Airdate: Firebite

AMC is wasting no time in getting Firebite to screens, with the local drama to premiere in mid December.

Created, directed and written by Warwick Thornton (Samson and Delilah, Sweet Country) alongside Brendan Fletcher (Mad Bastards), with Tony Krawitz (The Tall Man, Dead Europe) as director, Firebite is set in a remote mining town, a hive for the last vampire stronghold shipped from Britain to Australia in 1788.

The eight-episode series follows two Indigenous Australian hunters, Tyson (Rob Collins) and Shanika (Shantae Barnes-Cowan), on their quest to battle the last colony of vampires in the middle of the South Australian desert.

It also stars Yael Stone (Orange is the New Black) and Callan Mulvey (Avengers: End Game, Rush).

A high-octane, highly original spin on the Vampire genre and fantasy series, Firebite follows two Indigenous Australian hunters, Tyson (Rob Collins) and Shanika (Shantae Barnes-Cowan), on their quest to battle the last colony of vampires in the middle of the South Australian desert. Set in a remote desert mining town, a hive for the last vampire stronghold shipped from Britain to Australia in 1788 by the colonial superpower to eradicate the Indigenous populations. Sheltering from the sun in the underground mines and tunnels that surround the town until the present day, the colony’s numbers and hunger is growing. War is coming. Tyson and Shanika stand vanguard to the war. But what hope does an expertly reckless man full of bravado and a 17-year-old orphan possibly have to defeat these vicious blood-thirsty parasites, when legions of warriors before them have failed?

Earlier this month AMC+ launched in Australia on Apple TV app and for Prime members via Prime Video Channels at $8.99 (with Acorn TV and Shudder at no additional cost).

Thursdays December 16 on AMC+