Shine confirms move into drama with INXS mini-series
Production company Shine has confirmed earlier reports that it would expand from reality into drama with the announcement of mini-series Never Tear Us Apart: The Untold Story of INXS.
Commissioned by Seven, the show “promises an authentic, behind the scenes look at what really happened – childhood mates from Sydney who were once the biggest rock and roll band in the world – beyond the music, the lights and the roar of a sell-out crowd,” according to a press release.
The two-part series will be executive produced by Mark Fennessy CEO and president of Shine Australia and Rory Callaghan, the company’s executive director.
While Shine has been one of Australia’s top reality production houses, Never Tear Us Apart will be the company’s first drama production. It follows the March appointment of Rory Callaghan, formerly of Southern Star, one of the premiere TV drama houses in the country.
Seriously the interest (and talent) of INXS died with Hutchence decades ago. The rest of them have been clearly unable to do anything other than to keep trying to put the band back together, minus the one thing that ever made them great. This reads less like flogging a dead horse and more like flogging a horse’s bleached white skeleton.
While I agree the subject of this new two parter might be questionable from an interest point of view, it’s far more interesting to see Shine wading into drama.
Casting brief is already out.
Faith Martin at Fox Studios is already churning through the candidates.
Not all from Australia, it should be added.