{"id":20939,"date":"2024-06-12T10:04:45","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T14:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/australian-drama-high-country-heads-to-u-k\/"},"modified":"2024-06-12T10:04:48","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T14:04:48","slug":"australian-drama-high-country-heads-to-u-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/australian-drama-high-country-heads-to-u-k\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Drama High Country Heads to U.K."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>High Country<\/em>, a new Australian mystery drama from Curio Pictures and Sony Pictures Television, has been acquired by the BBC for BBC iPlayer and TV channels.<\/p>\n<p>Based on true events, the eight-part thriller centers on detective Andrea Whitford, who is transferred to the Victorian High Country to investigate five missing persons who all vanished into the wilderness. While handling the case, she uncovers a complex story involving murder, deceit and revenge.<\/p>\n<p>The series stars Leah Purcell (<em>Wentworth<\/em>, <em>Drover\u2019s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson<\/em>), Ian McElhinney (<em>Game of Thrones<\/em>, <em>Derry Girls<\/em>), Sara Wiseman (<em>Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes<\/em>, <em>A Place to Call Home<\/em>) and Aaron Pedersen (<em>Mystery Road<\/em>, <em>Jack Irish<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><em>High Country<\/em> is produced by Curio Pictures, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Pictures Television, in association with Rage Media. Sony Pictures Television is distributing the series internationally.<\/p>\n<p>The drama is executive produced by Jo Porter and Rachel Gardner for Curio Pictures; Lana Greenhalgh and Penny Win for Foxtel Group; and Marcia Gardner and John Ridley for Rage Media. Pino Amenta and Sue Edwards are producers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith its eerie setting and tense atmosphere, <em>High Country<\/em> is a gripping new take on Australian rural noir,\u201d said Sue Deeks, head of BBC program acquisition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High Country, a new Australian mystery drama from Curio Pictures and Sony Pictures Television, has been acquired by the BBC for BBC iPlayer and TV channels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":20940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[237,769,9183,9184,174,5856],"class_list":["post-20939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-iplayer","tag-curio-pictures","tag-high-country","tag-sony-pictures-television","tag-sue-deeks","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Australian Drama High Country Heads to U.K. - TVDRAMA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/australian-drama-high-country-heads-to-u-k\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Australian Drama High Country Heads to U.K. - TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"High Country, a new Australian mystery drama from Curio Pictures and Sony Pictures Television, has been acquired by the BBC for BBC iPlayer and TV channels.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/australian-drama-high-country-heads-to-u-k\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-06-12T14:04:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-06-12T14:04:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/06\/BBC-HighCountry-0624.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"394\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/australian-drama-high-country-heads-to-u-k\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/australian-drama-high-country-heads-to-u-k\/\",\"name\":\"Australian Drama High Country Heads to U.K. - TVDRAMA\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2024-06-12T14:04:45+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-06-12T14:04:48+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/australian-drama-high-country-heads-to-u-k\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/australian-drama-high-country-heads-to-u-k\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/australian-drama-high-country-heads-to-u-k\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Australian Drama High Country Heads to U.K.\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/\",\"name\":\"TVDRAMA\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\",\"name\":\"Jamie Stalcup\",\"description\":\"Jamie Stalcup is the executive editor of World Screen. 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