RFDS: promo
First look at Seven's new local drama with Stephen Peacocke, Rob Collins, Emma Hamilton & Justine Clarke.
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Seven has released a driving new trailer for its upcoming local drama RFDS.
Based on real-life stories of the Royal Flying Doctor Service it stars Stephen Peacocke (Home and Away, Wanted, Five Bedrooms), Rob Collins (Mystery Road, Total Control, Glitch), Emma Hamilton (Mr Selfridge, The Tudors), Justine Clarke (Tangle, Hungry Ghosts, The Time Of Our Lives) and Ash Ricardo (Offspring, Bite Club).
Seven Network Executive Producer Julie McGauran said: “This compelling series, led by an incredible cast and team of creatives, is based on the real-life stories of the Royal Flying Doctor Service and highlights the extraordinary work they do, day in, day out.
“RFDS showcases powerful contemporary Australian drama on an epic scale. We are thrilled to bring this rich and engaging series and its magnificent setting of outback Australia to audiences.”
It will screen later this year.
Filmed on location in and around Broken Hill, RFDS captures the beauty and brutality of Australia’s vast centre where the doctors and the nurses, pilots and support staff of the RFDS negotiate the unique challenges of emergency rescues across some of the most inhospitable places in the country.
RFDS is also a story about community and people coming together to laugh, to cry and to triumph over adversity as the RFDS navigate private lives as turbulent and profound as the heart-stopping emergencies they attend.
RFDS is an Endemol Shine Banks production for the Seven Network, with major production investment from Seven in association with Screen Australia. It was financed with support from Screen NSW through the Made in NSW Fund and the Regional Filming Fund.
5 Responses
We finally have a good drama in Australia! I think this will be hugely successful and it will run for many, many seasons!
+ 1. I also want to add that Stephen Peacocke has in fact come a long way. From being employed in construction in his hometown of Dubbo, to series regular on Home and Away and post. I hope Seven has understood not to vow the viewers a surety of it airing in 2021 to then delay its premiere until 2022. Bring on Australia’s next big drama.
Already done…remember Flying Doctors & it’s reboot as RFDS? I assume they had to get/pay for permission to reuse that name.
Titles not copyrighted, so no is the answer to your question. If it had the same characters and storylines there would be a case.
Finally a good hard intense medical drama , really looking forward to this, hope it gets a second season