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Airdate: Dead Gorgeous

The ABC has backtracked from plans to give ABC3 the World Premiere of Dead Gorgeous, its new children's drama and instead will launch it on ABC1.

The ABC has backtracked from plans to give ABC3 the World Premiere of Dead Gorgeous, its new Australian-produced children’s drama.

The spooky series about 3 girls who died in 1861 but return to their estate as ghosts 150 years later will instead launch on ABC1.

Produced by Burberry Productions, the series features Melissa Howard (Rebecca), Poppy Lee Friar (Sophie), Alexandra Coppinger (Hazel), Blake Davis (Jonathan), Chris Milligan (David), Jay Kennedy Harris (Charlie), Aisha Dee (Christine), Gerry Connolly (Mr Griffith), Julie Forsyth (Haiwyn Sinclaire) and Julie Eckersley (Agatha Heggleby).

It begins 5:20pm Monday April 5th on ABC1 and is replayed from 8pm April 13 on ABC3.

Dead Gorgeous follows the comical adventures of three beautiful, strong-willed teenage sisters Rebecca (Melissa Howard), Sophie (Poppy Lee Friar) and Hazel Ainsworth (Alexandra Coppinger) who just happen to be ghosts!

When the three sisters died in a tragic coach accident in 1861, alongside their beloved nanny Mildred, they thought it was obviously some sort of cosmic ‘glitch’.

Taking matters into her own hands, Rebecca makes an application to the Ghost Council, the high court of the afterlife, requesting them to return her and her sisters back to the world of the living. But the afterlife is much like real life, bureaucracy is slow and forms get lost or misfiled. For the sisters, the wait was 150 years, stuck in limbo.

Upon their return to the estate, the girls quickly realise their home has been turned into a school. They now find themselves in a world unbeknown to them, and under the watchful eye of their colourful, ghostly guardian – Agatha (Julie Eckersley). The sisters can stay under one circumstance – no one is to find out their secret otherwise they will be sent back to the afterlife.

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  1. Wolf creek is quite scary lol.

    Oz Telly Addict, why not look for a dvd player region hack code? That’ll make your dvd player play dvds from any region.

    Yeah, dg has a lot of memorable quotes.

  2. They just showed the first episode on tv, it’s being repeated each weekday here in Britain on the CBBC programme, hooray! There are some great lines even in this first one, which I’d forgotten…..

    Jonathan: ” You… you don’t have a pulse?”
    Hazel: “Yes, that is because we are technically dead.”

    Hee hee, the humour scores every time in the delivery and the writing is just brilliant. And SO many visual gags. Great fun.

    By the way, DG1, Wolf Creek looks a bit spooky and severe for me!

  3. I will search for Wolf Creek and take a look, thanks DG1.

    You’re so lucky to have DG Volume 2 coming out next month, there’s still not even the tiniest hint of it over here. Not a blip on the horizon or anything. I might go to the BBC studios in London and wave a protest banner outside and go on hunger strike for a fortnight, or something like that. Or perhaps I’ll just send another email to them begging for a release date. Yes, that makes more sense….

  4. Picnic at hanging rock? I will check it out. Wolf creek is a good oz film. I really enjoyed the suspense of it.

    I just found out dead gorgeous volume two is coming out 30th Sept.

  5. I saw a brilliant Aussie film at the weekend, Picnic At Hanging Rock. Wow what a film!! If you haven’t seen it, then try and see it some time because it’s so well made and definitely off-centre. I even listened to the commentary as well. It looks fabulous and the story is very odd, and it’s very un-Hollywood. I can’t think of too many Aussie films apart from that one, unless anyone can suggest something.

    The reason I’m telling you this is because the main character in it, called Miranda, was played by a girl who didn’t originally audition for that part and that made me wonder Alex, did you audition for Hazel’s part, or one of the others? And did the other actors land the parts they auditioned for? I can’t imagine the cast in different roles, but maybe things turn out unexpectedly.

  6. Yeah it’s winter, Dead Gorgeous took place from September to December but casting and read throughs were before that.

  7. Welcome back Oz Telly Addict.

    How were your holidays? No tim tams? What a shame. You can try them when you come to Australia, one day, hopefully lol.

    Yeah, it’s Winter, isn’t it Alex? Our Winter’s from June to August, the coldest month being July. I’m pretty sure there’s Winter season everywhere, seeing how the earth rotates and all that stuff lol. Our sunny barbeque season is in December. Our Christmases are hot. No snow.

  8. Alex – it’s winter in Australia? I thought it was always a sunny barbecue season where you are. I had no idea Australia had winter. How cold does it get? We’re having summer here in England, but I don’t think anyone’s noticed. Windy, rainy, grey and about 13 Celsius today! And while I’m thinking about it, what time of the year did you film DG, because all those episodes looked nice and warm to me. Proper Aussie weather! Lol.

  9. Wow, I took a look at the Eistoddfod pages on the web (there’s a good one on wendysamantha.com Alex, well done there!) and it looks like a brilliant idea to get kids into performing and dealing with being well and truly put on the spot. How scary would that be in front of an audience? Very, very scary I bet! By the way, you did extremely well to land a third place in the under 16s, Alex. Was the whole thing fun?

    I was going to order Dead Gorgeous vol One from chaos.com, but Australia’s Region setting is different to the UK so it wouldn’t play over here. I’ll carry on being patient and wait for the BBC to get round to it.

  10. No sorry no new news yet. Manningham Eistoddfod is a competition involving reading, performances, music etc. Its sort of like a talent thingo.

  11. Hello, I’m back from hols now and I’m happy to see you’re still posting, phew!
    I bring bad news, Dead Gorgeous One – there are no Tim Tams whatsoever in Greenland, Iceland, Norway or Sweden. I was keeping an eye out on my trip and feel terribly disappointed to bring such news. England also seems to remain oblivious to them too! I did spot plenty of strangely named things to eat, even whale meat and elk, but no little Aussie biscuits!

    Alex, well done on your placings. Sadly I have no idea what a Manningham Eistoddfod is, but would love to know! And also a reading and duologue have me befuddled as well, so do tell what they involved. Sounds very theatrical to me.
    Any news on more Dead Gorgeous, or are things still quiet for you on that front?

  12. Alex, congrats for the Impromptu Reading. I don’t even know what that is lol.

    How are you anyway?

    It’s getting really cold now in Australia.

  13. No one is really talking much now are they, well Manningham Eistoddfod went well, Cammille and I placed 3rd in the Impromptu Reading and 16 years and under Duologues and Caroline and I placed 1st in the 13 years and under Duologues.

  14. I’ll still be here. I’m back at school. It’d be great for you to see Australia, to me it is now home.

  15. Nice. Holidays! Mine just ended. Have heaps of fun lol. Dead gorgeous is filmed in Melbourne…in the ainsbury international school I think. I saw it in one episode.

    I will probably still be here lol posting or something haha.

  16. I’m away on my hols for a week or two now. Wish I was going to Australia, but that will have to be some time in the future, one day. I’d love to go South to North and see Alice Springs and Ularu (i think, it was Ayer’s Rock) and then see the East and South coasts for Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. Should take about four or five years to see all I want to! And I’d want to see where Dead Gorgeous is filmed as well, wherever that is. Somewhere on the southern side, I think. I hope there are still people posting comments on this site when I get back, especially about a new series or the full dvd of series one. Bye for while, everybody especially Alex and Dead Gorgeous One!

  17. Dead Gorgeous One, I have The Corpse Bride on dvd, I really liked it although the maggot on the bride always bothers me! Horrible.
    Ghostly love stories (with funny bits) seem to be few and far between but Babushka had me laughing away. That’s why I liked Dead Gorgeous so much, there are similar themes in them both. Babushka’s heavier on the spooky stuff, though.

  18. Ooh. That movie sounds interesting. I will look it up. Thanks for that recommendation Oz Telly Addict.

    I wonder if I know any ghost love stories…hmmm….The Corpse Bride is kinda a ghost love story, right? lol

  19. Alex and Dead Gorgeous One, while we’re all waiting for a new series (and the dvd!) can I recommend a great big ghost story? It’s romantic, funny and unpredictable to put it mildly. The Babushka Inheritance is not a million miles from DG, but works the other way round. The leads go back in time, not forwards. Mind you they do go forwards and backwards at certain bits.
    The secret love of a 15yr old boy dies suddenly, but he starts finding messages from her left all over the place. He has the ability to heal animals but only with her to help and guidance. Anyway, his other best friend changed school months earlier, but she keeps appearing to him in odd places dressed in old style clothes. Turns out she’s actually been bumped off and is now a confused ghost. After a weird train journey he arrives in 1890s Russia (which is where he came from), his secret love is engaged to an officer and everybody is after him – and he needs to find out why, how his friend died, and how to escape with his true love. And there’s a foul mouthed parrot in it as well. I loved it!!

  20. Yes i use twitter but rarely. I have two accounts and you can follow me on either.

  21. Extras lol. I wonder if people take acting classes just to become an extra. That would be funny.

    Alex, do you use twitter? I always hear about celebs twittering about stuff and then somehow it becomes a massive headline in a magazine. Ive tried twitter before but…I didnt get it lol

  22. My computer is disagreeing with this site at the moment so if i take a while to reply that is why. I know facebook causes a few problems I’ve experienced them and I tried to quit but in my time well…

    Well obviously extras didn’t need agents but for a titled role etc you do need an agent.

  23. Alex, was there anyone in dead gorgeous who didnt take acting lessons and/or didnt have an agent?

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