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A soap opera writer, Dorothy Bloom, plans a quiet long weekend in Melbourne. However, work, family, friends and romance all conspire to foil her good intentions.
Contemporary police story centred on Sydney Harbour and its environs.
South Vietnam, August 1966. For three hours, in an endless torrent of pouring rain, amid the mud and shattered trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tan, Major Harry Smith and his dispersed company of 108 young Australian and New Zealand soldiers were fighting for their lives, holding off an overwhelming force of 2,500 NVA and VC soldiers. THE BATTLE OF LONG TAN is the true story of ordinary boys who became extraordinary men.
Life can be tough when you’re 21-years-old, and still a virgin. Just ask Tim. The girl of his dreams has just walked into his life, and things should be looking up, except a few small problems stand between him and the perfect romance: his mum, his dad and the family business… show business. Welcome to CLUBLAND. A family love story that will defy your expectations.
Fifteen-year-old Tara Webster has grown up on a farm in outback Australia and has dreamt of being a dancer ever since she was a little girl. When she makes it into the National Academy of Dance - the best school in the country - she is sure her life is about to be spectacular. What Tara doesn't realise is how far behind she is in her training, and that there's a whole lot more to surviving the Academy than just dancing.
Tara returns to the National Academy of Dance with the goal of representing Australia in the world's most prestigious ballet competition. But perhaps she should be more focused on just surviving Second Year where having climbed to the top in her first year at the Academy - in dance, in life, in love - she now has a very long way to fall.
Former cop Jack Darby and flinty English nurse Joan Kirkhope collide in the Australian outback and become entangled in a string of intriguing mysteries. Forming an unlikely investigative duo, they quickly realise the greatest mystery they face is each other.
After serving out his probation in rural Whyhope and saving the family farm, life is about to go totally, disastrously wrong for Hugh. And this time, his friends and family won't be making it any easier for him.
When the Knight family and the entire town of Whyhope are thrown into crisis, all eyes turn to Hugh to save them. Will Whyhope’s bad boy be their Messiah, or is this a recipe for an even bigger disaster?
Set in a small country town, FIREFLIES centres on the townspeople and its rural bushfire brigade. You can measure a township by the commitment of its people. Most of them are volunteers, from the fire brigade to the CWA. Whether you're new in town, or here for generations, when you're facing the driest, hottest summer in decades, it pays to belong.
Set in a small country town, FIREFLIES centres on the townspeople and its rural bushfire brigade. You can measure a township by the commitment of its people. Most of them are volunteers, from the fire brigade to the CWA. Whether you're new in town, or here for generations, when you're facing the driest hottest summer in decades, it pays to belong.
Medical drama series which explores the work of an inner-suburban working-class surgery and the lives of those people most involved with it.
Drama series detailing the comings and goings of an inner city medical practice. Centres on the personal and professional lives of four doctors and their nurse-receptionist.
Jane Halifax is a forensic psychiatrist whose speciality is the criminal mind.
Jane Halifax is a forensic psychiatrist whose specialty is the criminal mind.
Spotlights teenage life in modern Australia with the latest in music and current trends.
The story of Paul Hogan is that of almost accidental supernova of raw comedic talent exploding onto the entertainment scene of first Australia and then the world. How a married-at-eighteen blue-collar worker with five kids (and on to his fortieth job) went on talent contest New Faces as a dare from his work-mates and ended up completely wowing the audience and opening the door to completely unanticipated new life.
An irreverent and frequently riotous look at group-living in the '90s. Three young people with intellectual disabilities are forced to share their rented house with a bankrupt builder and his vitriolic daughter. A richly wayward comedy of foiled expectations ensues.
An irreverent and frequently riotous look at group-living in the 90s. Three young people with intellectual disabilities are forced to share their rented house with bankrupt builder and his vitriolic daughter. A richly wayward comedy of foiled expectations ensues.
An irreverent and frequently riotous look at group-living in the 90s. Three young people with intellectual disabilities are forced to share their rented house with a bankrupt builder and his vitriolic daughter. A richly wayward comedy of foiled expectations ensues.
HOUSE HUSBANDS is a comedy drama about four modern families with one thing in common – the men are in charge of raising the kids.
HOUSE HUSBANDS is a warm and funny drama about four families with one thing in common - the dads are raising the kids...and sometimes it’s the other way around. With their fabulously flawed wives and partners, the House Husbands navigate their way through the craziness of modern parenting, relationships, friendships and careers...and try to get their kids to school on time.
HOUSE HUSBANDS is a comedy drama about four modern families with one thing in common – the men are in charge of raising the kids. Our four lead men are completely different. So are their wives, partners and family arrangements. What bonds them are the challenges of their relationships, friendships and careers... and getting the kids to school on time.
Growing up is an even hairier business!
Lockie Leonard moves to the most remote town on earth - Anjelus. This is a TOTAL LIFE DISASTER: no friends, new school...but then Lockie spots the one thing that makes it all okay. This weird little town has the best surf he has ever seen. Based on the award-winning novels of Tim Winton.
Over five decades, she’s been the one that we want. The hugely popular Australian singer Olivia Newton-John is the subject of this moving drama about her brilliant career. The two-part series charts the astonishing personal life of Australia’s sweetheart. Aged just 15, Newton-John won a local tv talent contest which propelled her to London on her first recording contract. She went on to become her country’s most successful singer, selling an astounding 100 million albums internationally. She became loved the world over in the role of the innocent Sandy in the 1978 global smash-hit movie, Grease. She was a major part of one of the best-selling soundtracks in movie history. Then in 1992 the singer bravely announced that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. After her recovery, Newton-John become an inspiring advocate for further research into breast cancer and helped set up The Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness Centre in Melbourne. This highly affecting drama underscores that above all else Newton-John is not only a fighter and survivor, but a tireless campaigner who continues to give back and make a difference. By the end, viewers of this absorbing life-story will doubtless be “Hopelessly Devoted to Olivia”.
The ABC sequel will cover the 1990s Sydney-based rivalry of Dulcie Boling and Nene King, the women behind the popular magazines New Idea and Woman’s Day.
POLICE RESCUE depicts the exploits and daily life-and-death teamwork of the quiet heroes of the police force — the members of the Police Rescue Squad.
POLICE RESCUE depicts the exploits and daily life and death teamwork of the quiet heroes of the police force - the members of the Police Rescue Squad.
RUSH returns to Tactical Response - a squad of Police striving to be faster and tactically superior. Their aim is to get to the crisis first and respond with alternative, less lethal solutions. The third season is about what it is to be a family within the team. Brotherhood and sisterhood are challenged in action as TR continues pushing to do things better. We return to Melbourne with the characters from previous two series, Josh, Lawson, Michael, Dom, Stella, Shannan, Kerry and Leon.
RUSH SERIES 4, returns to Tactical Response - a squad of Police striving to be better, trained to respond to crisis. For the next thirteen part mini- series we open a bigger world. Kerry has been promoted to Deputy Commissioner and has TR at her beck and call. A larger story arc will straddle the self-contained, week by week stories; and the personal lives of our central characters is also revealed more deeply than in the first three series.
SAM FOX: EXTREME ADVENTURES is an action-packed adventure series about teenage ‘danger magnet’ Sam Fox as he braves the wilds from open ocean to deepest jungle, coming face to face with killer sharks, man-eating leopards, raging tornadoes, erupting volcanoes, deadly scorpions, giant anacondas and much, much more.
Gail, Cynthia, Julie and Kay are sexy, black, young and talented – and they’ve never set foot outside Australia. Until, in the chaos of 1968, they’re plucked from the obscurity of a remote Aboriginal mission, branded as Australia’s answer to The Supremes, and – grasping the chance of a lifetime – dropped into the jungles of Vietnam to entertain the troops. Inspired by the hit stage-play of the same name.
In her first major television role, ARIA and AACTA-winning singer, songwriter and actress, Jessica Mauboy, will star in THE SECRET DAUGHTER, a contemporary family drama produced by Screentime, a Banijay Group company, for the Seven Network.
In her first major television role, ARIA and AACTA-winning singer, songwriter and actress, Jessica Mauboy, will star in THE SECRET DAUGHTER, a contemporary family drama produced by Screentime, a Banijay Group company, for the Seven Network. In an original story developed specifically for her, Jessica will portray a part-time country pub singer whose chance meeting with a wealthy city hotelier triggers a series of events that will change her life forever. A feel-good drama which explores the very different Australian worlds of ‘the haves’ and ‘the have nots’, The Secret Daughter is full of heart, humour, romance and plenty of music. They say you can’t choose your family, but what happens when a family chooses you?
Seven telemovies, each one devoted to a deadly sin: greed; envy; sloth; wrath; pride; gluttony; and, of course, lust.
SLIDE is an exciting integrated multiplatform drama experience and tracks five teens as they smash their way into adulthood. When you’re 17, life can turn in 24 hours and for Bryan, Tammy, Luke, Linda and Eva this will be the transformative time of their lives. They’ve got 10 weeks, each other and a lift home from mum when they need it. SLIDE: survive your teenage years with a smile.
A series of three mystery telemovies about murder, motherhood and mayhem.
The first instalment of the SMALL CLAIMS telemovies where two overworked young mums, de-skilled beyond their worst nightmares, become a formidable pair of sleuths. Their cases are the murder, greed and dark passions that lurk behind the anonymous facade of the suburbs. Murder, motherhood, mayhem.
The second instalment of the SMALL CLAIMS telemovies finds Chrissy and Jo in the midst of organising a wedding. A mysterious death throws the wedding into chaos. Murder, motherhood, mayhem.
The third instalment of the SMALL CLAIMS telemovies finds Chrissy and Jo at Chrissy's university reunion. Surrounded by success, Chrissy begins to question her decision to stay at home with the kids. When a friend is found murdered, Chrissy and Jo are drawn to solve the mystery. Murder, motherhood, mayhem.
Jane Halifax is summoned to investigate a murder in a high security prison. Five suspects and an impenetrable wall of silence. When the director of the Unit disappears, Jane's task is to work out what is holding them together and break the code of silence before it's too late.
Set in a major crime squad in Sydney's south.
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