2024 is set to be a massive year for Australian TV and streaming titles. From Boy Swallows Universe to Bluey, here are ScreenHub’s most anticipated Australian series heading to your screens in 2024.
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Boy Swallows Universe
- What’s it about: In a room below his house in 1980s Brisbane, Australia, Eli Bell answers a red telephone and begins a journey that will break his heart before ending it.
- Who’s in it: Sophie Wilde, Travis Fimmel, Simon Baker.
- Where to watch: Netflix.
- Release date: 11 January.
Prosper
- What’s it about: Prosper follows the Quinns, the founding family behind U Star, a megachurch based in Sydney. Poised on the precipice of a lucrative American expansion, the family is about to catapult into a whole new stratosphere of wealth and unchecked power.
- Who’s in it: Sophie Wilde, Travis Fimmel, Simon Baker.
- Where to watch: Stan.
- Release date: 18 January.
The Newsreader – Season 3
- What’s it about: A continued dig behind the newsrooms of the 1980s for a compelling, intimate and vital look at an era of great change.
- Who’s in it: Anna Torv, Sam Reid.
- Where to watch: ABC, ABC iView.
- Release date: TBC.
The Twelve – Season 2
- What’s it about: A crime drama which follows a controversial murder trial as seen through the lens of the 12 jury members, ordinary members of the public with their own realities and struggles.
- Who’s in it: Sam Neill, Frances O’Connor, Tasma Walton.
- Where to watch: Binge.
- Release date: TBC.
Desert King
- What’s it about: When the world’s largest cattle station is left without a clear successor, generational clashes threaten to tear the Lawson family apart. Sensing this once great dynasty is in decline, the outback’s most powerful factions – rival cattle barons, desert gangsters, Indigenous elders and billionaire miners – move in for the kill.
- Who’s in it: TBC.
- Where to watch: Netflix.
- Release date: TBC.
Starship Q Star
- What’s it about: When a tone-deaf space agency sends the ‘first all-woman and non-binary crew’ on a PR mission to Mars, they inadvertently end up the last six humans in the universe. Animated series.
- Who’s in it: Lauren Anderson, Meegan May, Lena Moon
- Where to watch: ABC iview
- Release date: TBC.
Shaun Micallef’s Origin Odyssey
- What’s it about: Shaun Micallef travels abroad with some of Australia’s leading comedians to explore their cultural roots.
- Who’s in it: Shaun Micallef, of course.
- Where to watch: SBS, SBS OnDemand.
- Release date: TBC.
White Fever
- What’s it about: When Jane, a cocky Korean-Australian Adoptee gets called-out for being a ‘fake Asian’ and is accused of having a ‘white man fetish’, she throws herself into an unceremonious quest to reprogram her whitewashed libido, only to find that she is embarrassingly inadequate and way out of her depth.
- Who’s in it: Ra Chapman, Chris Pang.
- Where to watch: ABC, ABC iView.
- Release date: TBC.
Last King of the Cross – Season 2
- What’s it about: Season 2 will further explore the dangerous world of Kings Cross, as John Ibrahim expands his empire into the booming queer nightclub scene. Set against the backdrop of the ecstasy-fueled 2000s, the stakes are higher than ever before, and everyone wants a piece – including John’s two younger brothers.
- Who’s in it: Lincoln Younes, Tim Roth.
- Where to watch: Stan.
- Release date: TBC.
High Country
- What’s it about: The series follows detective Andrea Whitford, played by Leah Purcell, who is transferred to Victoria’s High Country and tasked with solving the mystery of five missing persons who have vanished into the wilderness. As the investigation unfolds, Andie discovers a complex web of murder, deceit, and revenge.
- Who’s in it: Leah Purcell, Aaron Pedersen, Sarah Wiseman
- Where to watch: Binge.
- Release date: Early 2024.
Fisk – Season 3
- What’s it about: The third series of fast-paced comedy about high-end contracts lawyer Helen Tudor-Fisk, who is forced to take a job at a shabby, suburban law firm following a humiliating marriage breakdown and a professional fall from grace.
- Who’s in it: Kitty Flanagan, Julia Zemiro, Aaron Chen
- Where to watch: ABC, ABC iView
- Release date: TBC
The Office Australia
- What’s it about: Hannah Howard, the managing director of a packaging company gets news that her branch is shutting down and making everyone work from home. It’s Ricky Gervais’ The Office (2001), but set in Australia with a female boss.
- Who’s in it: Felicity Ward, Zoe Terakes, Chris Bunton.
- Where to watch: Prime Video.
- Release date: TBC.
Four Years
- What’s it about: Four Years follows the turbulent marriage of two young Indian lovers, Sridevi and Yash, through two timelines, two worlds, told through dual perspectives. Full of romance and the yearning to find someone you once loved again, in amongst the turmoils and challenges of life, this Australian series uses the Hindi and English languages interchangeably.
- Who’s in it: TBC
- Where to watch: SBS/SBS on Demand
- Release date: TBC
Swift Street
- What’s it about: Swift Street follows 21-year-old street smart and spiritually Afro-punk Elsie (Crawford) who teams up with her jaded old-school hustler father, Robert (Curtis) to get him out of debt and save him from a merciless crime boss (Matengu) who wants her money NOW. The pair embark on a series of hectic scrapes and near misses, as Elsie commits to help Robert hustle for the money.
- Who’s in it: Cliff Curtis, Tanzyn Crawford
- Where to watch: SBS/SBS on Demand
- Release date: TBC
Bad Ancestors
- What’s it about: Best Friends Norah and Charli must spend their afterlife providing ancestral guidance to young black people.
- Who’s in it: Wendy Mocke, Joseph Althouse
- Where to watch: ABC iview
- Release date: TBC
Thank God You’re Here – Season 6
- What’s it about: Reality show in which Australian comedians are invited onto a hidden set and must attempt to improvise their role in the scene.
- Who’s in it: TBC.
- Where to watch: Channel 10.
- Release date: TBC.
Invisible Boys
- What’s it about: The show explores the challenges faced by a group of gay teens in the remote coastal town of Geraldton, Western Australia after one of them is outed on social media following an encounter with a married man.
- Who’s in it: TBC.
- Where to watch: Stan.
- Release date: TBC.
I’m So Sorry For Your Loss
- What’s it about: After her father dies unexpectedly, Annie lands a job at a funeral home in an attempt to gain closure. The shambolic small business, run by her dysfunctional boss Naaman, opens Annie’s eyes to the bizarre world of funerals.
- Who’s in it: Annie Louey, Joshua Ladgrove
- Where to watch: ABC iview.
- Release date: TBC.
Ladies in Black
- What’s it about: Following on from the 2018 film of the same name and drawing inspiration from the much-loved 1993 novel, the show sees the beloved women from Goodes Department Store fling open their shop doors to the fabulous 1960s.
- Who’s in it: Debi Mazar, Miranda Otto, Jessica De Gouw.
- Where to watch: ABC, ABC iView.
- Release date: TBC.
The Last Anniversary
- What’s it about: Based on Liane Moriarty’s bestselling novel, the show is ‘a wickedly funny, heartfelt dramedy wrapped in a gripping mystery about family, motherhood and the women who define the generations that come after them’.
- Who’s in it: Teresa Palmer, Miranda Richardson, Danielle Macdonald.
- Where to watch: Binge.
- Release date: TBC.
Thou Shalt Not Steal
- What’s it about: Robyn, a young Aboriginal delinquent, escapes from detention and reluctantly teams up with awkward teenager Gidge. Together they flee her small central desert community on a perilous journey across the outback, finding answers and learning some hard life lessons along the way.
- Who’s in it: Sherry-Lee Watson, Miranda Otto, Will McDonald
- Where to watch: Prime Video
- Release date: TBC
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
- What’s it about: 1943. Deep in the jungle of a Japanese POW camp, on the Thailand-Burma Railway, Lieutenant-Colonel Dorrigo Evans is haunted by the memory of his all too brief love affair with his uncle’s wife, Amy Mulvaney. It both sustains and torments him as he battles to preserve life in a world beset with death.
- Who’s in it: Jacob Elordi, Ciaran Hinds, Odessa Young.
- Where to watch: Prime Video.
- Release date: TBC.
Colin From Accounts – Season 2
- What’s it about: A hit romantic comedy about ‘flawed, funny people choosing each other and embracing the all-too-relatable chaos of modern life’.
- Who’s in it: Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer.
- Where to watch: Binge.
- Release date: TBC.
Urvi Went to an All Girls School
- What’s it about: In 2010 Melbourne, a nerdy Indian girl struggles to fit in and find love amidst her parents’ traditional expectations and in the heightened, competitive environment of an elite academic all girls’ school.
- Who’s in it: Urvi Majumdar
- Where to watch: ABC iview.
- Release date: TBC.
Bluey
- What’s it about: A special extended Bluey episode will premiere globally next year on Disney+ and ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). ‘The Sign’ is an extra-long episode, with a run time of 28 minutes. It is penned by Bluey creator and writer Joe Brumm, directed by Richard Jeffery, and produced by Ludo Studio.
- Who’s in it: David McCormack, Melanie Zanetti
- Where to watch: ABC Kids, ABC iView.
- Release date: TBC.
