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Animalia
- 2008
- TV drama
- Animation
- 40 x 24mins
- Status: Completed
Two contemporary kids visit the land of Animalia, where eccentric animals inhabit the pages of an alphabet book. They team up with G'Bubu, a green gorilla, and Iggy, an iguana, to restore peace. Adapted from Graeme Base's best-selling picture book, aimed at six to nine-year-olds.
Banished
- 2014
- TV drama
- 7 x 60mins
- Status: Completed
The lives, loves, relationships and battle for survival, of a group of convicts, the marines that guard them, and the men who govern them, in the initial weeks after landing in Australia in 1788.
BlackJack - The Second Trilogy
- 2006
- TV drama
- 3 x 90mins
- Status: Completed
After blowing the whistle on his mates, policeman Jack Kempson was sent to the archives to rot. There, with the use of a new computerised crime-tracking system he tracks down the perpetrators of long unsolved crimes.
BlackJack 2: At the Gates
- 2006
- TV drama
- 90mins
- Status: Completed
Detective Jack Kempson is drawn into the disturbing world of religious fanatics when the mother of a baby killed 10 years ago in a house fire comes to him for help. In looking for the truth Kempson will have to fight the system and his own conscience, only to uncover a tangled web of lies and deception. Kempson must decide if the truth should prevail over the interests of the innocent.
BlackJack 2: Dead Memory
- 2006
- TV drama
- 90mins
- Status: Completed
A young woman's body is discovered in a national park. For Detective Jack Kempson's offsider Sam, details of the crime mirror the disappearance of her friend Hannah, who vanished without trace some years ago. In Kempson's pursuit of the truth Sam is forced to face the sordid secrets of her past.
BlackJack 2: Ghosts
- 2006
- TV drama
- 90mins
- Status: Completed
Twenty years ago a young mother was killed during an apparent kidnapping and subsequent police chase. It comes to Detective Jack Kempson's attention that dodgy police work at the time may have resulted in the wrong man doing time. Kempson runs the gauntlet of officialdom to convince the department there's value in 'unsolving' a murder, only to become a pawn in a sting operation involving drugs, stolen money and crooked cops.
BlackJack The Trilogy
- 2004
- TV drama
- 3 x 90mins
- Status: Completed
Justice means more than punishing those who commit crimes - it means never giving up on the search for the truth. Justice is Jack Kempson's creed, he doggedly pursues the perpetrators of long forgotten crimes in a search for answers and the truth. After blowing the whistle on his colleagues, policeman Jack Kempson has been sent to archives to rot - there with the use of a new computerised crime-tracking system he has the opportunity to work at what he loves best - solving crimes. Jack works outside the system, unsanctioned work, on crimes that are still crying out to be solved.
BlackJack: Ace Point Game
- 2004
- TV drama
- 90mins
- Status: Completed
Two sisters, raped years ago, have kidnapped the man they believe to be responsible. Taking the law into their own hands, they present Jack with a dilemma: will he choose truth - or justice?
BlackJack: In the Money
- 2004
- TV drama
- 90mins
- Status: Completed
Jack discovers that a man jailed for matricide could be innocent and the killer could still be close to home. Did Jack's own father-in-law have some part to play in the mystery?
BlackJack: Sweet Science
- 2004
- TV drama
- 90mins
- Status: Completed
The sons of a murdered gangland criminal have themselves turned bad. Jack's close to the family, but he may be too late to stop them attempting revenge.
Bluey series 1
- 2019
- TV drama
- Animation
- 52 x 7mins
- Status: Completed
Bluey is a loveable, ruff-and-tumble little six-year-old cattle dog girl whose wild imagination brings her family and the whole neighbourhood into her world of fun and games...
Bluey series 3
- 2022
- TV drama
- Animation
- 52 x 7mins
- Status: Completed
Bluey is an inexhaustible six year old Blue Heeler dog, who loves to play and turn every day family life into extraordinary adventures.
Boys From The Bush
SERIES OVERVIEW
- 1990 - 1991
- TV drama
- 20 x 60mins
- Status: Completed
An anarchic comic look at contemporary urban Australia, both through the work of 'Melbourne Confidential' - part marriage bureau, part detective agency - and the personal lives of the characters involved in running it.
Boys From The Bush series 1
- 1990
- TV drama
- 10 x 60mins
- Status: Completed
This series takes a comic look at urban Australia through the work of Melbourne Confidential - part marriage bureau, part detective agency and anything else that makes a fast dollar.
Boys From The Bush series 2
- 1991
- TV drama
- 10 x 60mins
- Status: Completed
An anarchic comic look at contemporary urban Australia, both through the work of 'Melbourne Confidential' - part marriage bureau, part detective agency - and the personal lives of the characters involved in running it.
Coast Australia
SERIES OVERVIEW
- 2013 - 2016
- Documentary
- 16 x 60mins
- Status: Completed
Acclaimed historian and television presenter Neil Oliver will host this eight-part series focusing on Australia’s stunning coastline. Each one hour episode will target a different strip of coast, as Neil and his co-hosts gather stories about the history, people, archaeology, geography and marine life. The series will cast its line back tens of thousands of years, as well as study very contemporary modern social history. It will join the past and the present together – and build a true story of a country which lives in synergy with its vast coastline, by meeting and talking with people from all walks of life.
Coast Australia series 1
- 2013
- Documentary
- 8 x 51mins
- Status: Completed
Acclaimed historian and television presenter Neil Oliver will host this eight-part series focusing on Australia’s stunning coastline. Each one hour episode will target a different strip of coast, as Neil and his co-hosts gather stories about the history, people, archaeology, geography and marine life. The series will cast its line back tens of thousands of years, as well as study very contemporary modern social history. It will join the past and the present together – and build a true story of a country which lives in synergy with its vast coastline, by meeting and talking with people from all walks of life.
Coast Australia series 2
- 2014
- Documentary
- 8 x 60mins
- Status: Completed
UK historian and television presenter Neil Oliver hosts the series, along with a diverse group of Australian experts. Each episode targets a different strip of Australia's stunning coastline and explores its' history, people, archaeology, geography and marine life.
Conceiving the Future
- 1992
- Documentary
- 55mins
- Status: Completed
Investigates the dilemmas of people faced with the choice of testing their foetus for disease and questions whether past racial policies ('eugenics') of the 20th century, implemented to eradicate disability and disease, could be revisited. Could the eugenic past be a prelude for a genetic future?
Dallas Doll
- 1993
- Feature
- 104mins
- Status: Completed
Nothing in the Sommers family horoscope warned them to be wary of a stranger from a foreign land. Even teenage Rastus, obsessed by UFOs and with her telescope nightly trained to the stars, is unable to discover what fate has in store for the family. But on first sighting Dallas Adair, she and her faithful dog Argus know turbulent times are ahead ...
Desert War
- 2012
- Documentary
- 2 x 57mins
- Status: Completed
For the 70th anniversary of the Battles of Alamein in 2012, DESERT RATS is an exciting, insightful and subtly revisionist account of one of the most celebrated campaigns of the Second World War.
Dirtgirlworld
- 2009
- TV drama
- Animation
- 52 x 11mins
- Status: Completed
Targeting the four to seven-year-old market, DIRTGIRLWORLD is a celebration of life in the big world outside. Dirtgirl, who has a backyard full of friends, is a gumboot-wearing girl who grows awesome tomatoes, knows cloud names and drives a big orange tractor.
From The Bottom of The Lake
- 2013
- Documentary
- 52mins
- Status: Completed
An intimate portrait of writer/director Jane Campion and her collaborators at work; a personal and insightful exploration of how, often against all odds, the creative spirit can sing. This documentary follows Jane’s process through the writing, rehearsals, shooting and screening of a six-part crime mystery series. TOP OF THE LAKE is the case in question, but the themes at the heart of its story are common to filmmaking anywhere in the world, or perhaps the artistic process, anywhere, anytime.
Great Barrier Reef
- 2011
- Documentary
- 3 x 50mins
- Status: Completed
Australia's Great Barrier Reef is an icon, one of the natural wonders of the world and the largest living structure on our planet. This 3 part series explores its full 2,000km length and the complexity of all its life. It will reveal the secret of the reef - how it was created, how it works, the intricate relationships between its inhabitants and how climate change and other factors might shape its future.
The Great Escape - The Reckoning
- 2009
- Documentary
- 52mins
- Status: Completed
The story of a heroic Australian pilot murdered by the Nazis and of the post-war manhunt to not only find his killer, but those responsible for executing 50 Allied airmen in the aftermath of the Great Escape of World War II.
Heartbreak Science
- 2009
- Documentary
- 52mins
- Status: Completed
Could the heart be more than just a pump? Startling first-hand experiences appear to suggest something absolutely incredible – that the heart may be capable of thinking, feeling and remembering. Now, in the battle against heart disease, doctors are searching for answers that could finally unlock the mysteries of the heart and understand an intriguing system of neurons dubbed ‘the little brain in the heart’.
How 'Mad' Are You?
- 2018
- Documentary
- 2 x 53mins
- Status: Completed
Ten Australians spend a week together. Five have a history of mental illness. Five do not. The question is – Who’s Who? Mental illness is the invisible epidemic gripping our nation. Around four million Australians have a mental health or behavioural condition. This ground breaking two-part series addresses the issue of mental illness in a way never seen before on Australian television.
Jack the Ripper
- 2011
- Documentary
- 60mins
- Status: Completed
The story of Jack the Ripper is one of the most gruesome and infamous crimes in history. More than 120 years later, modern science may just hold the key to cracking the case. For the first time ever DNA exists of one of the suspects - Fredrick Bailey Deeming, infamous as Australia's first serial killer.
The Kettering Incident
- 2015
- TV drama
- 8 x 50mins
- Status: Completed
When two girls mysteriously disappear in identical circumstances in the wilds of Tasmania 15 years apart, Doctor Anna Macy finds herself inexplicably linked to both cases. To clear her name, Anna must delve into her troubled past and face some truths about herself and the otherworldly nature of this gothic land.
Living with the Enemy
- 2014
- Documentary
- 6 x 54mins
- Status: Completed
LIVING WITH THE ENEMY is a provocative and bold six-part documentary series. Each episode deals with a single issue polarising Australians and exposing fault lines within contemporary Australian society. These issues are explored via a series of immersive social experiments designed to test the participants’ opinions and values by getting them to live and work with those whose lifestyles and beliefs contradict their own.
Me and My Monsters
- 2010
- TV drama
- 26 x 25mins
- Status: Completed
The story of The Carlson family who have recently relocated from Australia to a smart townhouse in the UK. They picked their new home up for a knock down price, because, as it turns out, there are monsters in the basement. The youngest Carlson, Eddie, is the happiest boy in the world because of his cheeky new furry friends.
Medicine At The Crossroads
- 1992
- Documentary
- 8 x 60mins
- Status: Completed
Series questioning the way modern medicine is practised and delivered. The ABC has produced one episode, 'Conceiving the Future' on medical intervention in reproduction and birth. Other episodes were produced by WNET NY, USA, BBC, UK and TV Espanola, Madrid.
Murdoch
- 2013
- Documentary
- 2 x 52mins
- Status: Completed
The definitive account of how one man took control of the media and became one of the wealthiest, most powerful and feared figures in the world.
No Activity: The Night Before Christmas
- 2018
- TV drama
- Online
- 44mins
- Status: Completed
Two cops, Hendy and Stokes, examine the minutiae of life as they are tasked with a Christmas Eve stakeout.
The Shark Net
- 2003
- TV drama
- 3 x 52mins
- Status: Completed
Adapted from Robert Drewe's award winning memoir, THE SHARK NET is a gripping account of murder and adolescent angst in the middle class suburbs of a city cut off from the rest of the world.
Skippy: Australia's First Superstar
- 2009
- Documentary
- 55mins
- Status: Completed
This documentary is a warm, witty, affectionate and definitive look at one of Australia's most cherished TV stars, Skippy the bush kangaroo. The remarkable story of how a crime-fighting marsupial conquered the world. Everybody remembers Skippy the Bush Kangaroo - the family show about the kid and the kangaroo was sold in 128 countries and watched by hundreds of millions worldwide, showing for the first time that Australian stories could and did find a worldwide audience.
Supernova
SERIES OVERVIEW
- 2005 - 2006
- TV drama
- 12 x 30mins
- Status: Completed
A sitcom about a team of scientific geniuses unravelling the mysteries of the universe in the remote Australian desert. Paul, a repressed British astronomer, dreams of a more adventurous life. He abandons his dull research role in London and relocates to a 'front line' field position at the Royal Australian Observatory. Paul does his best to fit in with a dysfunctional group of strangers exploring the furthest reaches of the galaxy from the most far flung place on earth.
Supernova series 2
- 2006
- TV drama
- 6 x 30mins
- Status: Completed
Series one followed English astronomer Professor Paul Hamilton after he swapped his dull research job in London for field work at the Royal Australian Observatory, joining a team of scientific geniuses as they attempted to unravel the mysteries of the universe while located in the remote Australian desert. In Series Two, Paul is no longer the new boy and begins to assert himself in ways that can only lead to more heated intellectual debate, awkward romantic moments and bizarre outback encounters.
Top of the Lake
SERIES OVERVIEW
- 2012 - 2017
- TV drama
- 12 x 60mins
- Status: Completed
TOP OF THE LAKE is a mystery drama television series.
Top of the Lake series 1
- 2012
- TV drama
- 6 x 60mins
- Status: Completed
A 12-year-old girl is found chest deep in the freezing waters of a South Island lake. She’s five months pregnant and when asked who the father is she insists: “No one”. Then she disappears. Detective Robin Griffin’s obsessive search for Tui unravels both Robin and the compromised town of Laketop.
Top of the Lake: China Girl series 2
- 2017
- TV drama
- 6 x 60mins
- Status: Completed
TOP OF THE LAKE SEASON TWO: CHINA GIRL is a crime mystery story that begins four years on from the explosive ending of Season One. When the unidentified body of an Asian girl washes up on to Sydney’s Bondi Beach, the case seems hopeless, until detective Robin Griffin discovers that China Girl didn’t die alone.
Wakefield
- 2021
- TV drama
- Online
- 8 x 55mins
- Status: Completed
Nikheel Katira is a gifted Indian-Australian nurse working at Wakefield - a psychiatric hospital in the haunting and majestic Blue Mountains. In the first episode, a series of events trigger song-stickage in Nik and he begins to unravel. The question is: why? This is the psychological mystery that drives eight compelling episodes. A long-repressed trauma from Nik’s past is coming back, whether he likes it or not. A rich ensemble of staff and patients surround him, each with their own desires, stories, and emotional baggage. Wakefield is an intriguing puzzle set in the hidden world of mental illness. It explores the fine line between sanity and madness, between humour and pathos, bringing Nik to a shattering emotional reckoning - and the audience to a deeper understanding and compassion.

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