Speaker Details

Full Name
Beyond Entertainment
Company
Beyond Entertainment
Country (Address)
Australia
Biography
Beyond Entertainment is one of Australia’s leading production companies, developing and producing thousands of hours of premium scripted and non-scripted content since 1984. Beyond has recently co-produced Troppo with EQ Media, an 8 x 1-hour crime drama premiering on the ABC in February and screening on IMDb TV later in the year. In 2020, Halifax Retribution, co-produced by Beyond and Lone Hand, starring Rebecca Gibney and Anthony LaPaglia, was a ratings success for Channel Nine, and was acquired in the US by PBS Distribution. The medical drama Pulse was co-produced by Beyond and Clandestine TV for the ABC and also experienced great success on PBS. Beyond has recently produced several successful children’s series including the Emmy Award-winning Beat Bugs for Netflix, featuring the music of the Beatles, Motown Magic also for Netflix, Mythbusters Jnr for The Science Channel and Nippers for ABC Australia.
Production Partnerships Forum Hosts
Melinda Wearne
Production Company Profile
Premium Scripted Drama - emotionally compelling, character-driven stories. Beyond Scripted aims to explore who we are as a diverse culture, our characters, stories, strengths and weaknesses, flaws and vulnerabilities. We want to tell stories that entertain, that are born out of who we are and where we are from, distinctive stories that explore, interrogate and challenge who we are as a diverse culture and as a nation, stories that subvert the parochial and resonate in the international market place.