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Fake

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Network: Paramount+

Inspired by Stephanie Wood’s bestselling book, this eight-part series delivers a gripping meditation on love in a world of lies and deceit. Fake follows Birdie Bell (Keddie), a brilliant magazine features writer who thinks she’s found ‘the one’ when she meets successful grazier Joe Burt (Wenham) on a dating app.

Cast: Asher Keddie, David Wenham, Heather Mitchell, Nicholas Brown, Spencer McLaren

Four Years

Produced by Easy Tiger Productions
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Creator/Writer: Mithila Gupta
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Network: SBS

The story of a married couple trying to find each other again after being separated for four years. The series follows the turbulent marriage of two young Indian lovers, Sridevi and Yash, through three timelines, told through dual perspectives. Full of romance and the desire to find someone you once loved again, this ground-breaking Australian series uses the Hindi and English languages interchangeably. (8x30min)

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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

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
Creators: Osamah Sami, Shahin Shafaei
Executive Producers: Blake Ayshford, Debbie Lee; Brett Sleigh
Producers: Sheila Jayadev, Bree-Anne Sykes
Writers: Osamah Sami, Shahin Shafaei, Blake Ayshford, Sarah Bassiuoni
Director: Fadia Abboud
Network: ABC

A tale of faith, family, secrets and lies that takes audiences behind the walls of an Imam’s family and the community he leads, exploring the personal cost of power and ambition. (6x60min)

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

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Produced by Curio Picture
Producer: Alexandra Taussig
Writer: Shaun Grant
Director: Justin Kurzel
Network: Prime Video

Set against the shadows of World War II, the series tells the epic story of Lieutenant Dorrigo Evans, and how his all-too-brief love affair with Amy Mulvaney shaped his life. The story is told over multiple time periods, as we journey from Evans’ childhood to his experience as a prisoner-of-war on the Thailand-Burma Railway as a young man, and later in life, as a respected surgeon and Australian war hero. Based on Richard Flanagan’s Booker Prize-winning novel of the same name. (5x60min)

Cast: Jacob Elordi, Odessa Young, Olivia DeJonge, Simon Baker, Ciarán Hinds, Heather Mitchell, Thomas Weatherall, Show Kasamatsu, Charles An

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

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.

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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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