Renewed: Winners and Losers
Gal pal series gets a renewal for 2015 as Seven's highest rated local drama series.
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Seven’s gal pal drama Winners and Losers has been renewed for a fifth season.
The Bevan Lee-created series will resume production early in 2015 set for more tales of its best friends supporting one other through happiness and heartache, and dealing with life’s ups and downs.
“At its heart, Winners & Losers is about the unbreakable bond of friendship and that’s why it resonates with so many Australians,” said Seven’s Head of Drama, Julie McGauran. “It’s an evolving story about young women trying to make their way in life, connected by shared experiences and supporting each other along the way. We’re delighted the journey continues.”
The renewal comes after the series averaged 1.05m metro viewers across 2014, its fourth best performer of locally-produced dramas, behind INXS: Never Tear us Apart (up to 2.24m), The Killing Field (1.4m) and A Place to Call Home (1.15m).
By contrast, Lee’s own A Place to Call Home was axed because it didn’t attract enough younger viewers, before winning a late and rare reprieve through Foxtel.
Winners and Losers, which scores better in the younger demos, is renewed as the network’s highest-rated locally produced drama series ahead of Home and Away.
Next year Seven expands The Killing Field into a new drama series into Winter, adding 800 Words with Erik Thomson and a Catching Milat miniseries.
8 Responses
They must be doing something right then.I like how they have kept it youthful.America should buy the show to get some ideas how to do it right.They turned Sex and the City into a Middle aged version of this.
Shame it doesnt get shown in the UK anymore….apart from repeats of seasons 1 and 2.
i hope winners and loosers get renewed for another season, aust needs good quality drama like this
Great news, although it doesn’t surprise me.
Always good news when a local show is renewed but I wish they would get Bevan Lee back. The last two seasons have seen it turn to droll.
Enjoyed the first couple of seasons but it has become a bit tired now and well past its use- by- date
Virginia Gaye is always entertaining though.
awesome news. Love this show. I wonder if we will ever see bec return
Hopefully the storyline improves because it appears to have lost its way last season.