Cloudstreet to be made for small screen

ABC news is reporting that Tim Winton's Cloudstreet is to be adapted for television. Tim Winton's novel won the Miles Franklin award in 1992 and shot on location in Western Australia. Culture and Arts Minister John Day confirmed yesterday that ScreenWest had secured the filming of Cloudstreet through its production attraction fund. Winton's modern Australian classic won the Miles Franklin award in 1992. The novel chronicles the story of two working class WA families thrown under the one roof in inner-suburban Perth from the 1940s to 1960s. It has already been staged as a theatre production. Showtime Australia commissioned and will mostly fund the television version of Cloudstreet. Pre-production is expected to begin in November. The six-hour series, once completed, will be screened on Foxtel and Austar.