La Trobe U’s Strategic Investment Fund has committed its first cash, $200 000 to fund a script doctor to develop a TV pilot. The source is university historian Clare Wright’s book, The forgotten rebels of Eureka. According to DVC R Keith Nugent this is a “strong signal about the world-class research coming from our College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce.”  CMM has no idea if returns on the investment from a TV series will meet the ARC definition of research commercialisation income.