Silver Sun

[James Midolo]

Hi Newsgroup,

Does anyone know if or when Silver Sun will be returning to TV?

Regards,
James Midolo

[Kath]

James Midolo wrote:
> Hi Newsgroup,
>
> Does anyone know if or when Silver Sun will be returning to TV?

The last I heard was that the second series going ahead depends on foreign
sales. Sometime this month it should be known.

--
Katharine
During an average lifetime, a man will spend 3,350 hours removing 8.4
meters of stubble.

[Jonathan Wilson]

What I want to know is how come channel 7 got it first then ABC got it
(especially given that IIRC it was partially funded/produced by the ABC)

[Kath]

Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> What I want to know is how come channel 7 got it first then ABC got it
> (especially given that IIRC it was partially funded/produced by the
> ABC)

It's a co-production between ABC, Simpson LeMesurier and Ch7. It was shot at
the ABC studios in Melbourne. I've just heard that they're still waiting on
news about the second series.

Here's an article I found a while back about it which helps explain the
various parties involved:

> Variety
> Producers up in arms over Seven-ABC deal
> Don Groves
> Mar 21, 2004
> SYDNEY - Australia's screen producers fear the Seven network's purchase of
> firstrun rights to a children's series commissioned by the Australian
> Broadcasting Corp. will mean less kids' drama is made Down Under.
>
> The Screen Producers Assn. of Australia has urged the federal government
> to
> impose on pubcaster the ABC the same local-content regs that apply to
> commercial broadcasters.
>
> "Silver Sun," a 40-part series shooting at ABC's studios in Melbourne, was
> bought by Seven for a reported A$50,000 ($39,000) per half-hour episode.
>
> Like its commercial brethren, Seven must screen a minimum amount of
> Australian-made children's drama per year; the ABC has no such obligation.
>
> "This is totally unacceptable," SPAA exec director Geoff Brown says. "It
> exploits the ABC's lack of funds to allow Seven to meet its local-content
> obligations. If the networks use this sort of arrangement again, we will
> see
> less children's drama."
>
> Produced by Beyond Simpson Le Mesurier, the 40-part "Silver Sun" is about
> a
> group of kids who journey to a planet resembling Earth. Beyond sold first
> rights to Seven with the ABC's approval.
>
> The ABC and Beyond insist the budget is higher than the pubcaster could
> afford alone and the series would not have proceeded without Seven's
> participation.
>
> "We're doing 'Silver Sun' in addition to our regular children's
> production,"
> says ABC head of TV Sandra Levy. "We asked the government last year for
> additional funds for children's drama and didn't get it. We have 75% of
> the
> children's TV audience, but we do not have significant funds. The only way
> we could do 'Silver Sun' is to use our resources (staff and facilities)."
>
> SPAA has written to Communications and Arts Minister Daryl Williams,
> calling
> on the government to extend the local content regs to the pubcaster.
>
> Levy's answer to that is simple: "We would love to comply with the content
> regs. If the government made us do that, they would have to fund us for
> it."
>



--
Katharine
"Images, not words, capture feelings in faces; nothing can ruin the
atmosphere as easily as too much light." - Sven Nykvist, cinematographer

[cadbury]

Did you guys ever find out anymore information?