Oliver Ackland

The lives of three friends are inextricably changed when one of them unwittingly invites a malevolent stranger into their world. A tangle of lies and laughter collides with a stalker's chilling obsession in this contemporary adaptation of Elizabeth Coleman's smash hit play. A celebration of female friendship reimagined as a high stakes thriller, Secret Bridesmaids' Business will keep viewers on the edge of their seats.

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One year after a devastating flood kills five locals in an idyllic country town, a mysterious new plant appears with the power to restore their youth.

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Party Tricks is an Australian television series set to screen on Network Ten in 2014. The six part series follows the story of Kate Ballard, a committed and rigorous politician who seems assured to become the next State Premier until a shock new opposition leader is selected, David McLeod, a popular television and radio personality. Kate and David had a secret, tumultuous affair. The six part drama is created by Michael Lucas and produced by John Edwards and Imogen Banks for Southern Star Entertainment.

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An elderly woman enters a Manhattan subway station only to find herself sitting on a bench beside an elderly man of roughly the same age. As they sit and wait for their train in silence, two complete strangers on a bench, what the audience soon learns that they themselves don't know, is that they once shared the happiest day of their lives, playing together as children. Yet it's now too far back for them to remember anymore, too far back for them to recognize each other anymore. The story then shifts back and forth between the breathtaking landscape of their unconscious', as Isabel Lucas and Oliver Ackland play more youthful representations of how they see themselves inside, and search for the memory they once shared.

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The Vampire Diaries spin-off that follows the Mikaelsons, a family of millennia-old, power-hungry vampires who want to reclaim the city they built, New Orleans, and dominate all those who have wronged them.

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An ex footballer, embroiled in a scandal, returns to his hometown to clear his name and reignite an old flame.

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Melbourne, 1886. Two gentlemen climb into a hansom cab late one murky night. One man climbs out, the other travels on to St Kilda. On arrival, the driver finds the second man dead; murdered. The ‘high-society’ killing sends shockwaves through the young city, still flush from its gold-rush boom.

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Reg and Lindsay run an organic fertiliser business. They need a fresh supply of their "secret ingredient" to process through the meat grinder. Reg comes across two guys and a girl with a broken-down vehicle on their way to a music festival.

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At an Australian backyard BBQ, amongst alcohol, friendship and a children's cricket game, a man slaps a child who is not his son. The party comes to a sudden halt. The child's parents are so affronted they vow to take the man to court. The police become involved and friends and family are forced to take sides.

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Follows Nellie Cameron, a real life prostitute famous on the streets of Sydney in the 1920s and 30s. Nellie is enjoying the perks of her world, the drugs, the money, the fame but in her game she can't afford love.

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When a high school party goes dangerously off the rails, one teenager finds that revenge is just a computer click away.

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After a brutal divorce, a mother and her son relocate to the Blue Mountains to run a Bed and Breakfast.

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It's Valentines Day and Eve's boyfriend Jack presents her with a microwave oven. Jack has unofficially moved into Eve's housing commission room and together they plan to move forward from their troubled pasts. Eve is thrilled by the gift but knows it won't last long in their environment. An intrusion on their privacy sparks an argument, and Eve sets out to get a lock for the door. When things don't go smoothly, trouble ensues.

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In 1880s Australia, a lawman offers renegade Charlie Burns a difficult choice. In order to save his younger brother from the gallows, Charlie must hunt down and kill his older brother, who is wanted for rape and murder. Venturing into one of the Outback's most inhospitable regions, Charlie faces a terrible moral dilemma that can end only in violence.

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The Bergman sisters could not be more different. Jessica is a feisty tomboy who loves to help her father work their farmland. Her beautiful sister Meg is eagerly being groomed by her mother Hester (Lisa Harrow) to be the perfect wife, so that she can marry her way out of poverty. However, when the man, Jack Thomas, who Meg has set her sights on falls in love with Jessica and gets her pregnant, Hester schemes to wrench the couple apart to claim Jessica's son, Joey for Meg. Later she commits Jessica to a mental asylum. It is here that Jessica receives news of her lover's death and almost loses hope, but after enlisting the help of Mr. Runche, a down and out lawyer battling alcoholism, she is eventually released. Years later, it is the reformed Runche who gives Jessica the courage to fight for the return of her child. Eventually Meg and Hester call an uneasy truce with Jessica, and allow her to play a role in Joey's life as his aunt.

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A rip-roaring fantasy adventure, Pirate Islands sees 15-year old Kate and her younger brother and sister trapped inside a computer game set on an island controlled by swashbuckling pirates. They soon discover that the only way home is to finish the game-by beating the pirates and the castaway children to the hidden pirate treasure.

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Outriders was an Australian children's television series that first screened on the Nine Network in 2001. It was a 26 part series produced by Southern Star Entertainment.

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Home and Away is set in the fictional town of Summer Bay, a coastal town in New South Wales, and follows the personal and professional lives of the people living in the area. The show initially focused on the Fletcher family, Pippa and Tom Fletcher and their five foster children Frank Morgan, Carly Morris, Steven Matheson, Lynn Davenport and Sally Keating, who would go on to become one of the show's longest-running characters. The show also originally and currently focuses on the Stewart family. Home and Away had proved popular when it premiered in 1988 and had risen to become a hit in Australia, and after only a few weeks, the show tackled its first major and disturbing storyline, the rape of Carly Morris; it was one of the first shows to feature such storylines during the early timeslot. H&A has tackled many adult-themed and controversial storylines; something rarely found in its restricted timeslot.

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