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Andrew Hansen and Chris Taylor.

The Screen Music Awards will return to Sydney in 2016, with the event to be held November 8 at the City Recital Hall.

The awards recognise the outstanding achievements of Australian composers across 12 categories, including compositions for documentaries, short films, mini-series, advertising, children.s television and feature film scores.

The 2016 awards will be hosted by The Chaser.s Chris Taylor and Andrew Hansen, who have hosted the event five times, most recently in 2013.

Emmy Award winning screen composer Ashley Irwin also will provide music direction, leading a live orchestra which will perform a selection of nominated compositions at the event.

.Our members are doing fantastic work in the film and television space, and the Screen Music Awards highlight and honour their talent and success,. said Apra Amcos chief executive Brett Cottle.

Nominees will be announced late September.

The Chaser's Media Circus will return for a second season on September 10.

However, according to a statement from ABC TV, management has confirmed it hopes to replace the second series with cat videos.

.As soon as we can find enough left wing cats who instinctively hate Australia, they.ll be replaced,. said an ABC representative.

The game show about the news is hosted by Craig Reucassel with Fake Fact Checker Chas Licciardello.

It is produced by the creative team behind The Chaser and The Checkout, including Ben Jenkins, Zoë Norton Lodge, Scott Abbot, Andrew Hansen and Julian Morrow.

"ABC management confirmed that for the second series the show has been moved out of the news division to allow it to be more biased and have less rigorous vetting of the studio audience," according to a statement.

Filmed in front of a live audience each week shortly before broadcast, The Chaser...

Antony Partos and Sonar Music, the team behind the music of The Slap have led the nominees for the Australian Guild of Screen Composers, announced this morning while Burning Man, Storm Surfers 3D, Santa’s Apprentice and Needle are the four nominees for feature film score.

The announcement:

Today we pay tribute to the leading lights of Australian screen composition with the announcement of nominees for the 2012 Screen Music Awards. The event, to be held this year in Melbourne on Monday November 19th, is jointly staged by Apra (Australasian Performing Right Association) and the Agsc (Australian Guild of Screen Composers). It is the only Australian event where the music and screen industry gather to celebrate excellence in the composition of music for film and television.

Across twelve awards categories Apra and the Agsc are today proud to recognise 61 composers, and 40 works as representing the best in Australian screen composition for...

The Chaser team and Channel Seven will go into production on their new show this week.

The Unbelievable Truth is produced by The Chaser team’s Giant Dwarf productions and adapted from the BBC Radio4 show of the same name, co-created by The Goodies’ Graeme Garden – who gets a ‘co-creator’ title on this new version.

A panel style show, the program will feature comedians trying to trick each other into believing lies “while smuggling unbelievable but true facts past each other”.

Hosted by The Chaser’s Craig Reucassel, Julian Morrow and Andrew Hansen will be team captains.

In a statement, Morrow Giant Dwarf’s executive producer said: “The most bizarre fact in the entire series is that Channel Seven have agreed to make a show with us involved. But I suppose it is called The Unbelievable Truth.”

Brad Lyons, Seven’s head of production said: “I liked it better when...

Three members of The Chaser team have revealed that they are filming a new TV series. Julian Morrow, Andrew Hansen and Craig Reucassel from the comedy troupe - who have often caused outrage with their stunts on The ABC over the past ten years - are now working on a Seven Network comedy panel show called The Unbelievable Truth. Reucassel is believed to be hosting the series, while Hansen and Morrow will head panels of guest comedians including Shane Jacobson, Kitty Flanagan and Tom Gleeson. Reucassel told the Herald Sun that the new show is unlikely to cause the same stir that The Chaser did, saying: "I don't think this show (more)...

Four new clips have been released for the soon to be released film Sanctum, a film directed by Alister Grierson – not James Cameron, to be clear, despite the advertising material’s close association. The film stars Richard Roxburgh, Ioan Gruffudd, Rhys Wakefield, Alice Parkinson, Dan Wyllie, Christopher Baker, Nicole Downs, Allison Cratchley, Cramer Cain, Andrew Hansen and John Garvin. It will be released on February 4, 2011.

Here is the official plot synopsis:

The 3-D action-thriller Sanctum, from executive producer James Cameron, follows a team of underwater cave divers on a treacherous expedition to the largest, most beautiful and least accessible cave system on Earth. When a tropical storm forces them deep into the caverns, they must fight raging water, deadly terrain and creeping panic as they search for an unknown escape route to the sea. Master diver Frank McGuire (Richard Roxburgh) has explored the South Pacific’s Esa-ala Caves for months.

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The movie poster for “Sanctum” from “Avatar” and “Titanic” creator James Cameron.

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Christopher Gordon (Mao’s Last Dancer), Guy Gross (A Model Daughter: The Killing of Caroline Byrne) and Burkhard Dallwitz (Underbelly: The Golden Mile) were the big winners at this year’s Screen Music Awards.

The ceremony took place in Melbourne last night, hosted by Andrew Hansen and Chris Taylor.

The winners are:

Best Soundtrack Album

Mao’s Last Dancer

Composer Christopher Gordon

Best Original Song Composed for the Screen

“Hold Me” from A Model Daughter: The Killing of Caroline Byrne

Composer Guy Gross

Best Music for Children’s Television

Itty Bitty Ditties

Composers Thomas Bettany / Benjamin Speed

Best Television Theme

My Place

Composer Roger Mason

Publisher Sandcastle Music Pty Ltd

Best Music for a Television Series or Serial

Underbelly: The Golden Mile

Composer Burkhard Dallwitz

Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie – Winner

A Model Daughter: The Killing of Caroline Byrne

Composer Guy Gross

Best Feature Film Score

Mao’s...

Animal Kingdom (A. Partos/S. Petty) , Beneath Hill 60 (C. Skubiszewski), Mao’s Last Dancer (C. Gordon) and The Waiting City (M. Yezerski) are competing for the Best Feature Film Score at this year’s Screen Music Awards.

In the television categories My Place (R. Mason), Rescue Special Ops (N. Tyson-Chew), Tangle (B. Marks) and Underbelly (B. Dallwitz) have been selected for the Best Music for a Television Series category.The 2010 Screen Music Awards, presented by Apra (Australasian Performing Right Association) and the Agsc (Australian Guild of Screen Composers) will be held at BMW Edge in Melbourne on Tuesday 9 November.

The nominees are:

Best Feature Film Score

Title Animal Kingdom Composers Antony Partos and Sam Petty Title Beneath Hill 60 Composer Cezary Skubiszewski Publisher Albert Music Title Mao’s Last Dancer Composer Christopher Gordon Title The Waiting City Composer Michael Yezerski Publisher Sandcastle Music Pty Ltd

Best Music for a...

After years in Sydney, the 2010 Screen Music Awards will be held at BMW Edge in Melbourne on November 9.

Composer Paul Grabowsky will return to conduct a live orchestra and perform a selection of the nominated compositions. The hosts will be The Chaser’s Chris Taylor and Andrew Hansen.

The awards are presented by Apra (Australasian Performing Right Association) and the Agsc (Australian Guild of Screen Composers), and cover 12 categories representing feature films, children’s television, advertising, documentaries, short films and everything in between.

As the first series of The Chaser's War on Everything came to a close last night, its creators promised that they will be back soon with a new spin on comedy. The ABC show, which recently came under fire for filming a sketch that appeared to make fun of terminally ill children, is due to return at some point next year. At the end of the final show, cast member Andrew Hansen had a final dig at critics, saying: "If you watched and loved the show, thank you (more)...