Penny Chapman Interview

By Penny Chapman - Producer

In this interview:
  • From solo operator to partnerships
  • Business advice
  • It’s about trust
  • Lone producer no longer viable
  • Producer of the next generation
  • More platforms and revenue streams
  • Developing new ideas
  • TV networks changing
  • The impact of Facebook
  • More sophisticated audiences
  • Bolder programming required
  • Television and film merging
  • Trust your instincts

About the Author

Penny Chapman Penny is one of Australia’s most experienced television producers. Currently in production on the second series of the Logie-winning landmark children’s series, My Place, she produced the 2006 mini-series RAN, which won 3 AFI Awards (including Best Mini Series or Tele-feature) and several screenwriting awards. Her other productions include The Road from Coorain (for the ABC and WGBH Boston, and a BANFF nominee), the television series, The Cooks and the tele-movie Temptation, both for Network Ten. Her documentary productions include Darwin's Lost Paradise (2009), Rampant: How a Plague Stopped a City  (2008), the 6-part series The Track, and Leaky Boat which is set to screen on the ABC in 2011. Penny is currently executive producing a 6 x 30minute factual series for SBS, Sex: An Unnatural History. During the 1990s Penny was Head of TV Drama, then Head of Television at the ABC. Whilst there, she executive produced the multi-award winning Brides of Christ (which she devised), The Leaving of Liverpool and Blue Murder. In 2011, Penny will produce with Helen Panckhurst, the exotic ten-part ABC crime drama series The Straits.  

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