The Survivors debuts at #4 Globally on Netflix – The limited Australian TV series The Survivors, based on the bestselling novel by Jane Harper, has debuted at #4 in Netflix’s Global Top 10 English TV Show list, plus the Top 10 of 76 countries including Top 5 in the UK, Germany and France. Since its release last Friday, the series has gained 5.3 million views.
Filmed across Tasmania and in Melbourne’s Dockland Studios, The Survivors stars Charlie Vickers as Kieran Elliott and Yerin Ha as Mia Chang, a young couple who are visited by ghosts of their past when they return to their childhood hometown to be with Kieran’s ailing father and emotionally distant mother. It’s a thrilling whodunit – with an intensely emotional core.
“I often describe the show as a Trojan horse,”
– showrunner Tony Ayres says.
“It’s a family melodrama disguised as a murder mystery. Because the things that are really at its heart are things like a son wanting his mother’s love and the mother who just cannot afford to give it because her whole world might fall apart.”
The series is based on Jane Harper’s bestselling novel and navigates “themes of family and loss and the stories that we tell each other to understand loss,” says Ayres. For Kieran and Mia and all the other people in Evelyn Bay, the stories they’ve long told each other in order to move forward begin to unravel, exposing a dark side to the always sunny surfaces that surround them.
The Survivors is a 6-part limited series based on the bestselling novel by Jane Harper.
Filmed across Tasmania’s spectacular coast, The Survivors is both a gripping murder mystery and an intense family drama set in one of the most picturesque places in Australia.
The cast includes Aussie and New Zealand screen legends Damien Garvey (The Artful Dodger, Nautilus), Catherine McClements (Apple Cider Vinegar, Return to Paradise), Martin Sacks (Irreverent, Wentworth), and Robyn Malcolm (After the Party, Far North).
The series also boasts some of Australia’s most promising up and coming talent in Yerin Ha (Bridgerton S4, Halo), Charlie Vickers (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart), Thom Green (Apple Cider Vinegar, Ladies in Black), George Mason (Last Days of the Space Age, The Power of the Dog), Shannon Berry (Watson, The Wilds), and Jessica De Gouw (The Union, The Couple Next Door).
The series is produced by the award-winning team at Tony Ayres Productions (Fires, Clickbait, Stateless), which is backed by Matchbox Pictures and Universal International Studios, a division of Universal Studio Group. Additional support by VicScreen through the Victorian Production Fund and the Victorian Digital Screen Rebate and production support from Screen Tasmania.
ABOUT THE SURVIVORS
Synopsis: Kieran Elliott’s life changed forever when two people drowned and a young girl went missing in his home town of Evelyn Bay. Fifteen years later, returning with his young family, the guilt that still haunts him resurfaces. When the body of a young woman is found on the beach, the town is once again rocked by tragedy and the investigation of her death threatens to reveal long-held secrets, the truth about the missing girl, and a killer amongst them.
Creator: Tony Ayres
Director: Cherie Nowlan, Ben C Lucas
Executive Produced by Tony Ayres, Andrea Denholm, Matt Vitins, Jane Harper, Cherie Nowlan
Cast: Charlie Vickers, Yerin Ha, Robyn Malcolm, Damien Garvey, Thom Green, George Mason, Jess De Gouw, Miriama Smith, and Catherine McClements
The Survivors on Netflix – now streaming
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The Survivors debuts at #4 Globally on Netflix
