Exclusive: Ron Creevey launching ‘Countdown’-style TV show with major network

Australian tech entrepreneur Ron Creevey is launching a weekly music television show in partnership with two major networks in Australia and the US.

TMN can exclusively reveal the show will be titled Live at The X Studio with the objective to feature artist interviews and two performances a week.

While the Australian and US television networks set to host the show are still to be officially announced, TMN understands the show will be broadcast live from Creevey’s multi-media venue The X Studio in Sydney’s Kings Cross and from the still-to-be-built The X Studio in Los Angeles.
 
TMN understands the show’s format will pay homage to the iconic ABC TV show Countdown, which ran from 1975 to 1987.
 
Live at The X Studio will run for 30 minutes with viewers given the option to stream the show on Creevey’s live streaming platform The X Cast afterward.
 
The show’s first screening sometime in 2017 will follow the launch of Creevey’s label Helipad Records. Launching in two weeks time, the label has non-exclusive contracts with over 80 artists who will regularly use The X Studios and The X Cast for release campaigns and to aggregate content.
 
According to the Helipad’s official website, its artists include the late Michael Hutchence, UK artists Hurricane #1 and Brydie Taylor and Adelaide singer-songwriter and producer Jozsef James.
 
Concurrently, Creevey and LA-based producer Danny Saber have plans to release the unheard music of Michael Hutchence next year and will make a documentary film to coincide with the 20th anniversary of Hutchence’s death. 
 
It’s expected that Heath Ledger’s production company The Masses, which Creevey is a major shareholder (47.5%) of, will work in partnership with the two US and Australian television networks on Live at The X Studio.