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Beaconsfield

Sunday, April 22, 2112 (Nine)
Produced by Southern Star John Edwards
Producers: John Edwards, Jane Liscombe
Director: Glendyn Ivin
Writers: Judi McCrossin

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.

Starring: Shane Jacobson, Lachy Hulme, Sasha Horler, Michala Banas, Steve Vizard

Dripping in Chocolate

Saturday, April 07, 2012 (UKTV)
Produced by Southern Star Entertainment Pty Ltd
Producers: Julie McGauran & Sarah Smith,
Director: Mark Joffe
Screenplay: John Ridley & Sarah Smith

A contemporary crime drama set in the laneways of inner city Sydney. When Detective Bennett O'Mara finds a chocolate wrapper on a strangled girl, it leads him to enigmatic chocolatier Juliana Lovece. Just as this perceptive woman gets under his hardened skin, he suspects she may be at the centre of an increasing murder count.

Starring: David Wenham, Louise Lombard, Rick Donald, Chelsie Preston Crayford, Richard Brancatisano, Caroline Brazier, Glenn Hazeldine, Lucy Durack, Geoff Morrell

The Great Mint Swindle

Sunday, March 11, 2012 (Nine)
Produced by Cordell Jigsaw and Zinc Finger Films
Executive Producers: Nick Murray, Jo Rooney, Andy Ryan
Producers: Paul Bennett, Michael Cordell, Russell Vines
Director: Geoff Bennett
Writers: Reg Cribb, Paul Bennett

It's the beginning of the 1980s boom in Western Australia. Larrikin brothers Ray, Brian and Peter Mickelberg spend their days abalone fishing, flying planes, looking for adventure and developing new ways of making money. Their most bizarre venture? Selling a huge fake gold nugget "The Yellow Rose of Texas" to tycoon Alan Bond. An extraordinary tale about the most famous gold heist in Australia's history — a major crime that remains unsolved to this day.

Starring: Grant Bowler, Todd Lasance, Josh Quong Tart, John Batchelor, Shane Bourne Maya Stange, Caroline McKenzie, Abby Earl, Talei Howell-Price, Phil Bennett, Adam Booth, Troy Coward, Jenny Davis, Rhoda Lopez, Andrew Hale, Les Hill, Michael Muntz, Michael Loney, Stuart Halusz

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Jack Irish: Bad Debts

Produced by Essential Media and Entertainment
Producer: Ian Collie
Director: Jeffrey Walker
Writer: Andrew Knight

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 doesn't ring any bells. But then Danny turns up dead and Jack must take a walk back into a dark and dangerous past.

Starring: Guy Pearce, Aaron Pedersen, Marta Dusseldorp, Simon Russell

Jack Irish: Black Tide

Produced by Essential Media and Entertainment
Producer: Ian Collie
Director: Jeffrey Walker
Writer: Andrew Knight

Jack Irish: Black Tide sees Jack helping out an old family friend Des Connors whose son Gary 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.

Starring: Guy Pearce, Aaron Pedersen, Marta Dusseldorp, Nicholas Coghlan, Ron Jacobson

Mabo

Produced by Tradewind Films Pty Ltd
Producer: Miranda Dear, Darren Dale
Director: Rachel Perkins
Writer: Sue Smith

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.

Starring: Jimi Bani, Deborah Mailman, Colin Friels, William McInnes, Miranda Otto, Ewen Leslie, Tom Budge