Andrew Knight (Writing)
Little is known about Andrew Knight, a figure with a modest footprint in Writing. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
The Artful Dodger
It's a tale of reinvention, betrayal, redemption, and love with a twist. Jack Dawkins is The Artful Dodger, whose pickpocketing fingers have become the skilled hands of a surgeon. He is torn between an impossible love and the criminal underworld he secretly craves. This will require Artfulness.
Release Date:2023-11-29
Department:Production
Job:Co-Executive Producer
Episode Count:8
Vote Count:147
Bay of Fires
Stella is unexpectedly dropped into a small community with her children. It is the kind of place that's rife with simmering feuds, crime and sometimes, murder.
Release Date:2023-07-16
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Episode Count:8
Vote Count:6
Ride Like a Girl
The story of Michelle Payne, the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup.
Release Date:2019-09-26
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:148
Ali's Wedding
After a "white lie" which spirals out of control, a neurotic, naive and musically gifted Muslim cleric's eldest son must follow through with an arranged marriage, except he is madly in love with an Australian born-Lebanese girl.
Release Date:2017-08-31
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:72
Hacksaw Ridge
WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Release Date:2016-10-07
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:13931
The Kettering Incident
Anna Macy left Kettering when she was just 14, shortly after her best friend, Gillian Baxter mysteriously disappeared. The two girls had been playing in the forbidden forests outside Kettering when they saw strange lights in the sky. Eight hours later, Anna was found alone, terrified and covered in blood. 15 years on, Anna returns to find the town struggling to survive. The forests have been marked for logging and the community is being torn apart by passionate but violent clashes between environmentalists and the local loggers.
Release Date:2016-07-04
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:8
Vote Count:45
Jack Irish
Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as a part-time investigator, debt collector, apprentice cabinet maker, punter and sometime lover – the complete man really. An expert in finding those who don’t want to be found – dead or alive, Jack helps out his mates while avoiding the past. That is until the past finds him.
Release Date:2016-02-11
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:6
Vote Count:29
The Water Diviner
In 1919, Australian farmer Joshua Connor travels to Turkey to discover the fate of his three sons, reported missing in action. Holding on to hope, Joshua must travel across the war-torn landscape to find the truth and his own peace.
Release Date:2014-12-25
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1242
William Kelly's War
When WW1 breaks out, farm boys, Billy (Josh Davis) and Jack Kelly (Mathew John Davis), along with their cousin, Paddy (Lachie Hume), sign up, and are shipped out to serve in Europe. With Billy a dead-eye shot with a rifle, the boys are soon set up as a sniper team, mowing down Germans and Turks like nobody’s business. They become heroes, but back home, the family farm is being circled by a gang of cattle thieves, meaning that even when the war ends, the blood is set to keep flowing.
Release Date:2014-10-30
Department:Editing
Job:Editor
Character:ANZAC Prisoner
Vote Count:11
The Agony of the Mind
Our Agony Aunts and Uncles are back, and this time around they're sharing their mental wellness tips and techniques for overcoming stress and challenges.
Release Date:2014-10-09
Character:Self
Jack Irish: Dead Point
Jack Irish is thrown into a world of club owners, drug dealers and killers when he is hired by a judge to find a mysterious red book.
Release Date:2014-04-13
Department:Writing
Job:Script Editor
Vote Count:31
The Broken Shore
An evocative crime thriller that captures the chilling action and sharp wit of Peter Temple's acclaimed novel The Broken Shore. In this gripping adaptation, Detective Joe Cashin uncovers a web of lies, betrayal and police corruption in a small coastal town where tensions are at boiling point and the shocking face behind the community's respectable mask is slowly unveiled.
Release Date:2013-10-15
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:13
Jack Irish: Black Tide
Jack Irish has no shortage of friends, but family members are few and far between. His wife was murdered by an ex-client and his father is a fading photo on the pubs football wall of fame. So when Des Connors, the last link to his dad, calls to ask for help in the matter of a missing son, Jack is more than happy to lend a hand. But sometimes prodigal sons go missing for a reason... As Jack begins to dig, he discovers that Gary Connors was a man with something to hide, and his friends are people with yet darker and even more deadly secrets.
Release Date:2012-10-24
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Vote Count:36
Jack Irish: Bad Debts
Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as a part-time investigator, debt collector, apprentice cabinet maker, punter and sometime lover - the complete man really. Jack is an expert in finding those who don't want to be found - dead or alive. He helps out his mates while avoiding the past. That is until the past finds him.
Release Date:2012-10-14
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:51
Agony Uncles
Welcome to Agony Uncles - where some of Australia's funniest and wisest celebrity gents put their reputations on the line to tell you what it's really like to be single, cohabitate, marry, divorce and then be single again in the 21st century. Agony Uncles charts the do's and don'ts of picking-up, falling in love, getting your heart broken and losing a house.
Release Date:2012-03-21
Character:Self
Episode Count:6
Lowdown
Lowdown shines a torch on the life of a man whose job it is to feed the public's insatiable appetite for celebrity gossip. Alex Burchill, the author of the Lowdown column which appears in the once great but now ailing tabloid newspaper – the Sunday Sun. Each week Alex interviews celebrities for his column, and each week at least one of those celebrities ruins his week. Sometimes the celebrity gets drunk and punches Alex out. Sometimes the celebrity gets him arrested. Usually the celebrity sleeps with his girlfriend, Rita. It may not sound like much of a life, but it invariably leads to great copy and the readers love it. In fact, it's the only thing standing between the Sunday Sun and oblivion.
Release Date:2010-04-21
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Episode Count:8
Vote Count:3
Tripping Over
Tripping Over is a British/Australian six-part drama series. Its first episode aired on Network Ten in Australia on 25 October 2006, and in the United Kingdom on Five on 30 October 2006. In the UK Tripping Over is repeated on Five Life. The show is about three friends in London and two friends in Sydney, neither group knows each other but their parents do. They both take flights to each other's countries, and the two groups meet at the stop-over in Bangkok, where a tragic event changes their lives. The series then follows the two groups of friends as they continue on their trips to each other's countries and back home. The programme focuses on the major life changes that occur during the mid-twenties, and how choices made here can affect a person's life for many years to come.
Release Date:2006-10-25
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:6
CrashBurn
CrashBurn was an Australian 13-part drama series airing on Network Ten, about surviving long-term relationships in an age where multiple partners and multiple orgasms are considered a birthright. It starred Catherine McClements and Aaron Blabey as Rosie and Ben Harfield, a couple whose marriage troubles send them to a counsellor. Most of the episodes are shown in two parts: half 'He says' and half 'She says'. Most of the episodes used flashbacks to an earlier part of their relationship when the trouble started. Also appearing is the couple, Candice and Richard, who are also seeking counselling and run into Rosie and Ben's lives. There are numerous problems arising in the course of the series, not least Ben's affair with Rosie's best friend, Abby. Although the series was not a huge hit, it was noted for its fine performances.
Release Date:2003-08-18
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:13
After the Deluge
Follows the stories of the four men of the Kirby family. As Alex's marriage breaks apart, Toby tries desperately to start a family, and Marty tries to kick-start his faded music career as well as find a meaningful relationship with someone his own age, all three must come to terms with their father's mental state. Cliff, suffering from Alzheimer's disease, is reliving his disturbing memories of the war and his first love, as a part of his experiences of the present . Through all four stories, we uncover a families troubled past, and their struggle towards a reconciled future.
Release Date:2003-06-15
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
After the Deluge
Follows the stories of the four men of the Kirby family. As Alex's marriage breaks apart, Toby tries desperately to start a family, and Marty tries to kick-start his faded music career as well as find a meaningful relationship with someone his own age, all three must come to terms with their father's mental state. Cliff, suffering from Alzheimer's disease, is reliving his disturbing memories of the war and his first love, as a part of his experiences of the present . Through all four stories, we uncover a families troubled past, and their struggle towards a reconciled future.
Release Date:2003-06-15
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:3
Siam Sunset
A British design executive, who seemingly has everything going for him has his life totally changed when a refrigerator falls from an aircraft and lands on his wife...
Release Date:1999-09-09
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:12
Mumbo Jumbo
A journalist finds he can see ghosts after being struck by lightning.
Release Date:1999-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Dead Letter Office
After years of having her letters to her estranged father come back as undeliverable, a young woman takes a job at a Dead Letter Office. She hopes to figure out how to locate her father. Unexpectedly, she finds a potential romance and begins to learn more about herself.
Release Date:1998-08-20
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Vote Count:7
SeaChange
SeaChange is a popular Australian television show that ran for 39 episodes from 1998 to 2000 on the ABC. It was created by Andrew Knight and Deborah Cox and starred Sigrid Thornton, David Wenham, William McInnes, John Howard, Tom Long and Kerry Armstrong. The director was Michael Carson. Filming was based at Barwon Heads, Victoria and St Leonards, Victoria, both locations being on the Bellarine Peninsula. A number of streets in the St Leonards Sea Change Estate have since been named to acknowledge some of the characters of the series. Many scenes were also filmed in Williamstown, including the exterior of the Williamstown Life Saving Club, which became the court house of Pearl Bay.
Release Date:1998-05-10
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:16
Vote Count:4
The Sound of One Hand Clapping
Tasmania, 1954: Slovenian migrant Melita abandons her husband and young daughter, Sonja. Sonja's distraught father perseveres with his new life in a new country, but he is soon crushed into an alcoholic despair, and Sonja herself abandons him at the earliest opportunity. Now, nearly 20 years later, a single and pregnant Sonja returns to Tasmania's highlands and to her father in an attempt to put the pieces of her life back together.
Release Date:1998-04-22
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Vote Count:4
Kangaroo Palace
The story of four young Australians trying their luck in 1960s London.
Release Date:1997-05-25
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Kangaroo Palace
The story of four young Australians trying their luck in 1960's London.
Release Date:1997-05-25
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:2
Spotswood
Wallace is an efficiency expert, managing the high-profile downsizing of a major auto parts factory. But when he is hired to evaluate a small moccasin factory which seems from another era, Wallace has to reconsider the rapid modernization he advocates, as he is confronted by the human faces such plans hurt.
Release Date:1992-01-23
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:33
Rikky and Pete
Rikky and her brother Pete struggle to keep their lives from spinning out of control in small town Australia.
Release Date:1988-06-09
Department:Writing
Job:Script Consultant
Vote Count:6