"Tassie-noir" 'Bay of Fires', co-created and produced by and starring Marta Dusseldorp, is set to premiere on the ABC July 16, 8.30pm.
Stella (Marta Dusseldorp) is unexpectedly dropped into a small community on the Tasmanian west coast with her children. But it’s not the kind of place they put on postcards – it is instead rife with simmering feuds, crime and sometimes, murder.
Created by Paddy Macrae, Matchbox Pictures/NBCUniversal International Studios’ 'Irreverent' follows criminal mediator Paulo Keegan (Colin Donnell) as he flees the United States after a mediation gone wrong and assumes the identity of Reverend Mackenzie “Mack” Boyd in Clump, a small, Australian beach town hundreds of miles away from civilisation and phone reception.
Disney+’s eight-part series 'The Artful Dodger' picks up 15 years after the events of Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist, with the famous prince of thieves – Dodger – now a surgeon in 1850s Australia who can’t shake his predilection for crime.
The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts will stage screenings of Strangerland, Glitch, Ruben Guthrie and Last Cab to Darwin in the next two months as it ramps up its events program for members.
The ABC has commissioned a fifth season of 'Rake', set to go into production in October.
Tasmania's west coast will once again welcome Archipelago Productions and Fremantle Australia for 'Bay of Fires', with the ABC renewing the drama for a second season.
While adaptations are popular in Hollywood, constantly taking huge box office dollars, they aren't so common in Australia