Australian 22 part comedy series ‘The Great Crusade’ receives International Digital Emmy Nomination for Finch and Wonder Australia
Finch and Wonder Australia’s 22 part comedy series The Great Crusade has been nominated for an International Digital Emmy®, to be awarded April 1st at the MIPTV Festival in Cannes.
The series was created by Glen Condie and Gregor Jordan who share the writers’ credits with show runners Nathan Earl and Phil Lloyd.
Starring Australian comedian Phil Lloyd and sponsored by Qantas and Tourism New Zealand, The Great Crusade is a digital interactive Rugby World Cup Fan tour, following the Australian Wallabies on their quest for the 2011 World Cup.
The tour is led by fictional fan Toby Withers, a former squash champion and sports journalist for Highly Strung Magazine, as his publication for ‘non-tennis racquet sports’ is set on broadening its horizons into rugby and television in time for New Zealand’s Rugby World Cup.
The Great Crusade is one of four nominees in the Digital Program: Fiction section.
The series pioneered new technology with its broadcast delivery system. Finch developed a discrete compression and file transfer system using an array of 3G modems in order to broadcast daily episodes from remote parts of New Zealand where satellite and swish access are not readily available.
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What Emmy’s are these? It’s not part of the Prime time or Daytime awards in La, which are the US ones. Is it a fringe award? Not even part of the International Emmy Group ( you’re not picked but submit an application), which are presented in New York. Just curious as to which award this is? Good on them for winning something.
what a joke!!!