Winter be Bingeing 26' - Ground Up - Season One

Two from two with solid Aussie content, thus far for the Winter be Bingeing 26' series.

Ground Up landed on the ABC, ahead of the Race Around the World reboot. The series is still airing weekly on Sundays. Or you can view all episodes now on iView.

Ground Up focuses on the development of a football club and stadium in Tasmania, fronted by AFL administrator Hugh Shen (Sam Pang). Shen must win over a divided community, wrangle together a team, and manage his overly bureaucratic organisation.

The series follows Hobart-via-Melbourne AFL administrator Hugh Shen who has been tasked with establishing Tasmania's first-ever AFL team. He must face the uninterested and angry locals who are funding the $1.13 billion stadium with their taxes.

After years of trying, Tasmania has finally been given the green light to field a team in the AFL - but there's a catch. The locals have to build a new stadium.

Given Tasmania has a housing crisis, and a health crisis… and two sizeable stadiums, not everyone thinks the 1.13 billion dollar taxpayer spend is the greatest idea.

Joining Pang is Emma Harvie as Destiny Pitt, Dylan Murphy as Jameson, Josh McConville as Alistair Penfold, musical theatre Wicked lead, Lucy Durack as Angela Linscombe, incredible Marg Downey as Catherine la Fontaine & Fletcher Humphrys as Cliff.

Incredible Marg Downey has some incredible one liners in this topical series about sport and government.

With moments of reality and ABC flexing its muscles with Lisa McCune joining in as an ABC Hobart announcer for some classic interviews.

This took me an episode of two to get into, but once I did, hells bells this is good. Whilst I loved Bad Company, this has much wider appeal. This was really good. Sam Pang is a little Aussie legend. Well done team. This was a lot of fun. If you liked Utopia or work in government, this may be a little too close to home. Wild.

Do yourself a favour now the State of Origin is done and dusted. It's raining it's wet, log into iView and give this a go. FAB!