Stateless
CREATOR: Cate Blanchett
CAST: Cate Blanchett, Dominic West & Yvonne Strahovski
At an immigration detention centre in the Australian desert, four unlikely strangers are thrown together. An airline hostess who has fled from a cult. An Afghan refugee trying to escape persecution. A resident father with an unfulfilling job. A government official caught up in a scandal tries to lay low. Forced together by circumstances, their lives will intersect as they learn to understand and appreciate their presence in this dramatic focus on human connection and immigration systems.

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The Gloaming
CAST: Emma Booth, Ewen Leslie & Martin Henderson
Police officer Molly McGee (Emma Booth) is tasked with solving the murder of an unidentified woman. Her troubling past has come back to bite her as she teamed up with her old pal Alex O'Connell (Ewen Leslie), someone she hasn’t spoken with in two decades. But they’ll both have to dig into the past as the case leads them down a dark trail of history. Creator Vicki Madden injects this series with a dark atmosphere of crime and horror.

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Upright
CREATOR: Matthew Saville
CAST: Tim Minchin, Milly Alcock & Daniel Lapaine
Lucky and Meg (Tim Minchin, Milly Alcock) are a mismatched duo that soon find themselves on a road trip to transport a piano. This long journey leads to them both being lost in the middle of the Australian desert and forces them to put their differences aside if they hope to make their trip to the other side of the country. This sincere drama comes from the mind of Chris Taylor with a writing team that includes Tim Minchin, Leon Ford, and Kate Mulvany.

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Bad Mothers
CREATOR: Rachel Lang & Gavin Strawhan
CAST: Michala Banas, Steve Bastoni, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Don Hany
A new Australian drama show created by Rachel Lang, Gavin Strawhan. Bad Mothers explores the ups and downs of modern motherhood through the lives of five very different friends as they struggle to deal with everything that comes with parenting. From how to remain a person besides being a mother, and from how to pull of a great playdate.

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Bloom
CREATOR: Glen Dolman
CAST: Bryan Brown, Phoebe Tonkin, Genevieve Morris, Terry Norris
A devastating Flood kills five people, but leaves something behind as well. A mysterious plant grows where the flood hit in a country town. It has the powers to restore youth - this discovery puts the town upside down.

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Picnic at Hanging Rock
CREATOR: N/A
CAST: Natalie Dormer, Lily Sullivan & Samara Weaving
A new drama series that will re-imagine the timeless Australian novel by Joan Lindsay. The novel has been adapted to film in 1975, but now will get its tv debut. It takes place on Valentine's day in 1900 where three schoolgirls and their governesses who disappear without a trace.

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RATING: 75/100

RELEASE DATE: January 12th, 2017

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Picnic at Hanging Rock
CREATOR: N/A
CAST: Natalie Dormer, Lily Sullivan & Samara Weaving
An Australian classic on tv. The movie from 1975 was based on the 1967 book about three schoolgirls and their governesses who mysteriously disappear on Valentines Day in 1900, and leave everyone...

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RELEASE DATE: May 28th, 2020

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Tidelands
CREATOR: Stephen M. Irwin, Leigh McGrath, Nathan Mayfield, Tracey Robertson
CAST: Charlotte Best, Marco Pigossi, Aaron Jakubenko, Mattias Inwood
A tv show about a smaller fisher's village and its half-siren, half-human inhabitants. An ex-con returning to his home town discovers this remarkable secret.

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RELEASE DATE: May 28th, 2020

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Mr Inbetween
CREATOR: Scott Ryan
CAST: Scott Ryan, Damon Herriman & Justin Rosniak
A criminal for hire also has a family. He is also a husband, a father and a boyfriend. Watch how Ray combines this with his dark career.

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RELEASE DATE: May 28th, 2020

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Newton’s Law
CREATOR: Deborah Cox, Fiona Eagger
CAST: Claudia Karvan, Toby Schmitz & Brett Tucker
Josephine Newton, a suburban solicitor returns to the barristers game after everything else falls apart. This eight part series will start in February.

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RATING: 67/100

RELEASE DATE: February 9th, 2017

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Wentworth
CREATOR: Reg Watson, Lara Radulovich
CAST: Kate Atkinson, Celia Ireland, Robbie Magasiva, Katrina Milosevic
A mother enters prison after being charged with the attempted murder of her husband. In order to survive, she has to learn how prison works.

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RATING: 87/100

RELEASE DATE: May 1st, 2013

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Rake
CREATOR: Peter Duncan, Richard Roxburgh, Charles Waterstreet
CAST: Richard Roxburgh, Matt Day & Adrienne Pickering
The brilliant lawyer Rake is caught up in a whirlwind of hopeless cases, desperate women and self-destruction.

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RATING: 87/100

RELEASE DATE: November 4th, 2010

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Please like Me
CREATOR: Josh Thomas
CAST: Keegan Joyce, Thomas Ward & David Roberts
Josh realises that he is a homosexual right after breaking up with his girlfriend.

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RATING: 85/100

RELEASE DATE: February 28th, 2013

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Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries
CREATOR: Deb Cox, Fiona Eagger & Kerry Greenwood
CAST: Essie Davis, Miriam Margolyes & Ashleigh Cummings
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries revolves around the personal and professional life of Phryne Fisher, a glamorous private detective in 1920s Melbourne.

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RATING: 84/100

RELEASE DATE: February 24th, 2013

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A Place to Call Home
CREATOR: Bevan Lee
CAST: Marta Dusseldorp, Noni Hazlehurst, Brett Climo, Craig Hall
Set in Country New South Wales in the period following World War II, the series follows Sarah Adams, who has returned to Australia after twenty years abroad to start a new life and ends up clashing with wealthy matriarch Elisabeth Bligh.

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RATING: 82/100

RELEASE DATE: December 1st, 2014

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Underbelly
CREATOR: N/A
CAST: Caroline Craig, Gary Bennett, Marcus Shultz, Paul Tassone
The tales of Melbourne's underworld.

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RATING: 82/100

RELEASE DATE: February 13th, 2008

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The Secret Life of Us
CREATOR: John Edwards, Amanda Higgs
CAST: Deborah Mailman, David Tredinnick & Michael Dorman
The story of a group of friends in their mid twenties to early thirties and their turbelent lifes.

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RATING: 77/100

RELEASE DATE: July 16th, 2001

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Hoges
CREATOR: Keith Thompson, Marieke Hardy
CAST: Josh Lawson, Ryan Corr, Justine Clarke, Caroline Kennison
The story of Paul Hogan and how he became one the biggest international stars Australia has ever had.

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RATING: 67/100

RELEASE DATE: January 12th, 2017

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Fighting Season
CREATOR: N/A
CAST: George Pullar, Zack Grech, Jay Ryan, Brendan Byrne
A six-part drama about the men and women fighting in the Australian army. It's a war drama playing into the blurred lines of being a family man and a killer at the same time.

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RELEASE DATE: May 28th, 2020

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Australia is not a country that comes to mind when you think about the origins of good series on a tuesday night. They do exist, however. Here you’ll find the shows that deserve attention.


A list of the best series from down-under. Australian series have been broadcasted on television all over the world. The very best Australian tv series are listed here. Some are currently still airing on tv, others have been out on DVD for quite a while now. From Australian new dramaseries, to detectives and children/teenager highschool series.