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Airdate: Amazing Grace

Nine's new local drama is coming to Wednesday nights.

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Nine’s new local drama series Amazing Grace is now confirmed for Wednesday nights in a 9pm slot.

Set to follow Married at First Sight, the Playmaker Media drama features Kate Jenkinson, Sigrid Thornton and Alex Dimitriades.

Behind the doors of St Brigid’s birthing centre is a captivating world of new life, love and deceit, and right at its heart is Grace (Kate Jenkinson), a beautifully flawed midwife whose world is turned upside down when Sophia (Alexandra Jensen), the daughter she gave up for adoption 17 years ago, arrives unannounced and pregnant.

Sophia’s arrival rocks Grace’s world and brings into question all the decisions that have brought her to this point in life.

While she struggles to come to terms with this bombshell, her midwifery family face challenges of their own: trainee Max (Ben O’Toole), an ex-army medic navigating his first day on the job; midwife Sasha (Kat Hoyos), secretly struggling with the emotional demands of the job; and unit manager Laney (Catherine Văn-Davies), who is in a tangled affair with hospital executive Paul (Luke Ford).

Grace’s messy world is further challenged by her complex relationship with her mother Diane (Sigrid Thornton), the demands of Sophia’s adoptive father Kirk (Alex Dimitriades) and her ex-husband Jim (Ben Mingay) wanting to sell the house from under her.

Relationships will be tested to the very core. Scarred by secrets, love and lies, can one new life unite this fractured family?

Produced by Playmaker Media for Nine, the Amazing Grace creative team includes writers Jonathan Gavin (Offspring), Ainslie Clouston (Playing For Keeps), writer and executive producer Sarah Smith (Love Child), set-up director and co-executive producer Shawn Seet (Love Child, Reckoning, Hungry Ghosts), directors Lucy Gaffy (Doctor Doctor, The Unlisted) and Sian Davies (Bloom, The Gloaming), producer Diane Haddon (The Commons, Reckoning, The Code) and executive producers David Maher and David Taylor (Love Child, Bloom, The Commons), plus Nine’s Head of Drama, Andy Ryan.

With major production investment from Screen Australia in association with Screen NSW’s Made In NSW Fund.

Wednesday, March 3, at 9.00pm on Nine.

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  1. It looks quite interesting but I agree that it may be piggybacking on the success of other ensemble shows. It will need a point of difference that becomes apparent in the first episode.

    I wish they had chosen a different title. If the title character is “beautifully flawed” then describing her as “amazing” seems illogical. It feels like they are trying to trade in on the hymn that everyone knows. And as anyone who is called Grace knows, this moniker is used over and over again.

  2. I can see similarities with most of the dramas coming out, offspring, wrong girl, secret daughter,
    It’s not that they’re not good, but so similar, even Doctor Doctor. Wheres the ensemble shows like Five Bedrooms with stories spread equal. I can see why Halifax did well, FTA screaming out for something different.
    Get the Rush/All Saints/Blue Heelers style shows out there.
    I’m really looking forward to Heartbreak High.

  3. ‘Set to follow Married at First Sight,’..well, that means it could start at anytime⁉
    I was looking forward to it….I do not record things…and not into 9Now?….May have to sign up…

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