MIRANDA OTTO JOINS HUGO WEAVING IN NEW ANIMAL ATTORNEY TV SERIES THE GREAT WHITE AT ABC

     THE GREAT WHITE   

MIRANDA OTTO JOINS HUGO WEAVING

Australian broadcaster ABC is preparing legal TV series THE GREAT WHITE with Miranda Otto joining Hugo Weaving who plays a brilliant but disgraced barrister who is slapped with a twelve-month supervision order for professional misconduct and finds himself working out of a struggling law office. Crushed by debt and desperate to restore his reputation, he reluctantly takes on a dangerous dog case he considers far beneath him. However, what begins as a fight to save a dog’s life draws him into the unexpected world of animal law and becomes a series of cases on behalf of animals, culminating in an audacious Supreme Court challenge to free a zoo elephant.

NEW SUMMER 2026 AUSTRALIAN TV SERIES: TREASURE & DIRT WITH MICHAEL DORMAN, THE KILLINGS AT PARRISH STATION WITH MIA WASIKOWSKA

  NEW AUSTRALIAN SHOWS  

TREASURE & DIRT AT ABC

New six part series starts this July

I have two new Australian shows to present to you today, spylings, beginning with TREASURE & DIRT which arrives to their national broadcaster ABC July 19th with our dear Michael Dorman, whom you watched in Territory series, in the lead role. The story of the six part crime thriller is set in the scorched, dust choked opal mining town of Nulla, where the brutal beheading of local miner pulls big-city detective Ivan Lucic (Dorman) into a labyrinthine case with no easy answers. Assigned to him is ambitious rookie detective Nell Buchanan (Liv Hewson) who knows Nulla’s lawless, corrupt underbelly far better than he does. Together, they’re drawn into a strange, surreal underworld of secrets, greed, and old sins that won’t stay buried. Dean O'Gorman and Eamon Farren also star.

 

 

THE KILLINGS AT PARRISH STATION

New six part series hits Stan next week

Arriving even sooner, next week actually - June 24th to Australian streamer Stan is six episode mystery crime drama THE KILLINGS AT PARRISH STATION. In 1987, detectives Georgia Cooke (Mia Wasikowska) and Michael Thorne (Xavier Samuel) are called to investigate the bizarre and brutal killings of four scientists at the remote Parrish Research Station. They uncover a complex case involving mania, ritual, and the occult, and Georgia's obsessive truth-seeking spirals, threatening her family, career, and sanity. Thirty seven years later, a chilling new spree of murders pull Georgia (Heather Mitchell) back into this nightmare as she confronts the possibility that the horrors at Parrish Station were never fully buried.

 

TAKE A TRIP TO NEW ZEALAND WITH BRETT TUCKER IN NEW COSY CRIME TV SERIES BLUE MURDER MOTEL

   BLUE MURDER MOTEL  

NEW BRETT TUCKER SERIES IS AIRING

Blue Murder Motel airs from March 7th

Airing as of yesterday, Saturday March 7th on Australian broadcaster ABC is new mini TV series BLUE MURDER MOTEL starring Brett Tucker and Michala Banas. They star as 40 somethings Vanessa and Peter Coleman – known to friends and colleagues as Vinny and Cole – who have been married ever since they met as junior constables in Sydney. Both of them followed the police path until the very recent final years of their careers as senior homicide detectives. Working together, living and loving together, it’s fair to say that police investigations and murder were a 24/7 thing for Vinny and Cole. But now – for reasons the Colemans are keeping to themselves – it is time to leave all that behind. Blue Motel, in the summery beach town of Mōwai Bay in New Zealand, offered the perfect escape, the ultimate retirement dream. But only six weeks into their new life, that dream has taken an unexpected, annoying turn when a body is discovered in Unit 3. The series already aired on TVNZ in New Zealand back in January.

BLUE MURDER HOTEL. I directed episodes three and six. It starts in New Zealand Sunday on TVNZ+ & TVNZ1 at 8:45pm. It was my huge pleasure to have been part of those episodes. I think you’ll really enjoy this series.@TVNZ pic.twitter.com/MRDyc5xMK8

— Lucy Lawless (@RealLucyLawless) January 13, 2026

SEE A DELIGHTFUL TRAILER FOR NEW AUSTRALIAN POOCH COMEDY TV SERIES DOG PARK

  DOG PARK TRAILER  

FOR NEW AUSTRALIAN COMEDY SERIES

Here is something cute for you today coming from Australia: their new pooch comedy series DOG PARK will premiere on their national broadcaster ABC next February 1st and we have a trailer for it. When Roland’s (Leon Ford) wife Emma leaves him with their teenage daughter Mia who barely notices him and Beattie, the dog he never wanted in the first place, he’s determined to cope brilliantly. But when Beattie disappears and turns up at the local dog park, Roland meets the unbearably optimistic Samantha (Celia Pacquola) and her mismatched, life-loving group of dog-parkers. As Roland begrudgingly keeps returning to the park, he comes to realise he might actually need a community to belong to.

 

NEW AUSTRALIAN TV SERIES FROM ABC AND BBC: TREASURE AND DIRT WITH MICHAEL DORMAN, DUSTFALL WITH ANNA TORV

 NEW AUSTRALIAN SERIES 

TREASURE AND DIRT FROM ABC, BBC

A couple of new Australian dramas for you today, starting with ABC's TREASURE AND DIRT which will also air on BBC in UK starring Michael Dorman and Liv Hewson. He plays homicide detective Ivan Lucic who is sent to investigate the mysterious and grisly murder of a miner in an Outback opal town. Joined by rural detective Nell Buchanan, the two are drawn into a labyrinth of secrets, greed and old sins that won’t stay buried. As the case twists into something darker and more surreal, Ivan and Nell can’t tell whether it’s the town that’s unravelling or themselves. Eamon Farren and Dean O’Gorman also star.

 

 DUSTFALL WITH ANNA TORV

Also coming from ABC and also to air on BBC One as well next year is another six part drama DUSTFALL a propulsive, atmospheric Tropic Noir that follows Anna Torv as a detective whose deep sense of justice is challenged by a world where victims are doubted, predators hide in plain sight, and the legal system too often falls short. When seasoned detective Tig, returning to her hometown of North Gap after years in the city, uncovers a string of drink spiking assaults, the case is turned on its head when one of the main suspects is murdered. Juliet Stevenson and Jay Ryan also star.

 

SEE TRAILER AND AIR DATE FOR NEW AUSTRALIAN TV SERIES THE FAMILY NEXT DOOR WITH TERESA PALMER, MING ZHU HII AND BELLA HEATHCOTE

  THE FAMILY NEXT DOOR  

NEW AUSTRALIAN TV SERIES THIS AUGUST 

August 10th is bringing us a new Australian TV series. Six part series THE FAMILY NEXT DOOR from their broadcaster ABC stars Teresa Palmer, Bella Heathcote, Philippa Northeast, Ming-Zhu Hii, Bob Morley, Daniel Henshall, and Jane Harber. Propelled by a mystery that disrupts a seemingly harmonious beachside community, the series explores the universal challenges of motherhood, marriage, friendship, and the complexities of identity. 

 

IT'S PEAK HOLIDAY SEASON

 in the popular seaside town of Osprey Point when an enigmatic stranger, Isabelle (Palmer) rents a family home in a quiet cul-de-sac. As Isabelle charms her way into her neighbours’ homes and lives, she quickly discovers that everyone at Pleasant Court has something to hide. How far will her obsessive drive to solve a mystery push her to expose the truth?

 

IT'S THE END OF AN ERA IN AUSTRALIA'S BEST SERIES THE NEWSREADER FINAL SEASON WITH SAM REID, ANNA TORV! TRAILER AND AIRING DATE

   THE NEWSREADER  

FINAL SEASON THREE ARRIVES TONIGHT

At first we thought that the third season of brilliant Australian series THE NEWSREADER would arrive last Autumn, but since it is also the final one it's been pushed to this year and will finally start tonight, February 2nd at Australian ABC. Anna Torv and Sam Reid are leading the six part show again alongside William McInnes, Marg Downey, Chum Ehelepola,

The final third act starts tonight on ABC

Stephen Peacocke, Michelle Lim Davidson, Chai Hansen, Phillipa Northeast and Daniel Henshall. First season also aired on BBC in UK and AMC in USA.

 

THE END OF AN ERA

We first met Dale Jennings (Reid) and Helen Norville (Torv) in 1986 when a fledgling Dale was desperate to be a star newsreader, and Helen was fighting to be taken seriously as a journalist. Now Dale and Helen have finally achieved both these long held dreams. Dale is News At Six’s ‘King of News’, fronting the show solo he has become the most beloved name in news, a Gold Logie nominee, permanently number one in the nightly ratings. Meanwhile Helen’s fearless international reporting has won her great acclaiman and an opportunity to be the first woman to both anchor and produce her own current affairs show. But when a cynical network move sees the two former lovers pitted in direct competition, their kinship will be tested as never before. Over the course of 1989, Helen and Dale will compete to cover a cascade of historical events, from the Exxon Valdez oil spill, to the Tiananmen Square massacre, the boycotts of South Africa’s Apartheid, and the fall of the Berlin Wall which will be covered in the last episode announcing the crumbling of Dale's and Helen's private lives as well. See the brilliant trailer below:

 

NANCY TRAVIS TO REUNITE WITH TIM ALLEN IN HIS NEW RECORD BREAKING SITCOM SHIFTING GEARS

  NANCY TRAVIS TO REUNITE  

WITH TIM ALLEN IN SHIFTING GEARS SITCOM

 After playing his loving wife in Last Man Standing, Nancy Travis will join Tim Allen in his new sitcom SHIFTING GEARS as well. The sitcom which became ABC's most watched premiere of all times with over 17 million viewers two weeks ago, will see Nancy guest star as a spirited widow named Charlotte, who connects with Allen’s character, Matt. This will basically be the first time for us to see Tim have a love interest in any of his sitcoms, since he always had a wife in them but in the new one his wife died from heart attack and he lives alone before his estranged daughter moves in back into the house with her kids. Shifting Gears airs Wednesdays on ABC and streams on Hulu.

SEE HEARTFELT EXTENDED TRAILER FOR TIM ALLEN'S NEW MULTICAM SITCOM SHIFTING GEARS WITH KAT DENNINGS AND SEANN WILLIAM SCOTT

  SHIFTING GEARS  

NEW TIM ALLEN SITCOM  ARRIVES JANUARY

ABC has issued an extended trailer for January 8th new Tim Allen's multicamera sitcom SHIFTING GEARS which reveals more about why his daughter moves in with his character with her kids and it looks

The series starts January 8th and will stream on Hulu too

like there will be quality heartfelt drama too beside the laughs. To air Wednesday nights, it will see Allen starring as Matt, the stubborn, widowed owner of a classic car restoration shop Parker Customs. When Matt’s estranged daughter, Riley (Kat Dennings), and her teenage kids move into his house, the real restoration begins.

 

WHO ELSE IS IN THE CAST?

Seann William Scott will play Gabriel, a family friend of Matt and Riley who works in the shop with Matt. Daryl “Chill” Mitchell stars as Stitch, a former Marine” and “a mechanic at the shop, Maxwell Simkins as Carter and Barrett Margolis as Georgia, Riley's kids. Also announced as guest stars are Brenda Song, as Caitlyn, a former high school classmate of Riley’s who is now the assistant principal of the school, and Jenna Elfman who has been announced as Eve Drake, a spirited choreographer and owner of the dance studio across from Parker Customs.

 

 

WE ARE WISHING YOU A HAPPY NEW 2025 FROM THE HOLLYWOOD SPY HEADQUARTERS

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT TIM ALLEN'S NEW MULTICAM SITCOM SHIFTING GEARS WITH KAT DENNINGS AND SEANN WILLIAM SCOTT

  SHIFTING GEARS  

NEW TIM ALLEN SITCOM  ARRIVES JANUARY

ABC has given a January 8th start date to Tim Allen's new multicamera sitcom SHIFTING GEARS and today you can check out brand new cast photos and trailer. To air Wednesday nights, it will see Allen starring as Matt, the stubborn, widowed owner of a classic car restoration shop Parker Customs. When Matt’s estranged daughter, Riley (Kat Dennings), and her teenage kids move into his house, the real restoration begins.

WHO ELSE IS IN THE CAST?

Seann William Scott will play Gabriel, a family friend of Matt and Riley who works in the shop with Matt. Daryl “Chill” Mitchell stars as Stitch, a former Marine” and “a mechanic at the shop, Maxwell Simkins as Carter and Barrett Margolis as Georgia, Riley's kids. Also announced as guest stars are Brenda Song, as Caitlyn, a former high school classmate of Riley’s who is now the assistant principal of the school, and Jenna Elfman who has been announced as Eve Drake, a spirited choreographer and owner of the dance studio across from Parker Customs.

 

SEE FIRST LOOK AND AIR DATE FOR TIM ALLEN'S NEW MULTICAM SITCOM SHIFTING GEARS WITH KAT DENNINGS AND SEANN WILLIAM SCOTT

  SHIFTING GEARS  

NEW TIM ALLEN SITCOM GETS AIRDATE AT ABC

ABC has given a January 8th start date to Tim Allen's new multicamera sitcom SHIFTING GEARS. To air Wednesday nights, it will see Allen starring as Matt, the stubborn, widowed owner of a classic car restoration shop. When Matt’s estranged daughter, Riley (Kat Dennings), and her teenage kids move into his house, the real restoration begins. Seann William Scott will play Gabriel, a family friend of Matt and Riley who works in the shop with Matt. Daryl “Chill” Mitchell stars as Stitch, Maxwell Simkins as Carter and Barrett Margolis as Georgia. All of this seasons new multicams have got full season orders due to good ratings, Poppas House and Georgie and Mandy's First Wedding will have 18, and Reba's Happy's Place 16 episodes.

SEANN WILLIAM SCOTT JOINS TIM ALLEN'S NEW MULTICAMERA SITCOM SHIFTING GEARS AT ABC

  SEANN WILLIAM SCOTT  

JOINS NEW TIM ALLEN SITCOM AT ABC

ABC has decided to replace the character of Nick, played by Froy Gutierrez, by a completely new character in Tim Allen's upcoming new multicamera sitcom SHIFTING GEARS. Seann William Scott will play Gabriel, a family friend of Matt (Tim Allen) and Riley (Kat Dennings) who works in the shop with Matt. To start shooting next month, it sees Allen starring as Matt, the stubborn, widowed owner of a classic car restoration shop. When Matt’s estranged daughter, Riley, and her teenage kids move into his house, the real restoration begins. Nick, Matt’s son and Riley’s game coder younger brother, will not be part of the series and will be replaced by the character of Gabriel. Daryl “Chill” Mitchell stars as Stitch, Maxwell Simkins as Carter and Barrett Margolis as Georgia.

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT COMPELLING TV DRAMA THE NEWSREADER SEASON 3 WITH SAM REID, ANNA TORV

   THE NEWSREADER  

SEASON THREE ARRIVING THIS AUTUMN?

At least that is what we are expecting, for the third season of brilliant Australian series THE NEWSREADER to arrive probably in September to ABC. Anna Torv and Sam Reid are leading the show

Third season was shot earlier this January

again alongside William McInnes, Marg Downey, Chum Ehelepola, Stephen Peacocke, Michelle Lim Davidson, Chai Hansen, Phillipa Northeast and Daniel Henshall.  

 

SEASON THREE STORY

We first met Dale Jennings (Reid) and Helen Norville (Torv) in 1986 when a fledgling Dale was desperate to be a star newsreader, and Helen was fighting to be taken seriously as a journalist. Now Dale and Helen have finally achieved both these long held dreams. Dale is News At Six’s ‘King of News’, fronting the show solo he has become the most beloved name in news, a Gold Logie nominee, permanently number one in the nightly ratings. Meanwhile Helen’s fearless international reporting has won her great acclaim. But when a cynical network move sees the two former lovers pitted in direct competition, their kinship will be tested as never before. Over the course of 1989, Helen and Dale will compete to cover a cascade of historical events, from the Exxon Valdez oil spill, to the Tiananmen Square massacre, the boycotts of South Africa’s Apartheid, and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

 

ABC REVEALS CAST FOR TY BURRELL'S NEW MULTICAMERA SITCOM PILOT FORGIVE & FORGET

 FORGIVE & FORGET SITCOM 

LEAD CAST UNVEILED AT ABC

ABC has found the actors that will join Ty Burrell's new multicamera sitcom pilot FORGIVE & FORGET which follows the perennial life of the party Hank (Ty Burrell). After an unexpected diagnosis, Hank reconnects with his responsible adult son Ben (Rodriguez Marquette) in hopes of making new memories together. Rodriguez Marquette will play Ben, Hank’s responsible adult son, Diana Maria Riva will play Maria, Hank’s lively ex-wife and Ben’s nostalgic and affectionate mom. Kimia Behpoornia will play Izzy, Hank’s confident and blunt memory care therapist.

MIRANDA OTTO, DEBI MAZAR, JESSICA DE GOUV IN THE FIRST TRAILER FOR ABC'S PERIOD SET SERIES LADIES IN BLACK

  LADIES IN BLACK TRAILER 

FOR NEW ABC PERIOD SET TV SERIES

Australian broadcaster ABC has released first trailer for their new series LADIES IN BLACK a six part drama with Debi Mazar, Miranda Otto, and Jessica De Gouw as a group of women who fling open their shop doors to the fabulous 60s!  It starts airing June 16th.

FOLLOWING ON FROM THE 2018

film of the same name and drawing inspiration from the much-loved 1993 novel, the series takes place six months after the events of the original story, where amidst this backdrop of major societal shifts, the women embracing more freedom and independence are forced to confront personal choices and challenges which cast shadows over their once cherished dreams.

 

KAT DENNINGS JOINS TIM ALLEN'S NEW MULTICAMERA SITCOM SHIFTING GEARS AT ABC

   KAT DENNINGS JOINS   

TIM ALLEN IN SHIFTING GEARS SITCOM

Well it did not take long for Tim Allen to find himself a daughter for his new ABC multicam sitcom SHIFTING GEARS in which he will play Matt, the stubborn, widowed owner of a classic car restoration shop. When Matt’s estranged daughter Riley (Kat Dennings) and her teenage kids move into his house, the real restoration begins. Riley butted heads with her father growing up and left to marry the boyfriend he hated. Now divorced, Riley’s forced to move back home with two kids, hoping she and her dad can make it work this time.

MELISSA PETERMAN JOINS REBA MCENTIRE'S NEW MULTICAM SITCOM AT NBC, ABC ORDERS TY BURRELL'S NEW MULTICAM PILOT FORGIVE & FORGET

 NEW MULTICAMERA SITCOMS 

REBA MCENTIRE,MELISSA PETERMAN AT NBC

The latest new multicamera sitcom pilot to be ordered is an untitled one over at NBC which will follow Bobbie (Reba McEntire) who inherits her father’s restaurant and is less than thrilled to discover that she has a new business partner in the half-sister (Belissa Escobedo) she never knew she had. Melissa Peterman will play a bartender at the tavern who wishes she was Bobbie’s sister. Pablo Castelblanco will play Steve, the accountant for the tavern who does his work at the bar. He has OCD and doesn’t like change. Beside new Tim Allen sitcom, rival ABC has ordered a pilot for FORGIVE & FORGET which follows perennial life-of-the-party Hank (Ty Burrell). After an unexpected diagnosis, Hank reconnects with his responsible adult son Ben in hopes of making new memories together.

ABC ORDERS NEW TIM ALLEN MULTICAM SITCOM SHIFTING GEARS PILOT, CBS NEW YOUNG SHELDON MULTICAM SPIN OFF WITH EMILY OSMENT AND MONTANA JORDAN, NBC SOMETHING WICKED

    NEW TIM ALLEN SITCOM    

PILOT SHIFTING GEARS ORDERED AT ABC

After the massive successes with Home Improvement and Last Man Standing, Tim Allen and producers Mike Scully and Julie Thacker Scully are returning to ABC who has just ordered a pilot for their new multi camera sitcom SHIFTING GEARS. Allen will play Matt, described as a stubborn widower who owns a classic car shop. When Matt’s estranged daughter and her teenage kids move into his house, the real restoration will begin though. Meanwhile, CBS has ordered a multicam pilot for Chuck Lorre's Young Sheldon spin off following Georgie (Montana Jordan) and Mandy (Emily Osment) as they raise their young family in Texas while navigating the challenges of adulthood, parenting and marriage. Rival NBC has ordered SOMETHING WICKED mutlicam sitcom pilot with June Diane Raphael as lead. It is described as a comedy with a Bewitched-type premise and an homage to TV sitcom classics. It examines the condition of modern adult womanhood and how even with witchcraft, balancing everything is impossible.

THE NEWSREADER SERIES WITH SAM REID, ANNA TORV GETS THIRD SEASON! ABC SCORES MAJOR FUNDING FOR NEWSREADER AND LADIES IN BLACK SERIES

 THE NEWSREADER TV SERIES 

SEASON THREE CONFIRMED

After huge success of the first season and then great ratings with the second one, best Australian series in last decade THE NEWSREADER is officially getting a third season as well on ABC and on BBC in UK. Starring Sam Red and Anna Torv as the stars of News at Six, the six-part third installment will continue digging behind the indelible images of the 1980s for a compelling, intimate, vital look at an era of great change! The third season will be getting a share of $10 million funding from Screen Australia!

  LADIES IN BLACK TV SERIES

Ladies in Black will have six episodes

It is interesting that part of that massive funding will also go to the new TV series adaptation of Madeleine St John's best selling book The Woman in Black which was previously already adapted into a film with Juliette Binoche back in 2018. The series will be called LADIES IN BLACK and will be telling the story of a group of department store employees in 1959 Sydney. It is set primarily during the Christmas rush period when young school leaver, Lisa, joins the women. The six part series, also done for ABC, will see the women enter the sixties. Miranda Otto, Debi Mazar, Jessica de Gouw lead the cast of the brand new series shot last winter in Australia. 

 

WHAT TO EXPECT FROM SEASON TWO OF THE AWARD WINNING SERIES THE NEWSREADER WITH SAM REID AND ANNA TORV?

  THE NEWSREADER SERIES 

WHAT TO EXPECT FROM SEASON 2

After scoring massive success and winning awards, Australian series THE NEWSREADER is coming back with the second season next year with Sam Read and Anna Torv returning as news anchors following major events from the 1980s. The creators of the show, which airs on ABC in Australia, BBC

The second season should arrive sometime next year

in UK, Arte in France and Germany and Viaplay in Scandinavia, have spoken to Drama Quarterly, revealing that season 2 moves the action forward as the News at Six team enter 1987 and 1988, as does The Newsreader’s music, fashion and hairstyling. A year after season one, Helen and Dale are established as The Golden Couple of News. To the outside world, they present a glowing image of success and romance. But the truth is more complex. As 1987 rolls along, global stocks will soar and crash, Australia will prepare to celebrate its bicentennial year, there will be elections, and the separation of Diana and Charles, and Helen and Dale grapple with who they really want to be in life – and whether they can tread that path together. Daniel Gillies and Philippa Northeast expand the second season cast of the series as brand new characters. Since both Reid and Torv are now shooting new shows in USA, it is not clear if they will be available for a possible season three.