Small Screen Highlights: Seachange returns, The Hunting and Virtual Reality Treats

Audiences flocked back to Pearl Bay after a 20-year break, SBS tackled teen sexting and we sample some new reality, virtually.
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Kate Lister, Sigrid Thornton and Brooke Satchwell in the new SeaChange. Courtesy Nine.

Reviving a beloved series twenty years on is a big risk, but audiences flocked to the SeaChange reboot on Tuesday night, with 1.1 million viewers tuning in across the country. This makes it the highest rating drama of the year so far. With a tale of a flawed midlife heroine Laura (Sigrid Thornton) making a new life in a quirky seaside town, the first three seasons of SeaChange were a huge hit for the ABC back in the late 1990s, but now the story lives at Channel Nine. Much has changed and not just the insertion of ad breaks. Produced by ITV and Every Cloud Productions for Nine, the story takes up twenty years later as Laura returns to Pearl Bay after a failed attempt to volunteer in Africa. She’s there to reconnect with her pregnant daughter (Brooke Satchwell). She meets up with many familiar locals (John Howard, Kevin Harrington) as well as a bunch of newcomers (played by Dan Wyllie, Wayne Blair, Kate Lister, Katrina Milosevic and more). You can read TV Tonight’s review, or read this ABC Interview with producer and writer Deb Cox.

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