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Airdate: Underbelly: Squizzy

As tipped Underbelly: Squizzy launches the night of The Block finale.

2013-07-14_0004As tipped by TV Tonight, Underbelly: Squizzy begins on Nine at 8:30pm Sunday July 28.

While the network is yet to confirm it, the drama will follow the finale of The Block. Together with Big Brother the following night, this makes for a powerful combo on Nine.

The much-anticipated series Underbelly: Squizzy is to premiere Sunday, July 28, at 8.30pm on Nine. Spanning the years 1915 to 1927, Underbelly: Squizzy chronicles the exploits of Joseph Theodore Leslie Taylor, known to all as “Squizzy” – the vertically challenged crime king whose ego and ambition knew no boundaries.

With an unquenchable thirst for money and power, Squizzy also yearned for respect and fame and was not averse to betraying friends and followers who stood in his way.

A master manipulator, he courted the press and entertained the masses with daring accounts of his criminal exploits, graduating from simple theft to loftier heists that gained him maximum media coverage. He ultimately created a public persona that made him the first superstar gangster of the 20th century.

With rising star Jared Daperis in the title role, the dynamic cast includes Susie Porter, as matriarch Rosie Taylor, alongside Luke Ford, Dan Wyllie, Nathan Page, Richard Cawthorne, Ashley Zukerman, Matt Boesenberg, Diana Glenn, Ken Radley, Andrew Ryan, Fletcher Humphrys and Peter Moon. Camille Keenan, Elise Jansen and Gracie Gilbert play the three very different women who loved, and eventually lost, this complex criminal.

Longstanding series producers Peter Gawler and Elisa Argenzio helm the production, with David Caesar, Andrew Prowse, Karl Zwicky and Shawn Seet directing. Des Monaghan and Greg Haddrick from Screentime, a Banijay Group company, and the Nine Network’s Jo Rooney and Andy Ryan, are the Executive Producers.

Des Monaghan, Executive Chairman of Screentime, said: “Squizzy loved women and they loved him, which may explain why he became such a legendary figure and his story endures. He was to the 20th century what Ned Kelly was to the 19th.”

12 Responses

  1. @J Bar Would you prefer that Holden started making clothes instead of cars, so as not to compete head-to-head with Ford? When will Holden ever learn?!

  2. So it looks like we’re going to have Underbelly vs Ripper Street vs Mr Selfridge. Three costume dramas against each other on the main networks. Yet again, we have three programs aimed at similar audiences all going up against each other. The networks never learn.

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