Podcast – Deadloch creators Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan

01 June 2023 By Caris Bizzaca

Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan discuss making a Tasmanian-based comedy crime series for Prime Video.

Madelein Sami, Kate Box and Nina Oyama on the set of Deadloch.

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When Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan were pitching Get Krackin’ in the USA, inevitably they would get asked in meetings, ‘what else are you working on?’

The Kates, best known for their shortform comedy hit The Katering Show and breakfast television satire Get Krackin’ on ABC, had a different idea in the works that was sparked by their love of crime dramas The Bridge, The Fall and Broadchurch.

“We just started throwing this idea at the end of the pitch and it had the working title of Funny Broadchurch and people would just laugh,” McLennan said. “They really connected with it.”

That idea became the new Australian Amazon Original Series Deadloch. The eight-part crime comedy stars Kate Box and Madeleine Sami as two vastly different detectives who are thrown together to solve a case when a local man turns up dead on a beach. Also starring Nina Oyama, Tom Ballard, Alicia Gardiner, Susie Youssef and Pamila Rabe, it premieres globally on Prime Video from 2 June.

Throughout the latest episode of the Screen Australia Podcast, McCartney and McClennan talk about the development of Deadloch; walking that fine line between comedy and drama throughout scripting, the shoot and the edit; their writing process; filming in Tasmania during the pandemic and more.

For the full episode, listen to the Screen Australia Podcast.