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Erotic Stories

Produced by Lingo Pictures
Producers: Helen Bowden, Liam Heyen
Writers: Alistair Baldwin, Sara Khan, Jean Tong, Marieke Hardy, Adrian Chiarella, Sarah Walker, Tamara Asmar, Christine Bartlett
Directors: Madeleine Gottlieb, Leticia Caceres
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Cast: Frances O’Connor, Kate Box, Danielle Cormack, Rarriwuy Hick, Googoorewon Knox, Tim Draxl, Kween Kong, Yuchen Wang, Dominic Ona-Ariki, Bert LaBonte, Emily Havea, Fayssal Bazzi, Bernie Van Tiel, Roman Delo, Victoria Haralabidou, Alex FitzAlan, Joel Lago, Crystal Nguyen

The Good Hustle

Produced by Little Giant
Producers: Elle Croxford, Alexandra Doering
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Drama (10x30min)

Cast: Tammin Sursock, Francesca Hung, Lisa Flanagan, Gemma Forsyth, Brooke Lee, Sophie Bloom, Michael Tuahine, Tim Robards, Adam Saunders, Brayden Dalmazzone

Heat

Produced by Fremantle Australia
Producer: Natalie Mandel
Writers: Anthony Ellis, Jason Herbison, Margaret Wilson
Director: Kate Kendall
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4x60min drama

Cast: Darren McMullen, Pia Miranda, Jane Allsop, Danny Dyer, Olympia Valance, Richie Morris, Matia Marks, Matteo Annetta, Hunter Hayden

High Country

Produced by Curio Pictures in association with Rage Media
Creators: Marcia Gardner, John Ridley
Executive Producers: Penny Win, Leah Purcell, Jo Porter, Rachel Gardner, Marcia Gardner, John Ridley
Producers: Pino Amenta, Sue Edwards
Writers: Marcia Gardner, John Ridley
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Network: Foxtel/Binge

When detective Andrea (Andie) Whitford (Leah Purcell) is transferred to the Victorian High Country, she is thrust into a baffling mystery of five missing persons who have vanished into the wilderness. Through an edge-of-the-seat, high-stakes investigation, Andie uncovers a complex web involving murder, deceit and revenge. (8x60min)

Cast: Leah Purcell, Aaron Pedersen, Sara Wiseman, Ian McElhinney, Linda Cropper, Henry Nixon, Luke McKenzie, Matt Domingo, Geoff Morell, Pez Warner, Pedrea Jackson, Leah Vandenberg, Nathaniel Dean, Jamie Timony, Annie Chiswell, Travis McMahon, Nicholas Bell, Trisha Morton-Thomas, Shannon Berry

House of Gods

Produced by Matchbox Pictures
Producer: Bree-Anne Sykes
Writers: Osamah Sami, Shahin Shafaei, Blake Ayshford, Sarah Bassiuoni
Director: Fadia Abboud
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6x60 drama series

Cast: Osamah Sami, Shahin Shafaei, Kamel El Basha, Maia Abbas, Simon Elrahi, Priscilla Doueihy, Majid Shokor

Human Error

Produced by Roadshow Rough Diamond
Producers: Greg Haddrick, Dan Edwards, Samantha Winston
Writers: Samantha Winston, Gregor Jordan, Greg Haddrick
Directors: Fiona Banks, Mat King
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6x60 drama series

Cast: Leeanna Walsman, Rahel Romahn, Stephen Peacocke, Matt Day, Rob Collins, Steve Bisley, Emily Joy, Ethan Lwin, Debra Lawrance, Daniela Farinacci, Jane Allsop, Anthony J Sharpe

Local Council

Produced by Antichocko Productions
Producer: Paul Fenech
Writer: Paul Fenech
Director: Paul Fenech
Network: 7mate

Cast: Paul Fenech

The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

Produced by Made Up Stories and Endeavor Content
Producer: Bruna Papandrea
Writer: Sarah Lambert
Director: Glendyn Ivin
Network: Amazon Prime Video

An Amazon Australian Original series based on the international best-selling book by Australian author Holly Ringland, and starring Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner Sigourney Weaver. The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart tells the story of a young girl, Alice Hart, whose violent childhood casts a dark shadow over her adult life.

Cast: Sigourney Weaver

The Newsreader - series 2

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Network: ABC

It’s 1987, and newsreaders Helen Norville and Dale Jennings are back on screen delivering the biggest stories of the day. Off screen they’re contending with rising public profiles, intensifying office politics, and a ruthless new CEO.

Cast: Anna Torv, Sam Reid

Oddlands

Produced by Matchbox Productions
Producers: Stephen Corvini, Alice Nash
Writers: Bruce Gladwin, Chris Anastassiades, Stuart Page, Dannika Horvat, Tim Williams
Director: Bruce Gladwin
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When cleaners Des and Tam come into contact with The Animal, their lives take an unexpected turn from model citizens to renegade members of The Resistance.

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The Office

Produced by Bunya Productions, Amazon Studios, BBC Studios ANZ
Producers: Kylie Washington, Jackie van Beek
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Cast: Felicity Ward, Edith Poor, Steen Raskopoulos, Shari Sebbens, Josh Thomson, Jonny Brugh, Pallavi Sharda, Susan Ling Young, Raj Labade, Lucy Schmit, Firas Dirani

One Night

Produced by Easy Tiger Productions
Producers: Rob Gibson Ian Collie Ally Henville
Writers: Fiona Seres Emily Ballou
Directors: Lisa Matthews Catherine Millar
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6x52min drama

Cast: Jodie Whittaker, Nicole da Silva, Yael Stone, George Mason, Erroll Shand, Noni Hazlehurst, Tina Bursill, Damien Strouthos, Jillian Nguyen

Over and Out

Produced by
Producers: Christiaan Van Vuuren, Bridget Callow-Wright
Writers: Adele Vuko, Christiaan Van Vuuren
Director: Connor Van Vuuren
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Two new parents struggle to survive the age old trials and tribulations of raising babies... Oh yeah... Whilst being smack bang in the middle of the Post-Apocalypse.

Cast: Christiaan Van Vurren, Adele Vuko

Scrublands

Produced by Easy Tiger
Producers: Ian Collie, Rob Gibson, David Redman, Felicity Packard
Executive Producers: Michael Healy and Andy Ryan (9), Cailah Scobie and Amanda Duthie (Stan)
Writers: Felicity Packard, Kelsey Munro, Jock Serong
Director: Greg McLean
Network: Stan/9

Scrublands is set in an isolated country town, where a charismatic and dedicated young priest (Jay Ryan) calmly opens fire on his congregation, killing five parishioners. One year later investigative journalist Martin Scarsden (Luke Arnold) arrives in Riversend to write what should be a simple feature story on the anniversary of the tragedy. But when Martin’s instincts kick in and he digs beneath the surface, the previously accepted narrative begins to fall apart and he finds himself in a life and death race to uncover the truth. Based on the award-winning novel written by Chris Hammer.

Cast: Luke Arnold, Bella Heathcote, Jay Ryan, Zane Ciarma, Adam Zwar, Victoria Thaine, Robert Taylor, Stacy Clausen, Genevieve Morris, Ella Ferris

Seconds

Produced by Headspace Entertainment
Executive Producers: Georgia Mappin, Darren McFarlane Writers: Jaime Browne, Jub Clerc
Director: Tony Rogers
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From director Tony Rogers, writer Jaime Browne and author Strephyn Mappin comes a darkly comic coming of age story set in 1970’s country Australia, inside a family defined by tradition… ritualised cannibalism.

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Swift Street

Produced by Magpie Pictures
Producers: Lois Randall and Ivy Mak
Creator & Writers: Tig Terera
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Network: SBS

A fast, funny, and gritty family crime drama, set in inner-city Melbourne, where the rich and poor collide. It tells the story of 21-year-old street smart Elsie who must team up with her jaded old-school hustler father, Robert, to get him out of debt and save him from a merciless crime boss who wants her money NOW. The pair embark on a series of hectic scrapes and near misses as Elsie commits to help Robert hustle for the money. But with an unhinged gang of debt collectors on the trail the duo must carry out a series of increasingly serious crimes, against a ticking clock while fumbling through their dysfunctional relationship.

Cast: tba

The Upside of Over

Produced by RevLover Films Pty Ltd
Producers: Lauren Edwards, Martha Coleman
Writers: Josephine Dee Barrett
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When her inner-most sexual fantasy goes viral, Australia’s most beloved newsreader Olivia Law must reassess the life she’s meticulously built for herself and tackle the age-old question; what do women really want? And how exactly do you rebuild yourself when you never really knew who you were to begin with?

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Anyone’s Daughter

Produced by
Producers: Kerrie Mainwaring, Peter Andrikidis, Jamie Hilton
Writers: Michaeley O’Brien, Justin Monjo
Director: Peter Andrikidis
Network: Seven

A four-hour miniseries for the Seven Network about the police investigation into the disappearance of young women.

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Goolagong

Produced by Werner Film Productions Pty Ltd
Producer: Joanna Werner
Writers: Megan Simpson Huberman, Steven McGregor
Director: Wayne Blair
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A two-part event mini-series based on the inspiring true life story of world champion tennis player Evonne Goolagong, one of Australia’s best known and most loved sporting heroes.

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Reckoning

Produced by Playmaker Media
Producer: Diane Haddon
Writers: David Hubbard, David Eick
Directors: Shawn Seet, Jennifer Leacey, Peter Andrikidis
Network: Seven

The series explores the darkest corners of the male psyche through the eyes of two fathers, one of whom is a serial-killer. Like most men, Leo and Mike try to do what's best for the people they love, the families they protect. But as both struggle to suppress their inner demons, the murder of a local teenager sets them on a course of mutual destruction that will emanate through every facet of their quiet, suburban community.

Cast: Aden Young, Sam Trammell, Simone Kessell, Laura Gordon, Gloria Garayua, Mitzi Ruhlmann, Millly Alcock, Ed Oxenbould, Finn Little, Anthony Phelan, Diana Glenn