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Eddie McGuire plans move into TV drama

Presenter, producer, sports commentator and the face of Nine and Foxtel’s 2012 Olympic coverage, Eddie McGuire, plans to produce drama for Australian television with his production company McGuire Media.

McGuire told Encore: “We want to move into drama for television. We’ve been involved a bit over the years but want to move more into it now.”

McGuire Media currently produces a number of shows for Foxtel’s sports channels and McGuire was personally involved in the commissioning of the first series of Underbelly during his time as CEO of the Nine Network.

“In the last five or six years, drama on television has really come of age or had a second golden era since the ’70s and ’80s. I’ve been mainly involved in sport, news and live television and hopefully with our connections and contacts, and some acumen, we might be able to do some good work with drama,” he said.

  • Read the full interview with McGuire in the March issue of Encore magazine. To subscribe click here.
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