My Place (TV series)

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My Place
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Intertitle screenshot
GenreChildren's drama
Directed by Catriona McKenzie, Michael James Rowland, Jessica Hobbs, Samantha Lang, Shawn Seet
Starring Susie Porter
Dan Wyllie
Sacha Horler
Country of originAustralia
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes26 (list of episodes)
Production
Camera setup single-camera
Running time30 minutes
Production company Matchbox Pictures
Original release
Network ABC3
Release4 December 2009 (2009-12-04) 
18 September 2011 (2011-09-18)

My Place is an Australian children's television drama series based on the award-winning picture book of the same name by Nadia Wheatley and Donna Rawlins. The series first screened on ABC3 on weeknights at 8pm from 4 December 2009 [1] and aired in the United States on Vibrant TV Network.

Contents

My Place is produced by Penny Chapman and directed by Jessica Hobbs, Samantha Lang, Catriona McKenzie, Michael James Rowland and Shawn Seet. The series was accompanied by an interactive website for children that allowed them to explore the house that is the series' main setting. [2] It won the 2010 Logie Award for Best Children's Program. [3]

On 23 March 2010 Screen Australia announced they approved funding for a second series which would focus on the lives of children and their families from the time period of 1878 to before the White Settlement. [4] The first of thirteen episodes aired on 26 June 2011. [5]

Synopsis

My Place tells the story of one house in South Sydney as told by the generations of children who have lived there over a period of over 220 years. The series opens in 2008 and travels back to pre-1788. Each episode centres around a child with a talent for some kind of trouble, each hiding up the same old fig tree, each with a story to tell. [6]

Cast

Children

Adults

Episode list

Season One

Season Two

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