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Local content quota law passes in Australia

Australia’s federal parliament has passed the Labor government’s local content quota legislation that will affect global streamers such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.

Services that have more than one million Australian subscribers will need to invest at least 10% of their total expenditure in the country – or 7.5% of their revenue – on local drama, children’s, documentary, arts and educational programmes. Reality is excluded.

Streamers have three years to meet the new requirements and will face fines of up to ten times their annual revenue if they do not meet quotas, details of which were revealed last earlier this month.

Numerous countries across Europe have already introduced local quota regulations on streamers, while Australia has been toying with the idea for more than a year.

A Remarkable Place to Die lands S2

Banijay Entertainment-backed Screentime New Zealand has confirmed a second season of acclaimed international co-production A Remarkable Place to Die.

Six feature-length episodes of the crime drama have been ordered, produced by Screentime New Zealand in co-production with ZDF and Real Film Berlin in association with distributor, Banijay Rights.

Lead broadcasters include ZDF (Germany), Acorn TV (US), Nine Network (Australia), and TVNZ (New Zealand) and with support from the NZ SPR and NZ On Air.

The show is set in Queenstown/Tāhuna and follows a determined detective (Chelsie Preston-Crayford) as she unravels complex new cases while secretly investigating another murder.

Hulu returns to Secret Lives of Mormon Wives

Hulu has ordered a fourth season of unscripted series The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.

The 20-episode order will start airing in 2026 and follows the third season premiere on 13 November.

The series is available on Disney+ around the world and is produced by Jeff Jenkins Productions in association with 3BMG and Walt Disney Television Alternative.

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