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Mal.com

In 2010 the ABC, ScreenWest and the ACTF launched the “Westcoast Kids” initiative, inviting production companies in Western Australia to submit concepts for a sitcom pilot for ABC 3 to be produced in the ABC studios in Perth. Mal.com, created by Susie Campbell and Mark Shirreffs, was the successful concept and it went into production on 28^th of March 2011.

Susie Campbell is the Producer, David Swan is the series director, Kim Goldsworthy is the series script producer.

Geoff Paine plays Mal, a famous local TV presenter who is really a robot. Ruby Hall, Luke Ledger and Gwy McKenna play three street kids who discover the secret and move in with Mal to help the network present him to the world as a regular family man.

ACTF Chair, Janet Holmes a Court, visited the production with Jenny Buckland, CEO, and Bernadette O’Mahony, Head of Development and Production, in March.