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Crooked

Produced by Two-Tone Pictures
Producers: Paul Bellman, Matthew Holmes, Adam Wilson
Director: Matthew Holmes
Writers: Paul Bellman, Matthew Holmes, Adam Wilson
Cast: Paul Bellman, Adam Wilson, Joshua Jaegar, Rohan Harry, Tristan Hudson, Anna Cheney Holmes, Stephen DeGenaro, Pete Michell, Terry Rogers, Van Crouch, Michael Allen, Rod Ho'vel
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Based around the story of a bunch of suburban no-gooders who dream of becoming real gangsters. They want to hit it the big time in the criminal underworld, but there's one thing stopping them - none of them are really gangster material. An improvised mockumentary shot on the mean streets of Adelaide. (6 x 45 min)

Dance Academy - Series 2

Produced by Werner Film Productions
Producer: Joanna Werner
Directors: Cherie Nowlan, et al
Writers: Samantha Strauss, Liz Doran, Greg Waters, Sam Carrol, et al
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Network: ABC

Tara returns to the Academy with her sights set firmly on representing the country at the world's most prestigious ballet competition. But she should be more focused on just surviving second year where, having climbed to the top over the last twelve months - in dance, life and love - she now has a very long way to fall.

Danger 5

Produced by Dinosaur Pty Ltd
Producers: Kate Croser, Dario Russo
Director: Dario Russo
Writers: Dario Russo, David Ashby
Cast: David Ashby, Sean James Murphy, Natasa Ristic, Amanda Simons, Aldo Mignone
Network: SBS

Set in a bizarre, 1960's inspired version of World War II, action comedy series DANGER 5 follows a team of five spies on a mission to kill Hitler. Danger 5 is the finest group of special operatives the allies have to offer; Jackson from the USA, Tucker from Australia, Ilsa from Russia, Claire from Britain and Pierre from Europe. Each episode Danger 5 unravels another of Hitler's diabolic schemes and travels across a myriad of exotic locations spanning the globe. (6 x 25min)

Dogstar - series 2

Produced by Media World Pictures
Producers: Ross Hutchens, Colin South
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After the Dogstar is accidentally relaunched into space, the intrepid Clark kids once again set off to find their missing pet Hobart and return all the world's dogs back to Earth.

Ghosts of Time

Produced by Three's A Company
Producer: Geoff Watson
Director: Geoff Watson
Writer: David Witt
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Some kids find a haunted house that can travel through time, they and its ghostly inhabitant go on adventures which are both comic and thrilling.

Lowdown - series 2

Produced by High Wire Films Pty Ltd
Producer: Nicole Minchin
Director: Amanda Brotchie
Writer: Amanda Brotchie
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Network: ABC

Alex Burchill writes the Lowdown column for struggling tabloid newspaper, the Sunday Sun. Circulation is in decline and the paper is downsizing and adapting to the brutal economic climate, and Alex's methods for unearthing stories become increasingly desperate. Each week he must come up with a shock-and-awe story for the embattled paper, and each week that shock-and-awe story somehow ruins his own life.

Micro Nation

Produced by
Creator: Bevan Lee
Producer: Linda Ujuk
Director: Andrew Garrick
Writer: Andrew Garrick
Cast: Lliam Amor, Kit Brookman, David Collins, Dan Cordeaux, Rebecca De Unamuno, Harriet Dyer, Roz Hammond, John Leary, James Mackay, Rowena Wallace, Jon Williams
Network: Eleven

The forgotten island nation of Pullamawang has seceded from mainland Australia and is home to a cast of larger-than-life characters including young citizen Emma who desperately wants to leave. The absurd habits and comfortable lives of the islanders are thrown into disarray and conflict by the discovery of diamonds, thwarting Emmas dreams of escaping to the wider world. (15 x 4.5min / 1x62min)

A Place to Call Home

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Network: Seven

Redfern Now

Produced by Blackfella Films
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Network: ABC1

Redfern Now will centre around and will explore contemporary inner city Indigenous life. 6 x 1 hour

Reef Doctors

Produced by Jonathan M. Shiff Productions
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Cast: Lisa McCune, Matt Day, Richard Brancatisano, Rohan Nichol, et al
Network: Ten

Lisa McCune stars as Dr Sam Stewart, the Sherlock Holmes of tropical medicine and the head doctor in the only medical clinic for the Great Barrier Reef Islands. Filming from November 28 to April 2012

The Strange Calls

Produced by Hoodlum Entertainment
Producers: Tracey Robertson, Nathan Mayfield
Director: Daley Pearson
Writer: Daley Pearson
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Network: ABC2

Hapless city cop Toby Banks is demoted to night duty in the sleepy beachside village of Coolum, only to find himself investigating strange late night phone calls that reveal the bizarre truth of the town — a place where men turn into chickens, mermaids fall in love with locals and cats return from the grave…

Tricky Business

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Cast: Shane Bourne, Gigi Edgley, Debra Byrne, Lincoln Lewis, Kip Gamblin, Antony Starr, Sophie Hensser
Network: Nine

13 episode series about a family that runs a debt collection business.

Underbelly 5

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Network: Nine

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Winners & Losers - series 2

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Cast: Zoe Tuckwell-Smith, Melissa Bergland, Melanie Vallejo, Virginia Gay, Denise Scott, Francis Greenslade
Network: Seven

It's a case of "Saturn Return" for Bec, Sophie, Jenny and Frances, as the four friends face new challenges and question the direction their lives are taking. With millions of dollars in the bank, the world is their oyster. But what is it they each truly want from life? The journey to the answer the question will lead them to love, laughter, loss...and more surprises.

Brothers in Arms

Produced by Screentime
Executive Producers: Des Monaghan, Greg Haddrick, Rick Maier
Producer: Roger Simpson
Co-Producers: Louisa Kors, Peter Andrikidis
Writers: Greg Haddrick, Roger Simpson, Jo Martino
Director: Peter Andrikidis
Cast: Luke Hemsworth, Matt Nable, Callan Mulvey, Jeremy Lindsay Taylor, Susie Porter, Anthony Hayes, Todd Lasance , Nathaniel Dean, Luke Ford, Damien Walshe-Howling
Network: Ten

A six-part drama about the Milperra Bikie Massacre, a gunfight between two rival Australian biker gangs that took place in suburban Sydney in 1984. Based on the bestselling book Brothers in Arms by Sandra Harvey and Lindsay Simpson

Howzat! The Kerry Packer Story

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Network: Nine

Laid - series 2

Produced by Like A Virgin Pty Ltd
Producer: Andrew Walker
Writers: Marieke Hardy, Kirsty Fisher
Director: Trent O'Donnell
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Network: ABC

In the second series, the world of our heroine Roo, is turned upside down when she is introduced to somebody stricken with a vaguely similar set of mysterious circumstances to the ones plaguing her — although this person is very different from Roo.

Lightning Point

Produced by Jonathan M. Shiff Productions
Producers: Jonathan Shiff, Stuart Wood
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Network: Ten

When Zoey and Kiki, two irrepressible girls from another galaxy become castaways in the quiet, Australian seaside town of Lightning Point, they recruit local girl Amber to keep them undercover. But the whole town is abuzz with the sighting of UFOs and the girls soon realise that they may not be the first intergalactic visitors. Filming began November 08, 2010 at the Village Roadshow Studios on the Gold Coast.

Mako - Island of Secrets

Produced by Jonathan M. Shiff Productions
Producers: Jonathan Shiff
Writers: Sam Carroll, Anthony Morris, Chris Roache
Director: Evan Clarry
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Network: Ten

When 15-year-old Zac goes camping on Mako Island, he has no idea his every move is being monitored by real-life mermaids Sirena, Nixie and Lyla, whose job it is to ward off trespassers. When he comes into contact with the magical waters of the Moon Pool on the night of a full moon, Zac is given a taste of Mako's powers, waking the next day to discover he has been granted fin-like feet and the power to control water... causing all sorts of trouble for Sirena, Nixie and Lyla.

Resistance

Produced by That's-a-wrap Productions
Producer: Andrew Dillon
Director: Andrew Dillon
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The fate of humankind is in the hands of a small group of brilliant resistance fighters. Armed with technology beyond the cutting edge and trained to the highest level by a mysterious young billionare, they're our last line of defence against Alien invasion. 26 x 24min

The Beach House

Produced by: Masterbrand Films and Promotions
Producers: Phillip Avalon
Directors: Samuel Clemens, Vanessa Rose
Writer: Russell Buchanan, Katherine Lawless
Cast: Clintin Barter, Russell Buchanan, Selena McKay, Graham Plew, Clio Ross, Jerry Stanley, Christie Steel, Tom Zimmerman
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A boy from the bush leaves home and the drought for the coast. On his rite of passage he discovers that life is not all that it seems in the faster lane. And that's only the beginning... surf, city and a country boy

Beaconsfield

Produced by Southern Star John Edwards
Producers: John Edwards, Jane Liscombe
Director: Glendyn Ivin
Writers: Judi McCrossin
Cast: Shane Jacobson, Lachy Hulme, Sasha Horler, Michala Banas, Steve Vizard
Network: Nine

Beaconsfield tells the story of how Matthew Gill and Pat Ball and their rescue teams rescued Todd Russell and Brant Webb. It is the story of the women they left behind, and how they sustained themselves, but, most of all it is the story of two men who had nothing in common, trapped together for 15 days in a dark wet space so small they could neither fully sit up nor fully lie down. Two men who kept their heads together, and their hopes alive, for 15 days and nights.

Dripping in Chocolate

Produced by Southern Star Entertainment Pty Ltd
Producer: Julie McGauran
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Writer: John Ridley
Cast: David Wenham, Louise Lombard, Geoff Morrell
Network: UKTV

When Detective Bennett O'Mara finds a chocolate wrapper on a strangled girl it leads him to voluptuous chocolatier Juliana Lovece. Just as this perceptive woman gets under his skin, he suspects she may be at the centre of an increasing murder count.

The Great Mint Swindle

Produced by Cordell Jigsaw Productions and Zinc Finger Films
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Cast: Grant Bowler, Todd Lasance, Josh Quong Tart, Shane Bourne, John Batchelor
Network: Nine

An extraordinary tale about the most famous gold heist in Australia's history — a major crime that remains unsolved to this day.

Jack Irish: Bad Debts / Jack Irish: Black Tide

Produced by Essential Media and Entertainment
Producer: Ian Collie
Director: Jeffrey Walker
Writer: Andrew Knight
Cast: Guy Pearce, Aaron Pedersen, Marta Dusseldorp, Don Hany, Diana Glenn, Colin Friels, Shane Jacobson, Ron Jacobson, Martin Sacks, Damian Richardson, Terry Norris, Roy Billing, Lachie Hulme, Alexandra Schepisi, Steve Bisley, John Flaus, Emma Booth
Network: ABC

Jack Irish: Bad Debts life is hard enough for Jack - his beloved football club has moved interstate, the odds ofhis latest plunge at the track seem too long and he's still cooking forone. So a phone message from ex-client Danny McKillop (Simon Russell) doesn't ring any bells. But then Danny turns up dead and Jack must take a walk back into a dark and dangerous past.

Jack Irish: Black Tide sees Jack helping out an old family friend Des Connors (Ron Jacobson) whose son Gary (Nicholas Coghlan) has gone missing. As Jack begins to dig, he discovers Gary Connors was a man with something to hide, and his friends are people with darker and more deadly secrets.

Mabo

Produced by Tradewind Films Pty Ltd
Producer: Miranda Dear, Darren Dale
Director: Rachel Perkins
Writer: Sue Smith
Cast: Jimi Bani, Deborah Mailman, Colin Friels, William McInnes, Miranda Otto, Ewen Leslie, Tom Budge
Network: ABC1

Tells the story of one of Australia's national heroes: Eddie Koiki Mabo, the Torres Strait Islander who left school at fifteen, yet spearheaded the High Court challenge that once and for all overthrew the fiction of terra nullius.

Sundowner

Produced by Cordell Jigsaw Productions
Producer: Russell Vines
Director: Geoff Bennett
Writer: Reg Cribb
Cast: Todd Lasance, et al
Network: Nine

An extraordinary tale about two innocent men who become embroiled in one of the most famous heists in Australia's history. It is a mysterious saga about their fight to clear their names over a crime that has never been solved.

X-Ray

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X-Ray is the story of Australian Terry Hicks' battle for justice on behalf of his son David, who was held for more than five years in detention without trial at Guantanamo Bay. Thanks to the rigorous campaigning by his father, David Hicks finally had his day in court in March 2007. Based on Chris Tugwell's acclaimed stage play Camp X-Ray, this main-event telemovie will take audiences behind the headlines that captivated Australia for years, into the emotional heart of a story about the torturous road that a father took on behalf of a troubled son.