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Returning: Redfern Now

Season Two of Redfern Now begins on ABC1 soon with a stellar cast.

REDFERN NOW SERIES 2 EP 6 WHERE THE HEART ISSeason Two of Redfern Now begins at the end of the month on ABC1.

This season features a stellar cast. Season one characters returning are those portrayed by Wayne Blair, Logie winner Deborah Mailman, Ursula Yovich, Tessa Rose, Marley Sharp, Bruce Carter, Richard Green, Ewen Leslie, Lisa Flanagan, Stephen Curry, Dean Daley-Jones, Rarriwuy Hick, Aaron McGrath, and the AACTA Award-winning Leah Purcell. They are joined by Craig McLachlan, Ernie Dingo, Hamish Michael, Meyne Wyatt, Caren Pistorius, Sibylla Budd, Alicia Gardiner, Tammy Clarkson, Chris Haywood, Maya Stange, Sarah Snook, Steve Bisley and Sarah Woods.

The 6 x 1 hour season has been written by Leah Purcell, Wayne Blair, Jon Bell, Adrian Russell Wills and Steven McGregor, and are directed by Wayne Blair, Adrian Russell Wills, Beck Cole, Leah Purcell and Rachel Perkins.

“Where The Heart Is”
When Amy’s dad Richard is in an accident, her other father Peter fights to retain custody of her, but is hamstrung by his own recklessness. Richard (Oscar Redding) and Peter (Kirk Page) are a loving couple who have made a life, family, and home for themselves raising their daughter, Amy (Saskia Williscroft).

Like every other couple they have found themselves in a funk, and with pressure from work and tension increasing, Peter and Richard start arguing.

But in just one morning their whole world is turned upside down when Richard is involved in a freak car accident. As he lies on life support, Peter is the one who has to break the news to Richard’s estranged mother, Margaret (Noni Hazlehurst). It is the call a mother never wants to get and one Peter doesn’t want to make. Richard’s condition goes from bad to worse, and as his next of kin, Peter is faced with the heartbreaking decision of switching off his life support. Under protest from Margaret the decision is made.

8:30pm Thursday October 31 ABC1.

6 Responses

  1. I agree with JimboJones. The last series was seriously underwritten, slow and often repetitive and hard to watch. If this first episode storyline is indicative of the series then it is just another soap with a good dash of ABC earnestness. If I ever hear “their whole world is turned upside down” then you know the clichés will be coming thick and fast.

  2. “Like every other couple they have found themselves in a funk, and with pressure from work and tension increasing, Peter and Richard start arguing.”

    Wow – another soap opera. Just what Australian TV needs right now. Each night I go to sleep thinking to myself – what this country needs is another soap opera where grumpy people yell at each other about domestic squables, custody battles, turning off life support machines, giving up smoking, and a hundred and one other melodramas.

    It’s good to see the writers of this show are exploring the full range of the human experience, all done in a tone that ranges from morose to even more morose. Can’t wait.

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