TV Noir: from Scandi ice to Outback heat

The R ising Sun Hotel, 2 Raglan Street, South Melbourne.

From 6.30 pm for dinner. The panel discussion starts at 8 pm. The price includes a main course meal and the panel.

The global popularity of the Nordic Noir wave of television crime dramas such as The Killing/Forbrydelsen and The Bridge/Broen/Bron has transformed the production of television crime dramas in Australia.

In Transnational TV Crime: From Scandinavia to the Outback (out in August with Edinburgh University Press), Sue Turnbull and Marion McCutcheon use a series of case studies including Miss Fisher’s M**der Mysteries, The Kettering Incident, Secret City, and Mystery Road, to explore how the Australian television industry responded to the new streaming environment by producing shows with international reach and appeal.

Sue Turnbull and Marion McCutcheon will be canvassing all the issues with Fiona Eagger, co-founder of Every Cloud Productions, and we will all get to watch snippets of some of our favourite programs.

Sue Turnbull is Senior Professor of Communication and Media at the University of Wollongong. Her publications include The TV Crime Drama (Edinburgh University Press 2014), Media Audiences (Palgrave Macmillan 2020), and Media and Communications in Australia with co-editor Bridget Griffen-Foley (Routledge 2024). Sue reviews crime fiction for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, is an Ambassador for Sisters in Crime Australia and Chair of the BAD Sydney Crime Festival. She reads a lot of crime.

is a communications economist and holds positions as Senior Research Fellow at the University of Canberra’s News and Media Research Centre and Senior Research Associate at the Queensland University of Technology’s Digital Media Research Centre. Her interests include the role of the creative industries in economic systems, and how society benefits from engagement with culture.

Fiona Eagger founded Every Cloud Productions in 2009 with Deb Cox and quickly cemented a reputation for high-quality and popular TV drama. This included co-creating, producing & executive producing three seasons of the runaway international success, Miss Fisher’s M**der Mysteries.

Widely recognised as an industry leader Fiona has received the Lifetime Achievement award from the Screen Producers Association in 2024, the Jill Robb Award for Service to the Victorian Screen industry, and the Natalie Miller Fellowship for Women in Leadership.

A short Annual General Meeting will follow the event.

Entry and dinner combined charge: $60 non-members; $55 concession; $52 Sisters in Crime and Writers Victoria members, $50 under 19. Please book by 12 pm Thursday 24 October. Tickets not sold prior to the event will be available at the door for $62/$57/$55/$52. Please place dinner orders by 7 pm.

Refunds: No refunds after Thursday 24 October, 12 noon.

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