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Returning: Rescue Special Ops

Season two of Rescue Special Ops begins later this month on Nine, coming to Monday nights.

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Season two of Rescue Special Ops begins on Monday, June 28 on Nine at 8.30pm, a shift from its previous timeslot of Sunday nights.

Returning cast include Les Hill, Peter Phelps, Libby Tanner, Gigi Edgley, Katherine Hicks, Andrew Lees, Daniel Amalm and Wil Traval to be joined by “new recruit” Luke Pegler. Also appearing is Madeleine West and guest stars this season are Tim McCunn, Alex Dimitriades, Salvatore Coco, Myles Pollard, Lisa Chappell, Martin Sacks, Lincoln Lewis, Georgina Haig, Damien de Montemas and Vanessa Gray.

The Southern Star Entertainment series is produced by Julie McGauran and Sarah Smith.

The new series picks up nine months after the thrilling finale of season one. Lara (Edgley) is now married to long-term boyfriend Hamish (Wil Traval), brothers Dean (Hill) and Chase (Lees) are living together, and Michelle (Tanner) has given birth to her unexpected baby, with the question everyone is asking: who is the father?

New recruit Gary “Bingo” Bing (Luke Pegler) sets pulses racing as he tries to fit in and prove his worth on the Rescue team. Meanwhile, Dean comes up against the hot firefighter Annika (Madeleine West) who challenges him on every decision, driving him wild.

This season of RESCUE Special Ops is bigger, sexier and more action-packed, with the team responding to a mine collapse, a child abduction, a marina fire, a train wreck, a light plane crash and many other emergencies.

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  2. @ Alex, there was more competition against RUSH later in the Season, as other competitors raced to the end of year ratings wins… (I was appalled that Aussies watched Beauty and the Geek Australia!!!)

  4. Hopefully it does find it’s feet, i am a supporter of Aussie drama i watch almost all of them, but if it trns out anything like season 1 it will be a disapointment. they need to decide if they are a show that tackles unrealistic situations but makes up for it with a quirky, unserious tone, which is sucessful with imports. or be a serious drama with realistic stories. they can’t continue doing rediculous things wih rediculous storylines and still expect the Audience to take the show seriously.

    it will be interesting too see what ten do with Rush if they want it to finish this year. promotion hasn’t started yet so it is probably still atleast a month away so it will probably miss out on masterchef which gave it a huge advantage last year in the early episodes. and with the commonwealth games later on you’d think it would have to start 2 weeks earlier this year. maybe it will become a twice a week show?

  5. Good News! Monday is a little slow so this will be welcomed news in my house. We should support good Aussie dramas..especially with a quality cast like this one.

  6. It’ll be interesting to see if some depth can be brought to the characters, as series one was seriously lacking. It’s a shame as it’s a pretty decent cast, and with some reasonably high profile special guests in series 2 here’s keeping fingers crossed. And even if it’s not award winning drama I’m happy to see actors and crews in work and some of our less experienced actors gaining valuable experience.

  9. This and cops LAC on nine is a bit of police drama overkill IMO. First of all, i reckon “Cops LAC” is the absolute lamest name they possibly could’ve come up with (way to americaniZe australia!), and also rescue special ops is just really unpleasant to watch. I only watched a few eps, but i was just left feeling disappointed every time. I’m not liking much that nine are coming out with at the moment. Underbelly is the only decent drama they seem to produce.

  10. Gee Adam – talk about nit-picking? You saw cars in the background after a fictional pile-up on a freeway. I thought an artist would be capable of seeing the “big picture”?

  11. If Rush replaces Glee that means it will be against Sea Patrol which will be interesting. Rush got up to 1.3 last season but then plummetted down to 0.9 for the second half of the season for some reason.

  13. Mondays is not good for me, might need to record and watch later in the week…

    I don’t know why some people are so down on some local shows, if Nine can make this one work then good on them, I’m not a huge fan of the show (I prefer RUSH) but it should be given a go and it’s amazing after a string of failures that Nine gave RSO a 2nd season.

  15. @Ronnie. “However, I am sad they feel the need to program Australian drama up against each other”
    no one has put aussie dramas against each other. There is a good possibility that CH return to its Wednesday slot and probably put criminal minds on Mon.

    This is a very high profile slot considering how bad the ratings were last year. and that it was obviously only renewed for the quota points.

    the team behind it so strong it would be good if the talent could go towards something they are good at and experienced in like the lighter serial drama/~edy.
    i watched the rerun season over summer, there are just so many things that don’t work about it.

  19. Well I congratulate Nine for blinking first – so Seven now get to decide whether they will throw Rafters or CH up against it (probably CH – it skews way older than RSO). However, I am sad they feel the need to program Australian drama up against each other – it really does divide the potential audience. I think Seven should have programmed an Aussie drama in prime time in the first half of this year – now there will be a lot of bunching of Aussie drama when Rush and CLAC go to air.

  20. I thought they might have taken advantage of the slot vacated by Underbelly. This might spoil any ideas Seven had of showing City Homicide on Monday nights but they might jump on Sunday nights now.

  21. Where is RUSH?

    This show is so wrong on all counts!

    I watched the beginning to one ep last year and they had a freeway pileup… well what seemed to be… they were all on the gravel next to the freeway … miraculously all the cars that were in the crash all landed on the side of the freeway letting the freeway run free in the back ground.

    Tacky really.

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