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Speaker 1: the Aussie drama Territory it went to number one on

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Speaker 1: Netflix and anty Tourism hoping of course, to capitalize on

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Speaker 1: its success by launching a campaign to entice visitors to

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Speaker 1: explore the Northern territories outback. Now, a lot of listeners,

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Speaker 1: I know I've already watched the show, some of you

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Speaker 1: how the Northern Territory benefited, and really what's next and

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Speaker 1: joining me on the line to tell us a bit

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Speaker 1: more as Screen Territories director Jenny Hughes, good morning to you, Jenny.

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Speaker 2: Oh, good morning Katie.

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Speaker 1: Lovely to have you on the show now, Jenny, the

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Speaker 1: reaction to Territory has been massive. Did you anticipate that

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Speaker 1: quickly as it did?

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Speaker 2: Look, you know what, when I read the scripts of

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Speaker 2: that series, they were fantastic, including i must say, co

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Speaker 2: written by a one for our own Stephen McGregor, who's

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Speaker 2: a beautiful writer. But you know, they were so good

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Speaker 2: and they assembled. It was a great, great production crew.

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Speaker 2: We had everything, all the ingredients, but you never know,

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Speaker 2: you just never know, I went out and set I

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Speaker 2: saw it. I've never seen anything so big being filmed

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Speaker 2: in the territory. When I was at a Tipperary and

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Speaker 2: another locations, it was incredible. But you know, when it

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Speaker 2: hits my goodness that that audience of Netflix at two

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Speaker 2: hundred and eighty million and it gets to numbers three

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Speaker 2: and number one something in three days, you just go, oh,

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Speaker 2: my goodness, it's there. You know. How do you.

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Speaker 1: Feel like when that happens, particularly after you've read the script,

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Speaker 2: I've got to say pretty damn good. Because I keep

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Speaker 2: telling everyone how wonderful our screen sector is and how

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Speaker 2: wonderful our stories are and our locations and everything like that,

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Speaker 2: and I think everybody just says, yeah, well, yes, sure, sure,

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Speaker 2: it's great to kind of go see I told you so,

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Speaker 2: I told you we were good.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely so tell us. I mean, for those out there

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Speaker 2: Oh gosh, well, look we have to go out and

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Speaker 2: search around them. And just keep talking to producers to

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Speaker 2: see what they've got in the pipeline. Unfortunately, on this

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Speaker 2: one in particular, I was already working with Ben Davies,

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Speaker 2: who we worked on our back Bringer and First Inventors,

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Speaker 2: so wonderful, wonderful producer, and he came up with the

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Speaker 2: idea of this. So you've just got to keep going

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Speaker 2: out there and hunting out for all these wonderful you know,

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Speaker 2: sort of series and films that could potentially shoot in

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Speaker 2: the territory. They're not necessarily grounded in the territory. If

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Speaker 2: we don't kind of go out there and really really

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Speaker 2: go after them, they could easily have got easily go

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Speaker 2: to WA or Queensland or FA. So we went out

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Speaker 2: it took a few years. I mean, they have a

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Speaker 2: long gestation period. But you've got to work out the

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Speaker 2: amount of money that you can you can put into

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Speaker 2: to secure them, and that's all based on what they

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Speaker 2: I think in territories case, we submitted one point three

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Speaker 2: We just got the audited account, so that's verified. So

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Speaker 1: That's a good return for investment there by the sounds

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Speaker 1: of it, Jenny, No, I know, yeah, now tell me

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Speaker 1: because I know that some people have been like, oh,

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Speaker 1: Some of it was filmed in South Australia, but like

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Speaker 1: the large majority was filmed in the territory.

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Speaker 2: Wasn't it the way that I'd explained it is. The

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Speaker 2: territory is the hero location and that's what it is.

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Speaker 2: There's a little bit of filming downe in Essay and

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Speaker 2: I have nothing against my wonderful colleagues and Essay keep

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Speaker 2: But the hero location is really you know, that big

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Speaker 1: No, you're truly territory. Yeah, hey tell me, were there

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Speaker 1: many like, were many Territorians involved, I like as extras

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Speaker 2: My goodness.

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Speaker 2: We had two hundred and ninety two casting crew on there.

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Speaker 1: I was going to ask that did the filming sort

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Speaker 1: It was funny as well. Even when I was watching it,

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Speaker 2: Isn't it great? You know, I think the good thing

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Speaker 1: Jenny, the big question is is there going to be

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Speaker 1: another season?

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Speaker 2: Well, funny thing is I'm seeing and I'm seeing the

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Speaker 1: All right, well, let us know, keep us posted.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, will do Katie any like?

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Speaker 1: Have you guys got much else in the pipeline at

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Speaker 1: the moment. Anything you can tell us about that people

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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.

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Speaker 1: Look.

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Speaker 2: Another one to talk about is ow Shalt Not Steel,

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Speaker 2: which is on stand with Dylan River. That went to

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Speaker 2: number one on stan and that was filmed in Alice

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Speaker 2: Springs by our fabulous exciting new director a territory and director,

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Speaker 2: Dylan River. It is a terrific show. It's a comedy,

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Speaker 2: it's you know, it's a road trip. It's fantastic. I'm

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Speaker 2: going to look, Oh you sure, I guarantee you love it?

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Speaker 1: Which is.

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Speaker 2: That's really fantastic. And of course we've got Ncia Sydney

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Speaker 2: coming out, we've got Kangaroo. I just saw the trailer

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Speaker 2: for Kangaroo. It's a beautiful feature film. It is stunning,

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Speaker 2: so you know. And also top embub and General season

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Speaker 2: two and and there's more in the pipeline.

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Speaker 1: Oh good stuff. Well, Jenny, it's lovely to speak to

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Speaker 1: you this morning. Thank you so much for having a

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Speaker 1: again soon.

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Speaker 2: Terrific. Always a pleasure, Katie, thank you,