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ART HOUSE is a series that goes behind the closed doors of the Australian art auction world where we meet the dealers, artists, auctioneers and avid collectors that inhabit the complex and deceptive art scene. We see that the buying and selling of art has become a delicate melange of commerce and aesthetic sensibilities.
AUSTRALIAN ON TRIAL is a thought-provoking series that provides snapshots of colonial Australia through the prism of three pivotal and controversial criminal trials. At stake were not just the lives of the defendants, but the very identity of Australia. Combining courtroom drama with stylised flashbacks, the series provides a unique take on how Australia’s national identity evolved – and how the moral, social and political questions raised by these three trials still resonate in the present day. The three trials featured are The Eureka 13 Trial (1855), The Mount Rennie Rape Trial (1886) and The Myall Creek Massacre Trial (1838).
Soon after big-city detective Joe Cashin is posted to a quiet town on the Australian coast the whole community is thrown into unrest by the murder of a local philanthropist, a man with some very disturbing secrets.
The coroner is one of the oldest institutions in the law. The cases which come before them highlight the eternal mystery and human drama surrounding the many and varied ways in which we die. A CASE FOR THE CORONER is a ground-breaking new series which takes a behind the scenes look at the office of the New South Wales State Coroner covering five inquests conducted by coroner John Abernethy as well as the forensic nightmare created by the Bali bombings in October 2002.
THE CATALPA RESCUE is the extraordinary story of the daring rescue of six Irish rebels from a notoriously brutal penal colony in Fremantle, West Australia in 1876. It caused an international sensation at the time and has since become one of the most celebrated maritime incidents of all time. At the centre is an unlikely American hero – the quiet Quaker George Smith Anthony, who as captain of the Catalpa, risked his life to sail all the way across the world to bring the rebels back to freedom in the United States, amid scenes of wild public celebration.
We see how in the space of a few months a full scale production of entirely new dance material, live music and an elaborate set emerges from seemingly nothing. CHUNKY MOVES: JUST ADD WATER takes us behind the scenes of the innovative Australian dance company Chunky Move's new work 'Hydra'.
When Ashley and Gordon are brought together by a car accident and an injured dog, these two singles(ish), complex humans must learn to be brave enough to show their true selves, scars and all, to find real connection in an age where you can have someone at your door for meaningless sex faster than a Domino’s pizza.
In season two, Ash and Gordon have moved in together but there’s a big, Colin-shaped hole in their hearts as they try to get their beloved, special needs dog back from his new owners, and work out whether they want a relationship, or if they just wanted a dog.
DIY LAW is an observational series following a number of self-litigants on their journey through the labyrinthine judicial system. To go it alone on the legal frontier is not for the faint hearted. But with the increasing cost of professional help and with cutbacks to legal aid, more and more people have no choice but to represent themselves. They are taking the law into their own hands - Do It Yourself Law.
When he is knocked off his pedestal and on to the Impaired Registrants Program, prodigal Sydney surgeon and party boy Hugh Knight must return to his family home in rural Whyhope where he might learn to swallow his pride and mend his ways – or not.
Hugh Knight is a rising star in the Sydney heart surgery ranks. Gifted, charming, infallible, and a hedonist, his ‘work hard, play harder’ philosophy is about to come back and bite him. Hard. Hauled before the Medical Board and banned from major surgery until he cleans his act up, Hugh returns to the family home in the country town of Whyhope to work under supervision at the local GP clinic. DOCTOR DOCTOR is a 10 part television comedy drama for the Nine Network to be produced by Essential Media & Entertainment.
Hugh is determined to live out his probation in peace. However there is no peace in Whyhope. Relationships will be tested; with an election scandal, a kidney transplant and a wedding on the horizon. The dysfunctional Knight family faces a tough decision: will their struggles bring them closer together or tear them apart?
The clock has run out on Hugh's probation leaving him free to return to Sydney, but when tragedy strikes the Knight family, he's going to find it harder to abandon Whyhope than ever.
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?
Aspiring USBJ's Dom and Adrian, are forced to redefine themselves creatively and philosophically if they're to survive 2020.
DUST TO DUST goes behind-the-scenes of the death industry for an unflinching look at the secret business of preparing the dead for burial. There are larger than life characters and stories to make your hair curl.
Newly-weds Sridevi and Yash are married in India in 2023, then must spend four years apart as Yash moves to Australia to pursue his medical career. In 2027, Sridevi moves to join him, but a lot has happened in those intervening years. Can they rekindle the love they once had? 2027. After four years apart, Sridevi is finally able to join Yash in Australia. They carry with them expectations of a fantasy reunion facilitated by hundreds of phone calls, Zooms, voice memos, sexy photos, crackling with tension. A lot has happened in those intervening years – and they’ll uncover a web of lies and false promises both sides have made. FOUR YEARS is an honest story of intimacy, affection, migration, power-dynamics and dream fulfilment.
A comedy drama about a young lawyer who finds his conscience in a most unlikely place - a law firm.
Examining a case of homegrown terrorism, domestic violence and the upsurge of conservative men’s rights groups in response to the progressive Family Courts, this powerful and engaging new series exposes a chapter of Australian life that has frightening relevance today. Why did this saga happen in the first place? Who was responsible? Why did it take so long to solve? And ultimately how did justice prevail? The four-part series exposes a shocking chapter of Australian social history through the eyes and experiences of those that lived it. A trove of repurposed archive together with dramatic storytelling in a ‘triple helix’ of perspectives allows us to access the policing, judiciary and socio-political contexts of the time.
Jack's back in this six-part thriller which takes us from the cultural atoll of Fitzroy to the bustling city of Manila, where Jack's on-again-off-again lover Linda Hillier (Marta Dusseldorp) has landed a job as a foreign correspondent. In the wake of Linda's departure, Jack is engaged to track down a missing man, Wayne Dilthey (Dan Hamill), but the investigation goes pear-shaped when his quarry is killed before his eyes. The client becomes an enigma and the job is revealed to be an elaborate set up - one that now has Jack prime suspect for murder.
Jack stumbles into the world of manipulative pharmaceutical companies, corrupt educational institutions aimed at international students and fatal clinical trials. The apparent suicide of a foreign student triggers a chain of events that will see Jack risking his life to uncover the truth.
The long-suppressed trauma of Isabel Irish’s brutal and random murder by Jack’s former client Wayne Milovich – which launched the first Jack Irish instalment, Bad Debts – rears its ugly head when Jack discovers there was more to those fateful events all those years ago. Namely, a criminal conspiracy involving his trusted friend, homicide detective Barry Tregear.
Melbourne in winter. Rain. Wind. Pubs. Beer. Sex. Corruption. Murder. A phone message from ex-client Danny McKillop doesn’t ring any bells for Jack Irish. Life is hard enough without having to dredge up old problems: his beloved football team has moved interstate, the odds on his latest plunge at the track seem far too long and he’s still cooking for one. But then Danny turns up dead and Jack has to take a walk back into a dark and dangerous past.
Jack Irish has no shortage of friends. Jockeys and journos, lawyers and standover men, people in nameless occupations who aren’t in the phone book. But family members are in short supply. His wife was tragically murdered by an ex-client and his father is a fading photo on the pub’s football wall of fame. So when Des Connors, the last link to his father, calls to ask for help in the matter of a missing son, Jack is happy to lend a hand. But sometimes prodigal sons go missing for a reason. As Jack begins to dig, he discovers that Gary Connors was a man with something to hide. And his friends are people with darker and more deadly secrets.
Jack Irish is a part-time lawyer, mug punter and finder of people who’d rather remain lost. When a high profile Judge, Justice Loder commissions him to locate a mysterious red book, Jack is thrown into a world of sexy club owners, dodgy drug dealers, blackmailers, and unhinged killers. Anyone who touches the red book turns up dead. Jack should follow his instinct and back away – if only the judge wasn’t family. Instead he finds himself chasing the red book in a dangerous race to a remote coastal property with an ominous name: Dead Point.
For half a century Johnny Warren was synonymous with soccer in Australia. His often lonely mission to bring the beautiful game into the mainstream of Australian life eventually made him one of the great characters of our sporting culture.
Lindy Chamberlain’s story has figured in Australia’s collective conscious since 1980, when a wild dog took her defenseless baby in a random horrific attack. But it quickly became much more than that. The intrigue of the mostly unknown and untamed outback, of parents – particularly mothers - not behaving to conventional expectations; ruthless media, self-serving politicians and cowboy police, and the “trial of the century” all combine to make this a universal story that still resonates today.
More than one million Australians play football, with the numbers currently soaring given the recent success in the World Cup. Women's football is the fastest growing sport in the world. The women's national team, the Matildas, have qualified for the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup to be held in China in September. From the practice games in Australia to the World Cup games in China we will discover the personal stories, expectations, fears and sacrifices these women must make.
When her beloved family dog Nugget falls sick over Christmas, a city dermatologist must return home to confront both her dysfunctional family, and the mortality of the one family member that brings them all together.
ON TRIAL is a ground breaking documentary series for Australian television offering unprecedented access to criminal matters in an Australian court.
When Simone’s new novel turns into an international sensation, her overnight success becomes a runaway train derailing her life, along with those of her two closest friends. Their friendship is pushed to the limit, because there’s a dark secret at the heart of the story that wasn’t Simone’s to tell...
When the CEO of Fritz and Randell PR dies suddenly in a board meeting, Greta and Nicole, two young, savvy female employees, are promoted above the increasingly irrelevant, Ian Randell, in an attempt to rebrand the crisis management firm before an impending #MeToo scandal of their own.
POLITICAL FOOTBALL tells the story of the Wallabies who, after representing Australia in Rugby Union in South Africa, stood down from selection when the South African Springboks toured Australia in 1971, on the basis that they were not prepared to play against a national team that was selected on the basis of race.
Matt Bashir, former Deputy at a prestigious girls’ school, is swiftly promoted to the position of Principal of Boxdale Boys High. In this notoriously violent and difficult school in Sydney’s south-west, Bashir’s radical approach brings him into conflict on all fronts and leaves his personal life dangerously exposed. He works overtime to get the local community on side, promising change in his charges. But just when it seems he is making progress, a 17-year-old student is found dead on school grounds.
RAKE is about love, madness, addiction, and the law--in short, it is about modern life.
RAKE stars Richard Roxburgh (Blue Murder, Moulin Rouge, Mission Impossible II ) as criminal defence barrister Cleaver Greene – defender of the indefensible and champion of the lost cause ... both in the court room and the bedroom.
One might be forgiven for thinking prison is as low as things can sink for Criminal Barrister Cleaver Greene. But when we rejoin our silver-tongued hero things are heading south again as he emerges a legal pariah. This series shows Cleaver fighting to re-establish himself, and despite himself. Before long, there is corruption at corporate and government levels; a faux heist, a faux cancer and two very real Royal Commissions. And, of course, the constant fear Greene will mess up the whole thing royally.
Last seen dangling from a balloon drifting across the Sydney skyline, Cleaver Greene (Richard Roxburgh) crashes back to earth - literally and metaphorically, when he’s propelled through a harbourside window into the unwelcoming embrace of chaos past. Fleeing certain revenge, Cleaver hightails it to a quiet country town, the reluctant member of a congregation led by a stern, decent reverend and his flirtatious daughter. Before long Cleaver’s being chased back to Sin City. But Sydney has become a dark place: terrorist threats and a loss of faith in authority have seen it take a turn towards the dystopian. When Cleaver finally emerges, he will be accompanied by a Mistress of the Black Arts, navigating a yellow brick road leading straight to our dark corridors of power. Twisting and weaving the stories of the ensemble of characters we’ve grown to love over three stellar seasons, Season 4 of RAKE continues the misadventures of dissolute Cleaver Greene and casts the fool’s gaze on all levels of politics, the legal system, and our wider fears and obsessions.
One year on from taking up residency in Canberra as a Senator in Federal Parliament, Cleaver’s chaos has not abated. Having single-handedly caused the downfall of the Governor General, there are old foes and new. David Potter has made the transition to Senator for the Greens (without the extra ‘e’) and Cleaver has a new nemesis in the formidable and right wing Senator Penny Evans. Nicole Vargas is now Cleaver’s Chief of Staff, and Jack lurks in the Parliamentary shadows, ready to make or break careers. On the eve of the arrival of US Defence Secretary Linus Potemkin for an Asian Security Summit, there is a purported terrorist gas attack on New Parliament House causing the seat of government to move down the hill to its old home and now Museum of Australian Democracy. Old friends, it doesn't take much persuasion for Potemkin and Cleaver to fall into their old ways and party like it is 1999 ... only for Cleaver to discover that Linus is the keeper of the nuclear codes and that he may not be in a healthy mental state due to the pressures of office and a secret private life.
Against the backdrop of the release of the Disney motion picture Saving Mr Banks (starring Emma Thompson as Pamela Travers and Tom Hanks as Walt Disney) released worldwide in December 2013, THE REAL MARY POPPINS delves into the real story underlying the creation of Mary Poppins. Commissioned by the ABC, the documentary examines the real life relationship between Pamela Travers and Walt Disney and the inevitable friction between the two arising out of the adaptation of Mary Poppins for the silver screen. The deep connection between Pamela Travers and her Mary Poppins character is the foundation for the movie but in reality this connection bordered on the obsessive. Just why was Mary Poppins so important and more importantly where did she come from?
Historian Michael Cathcart goes behind the scenes of the famous Rum Rebellion to show the 'no holds-barred' personalities who created Australia's first revolt, and how passionate arguments over whether convicts should have rights shaped the country we have today.
Martin Scarsden has returned to his coastal hometown, Port Silver, to set up a new life with partner Mandy Bond. When he arrives to find his childhood friend Jasper brutally murdered and Mandy the prime suspect, Martin makes it his duty to find the real murderer and absolve Mandy. In the process, he confronts hidden truths about Port Silver and his own long buried past.
THE SHADOW OF MARY POPPINS explores the complex and troubled life of the creator of Mary Poppins, Pamela Travers. The audience will be taken on a journey tracing the parallel lives of Travers and Mary Poppins from their origins through to their transformation from servant to seer. The enigma of Travers is finally revealed in this biography of the creator of one of the most popular characters in children's fiction and film.
A comedy about a modern wedding, where the bride plans an extravagant celebration, the groom can't believe his luck, the parents and ex-husbands and current wives squabble over who is going to pay for it all, and standing on the side, waiting for disaster to strike is the groom's best friend.
STREET PRACTICE is a four-part observational series about the blooding of young lawyers. Set at Kingsford Legal Centre, part of the UNSW Law School whose graduates are seen as the pick of the country's legal crop, it follows those who choose to undertake a 'tour-of-duty' working as legal clerks. They take on their first real cases and deal with their first real clients. It's where the lessons stop and the real world begins…
SUNSHINE is a 4 x 1 hour drama series set in the summer of 2017 in the working class Melbourne suburb of Sunshine. It is in this humble, barren suburb that our South Sudanese protagonist, Jacob Chagai, resides; a star basketballer with dreams of climbing his Biblical namesake’s ladder to heaven: the American National Basketball Association. Running parallel to Jacob’s sporting aspirations and life within Sunshine’s South Sudanese community of Melbourne, is a high stakes criminal investigation. Police are hunting down the perpetrator of a violent assault, which left an underage rich white girl with near-fatal head injuries, in a coma fighting for her life. SUNSHINE is a vibrant, kinetic and compelling hybrid drama that explores a world of contrasts - truth and reconstruction, past and present, hope and heartbreak - felt by those forging a new life in a foreign land.
A series examining forensic process and procedures inside the State Coroner's Office of Victoria.
A series about the succession battle for control of the world’s largest cattle station, at the centre of which is the Lawson family. With generational clashes threatening to tear the family apart, the outback’s most powerful factions – rival cattle barons, desert gangsters, Indigenous elders and billionaire miners – move in for the kill.
Twelve ordinary people are selected for jury duty in a murder trial as traumatising as it is controversial, in which a woman stands accused of killing her sister’s child. Behind the fa̧cade of their anonymity, these twelve ordinary people bring with them their own histories. Lives that are as complex as the trial, full of fractured dreams, shameful secrets, hope, fears, personal trauma and prejudice. Through the multiple lenses of these jurors, we see the fragility and imbalances of the law, and the chaotic and flawed way we attempt to determine justice in our society.
THE TWELVE comes to Western Australia, to the rural township of Tunkwell - a world away from the urban city landscapes of Season One. When local landowner, Bernice Price, was found dead at the bottom of her farm well, two ex-lovers stand accused of her murder. Twelve ordinary citizens from diverse backgrounds have been plucked from the township and surrounds to decide the fate of the co-accused - was Bernice the victim of a crime of passion, a workplace accident or just bad luck? Criminal barrister, Brett Colby, SC, comes to Tunkwell to represent one of the accused, Patrick Harrows, while Meredith Nelson-Moore, SC, defends the other accused, Sasha Price. But Colby and Meredith have more in common than just the trial, and the pair’s relationship is put to the test both professionally and personally. Over eight episodes we explore the lives and loves of our jury members and legal team, as this unique trial unfolds over six extraordinary weeks. But can our Twelve really be impartial when they come from such a tight rural community? One thing is for certain - by the time the verdict is reached, all will be irrevocably changed.
From Dr Who to 'The Dark Side of the Moon' to modern day dance music, the pioneering members of the Electronic Music Studio, melody composer Tristram Cary, radically changed the sound-scape of the 20th Century. WHAT THE FUTURE SOUNDED LIKE tells this fascinating story of British electronic music.
Generations of parents have wondered why their children turn into obnoxious, argumentative, angst-ridden, reckless, lazy and rebellious monsters. 'Whatever!' has the answers. Using on-screen scientific tests, we will tread where adults fear to go. This series will combine observational documentary of family life and teens behaving badly, with carefully designed scientific challenges that put our teenagers to the test. Experts will be on hand to give physical, physiological and psychological analysis of the way teenagers behave while we talk to teenagers and parents to give us a 360 degree view of the experiments and what they could mean in everyday life.
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