The first season of Frayed saw star and creator Sarah Kendall nominated for a BAFTA.
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Lui created the Porchlight Films series with husband Gabe Dowrick, produced by Sylvia Warmer and EP’d by Liz Watts. Escaping the fallout, she finds herself at the centre of a hilariously mismatched community of doomsday preppers. Lui will also front her series Preppers, playing Charlie a young Aboriginal woman, who experiences her own personal, cataclysmic event when her life crumbles around her. Wayne Blair will helm the new season, written by Stuart Page, Larissa Behrendt, Angela Betzien, Pip Karmel and Nakkiah Lui. Working with Ayres as EPs are Andrea Denholm and Liz Watts, while the writing team is led by co-creator Belinda Chayko, collaborating with Jacquelin Perske, Mirrah Foulkes, Steven McGregor and Anya Beyersdorf.īoth Deborah Mailman and Rachel Griffiths will return for the new season of Blackfella Films’ Total Control, which will follow Mailman’s Alex as the nation goes to the polls and she has to face the judgement of the people.
The series is planned as a serialised anthology, inspired by the stories of the people who survived the catastrophe of last summer and continue to endure its aftermath. The ABC has taken to order Tony Ayres Productions’ (TAP) bushfire drama Fires, which it announced as in development mid this year.
Įmma Freeman helms the series, produced by Joanna Werner and created by Michael Lucas, with writers Jonathan Gavin, Niki Aken and Kim Ho. The supporting cast includes Robert Taylor, William McInnes, Chum Ehelepola, Michelle Lim Davidson, Stephen Peacocke, Chai Hansen and Marg Downey.
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Set in 1986, it follows the unlikely bond between a young TV reporter (Reid) and a ‘difficult’ female newsreader (Torv), as they cover events such as the shock of the Challenger explosion, the hype of Halley’s Comet and complexities of the AIDS crisis. I’m incredibly proud of the depth of the content, from five major drama series across next year to major high-end documentaries.”Ĭarrington flags there is the potential for the ABC to announce new commissions during 2021, as shows that were delayed get into production, and projects backed via the Fresh Start Fund, a $5 million development stream which the ABC launched in April due to COVID, come to fruition.Īnna Torv and Sam Reid will headline the cast of Werner Film Productions’ The Newsreader, currently shooting in Melbourne. “The slate is extraordinarily rich and diverse. But we were fortunate that just as the pandemic hit, that a number of our big drama shows were in post-production. “I started to get worried a few months ago when we were putting the slate together.
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“Seven or eight months ago we were in full production and overnight we stopped production all around Australia,” Carrington tells IF.
So hefty is the ABC’s slate in 2021, director entertainment and specialist Michael Carrington is confident audiences won’t even realise that many of the broadcaster’s productions faced shutdowns and delays during the pandemic.Īs announced at the ABC’s upfronts this afternoon, the line-up for the new year includes new dramas Fires and The Newsreader, new comedies Fisk and Preppers, as well as the return of Total Control, Frayed, Jack Irish, Harrow and Superwog.Ģ021 will also see the premiere of Jungle Entertainment’s mental health drama Wakefield, with all eps planned to drop on ABC iview.Īlso on the line-up is Closer Productions’ chef comedy Aftertaste, starring Erik Thomson, Natalie Abbott and Rachel Griffiths, and feature anthology Here Out West, penned by a group of emerging writers from Western Sydney.
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