an eerie fantasy landscape characterized by a fusion of graphic violence and punchy dialogue. Starring John Jarratt, Robert Coleby,...