Aussie Drama Week: Wrap Up

After profiling BARRACUDA on Monday and then smashing all four episodes in the mini series later on iView to LOVE CHILD's third series on Tuesday followed by WENTWORTH on Wednesday. I got distracted by this weeks and recent releases but now it's time to wrap up Australian Drama Week.

So two episodes in with the double episode starter I was not 100% sold with THE KETTERING INCIDENT, however the scenery in Tasmania was one in a million I am willing to give the third episode a later this week.

Returning tomorrow night is a special edition of LOVE CHILD as they head to Vietnam and the war with a "Special Event" episode. They would want to help it's a special event with special ratings as this series is hardly setting the world on the fire. Last week the show fell way under the magic million at 740,000.

WINNERS AND LOSERS is the real drama loser in it's final season, last week dropping to just over half a million viewers. The show will also soon see out it's 100th episode.

WENTWORTH is head to head with it and entering it's 11th episode. On Pay TV it has consistently been the most watched show on Foxtel on Tuesday nights. The numbers aren't huge (110,000 viewers), still this show has just been announced to be remade in Belgium and has been sold to multiple countries around the world meaning a 5th season is just around the corner (fingers crosseD).

OFFSPRING has returned for it's 6th season after a big break and honestly Channel Ten is making a slowly but surely comeback with this honestly being one of the most watched dramas. The debut episode was just shy of having a million viewers.

BARRACUDA is being aired as encore on Thursday nights, the ABC's former drama double with Rake and Cleverman doing decent business.

So in summary there is a lot of choice on offer and the gritty dramas still tend to be on the ABC for free to air viewers and Foxtel viewers have been spoilt for choice with Secret City being brilliant (until the finale), Wentworth and The Kettering Incident.

ABC promises August is going to pop with the second season of the Code, how will that fair after the Secret City, another political Canberra based drama.

Seven promises more 800 Words and Nine will give us Doctor Doctor whilst Ten is bringing out a new drama to it's catalogue The Wrong Girl with an all star cast.

So there is a lot of drama in amongst the Bachelors, the Masterchefs, the Voices and X Factors, the House Rules and Block Heads, but I still think we need more creativity in this country. Australian content is fine but let's try and aim higher than an Andrew Bolt viewer and a Courier Mail reader please.