Can headLand avoid the harsh judgement passed by viewers on recent local dramas?
Debi Enker assesses its chances in a climate hostile to new productions. NATURALLY, there are nerves. There’s always anxiety before the launch of a new show. It’s a project that people have slaved over, sometimes for years, certainly for many months. Now it’s poised for public presentation and, for those involved, that might mean applause and bouquets, a withering barrage of brickbats or, maybe worse, indifference. If launching a new production is invariably nerve-racking, introducing a home-grown one now is especially daunting. The climate is harsh, even hostile, to fledgling dramas. Even if a producer was convinced that he or she had created the best thing since SeaChange, or the next Home and Away, the litany of local dramas that have died unhappy deaths in recent years would loom like a spectre. The Alice, Last Man Standing, Fireflies, CrashBurn, Marshall Law and The Cooks all struggled through single seasons, their time on-air mired in criticism. MDA struggled through two seasons
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