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Apr 26, 2024 · Skip this list if you want to preserve that 70s idealistic image of Australia in your mind, but read on if you’re after a range of important and diverse Australian TV shows to binge on...
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- ‘Frayed’ (2019-) (HBO Max) When wealthy housewife Simone (award-winning comedian Sarah Kendall, who also wrote the show) learns that her English husband has died with gadgets stuck in every orifice, she is called in to identify his body.
- ‘Please Like Me’ (2013-2016) (Hulu) Written by and starring comedian Josh Thomas, Please Like Me is not quite a typical Australian comedy. Partly inspired by events in Thomas’ life, the series is both funny and moving, successfully balancing serious themes — mental illness, sexual assault, and suicide — with Josh’s intelligent, ironic humor.
- ‘The End’ (2020) (Showtime) Edie (brilliantly played by Harriet Walter) lost her husband six months ago and doesn’t see the point in living. After a failed suicide attempt, her daughter Kate (Frances O’Connor) relocates Edie to Australia so she can be more closely supervised.
- ‘Wolf Like Me’ (2022) (Peacock) We’ve established that Australians love dark comedy — the darker, the better — and Wolf Like Me is no exception. Much of the show’s screen time is taken up by Mary (Isla Fisher) and Gary (Josh Gad), as they navigate their new romance.
- The Lost Flowers of Alice Heart. Genre: Drama. About: A nine-year-old girl loses both her parents in a mysterious fire and is sent to live with her grandmother on a flower farm.
- The Twelve. Genre: Drama. About: Twelve ordinary Australians, with struggles of their own, are selected for jury duty in a murder trial in which a woman stands accused of killing a child.
- Wellmania. Genre: Comedy. About: When a health crisis forces a successful food writer to rethink her hard-partying ways, she jumps into a journey to get well — even if it kills her.
- Deadloch. Genre: Comedy. About: The Tasmanian town of Deadloch is left reeling when a local man turns up dead on the eve of the crowd-pulling Winter Feastival.
Jul 1, 2021 · From ‘Bluey’ and ‘Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries’ to ‘Wellington Paranormal’ and ‘Starstruck’, these TV shows from Australia and New Zealand are available to stream in the U.S ...
May 14, 2024 · Check out our list of the 17 best Australian TV shows. Everything from Summer Heights High to Underbelly, your binge-watching list is sorted.
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- Glitch is Australian’s most popular TV show, according to IMDB, followed by Mr Inbetween, Frayed and Wentworth.
- Married At First Sight was the most watched show in Australia in 2018, closely followed by My Kitchen Rules and The Block. Outside of reality TV, A...
- The most-watched broadcast on Australian TV in 2018 was the first State of Origin match between NSW and Queensland.
- Netflix Australian features all original Netflix series and movies, as well as classic TV shows like Friends.
- Between Two Ferns, Zach Galifinakis’ cult web comedy series now has its own Netflix movie, with an impressive roster of Hollywood A-listers.
- The second season of Mindhunter, David Fincher’s atmospheric true-crime drama about the early days of the FBI’s Behavioural Science Unit is now on...
Jul 1, 2024 · But beneath the surface, Australia is jam-packed with stellar television gems. We do comedy really bloody well, crime mysteries seem to be in our DNA and we also have the capacity to tell...
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