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Perth Now
20 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Another TV series comes to Fremantle
Yet another TV series has commenced production in Fremantle, with confirmation Reckless, a BBC Studios Production for NITV and SBS, has begun filming in the port city. Leading the cast is WA's own Tasma Walton (The Twelve) who stars alongside AACTA Award-winner Hunter Page-Lochard (The Newsreader). They play feuding siblings forced to work together to get away with a hit-and-run accident that occurs in Fremantle. Reckless is an adaptation of the Scottish mystery thriller TV series Guilt, written by Neil Forsyth, which premiered on both BBC Two and BBC Scotland in 2019. It is being brought to Aussie screens by WA creative, EP and writer Kodie Bedford. 'From day one, I wanted to make a bold show with audacious characters that felt unapologetically Western Australian,' she said. 'I'm so bloody happy to be home telling this yarn with a team of creatives who have all shared the vision and taken it somewhere even wilder than I ever imagined.' Reckless sports a talented supporting cast. Credit: Supplied. Joining Walton and Lochard is a stacked cast, which includes Perth-raised stars, Jessica De Gouw (The Survivors), Steve Le Marquand (Mystery Road: Origin) and Clarence Ryan (Mystery Road: Origin). Jane Harber (Offspring), Tracy Mann (The Twelve), and WA-based Kath and Kim star Peter Rowsthorn also star, alongside Duncan Fellows (Deadloch), Perry Mooney (Population: 11), Paul Tassone (Pokerface) and Kelton Pell (Redfern Now). The production, which is supported by Screenwest, is one of several to take advantage of State Government investment through the Western Australian Production Attraction Incentive. Oscar Redding and George Mason star in a new Binge series also currently filming in Fremantle. Credit: John Platt. It is expected to inject more than $5 million into the WA economy, creating 250 jobs for local screen practitioners, and up to 20 WA cast speaking roles. 'This production continues a strong pipeline of television series being produced in WA showcasing the amazing creative talent we have in our State,' Screenwest Chief Executive Officer Rikki Lea Bestall said. Also currently filming in and around Fremantle is the newly announced Binge series based on the life of notorious WA criminal Brenden Abbott, aka The Postcard Bandit. Both projects are filming simultaneously, with crews spotted earlier this week at the Fremantle Prison and at Leighton Beach.
West Australian
20 hours ago
- Entertainment
- West Australian
BBC TV series Reckless currently filming in Fremantle
Yet another TV series has commenced production in Fremantle, with confirmation Reckless, a BBC Studios Production for NITV and SBS, has begun filming in the port city. Leading the cast is WA's own Tasma Walton (The Twelve) who stars alongside AACTA Award-winner Hunter Page-Lochard (The Newsreader). They play feuding siblings forced to work together to get away with a hit-and-run accident that occurs in Fremantle. Reckless is an adaptation of the Scottish mystery thriller TV series Guilt, written by Neil Forsyth, which premiered on both BBC Two and BBC Scotland in 2019. It is being brought to Aussie screens by WA creative, EP and writer Kodie Bedford. 'From day one, I wanted to make a bold show with audacious characters that felt unapologetically Western Australian,' she said. 'I'm so bloody happy to be home telling this yarn with a team of creatives who have all shared the vision and taken it somewhere even wilder than I ever imagined.' Joining Walton and Lochard is a stacked cast, which includes Perth-raised stars, Jessica De Gouw (The Survivors), Steve Le Marquand (Mystery Road: Origin) and Clarence Ryan (Mystery Road: Origin). Jane Harber (Offspring), Tracy Mann (The Twelve), and WA-based Kath and Kim star Peter Rowsthorn also star, alongside Duncan Fellows (Deadloch), Perry Mooney (Population: 11), Paul Tassone (Pokerface) and Kelton Pell (Redfern Now). The production, which is supported by Screenwest, is one of several to take advantage of State Government investment through the Western Australian Production Attraction Incentive. It is expected to inject more than $5 million into the WA economy, creating 250 jobs for local screen practitioners, and up to 20 WA cast speaking roles. 'This production continues a strong pipeline of television series being produced in WA showcasing the amazing creative talent we have in our State,' Screenwest Chief Executive Officer Rikki Lea Bestall said. Also currently filming in and around Fremantle is the newly announced Binge series based on the life of notorious WA criminal Brenden Abbott, aka The Postcard Bandit. Both projects are filming simultaneously, with crews spotted earlier this week at the Fremantle Prison and at Leighton Beach.
West Australian
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- West Australian
New ABC wildlife documentary series The Kimberley captures rarely seen animals and locations
When it comes to ambitious wildlife documentaries, you'd be forgiven for imagining sweeping vistas of the Serengeti, with its massive herds in a daily dance of life and death with big cats. You might be surprised to learn there's an untamed ecosystem 30 times as big as the Serengeti, and exponentially more diverse, right on our doorstep – the Kimberley. The 400,000sqkm of this biological ark, stretching from turquoise coast to searing desert, is the subject of a groundbreaking three-part documentary series. The ABC series captures never-before-seen behaviour of animals that are found nowhere else on the planet, in locations that have previously only been seen by the Traditional Owners of the land, making this must-see TV for nature lovers. It's story takes place over a full year, following the six seasons observed by the Nyikina people, starting in Lalin, the peak of the dry season, when parched wallabies risk ending up as lunch for crocs to get a drink of water. After the build-up of Jirrbal, flooding rains eventually come during Wilakarra, transforming the landscape and bringing new challenges for its inhabitants, before the calendar turns to Koolawa, which reveals the region at its most bountiful. A cool change arrives with Barrkana, heralding the appearance of humpbacks from Antarctica to give birth in warmer waters, although the mercury soon rises again with Willbooroo, shrinking the vast wetlands once more. Hosted by Mystery Road: Origin star and Nyikina man Mark Coles Smith, The Kimberley series combines local knowledge from the Traditional Owners with scientific experts to give viewers a rich understanding of the region's significance. Filmmaker Nick Robinson dragged $80,000 worth of camera equipment through some of the most inaccessible wilderness on Earth to create the series, and said pulling off such an ambitious project took 40 per cent planning and 60 per cent getting lucky. Perhaps the best example of getting lucky is a scene in Episode 1, in which a crocodile stalks a wallaby. Unbelievable footage that was made possible by a chance encounter with a local fisherman. 'I've been filming crocodiles my whole life, for the last 20 years, because television just can't get enough of them,' Robinson said. 'So I've been to film crocodiles everywhere, and I feel like I've been to the best places … and I've spent months just trying to get that kind of behaviour and never got it. '(In the Kimberley) we shot that in five days, and I've never shot anything like that.' While it's hard for Robinson to narrow down the flora and fauna he's most proud of capturing in the series, there is one animal that does stand out – the critically endangered nabarlek. The marsupial is so rare that it had never been caught on broadcast-quality cameras before, something Robinson's team achieved after camping for a week on the beach of an uninhabited island with ecologist Ian Bool. 'It's almost a mythical creature if you're a biologist because it doesn't exist on the mainland anywhere, you never see them,' Robinson said. But, in the end, the mythical nabarlek came to them. 'A wild nabarlek, just hopping around the tents,' Robinson laughed. 'I think it took five days of being there before the nabarlek showed itself. 'And on that fifth day, a couple of nabarleks, a baby and an adult, came out and sat and hopped around in front of the camera.' Robinson hoped the series will make Australians realise the Kimberley is every bit as deserving as the Serengeti when it comes to the world's greatest natural wonders. 'The Kimberley is probably the last, great, tropical, wild land on Earth,' he said. 'There'd be nowhere on the planet that's as wild and has the potential to remain wild like that place.'
