Michael Lucas, who co-created Network 10's 'Five Bedrooms' with Christine Bartlett, reached out to emerging writer Xavier Coy last year after reading Coy's play 'Not Even God Can Save Us'.
BBC One has acquired both series of Hoodlum Entertainment/Network 10's Five Bedrooms from NBCUniversal Global Distribution.
NBC's US streaming service Peacock has bought Hoodlum Entertainment's 'Five Bedrooms' just as production of the second series of the relationships dramedy gets underway for Network 10.
After years of creating fictional characters in such series as 'House Husbands', 'Offspring', 'The Wrong Girl' and 'Playing for Keeps', Christine Bartlett allowed herself the freedom to do something unprecedented in 'Five Bedrooms'.
Director Peter Templeman rates Michael Lucas and Christine Bartlett as Australia’s pre-eminent creators of TV comedy-dramas.
The Australian obsession with housing prices and affordability is the inspiration behind 'Five Bedrooms', Hoodlum Entertainment’s drama which started shooting in Melbourne yesterday.