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John Edwards (producer)
Robert John Edwards AM (born 4 March 1953[citation needed]) is an Australian television drama producer.
Edwards grew up on the northern beaches of Sydney, counting football player Rex Mossop as a family friend. and his childhood football coach. His father was a car dealer.
Edwards was competent at school, and afterwards, he "drifted" through university and half-graduate degrees, before becoming a history teacher at both Swansea High School and Fairfield High School. After facing a personal glitch, he decided to explore the idea of working in television, and subsequently took leave from the education department.
Edwards landed a six week job at Film Australia doing preliminary research on 1982 telemovie The Weekly's War, a co-production for the Nine Network about seeing World War II through the eyes of the Women's Weekly. He ended up co-writing the show, which led to a couple of years of short term contracts followed by a paid apprenticeship at Film Australia, developing and writing films.
Deciding writing wasn't for him, Edwards decided to explore producing. He optioned a couple of books, which were made as low budget films, including 1985 thriller The Empty Beach, starring Bryan Brown (marking Edwards' producing debut), and 1985 children's film I Own the Racecourse.
Following this, Edwards won a Creative Producers Support Scheme award from the AFC and was mentored through the industry. He landed a producer role on the 1986 miniseries Cyclone Tracy, which proved a ratings hit. Off the back of its success, he produced the 1988 ABC series Stringer, for which the soundtrack (featuring Kate Ceberano and Wendy Matthews) went double platinum.
Edwards then took over an ABC pilot which became the series Police Rescue, starring Gary Sweet, Steve Bastoni and Steve Bisley. This facilitated the beginning of his long-running relationship with Southern Star. He followed this with the Cody telemovie series (1994–1995) and drama series Big Sky (1997–1999), reuniting with Gary Sweet for both. He also produced the Golden Globe-nominated miniseries On The Beach (2000), starring Armand Assante, Rachel Ward and Bryan Brown.
Edwards next found success with critically-acclaimed drama series The Secret Life of Us, starring Claudia Karvan, Deborah Mailman and Samuel Johnson, which ran for four seasons from 2001 to 2004. Off the back of the success of Secret Life, Edwards and Karvan secured a development deal for a series which became Love My Way. After it was knocked back by Network 10, the pair took it to Foxtel. The series, starring Karvan, Asher Keddie, Dan Wyllie, Brendan Cowell and Ben Mendelsohn, garnered numerous awards, including six Logies and eight AFI Awards. It ran for three seasons, from 2004 to 2007.
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John Edwards (producer)
Robert John Edwards AM (born 4 March 1953[citation needed]) is an Australian television drama producer.
Edwards grew up on the northern beaches of Sydney, counting football player Rex Mossop as a family friend. and his childhood football coach. His father was a car dealer.
Edwards was competent at school, and afterwards, he "drifted" through university and half-graduate degrees, before becoming a history teacher at both Swansea High School and Fairfield High School. After facing a personal glitch, he decided to explore the idea of working in television, and subsequently took leave from the education department.
Edwards landed a six week job at Film Australia doing preliminary research on 1982 telemovie The Weekly's War, a co-production for the Nine Network about seeing World War II through the eyes of the Women's Weekly. He ended up co-writing the show, which led to a couple of years of short term contracts followed by a paid apprenticeship at Film Australia, developing and writing films.
Deciding writing wasn't for him, Edwards decided to explore producing. He optioned a couple of books, which were made as low budget films, including 1985 thriller The Empty Beach, starring Bryan Brown (marking Edwards' producing debut), and 1985 children's film I Own the Racecourse.
Following this, Edwards won a Creative Producers Support Scheme award from the AFC and was mentored through the industry. He landed a producer role on the 1986 miniseries Cyclone Tracy, which proved a ratings hit. Off the back of its success, he produced the 1988 ABC series Stringer, for which the soundtrack (featuring Kate Ceberano and Wendy Matthews) went double platinum.
Edwards then took over an ABC pilot which became the series Police Rescue, starring Gary Sweet, Steve Bastoni and Steve Bisley. This facilitated the beginning of his long-running relationship with Southern Star. He followed this with the Cody telemovie series (1994–1995) and drama series Big Sky (1997–1999), reuniting with Gary Sweet for both. He also produced the Golden Globe-nominated miniseries On The Beach (2000), starring Armand Assante, Rachel Ward and Bryan Brown.
Edwards next found success with critically-acclaimed drama series The Secret Life of Us, starring Claudia Karvan, Deborah Mailman and Samuel Johnson, which ran for four seasons from 2001 to 2004. Off the back of the success of Secret Life, Edwards and Karvan secured a development deal for a series which became Love My Way. After it was knocked back by Network 10, the pair took it to Foxtel. The series, starring Karvan, Asher Keddie, Dan Wyllie, Brendan Cowell and Ben Mendelsohn, garnered numerous awards, including six Logies and eight AFI Awards. It ran for three seasons, from 2004 to 2007.
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