Meaghan Wilson Anastasios

Author of 'The Water Diviner,' now a film with Russell Crowe, and screenwriter of 'The Pacific with Sam Neill.'

Filming crew in an ornate classical ballroom with carved columns, gold drapes, and a large black monitor.

A screenwriter pulls back the curtain on what really happens when you pitch a TV show — the producers, the fairy dust, and the moment I thought it was all over.

So this is a little overwhelming. My baby is called WOKE UP, AUSTRALIA!. In a nutshell… Australia, we’ve got a problem. Cancel culture is tearing us apart. Battlelines have been drawn on social media, as shock jocks shout from the sidelines and Aussies choose their sides. What’s got into us? In the land of the …

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