Experience

Easy Tiger Productions

• Entertainment Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Executive Officer

  • Sep 2017 - Present

  In Sept 2017 the drama division of Essential Media was sold to Fremantle Media to form a new drama company Easy Tiger Productions Pty Ltd. More info www.easytiger.tv In Sept 2017 the drama division of Essential Media was sold to Fremantle Media to form a new drama company Easy Tiger Productions Pty Ltd. More info www.easytiger.tv



Essential Media

• Newspaper Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Producer

  • Jul 2007 - Sep 2017

  Essential Media & Entertainment ( as at Oct 2010) Ian Collie is a partner at Essential Media & Entertainment, one of Australia's best known television production companies. Ian is a highly experienced drama and factual television producer. Ian is the series producer of Rake the drama series starring Richard Roxburgh, Rachel Griffiths, Hugo Weaving, Sam Neill, Lisa McCune and others which went to air on ABC TV in 2010. He is currently developing Rake 2 with collaborators Peter Duncan, Richard Roxburgh and Andrew Knight. His crime series JACK IRISH based on the books by Peter Temple is scheduled to be filmed from September 2011. Ian is currently producing On Trial a five part documentary series filming criminal trials in both the NSW District and WA Supreme Courts, including the first time cameras have been granted access to film a murder trial, which goes to air on ABC from 2 June 2011. He is also executive producing the colonial history series Australia on Trial, a co production with December Films in Victoria. In 2010 Ian series produced the cross platform social history project The Making of Modern Australia for the ABC with a tie in online site www.makingaustralia.com.au and book by William McInnes. His other credits include the telemovies Stepfather of the Bride and Hell Has Harbour Views, and various drama docs and documentaries including Whatever! The Science of Teenagers, Rogue Nation, The Catalpa Rescue, A Case for the Coroner, Art House, The Shadow of Mary Poppins, and The Original Mermaid.