ABC announces $14m kids show, Resistance
ABC Children’s TV announced its biggest budget children’s live action series at $14m would take up residency at the South Australia Film Corporation’s new Adelaide Studios, opened today.
Resistance, a co-production between Australia’s Persistence Productions and Canada’s Shaftesbury Films, the 26×30 minute series will screen on ABC3 in Australia and YTV in Canada in late 2012. Shooting will begin in September 2011, for 23 weeks.
Resistance is the story of the fate of humankind in the hands of a small group of brilliant teenage resistance fighters. Armed with technology, beyond the cutting edge, and trained by mysterious young billionaire, they’re our last line of defence against an alien invasion.
Produced by Andrew Dillon and Lesley Parker, it is executive produced by Gary Kurtz who has Star Wars and the Empire Strikes Back among his producing credits.