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The ABC orders from Hugh Marks’ production company

The public broadcaster’s newest TV show comes from the production house co-founded by the new chief executive.

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation announced this week that a new show featuring comedian Julia Zemiro was in train. It’s called Crime Night! and is described by one trade publication as a “comedic true crime hybrid panel show”. It might be the first time those nouns have appeared together in a sentence.

The public broadcaster isn’t alone in trying to come up with new formats as people migrate so much of their TV-watching to Netflix. But it was the production company of the new show which aroused some interest.

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Mark Di Stefano is Rear Window columnist, based in the Sydney newsroom. He previously worked at BuzzFeed, the Financial Times and The Information before joining the Financial Review as a media and tech correspondent. Connect with Mark on Twitter. Email Mark at mark.distefano@afr.com

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