The Newsreader series 1

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The first series of The Newsreader premiered on ABC Television on 15 August 2021. Running for six episodes, the series was ABC's most-watched drama programme of the year, and the show received the most nominations of any show or film at the 2022 AACTA Awards.

The series was created and primarily written by Michael Lucas, and directed in its entirety by Emma Freeman. Set over the first four months of 1986, it charts the burgeoning relationship between a dominant female newsreader and a young male reporter, both utilising their unusual bond to disguise aspects of themselves that would severely hinder their careers in an era where bigotry, in multiple forms such as misogyny and homophobia, were pervasive in society, and in the newsroom that reports on it.

Two further series were broadcast in 2023 and 2025.