SCRIPTEDHIGHLIGHTS

THE WARRIORSA landmark drama series with heart and humour

THE SECRET RIVERThe compelling story recently adapted for the London theatre

PULSEGame of Thrones star Owen Teale delivers a standout performance

THE SECRET RIVERThe award-winning epic adapted from Kate Grenville’s acclaimed novel

The Secret River is a compelling television mini-series based on Kate Grenville’s Man Booker Prize nominated novel of the same name.

Features a stellar international cast including AACTA Award-winner Sarah Snook (Succession, Steve Jobs), Oliver Jackson-Cohen (Emerald City, Mr Selfridge), Tim Minchin (Californication), a screenplay from two of Australia’s most talented and internationally successful screenwriters, Jan Sardi (Oscar® nominated for Shine) and Mac Gudgeon (Killing Time), and direction by Daina Reid (The Handmaid’s Tale).

Through the deeply personal story of early convict colonists William Thornhill and his wife Sal, The Secret River raises the question of when two worlds collide, who is wrong and who is right?

PULSESARAH SNOOKSTARRING

OF TOTAL CONTROLFROM THE CREATORS

OWEN TEALESTANDS OUT

BACK IN VERY SMALL BUSINESSA brilliant new workplace comedy

Rising international star Liv Hewson (Santa Clarita Diet) and comedian Aaron Chen feature alongside a stellar cast including Wayne Hope, Kim Gyngell (Top of the Lake), Robyn Nevin (Rake) and Molly Daniels (Tomorrow, When The War Began), in this this smart and touching comedy from the multi award-winning creative team behind celebrated Australian comedies Upper Middle Bogan and Little Lunch (Robyn Butler and Wayne Hope).

Outrageously funny, Back in Very Small Business tells the story of a shady businessman who discovers that human connection might be the key to happiness after all.

F*!#ING ADELAIDEAward-winning F*!#ing Adelaide is a darkly comedic look at the theatrical, obsessive, self-centred, delightful people who make up the Wallace-Donaldson family – and the city they call home. Featuring an outstanding cast, including Tilda Cobham-Hervey (I Am Woman, The Kettering Incident).

THE WARRIORS

The compelling medical drama based on a true story

Starring an outstanding internationally-renowned cast including Owen Teale (Game of Thrones) and Claire van der Boom (Hawaii Five-0), Pulse was the #1 premier new drama on Australian TV.

When successful highflier Frankie (van der Boom) is brought crashing down to earth by chronic kidney failure, she targets a different future.

Eight years on, she’s in her second year as a practising doctor, inspired by Berger (Teale) – the man who saved her life. Driven to use her second chance to save others, Frankie is forced to confront an ailing healthcare system and faces her toughest challenge yet – learning to let go.

The only shot you get...is the one you take

Authentic, funny and poignant, this landmark drama series follows the once great Warriors Football Club, which pins its hopes and dwindling reputation on three untested rookies and a jaded star. Maki, Zane and Scottie are the three Aussie Rules Football recruits who have been selected for the train on squad for the worst team in the league. Doc is the troubled team captain who is forced to live with them in a share house as punishment for his latest scandal.

With the fortunes of the club hanging precariously in the balance, the coach announces that only twenty-two players will make team for the first game of the year. Can the boys learn to live with each other and overcome their personal obstacles to survive the pre-season, and make the final team?

REDFERN NOWFeaturing a stellar cast including the multi award-winning Deborah Mailman (Total Control aka Black Bitch, Mystery Road), Redfern Now brings together some of Australia’s most outstanding creatives, including Darren Dale (First Contact, Deep Water), Miranda Dear (Rake), Rachel Perkins (Mystery Road, Jasper Jones) and Wayne Blair (Cleverman, The Sapphires).

A unique collaboration with Emmy and BAFTA Award-winner Jimmy McGovern (The Street, Cracker, The Lakes) and celebrated by audiences and critics alike, Redfern Now explores powerful stories of contemporary inner-city Indigenous life, told by the people who live it.

The sexy legal drama from the makers of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries

Witty and fast-paced, the fresh drama from the award-winning creatives behind Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries explores a variety of legal issues and challenges with warmth and heart, encompassing a diverse ensemble cast of compelling characters. Josephine Newton (the award-winning Claudia Karvan) is a modest suburban solicitor with an overdeveloped sense of responsibility.

Smart, sassy and unapologetically obligated to do the right thing, she’s forced to make a return to her briefly glorious stint at the Bar after her small solicitor’s practice goes up in smoke at the hands of a disgruntled client.

NEWTON’SLAW

HD 2 x 85’ | Ruby Entertainment

HD 4 x 60’ or 8 x 30’ | Arenamedia

Series 1 & 2: HD 12 x 60’ & 1 x 90’ | Blackfella Films

HD 8 x 60’ | Clandestine Beyond

HD 6 x 15’Closer Productions

HD 8 x 60’ | Every Cloud Productions

HD 8 x 30’ | Gristmill Productions

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BLACK COMEDYThe irreverent sketch comedy that goes where no other series can go!

Black Comedy is a fast paced, funny, entertaining, silly and sometimes serious look at Australia and Australian culture through the comedic prism of our first people.

Acerbic, witty and altogether unapologetic, the show explores what it means to be black in contemporary Australia – and in doing so carves up sacred cows, dismantles stereotypes, and turns our modern culture inside out.

Comprising observational and physical sketches, historical pieces and parodies of TV, film and commercials, each episode of Black Comedy is held together by a longer sketch that gives the episode a sense of cohesion and narrative drive. Irreverent, provocative and just a little bit wrong, this award-winning sketch series ‘goes blackly where no other Blackfella has gone before’.

Written by and starring some of the funniest and most talented Indigenous performers in the country, including Nakkiah Lui, Adam Briggs, David Woodhead, Dave Human, Gabriel Willie, Nayuka Gorrie, Aaron Fa’Aoso, Elizabeth Wymarra, Rarriwuy Hick and Wayne Blair. Black Comedy Series 3 also features an impressive guest line-up, including Mia Wasikowska, Matt Day, Leah Purcell, footballer Adam Goodes, Jack Charles, Christine Anu, Elaine Crombie and many more.

WINNING

BOGAN

INTERNATIONALSTUDENT

RONNY CHIENG:

UPPER MIDDLE

The breakout comedy from The Daily Show’s Ronny Chieng

Starring Ronny Chieng (Crazy Rich Asians) – superstar comedian and Senior Correspondent on the Emmy Award winning US series The Daily Show – this hilarious series broaches the cultural divide with a comedic panache bordering on genius.

Winner of the Broadcast Digital Awards: Best Programme Acquisition for BBC Three, Ronny Chieng: International Student is the real life story of Ronny’s experience as a Malaysian exchange student who comes to Australia to study law. From his first day on campus to the final exam of semester, Ronny and his unlikely ally, fellow first year law student Asher Angus (Molly Daniels, Tomorrow, When The War Began) share a feeling of being on the outside looking in…and seeing a bunch of idiots staring back.

Stars No Activity’s Patrick Brammall

The AACTA Award-winning Upper Middle Bogan is a smartly written and touching comedy series that explores the universal themes of identity, family and belonging. When Bess Denyar (Annie Maynard, Puberty Blues), a wealthy doctor, discovers she is adopted and comes from a family of drag racers in the outer suburbs, she becomes the ‘Upper Middle Bogan’, forever caught in the middle of two tribes. Over three warm and deeply funny seasons, Bess struggles to manage her two families living with varying levels of success. As the Brights and the Wheelers each face new challenges, Bess’ dream of life as one big happy family seems almost impossible…but only almost.

Series 1-3: HD 18 x 30’ | Scarlett Pictures

HD 7 x 30’ I Sticky Pictures

Series 1-3: HD 24 x 30’ I Gristmill Productions

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