Writer-producer Shane Brennan stumps up $1 million to fix Australian television

By Karl Quinn
Updated August 30 2016 - 8:15pm, first published 8:06pm
Shane Brennan is putting $1 million into a program to help develop local screenwriters.  Photo: Penny Stephens
Shane Brennan is putting $1 million into a program to help develop local screenwriters. Photo: Penny Stephens
The NCIS cast, circa 2007, the year Shane Brennan became showrunner on the most siuccessful program on US television.
The NCIS cast, circa 2007, the year Shane Brennan became showrunner on the most siuccessful program on US television.
Bobby Lee, Eric Christian Olsen, and Michael Weatherly in NCIS: Los Angeles, the spin-off show created by Brennan in 2009. Photo: Network Ten
Bobby Lee, Eric Christian Olsen, and Michael Weatherly in NCIS: Los Angeles, the spin-off show created by Brennan in 2009. Photo: Network Ten

 After 13 years spent writing and producing a couple of Hollywood's most successful shows, Shane Brennan reckons he knows what's wrong with the way we make television drama in this country – and he's willing to put his money where his mouth is to prove it.

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