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After making his screen debut in Foxtel.s Deadline Gallipoli, Nida graduate Joel Jackson will play the title role in the Seven Network.s Peter Allen: Not the Boy Next Door.
Sara West has been cast as Liza Minnelli, to whom Allen was married, with Sigrid Thornton as Judy Garland, Rebecca Gibney as Peter.s mother Marion Woolnough and Henri Szeps as New York-based talent agent Dee Anthony.
The two-part drama scripted by Justin Monjo and Michael Miller and directed by Shawn Seet starts production next week. The producers are Rory Callaghan and Kerrie Mainwaring.
As If reported last week, Foxtel executives were so impressed with Jackson.s portrayal of war correspondent Charles Bean in Deadline Gallipoli they made a financial arrangement with the actor.s agent Mark Morrissey of Morrissey Management to ensure that if he took jobs in other shows, none would go to air before...
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After making his screen debut in Foxtel.s Deadline Gallipoli, Nida graduate Joel Jackson will play the title role in the Seven Network.s Peter Allen: Not the Boy Next Door.
Sara West has been cast as Liza Minnelli, to whom Allen was married, with Sigrid Thornton as Judy Garland, Rebecca Gibney as Peter.s mother Marion Woolnough and Henri Szeps as New York-based talent agent Dee Anthony.
The two-part drama scripted by Justin Monjo and Michael Miller and directed by Shawn Seet starts production next week. The producers are Rory Callaghan and Kerrie Mainwaring.
As If reported last week, Foxtel executives were so impressed with Jackson.s portrayal of war correspondent Charles Bean in Deadline Gallipoli they made a financial arrangement with the actor.s agent Mark Morrissey of Morrissey Management to ensure that if he took jobs in other shows, none would go to air before...
- 1/27/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The flamboyant life and premature death of Australian entertainer Peter Allen will be dramatised in a 2-part miniseries.
Shine Australia is developing Peter Allen: Not The Boy Next Door, for the Seven Network, following their successful collaboration on Inxs: Never Tear Us Apart.
To be produced by Rory Callaghan and Kerrie Mainwaring, the Allen mini will be Shine.s third major Australian drama. In the can is Catching Milat, a two-part telemovie recounting the investigation that led to the arrest of serial killer Ivan Milat, which Seven commissioned.
The Allen project has not been announced but word has spread among talent agents and actors.
Shawn Seet (Love Child, The Code, Underbelly) is attached to direct. The plot will follow Allen (born Peter Richard Woolnough) from his teenage years in Tenterfield, Nsw, where he sang and played piano at the local pub.
He and Chris Bell formed the Allen Brothers.
Shine Australia is developing Peter Allen: Not The Boy Next Door, for the Seven Network, following their successful collaboration on Inxs: Never Tear Us Apart.
To be produced by Rory Callaghan and Kerrie Mainwaring, the Allen mini will be Shine.s third major Australian drama. In the can is Catching Milat, a two-part telemovie recounting the investigation that led to the arrest of serial killer Ivan Milat, which Seven commissioned.
The Allen project has not been announced but word has spread among talent agents and actors.
Shawn Seet (Love Child, The Code, Underbelly) is attached to direct. The plot will follow Allen (born Peter Richard Woolnough) from his teenage years in Tenterfield, Nsw, where he sang and played piano at the local pub.
He and Chris Bell formed the Allen Brothers.
- 10/1/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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