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Returning: Secret City

Back in March, Foxtel's political drama goes "Under the Eagle."

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Secret City: Under the Eagle, the second instalment of Foxtel’s political drama, begins in March.

Anna Torv (Fringe, Mindhunter) returns as Harriet Dunkley and alongside Jacki Weaver, Sacha Horler, Marcus Graham and Justin Smith.

Joining the cast are Danielle Cormack (Wentworth, Rake) who plays maverick Independent MP Karen Kotoufides, Don Hany (Offspring, Tangle) who plays Australian Prime Minister Ewan Garrity and Rob Collins (The Wrong Girl, Cleverman) who plays Lieutenant Joseph Sullivan plus Andrew MacFarlane (Glitch, Devil’s Playground), Joel Tobeck (Tangle, The Doctor Blake Mysteries), Louisa Mignone (Rake, Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries),

Filmed in Parliament House and locations across Canberra and Sydney, all six episodes will be available for streaming at On Demand or screening weekly on FOX Showcase.

Secret City: Under the Eagle picks up with Harriet Dunkley (Torv), not long out of prison and unwittingly ensnared in a military and political cover-up with Catriona Bailey’s (Weaver) fingerprints all over it. Harriet’s search for the truth leads her back into Canberra’s corridors of power, this time working for a maverick Independent MP (Cormack). What she unearths is a military program so secret not even the Prime Minister (Hany) is aware of it and begs the question of who is really running the country?

Secret City: Under the Eagle is written by Matt Cameron (writer/co-producer/creator- Sunshine, writer/producer- Jack Irish) and Belinda Chayko (showrunner/writer- Safe Harbour, story producer/writer- Barracuda) who both wrote for the first series and playwright Angela Betzien (Eggs, The Hanging) and Elise McCredie (Sunshine, Nowhere Boys).

Stephen Corvini (Safe Harbour, Hyde and Seek) is producer for the series, Matt Cameron is showrunner and Executive Producers are Foxtel’s Head of Drama Penny Win and Drama development executive Carly Heaton and Penny Chapman from Matchbox Pictures.

Secret City: Under the Eagle is directed by Tony Krawitz (The Kettering Incident, Devil’s Playground) and Daniel Nettheim (Doctor Who, Broadchurch).

The first series of Secret City was inspired by the best-selling novels The Marmalade Files and The Mandarin Code, written by political journalists Chris Uhlmann and Steve Lewis who join this series as story consultants.

Secret City: Under the Eagle is a Matchbox Pictures production for Foxtel, supported by Create NSW and Screen Canberra. NBCUniversal International Distribution will distribute the series worldwide.

8:30pm Monday March 4 on FOX Showcase.

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  2. You cant blame Foxtel for renewing the usual ubiquitous Australian contract actors, those familiar faces that you see in nearly every Australian show and advertisement that receives a reasonable budget, as Secret City does have some overseas sales potential the opportunity was available to introduce some new talent perhaps even from overseas to raise the charisma bar a notch or two for Secret City and compliment the international experience of Anna Torv. As Aussie actors go I think Anna’s old Fringe star John Noble would have played a good devious PM, perhaps after a leadership coup.

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