Leading Australian actress Marta Dusseldorp will join the stellar ensemble cast for Season 8 playing Sheila Bausch who comes to 'Wentworth' on remand for the murder of nine people at True Path, a cult-like lifestyle retreat. Highly intelligent, charismatic and manipulative, Sheila worked as the personal secretary for True Path’s founder, Dr Mendel (Brian Vriends).
When 'Wentworth' returns in 2020, the prison community is still reeling from the aftermath of the bloody siege with a new leader at the helm and four heritage characters from the original Prisoner series set to enter the compound.
Foxtel's low-cost entertainment streaming service Binge offers 10,000 hours of content, rising to 20,000 hours by the end of the year - but no exclusives and relatively few Australian shows.
Foxtel is counting on new entertainment streaming service Binge to help arrest the slide in the platform's subscribers, revenues and profitability.
The COVID-19 crisis and loss of live sport have taken a heavy toll on Foxtel, resulting in mass redundancies and stand-downs - but Brian Walsh sees several positives for the platform.
The commercial free-to-air networks and Foxtel are major beneficiaries of the Federal Government's package of measures to help sustain Australian media businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Foxtel director of content Ross Crowley is among the 200 Foxtel employees who have been made redundant as the company copes with the pandemic, in particular the loss of live Australian sports.
Self-isolation is providing a fillip for Foxtel with a spike in viewers of its movie channels.