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Fighting Season

Produced by Goalpost Pictures

Creator: Blake Ayshford
Concept: Rosemary Blight & Kylie du Fresne
Producers: Kylie du Fresne, Elisa Argenzio, Blake Ayshord
Writers: Blake Ayshford, Belinda Chayko, Tommy Murphy, Kylie Needham
Directors: Kate Woods, Ben Lucas

Aired: October 28 - December 02, 2018 (Fox Showcase)

A series about a platoon of soldiers returning from Afghanistan after their section leader is killed in a controversial mission, one marred by bitter mistakes and cover-ups. Fighting Season is about an Army culture of stoic self-sacrifice that can corrode even the strongest marriage. About the politics of war and the bonds of mateship forged in a war-zone, of experiences so intense that those ‘back home’ in the civilian world can’t understand. And about a secret these men will do anything to keep. (6x50min)