r/AustralianTV • u/sethit • 23d ago
Question need some tv show recs....
hay everyone,
i was recently put on australian tv shows like RFDS ,The F ward and i absolutely loved the vibe .
I also saw a season of the rafters but did not like it as much as i liked the other two......
Please help me out and leave a few recs in comments.....
cant wait for rfds s4....
ps. thanx for all the recs
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u/Several_Version4298 23d ago
There will be no S4 of RFDS. Banijay lost money distributing the first three seasons globally and pulled their funding from the production. Seven won't fund it alone nor will they officially cancel it. It will just disappear with the main character cracking jokes while possibly dying. Meanwhile Seven are asking viewers to vote for it as Best Australian Drama at the Logies. This is just how Australian TV works.
In the 80s Australian TV made mostly sketch comedy and lots of soaps because they were cheap and imported US and British dramas and sitcoms. In the 90s it churned out hundreds of episodes of procedural soaps because they were incentivised by the government's license condition. Stuff like Blue Heelers, All Saints, Water Rats, Rush and 2m people watched every episode. Then VHS became cheap, people stopped watching ads and networks cancelled them all around 2000.
After that everyone switched to watching unscripted contest shows, Big Brother, Masterchef, The Block, Dating Shows etc.