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WTFN
Entertainment Media Release
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18
June 2007 |
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Kitchen Table to Bondi Beach
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Twelve
months ago two young Australian TV executives decided they were ready to take
their products to the international market place.
Whilst these programs had met with tremendous support on local networks, a tempting
challenge remained. Could they break through the international barrier and capture
a share of the lucrative export market?
Their programs, such as Coxy's Big Break (SEVEN), Shopping for Love
(NINE) and Talk to the Animals (NINE), enjoyed widespread appeal 'Down
Under' and the duo held the belief that they could replicate those successes
on the international scene.
Following careers on major networks, Daryl Talbot and Steve Oemcke
made the transition, some five years ago, from employee to employer, creating
WTFN Entertainment, with the intent of specialising in the production of quality
television programming for networks in Australia.
It was at this time networks seriously increased sourcing programs from
production companies. Talbot and Oemcke entered the scene at just the right moment
and that team of just two enthusiasts swiftly grew into a company which today
employs 50 on the payroll, two-thirds of which are full time staff members.
Quality domestic product is the key to their success and now a new world is being
accessed, with Talk to the Animals acquired by one of Britain's largest
production and distribution companies, RDF.
Coxy's Big Break, hosted by the ebullient Geoff Cox, is another WTFN Entertainment
series to capture attention on the international scene, with world wide distribution
picked up by Washington based distributor TPI.
Shopping for Love, a dating game program, designed for late-night viewers,
is another export by the Melbourne based production company. GRB in Los Angeles
markets and distributes this series and its format.
From an early entrée into independent production activities, working initially
on the kitchen table at Steve Oemcke's apartment, the company now operates from
spacious offices in Hawthorn, where it specialises in branded content as
well as network supported series.
Currently the company is tailoring a new reality program, for the international
market, with the working title Bondi Vet. It stars Dr Chris Brown.
Daryl Talbot is ecstatic about the series host saying "Chris is an extraordinary
talent, highly intelligent, with a great on-camera sense of humour, good looking,-
in fact the complete package".
Bondi Vet is in production and current sales negotiations are underway
with highly acclaimed Animal Planet as well as other international players.
Each of the programs in the WTFN Entertainment stable is designed to appeal internationally,
with Talbot claiming intense interest from European and Latin American television
networks.
Media enquiries to
Daryl Talbot Managing Director (03) 9810 7102
Steve Oemcke Executive Producer (03) 9810 7103
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