Prisoner fans all locked up
There are 2 Melbourne-based events for fans of Prisoner and prison-based TV dramas.
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Prisoner is about to reach its 35th anniversary and the show’s Fan Club will celebrate 25 years with a fan event bbq this weekend in inner Melbourne.
Appearing will be Lois Callender (Alice “Lurch” Jenkins), Louise Siversen (Lou Kelly), Maxine Klibingaitis (Bobbie Mitchell), Barbara Jungwirth (Lorna Young), Marian Dimmick (Officer Radcliffe) plus Kerry Tucker Script Consultant for Wentworth and The Age columnist Ben Pobjie as host.
Tix for Prisoner tragics are $90 and the event kicks off from 3pm.
More info is at Partners in Crime on Facebook.
Meanwhile the Australian Centre for the Moving Image has a TV Behind Bars forum event on Thursday 27 February exploring TV shows set in prisons.
Examining the first series of Orange in the New Black, as well as Australia’s own jail-house television including the iconic Prisoner and the new drama series Wentworth, speakers Clementine Ford, Byron Bache, Jess McGuire and Ben Pobjie will use their pop cultural smarts to discuss why prison dramas are one of television’s most enduring genres.
Last year, the American comedy-drama series Orange is the New Black became a breakout success. Taking viewers into the world of a federal women’s prison, the series follows the journey of soon-to-be-married Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling), who has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for a crime she committed ten years ago. Created by Jenji Kohan (Weeds), the series is based on the memoir Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison, by Piper Kerman.
With the theme of life in prison again dominating our small screens, TV Behind Bars will ask the question: why exactly do we have such a fascination with life in the lock-up?
Live in the Studio is held regularly at ACMI and sees a host of industry experts and luminaries, academics, aficionados and pop-culture sovereigns get together for a series of live talks, screenings and performances that revel in TV past and present. Providing a hub for TV enthusiasts to celebrate the finer points of the tube, Live in the Studio is the perfect way to indulge a love of the small screen.