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Airdate: Top of the Lake: China Girl

Jane Campion drama sequel with Elisabeth Moss & Gwendoline Christie gets a Free to Air broadcast.

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Another drama title has snuck into ABC’s guide with 2017’s  Top of the Lake: China Girl getting a free to air broadcast from tonight.

This is a sequel to Jane Campion’s AU / NZ 2013 drama.

Filmed in Sydney the cast includes Elisabeth Moss, Gwendoline Christie, Nicole Kidman and Ewen Leslie.

Top of the Lake: China Girl is a crime mystery story that finds Detective Robin Griffin recently returned to Sydney and trying to rebuild her life. When the body of an Asian girl washes up on Bondi Beach, there appears little hope of finding the killer, until Robin realises “China Girl” didn’t die alone. Robin looks to the investigation to restore herself, but her problems are personal. Haunted by a daughter given up at birth, Robin desperately wants to find her, yet dreads revealing the truth of her conception. But her search to discover “China Girl’s” identity will take her into the city’s darkest recesses and closer than she could have imagined to the secrets of her own heart.

Top of the Lake: China Girl sees Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid’s Tale, Mad Men) reprise her Golden Globe winning role as Detective Robin Griffin. She is joined by Gwendoline Christie (Game of Thrones, Star Wars: The Force Awakens) and Nicole Kidman.

Also joining the cast are David Dencik (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Alice Englert (Beautiful Creatures, Jonathan Strange And Mr Norrell) and Ewen Leslie (The Daughter).

Filmed in Sydney, Top of the Lake: China Girl received rave reviews and a standing ovation at its international premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, the first time the festival had screened a television series.

Top of the Lake: China Girl is directed by Oscar® winner Jane Campion (Bright Star, The Piano), and Ariel Kleiman (Partisan) and co-written by Campion and Gerard Lee. Top of the Lake is being produced by Philippa Campbell (Rain, Top of the Lake season one) and Libby Sharpe (Jewboy). Executive producers are Campion with See-Saw’s Emile Sherman, Iain Canning (The King’s Speech, Shame) and Jamie Laurenson, alongside Lucy Richer for the BBC.

Top of the Lake: China Girl is co-produced by BBC First and Foxtel with BBC Two, See-Saw Films, BBC UKTV in New Zealand, SundanceTV and Hulu in the United States, ARTE in France and BBC Worldwide.

8:30pm Fridays on ABC.

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  2. Have always wanted to see this. I never saw the original series from 2013. Can viewers tune in having not seen the first series and be able to ‘catch up’?

    1. series 1 is also on iview it is better scenery, series 2 was just shot in the dark with every theme going thrown in for good measure!

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