| Last Days of the Space Age | |
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| Genre | Drama |
| Created by | David Chidlow |
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| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 8 |
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| Executive producers | Emma Fitzsimons, Laura Waters, Chris Loveall, Stephanie Swedlove, Anna Dokoza, David Chidlow, Bharat Nalluri |
| Producer | Christine Pham |
| Production company | Princess Pictures |
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| Network | Disney+ |
The Last Days of the Space Age is an upcoming Australian television drama series for Disney+. Principal photography began in July 2022. [1]
The series will focus on three families in Perth, Western Australia in 1979 as the American space station Skylab crash landed on earth just outside the city, as the city was gearing up to host the Miss Universe pageant. [2] [3]
Filming locations include Perth, Western Australia and Sydney and Wollongong, New South Wales. Christine Pham is the series producer with Princess Pictures’ Laura Waters and Emma Fitzsimons are executive producing alongside writer and creator David Chidlow, and director Bharat Nalluri, as well as Chris Loveall, Stephanie Swedlove, Anna Dokoza. [4]
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