Airdate: Itch

New WA-based kid’s series Itch begins next week on ABC ME.

When science obsessed Itch discovers a powerful new radioactive element, he’s forced to go on the run to protect it from a sinister organisation seeking to weaponise it.

The series produced by Komixx Entertainment features Samuel Ireland, Charles Russell, Melanie Wozniak, Kylah Day, Keala Kern, Harrison Popple, & Henry Mendez. It is based on a book by Simon Mayo.

All 10 episodes were filmed in Perth & Albany.

Itchingham “Itch” Lofte lives in the small town of Seaburgh with his mum, Jude and younger sister Chloe, while his dad Nick works away on a remote mining site.

As someone who doesn’t fit in easily to the daily humdrum of Seaburgh life or with the other kids at school, Itch prefers to retreat to his rather extraordinary hobby – collecting all the elements of the periodic table.

Itch is halfway through his goal when one day a local eco activist named Cake gives him an unusually warm rock he found out by one of the old mines following an earthquake. Curious to learn more about it, Itch takes it to school to show his science teacher, Dr Flowerdew. But, when the rock seemingly makes his science class sick, further testing reveals the rock to be highly radioactive – beyond anything on Earth.

Itch discovers that the rock is in fact a new element, tentatively identified as Element 126, a source of clean energy that could both power the world, or potentially destroy it.

As an avid element collector and scientist, Itch is excited to have discovered the new find. But when a mountain biker tries to steal his backpack and his house is robbed, Itch realises someone else is after Element 126, and that he has to stop whoever it is from getting it, unaware that it’s the dark forces of Greencorp, an international energy company with dubious morals, working to get their hands on this fiendish element in order to weaponize it.

5:30pm Wednesday January 15 on ABC ME.