Airdate: The Luminaries

New Zealand-UK drama The Luminaries, starring Eve Hewson, Eva Green, Himesh Patel and Ewen Leslie, will screen ABC tonight, following NZ drama After the Party.

It has previously screened on Paramount+ in Australia.

The six part series based on the Man Booker prize-winning novel of the same name, this is an adventure mystery set in the midst of NZ’s 1860’s gold rush period.

It also features Erik Thomson, Callan Mulvey, Joel Tobeck and Yoson An.

A review is here.

The story follows defiant young adventurer Anna Wetherell (Eve Hewson), who has sailed from Britain to New Zealand to begin a new life.

There she meets the radiant Emery Staines, an encounter that triggers a strange kind of magic that neither can explain. As they fall in love and are driven together and apart by fateful coincidence, these star-crossed lovers begin to wonder: do we make our fortunes, or do our fortunes make us? With everything that that makes a good drama: murder, love and revenge, as men and women travel the world making their fortunes, this is unmissable TV.

9:30pm Sunday on ABC.