PERIOD SET SERIES OPERATION BUFFALO STARTS TONIGHT INSPIRED BY BRITISH 1950S NUCLEAR BOMB TESTS IN AUSTRALIA

   'OPERATION BUFFALO'

NEW 1950S SET TV SERIES

Operation Buffalo starts tonight on ABC

If you don't know what to watch tonight and you happen to live Down Under, new period set series OPERATION BUFFALO starts tonight, Sunday, May 31st at Australian ABC. Ewen Leslie, who is quickly becoming one of their busiest actors, leads the cast of the six part captivating drama, set in Maralinga, South Australia, at the height of the Cold War. At a remote army base carrying out British nuclear testing, paranoia runs rife and nuclear bombs are not the only things being tested, as loyalty, love, and betrayal are

The 1950s set series will run weekly in six episodes till July

pitted against each other. The series is done as a satire on that event. Jessica De Gouw, James Cromwell, Benedict Wall and our dearest Angus McLaren also star.

  Most Of The Bad Things In The Series Really Did Happen
From 1956, over a period of seven years, the Brits detonated seven nuclear bombs in South Australia, one of them was double the power of the Hiroshima bomb, which killed almost 150,000 directly and indirectly.

Ewen Leslie is highly decorated military engineer Major Leo Carmichael tasked with supervising construction of the British atomic test towers at Maralinga, in the South Australian desert.

Operation Buffalo is the fictionalisation of the first bomb test at Maralinga and all the farcical political posturing and pressure surrounding it. Major Leo Carmichael (Ewen Leslie) is the second-in-command at the Maralinga base, an engineer tasked to build the towers from which the bombs are dropped.

James Cromwell is the unreliable commandant General ‘Cranky’ Crankford

He’s a WWII war hero and effectively runs the base with the Commandant, General Crankford (James Cromwell), too whimsical to really be in charge. When Leo is told the first test has been moved up to accommodate the British

Angus McLaren, in the background, also stars in the new series

Ambassador’s schedule, he faces challenges on multiple fronts with a missing prostitute, publicity-mad politicians, the arrival of a new meteorologist (Jessica De Gouw) and an Indigenous family who government policy says officially doesn’t exist.

SPY'S GUIDE THROUGH PERIOD SET SERIES TO AIR AT SERIES MANIA 2020: LUMINARIES, LITTLE BIRDS, OPERATION BUFFALO, GIRL FROM THE SHORE, SNOWPIERCER

SERIES MANIA 2020

SPY'S PERIOD SET SERIES PICK

It's that time of the year when Series Mania, MipCom, Canneseries and similar events promoting new series are near, and today the spy gives you the pick of period set shows that will be presented at Series Mania in March.

The Luminaries

Anna Wetherell has travelled to 1865 New Zealand to forge a new life. On the last day of her voyage, a romantic first encounter with the radiant Emery

Six part BBC series stars Marton Csokas, Eva Green, Eve Hewson

Staines fills her with great expectations for what lies ahead. However, the scheming fortune-teller Lydia Wells has other ideas for Anna and lays a trap to ensure that the planned rendezvous between the young lovers never takes place.

 Little Birds

Tangier, 1955. New York heiress Lucy Savage (Juno Temple) is fresh off the transatlantic steamer and ready for love and marriage in exotic climes. But

Sky's six part series also stars Jean Marc Barr, Hugh Skinner, Matt Lauria

when her husband Hugo does not receive her in the way she expected, she spins off into an unfamiliar world and goes on a witty, moving and provocative journey towards freedom and independence.

Operation Buffalo

South Australia, 1956. The Menzies government has just welcomed British atomic bomb testing at Maralinga. Charged with keeping the nuclear base running smoothly is Major Leo Carmichael, an Australian Army engineer and

ABC Australia series stars Ewen Leslie, James  Cromwell, Jessica de Gouv

WWII hero. But testing the most dangerous weapon in the world is not an easy task with a Commanding Officer who is not fit for the job; a new meteorologist asking too much questions; and the government and press watching their every move. And as it turns out, the land of Maralinga may not be as uninhabited as it seems.

Snowpiercer

Set more than seven years after the world became a frozen wasteland, it centres on the remnants of humanity who inhabit a perpetually moving train,

TNT ten episode series staring Jennifer Connelly airs May 31st

with 1,001 cars, that circles the globe. Class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival play out in this riveting television adaptation based on the graphic novel series and film!

Wonderland. Girl From The Shore

This is a story about a mysterious woman (Olga Kurylenko), pretty as a picture. A woman in danger. A woman who refuses to love and to be loved. Of

It is a six episode French language series

a man who travels, from Paris to Biarritz, and finds himself lost during the summer of 1960. Pierre Deladonchamps, Pierre Perrier, Barbara Schulz, Simon Abkarian also star.