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Rescue: Special Ops 2 to roll

Nine begins filming season two of its emergency rescue drama on Monday, with all of the rescue team cast returning.

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Nine will begin filming the second season of RESCUE Special Ops on Monday (technically that’s it’s correct spelling).

The series will again film 13 episodes in and around Sydney with all of the major cast returning: Les Hill, Gigi Edgley, Peter Phelps, Libby Tanner, Daniel Amalm, Katherine Hicks and Andrew Lees.

The second season of Nine / Southern Star Entertainment drama will feature a mine collapse, a child abduction, a marina fire, a train wreck, a light plane crash and more.

Chase (Andrew Lees) and Dean Gallagher (Les Hill) are living together, Lara (Gigi Edgley) is married to Hamish (Wil Traval) and boss Michelle (Libby Tanner) juggles motherhood, her relationship with Detective Ian Johnson (Tim McCunn) and her job as Rescue unit manager.

It is unclear if Gary Sweet, who played the father of the Gallagher brothers, is returning.

Producers Sarah Smith and Julie McGauran said: “Series two will return with all the key ingredients that made series one so popular. There will be plenty of action, great new characters, returning familiar faces, Aussie humour, chemistry, mystery and intrigue.”

The series was a moderate success for Nine last year, competing in a difficult Sunday night slot.

Jo Horsburgh, Head of Nine Drama, said: “We were thrilled with the audience and critics’ positive reception to the first series of RESCUE Special Ops and now we’re excited to bring an even faster and more action-packed RESCUE Special Ops to screens in 2010.”

This year Nine also adds Cops LAC to its drama slate with Kate Ritchie confirmed in a role.

TV Tonight understands Jodhi Gordon has declined a role offered in the new police drama.

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  2. It’s the same old same old with the lounge critics on these forums, bag the Aussies having a go and back the good old USA. As the old saying goes, if you don’t have anything nice to say, then don’t say anything at all! I am a shift worker and look forward to watching Rescue Special Ops, Rush and City Homicide wherever possible. Well done to all those involved in these shows and keep up the good work. There are still some loyal Aussies out there willing to back our own.

  3. I agree with Knox, I enjoyed it. I didn’t commit to start with as I thought it wuldn’t last.
    Sunday night was a tough time slot and City Homicide did struggle too.

    The actors did have a good chemisrty and having got into the 2nd half, and catching some summer repeats, i look forward to seeing how it goes!

    Go Aussie Dramas

  6. @Koverstreet. Chemistry between cast? Sadly Les Hill is the new Peter Phelps, and Peter Phelps is not a leading man. Gary Sweet proved that in Stingers and now here. And action is not necessarily drama. Frankly there’s more going on when Don Draper smokes a cigarette than anything that happens in this show. It’s not terrible, just ordinary, when there’s so much great drama to watch. Spops is formulaic.

  7. Rescue: Special Flops 2.0?

    If the ratings and content are as bad as the first series, then Nine have a major turkey on their hands. Who would renew this shite?

  8. Goodness so much hate for Network Nine. If this were on Ten, you’d all be loving it. I didn’t particularly like it, but thought it to be no better or worse than Rush.Give it a go. It can only improve.

  9. LOL Channel Nine, you make me laugh. This wasn’t a good show, didn’t get that good of ratings and was not well received by critics. Oblivious and delusional, that’s Nine for ya. Rescue Crap Name will fail even more, and Cops Crap Name sounds just as bad. They could do a 20 To 1 worst titles for tv shows the way they’re going.

  10. Really enjoyed the first series and looking forward to series 2. The actors have excellent chemistry and the show is a nice mix of action,drama and romance.

    With this show plus Sea Patrol,Underbelly and the new Cops LAC aussie drama is alive and well on Nine.

  11. I forced myself to sit through the first series, thinking all along that “hey it’s Australian” and “hey, it has to get better”. As it transpired, only the first statement was true, it got more ridiculous with every episode (a bit like Sea patrol).

    Suffice to say that this time I’ll be all “hey I wonder what else is on?”.

  12. It’s obvious that Michael Healy hasn’t a clue when it comes to drama. I agree the figures were very low last time and I don’t think it will build – too soft and soapy for prime time and the younger skewing audience it is chasing will dump it. Sea Patrol is so last century and LAC sounds equally awful. Proves that Underbelly belonged to Eddie not MH.

  13. I don’t think australian drama belongs on a Sunday night. It just hasn’t been successful. It wasn’t just Rescue: Special Ops but when City Homicide was on that night, it was only doing average numbers. US drama fits well with shows like Bones, The Good Wife, The Mentalist and CSI finding their success on Sunday night. This is why Underbelly’s move may not be so clever.

  14. The series just scraped an averaged of 1.005 Mil viewers and at times fell well below 900,000 viewers. I really can’t understand it. A network hell bent on ratings, and this show rating abysmally, they renew it? Must be the Australian Drama quota they legally have to fill. That or whatever they are putting in the cookies.

  15. Are they for real? This was the most terrible show of 2010. Even Peter Andrikidis couldn’t make good television out of the first episode. Some of the worst writing, acting and directing we have seen on Australian TV in a while. Put out a bowl of water for this one, it’s a dog, plain and simple.

  16. ”Jo Horsburgh, Head of Nine Drama, said: “We were thrilled with the audience and critics’ positive reception to the first series of RESCUE Special Ops”

    You’re thrilled? Really? Farout doesnt take much to get them off then.

    Average show, but good for Australian Drama that they’ve renewed it are letting it improve and build

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