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After a reckless lie sets off a catastrophic chain of events, Ali, the son of a Muslim cleric, finds himself caught between his sense of duty to his family and following his heart. An irreverent and warm-hearted comedy, ALI'S WEDDING is an affectionate and entertaining story of love and duty.
When 16-year-old Danny Kelly wins a scholarship to an elite boys school, it brings him one step closer to his dream - winning gold at the Olympics. Under the charge of respected Coach Frank Torma and friendship/rivalry with teammate Martin Taylor, Danny is soon on track to Australia's youngest swimming champion, the beloved 'Barracuda'. But with all of Australia watching can 'Barracuda' live up to their expectations and realize his dream?
When a police officer pursues a teenage suspect on to a busy train platform, a bystander is critically injured, and the lives of the pursued and pursuer are thrown into turmoil.
This presenter-led documentary will explore what role race plays in the world of dating, specifically in the online world, and asks - when looking for love, do racial preferences amount to racism, or is it the same as having a preference for, say, redheads? Date My Race will explore Australia's confronting racial patterns when it comes to online dating and race. We will have exclusive access to data from one of Australia's popular dating sites that will reveal our dating patterns. By using individual case studies and speaking with academics and experts, we will explore what these patterns say about us as a nation and our attitudes towards race.
After The Family Law's summer to remember, Jenny and Danny have amicably parted ways, and a wiser, more-mature Benjamin now understands that sometimes, parents just work better apart. Simple, right? Yeah ... no. In Season 2, Benjamin and the Laws are excited to explore fresh careers, fresh ambitions, even fresh romances. But as we all know, in the baking Queensland sun, nothing ever stays fresh for long …
In Series 3 of THE FAMILY LAW, the Laws confronts new realities about growing up - navigating the world of adult romance; defining what it means to become a man - with hilarity and horror in equal measure.
The series centres on the inner-city neighbourhood of Arcadia Heights, exploring the relationships between the residents of the Arcadia social housing tower and the people who live in the rapidly gentrifying community that surrounds it.
The Heights is a 'slice of life' serialised drama that explores the relationships, work lives and everyday challenges faced by six families living in an inner-city social housing tower and the leafy surrounding streets of Arcadia Heights.
When a powerful amulet is broken on the eve of the Hungry Ghost Festival in Melbourne, a vengeful spirit is unleashed, bringing the dead with him. As they wreak havoc across the Vietnamese Australian community, reclaiming lost loves and repaying old grudges, a young woman who's never taken responsibility for who she could be, must finally step up and accept her destiny.
When his best mate is killed in a seemingly random attack, Detective Gary Hyde (Matt Nable) vows to bring the killers to justice. Together with his new partner Claire McKenzie (Emma Hamilton), Gary uncovers a criminal underbelly of murder, identity fraud, chaos and intrigue where no-one is safe and no-one can be trusted. In a world where crime has no borders and everyone has something to hide, Gary and Claire risk it all to catch the criminals but will they lose their loved ones in the process?
A Chicago criminal screws up the heist of his life and is forced to hide out in a reef town in Far North Queensland posing as the new church Reverend.
MUSTANGS FC is a comedy drama about a soccer team. It's for girls who are over cheering from the sidelines, who are ready to break free from the crowd and start kicking goals. This is the show for girls with balls.
MUSTANGS FC is a goal kicking comedy drama about girls who are abandoning the sidelines and starting their local football club's first all female team. Against the odds, they'll stand united and overcome any challenge the club, the boys or the opposition can throw at them, all while wrestling with what it means to be a girl today. As well as playing great soccer, this girl squad have got to work out how to be a friend. A sister. A daughter. A girlfriend. And how all that may be hard or sad or ridiculously crazy or laugh out loud funny. But when you've got your team mates behind you, there's no better feeling than playing like a girl.
The Mustangs are back to kick it like girls again. But now they've got to field a team WITHOUT super striker, Ruby. Can they even win without her? And will Marnie ever lift the league cup for reals?
The merger is on like Donkey Kong but how can the Mustangs stand united, in a team that now includes the Wildcats? And how are they going to kick goals in the A league when they've also got to handle the complicated business of friendships and feminism? Strap on your shinpads, Mustangs fans, it's about to go off.
The Nowhere Boys have defeated the Mega-Demon, but now discover a more powerful force of chaos has been unleashed, and the Gang's unity is challenged as the future of the entire multiverse hangs in the balance.
On the verge of separating, the Nowhere Boys are drawn together for one last spell when Felix finds a magically sealed Book of Shadows. In performing the spell, the boys unwittingly release Tegan, a powerful teenage chaos force with a score to settle. Tegan's appetite for revenge causes a string of catastrophic battles and as the link between their world and Negative Space grows more tenuous, the godlike child Bear, guardian of the multiverse, unleashes the full wrath of the Restoring Demon. The Nowhere Boys find themselves reluctantly drawn into an epic showdown where they discover that to save the lives of their loved ones and return stability to their world, they must make the ultimate sacrifice… themselves.
When Luke, a tech-nerd, arrives for his first day at Bremin High all appears to be tiresomely ordinary, but what he doesn't know is that Bremin is located at the convergence of magical ley lines and that someone has been awaiting his arrival to put together a new gang of Nowhere Boys. Three have already been identified: Heath, the school's 'bad boy', is Fire; high achiever and track athlete Niyanta is Earth; and musical theatre geek Jesse is Air. Unbeknown to him Luke is the fourth element -Water. Coinciding with Luke's arrival, people start disappearing, until one morning Luke, Heath, Niyanta and Jesse - discover they are the last four people in the universe, and they have been thrust together into a terrifying empty wasteland.
The story begins when a group of five friends embark on a yacht trip from Brisbane to Indonesia, a chance for adventure and to enjoy a holiday at the same time. The group is just a day's sail from their destination when something appears on the horizon. Another boat. The group come to the aid of a broken-down asylum seekers' boat, leading to a tragic series of events that return to haunt them five years later.
Amidst rising tension between China and America, senior political journalist, Harriet Dunkley, pursues a long-buried and exposing secret, leading to assassination attempts, suicide and murder. Beneath the placid façade of Canberra, she uncovers a 'secret city' of high-level Australians corrupted by the competing super-powers.
The six-part political thriller picks up just after Harriet Dunkley is released from prison after serving a two-year sentence for writing a story which broke the government's draconian Safer Australia rules.
A psychological mystery told from the shifting perspective of seven characters following a convoluted chain of events triggered when a child is taken and relationships are thrown into crisis.
STATELESS is an urgent and compelling drama about four people caught up in an immigration system that profoundly affects their lives. Each character deals with the contradictions of protection and border control from a unique perspective, offering relevant and timely insight into issues that countries are grappling with around the world.
Based on the stage play of the same name, Lally Katz, playwright, bares her soul in this part-confessional, part-stand up routine, part-travel documentary and part-romance story. A disarmingly honest journey through one woman's life, STORIES I WANT TO TELL YOU IN PERSON has everything - psychics, cowboys, curses, karaoke, crazy next-door-neighbours, Jewish boyfriends, bears, dolphins, magic and love. A surprising and heart-warming story of someone trying to have it all - at once - Lally Katz allows us to briefly peek inside her magical and astounding world.
TURN UP THE VOLUME is a live action drama series about a group of young female and gender non conforming teenagers attending a weekly music camp, who decide to form a band. Disconnected, disaffected and desperately looking for their tribe, these teenagers from all walks of life find that, via the transformative, uplifting power of music and friendship, they can unite together to define themselves on their own terms.
WANTED is a thrilling new drama series created by and starring Rebecca Gibney as you've never seen her before. At a breakneck pace, it follows two women falsely accused of murder, on the run across Australia in a car filled with stolen money. But at its heart, this is a show about second chances and learning to stand up and take control.
Lola Buckley and Chelsea Babbage return home in pursuit of their own brand of justice and freedom when they are forced to cross a line that means this time, there is no going back. In a bold new adventure, the series sees Lola and Chelsea embark on a breathtaking journey through the burning red centre of Australia. WANTED 3 is a story about identity that proves we can only truly live when we embrace who we were born to be. So the world thinks they're bad? They ain't seen nothing yet…
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