Ben Skinner

It’s not often a near death experience helps conjure up a TV series, but that’s exactly how the initial seed of first came about for Andrew Undi Lee, after suffering a near fatal coma in 2014. “When I came back out of that coma… I didn't really process the trauma or the terrible side of what had happened to me,” says Lee. “I needed to get something out of me”. A horror anthology series encompassing five short stories, looks at the Korean…

Being undervalued is a feeling Roseanne Liang and her co-creators behind the hit comedy series know all too well. Years before Liang’s show was greenlit, the director’s core acting trio of JJ Fong, Ally Xue and Perlina Lau had grown disillusioned with the types of stereotypical “Asian women” roles they were seeing on casting callouts. Having originally met Fong at an audition for a previous project Liang had directed, she jumped at the opportunity to work with the t…

A lone drifter dressed all in black, face obscured, strolls into a small town. We don’t yet know his name or his true purpose, yet we immediately recognise him as the hero of our story. If this description sounds like a familiar opening to any number of Westerns you may have encountered over the years, then chances are you can attribute it back to the fictional character known simply as Django.  Along with 'The Man with No Name', immortalised by Clint Eastwood in director S…