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Cameras to resume on A Place to Call Home again in March

It's official. Seven will produce a third season of 'axed' melodrama for Foxtel.

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2014-10-25_2333Foxtel has confirmed it will revive axed series A Place to Call Home.

Seven will produce the third season for the Pay TV provider, with the full cast including Marta Dusseldorp and Noni Hazlehurst.

It is the first time an axed Free to Air drama has been revived by Subscription TV.

Foxtel’s Executive Director of Television, Brian Walsh, said he was alerted to the passionate audience when his sister called him, angry about the Seven axing.

“One day I decided to call Seven’s programming boss Angus Ross and we talked about the show a bit more and then I went off to JB Hi-Fi and bought season one on DVD and I watched half of it and thought, ‘This show is just fantastic’. It was TV melodrama at its finest,” he told News Corp.

“That triggered a whole investigation as to the popularity of the show and my sister was right, there were all these protest groups and Facebook pages and I decided there had to be a way to bring it back.”

The axing of the show triggered an angry fan backlash, including petitions and a Save A Place to Call Home website. But their passion for the Bevan Lee melodrama has paid off.

This week Foxtel officially announces its 2015 programming highlights.

News of the show’s revival was first revealed by Fairfax earlier this month.

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  1. Couldn’t be more happy! One happy Marta Dussledorp fan right here 🙂

    According to Sara Wiseman on facebook they will be showing or releasing the other version of the season 2 final – the one if it was to continue

  3. @Ronnie – people subscribe to pay TV for many different reasons. Including many who subscribe mainly for the lifestyle type content, to whom this show would probably greatly appeal, as well as people who enjoy dramas of all types. Foxtel are trying their best to appeal to a wide range of audiences and this show helps that.

    @Lizzie May – if that’s your summation of Wentworth, did you even watch it or are you just drawing a conclusion from previews? It is a drama that is right up there in quality with shows from the likes of HBO and Netflix. Of course, not all shows will please everybody.

  4. Just watched the final (Series 2) here in NZ tonight and felt I had to find out why this brilliant programme was cancelled. So thrilled and excited to read that Foxtel are bringing it back!!! This is superb quality drama at its best. So many storylines have been set up for a third series. Brian Walsh…heartfelt thanks to you very intuitive sister!!

  5. @Ronnie, you have got to be kidding. If ever a program was going to push subscription this is it. I never watched it but people were invested in this program, mainly women who make purchase decisions. Anyway first run Aussie drama is always better than more reality.

  7. now Foxtel needs a dedicated ”Australian” channel that this show, Wentworth, Devil’s Playground and other Aussie produced Foxtel dramas can be shown on..as well as classic Aussie tv shows like E-Street, Homocide etc

  8. I agree Ronnie…what a ridiculous decision from Brian Walsh. It’s a lovely show but it doesn’t belong on Foxtel. As a subscriber I want “cutting edge” drama…and Foxtel isn’t delivering. And l include Wentworth in that – violence and lesbian sex is not inspired drama. Really lazy commissioning. I might just have to rethink my subscription.

  9. At a time when the networks are struggling to finance programmes that can crack the 1 million mark, I’m baffled that Seven would renew this only for it to air on Foxtel.

  11. When this show was first axed,i suggested that another network shoud pick up the series,so it’s good to see that Foxtel has taken up my idea,lol.Since 7 is still producing this show,i assume that it will have the right to rebroadcast the series after it has been aired by Foxtel?

  12. Wonderful news. If there was one show that was not meant to end and deserves to be coming back it’s this one. I knew they shouldn’t have put “The End” at the end of season two.

  13. Incredible news! The show deserves more and justice has been done. Must say Seven still producing is interesting considering they cancelled it in the first place because of costs. Its a weird one this that is for sure.

  16. If Seven doesn’t want it on their main channel why don’t they just put it on 7TWO, “Simples”, as Sergie would say or is that too hard for their program dept to figure out? Seven sure have lost the plot lately.

  18. Come on Foxtel save the time of our lives as well!!! And if offspring doesn’t get a renewal how about that too?
    If can save one show don’t see why can’t save others.

  19. Foxtel drama commissioning is officially lost in the wilderness with this decision. If Brian Walsh doesn’t understand people subscribe to Foxtel to avoid soapy FTA melodrama then he fundamentally does not understand his subscriber.

  21. wow I guess persistence does pay off. Well done foxtel for believing in it and keeping good Australian drama going. Its great that all the cast are coming back.

    Unfortunately I dont have foxtel so I will hopefully be able to watch it online or just wait for the dvd.

  22. Fantastic News, hope it survives more than one more series, too good a show to let slip into the archives thanks Foxtel also hope it is eventually shown on 7 so that all the people that love the show and don’t have Foxtel can see it.

  25. Yes, great bloody news finally I have a reason to say thank you to Foxtel. Given Seven will be still be producing it could they possibly air it after it has screend on Foxtel I wonder.

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