Prime Time (Australian TV series)

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Prime Time
Genre Drama
Soap opera
Created by Terry Stapleton
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes60
Production
Executive producers Hector Crawford
Ian Crawford
Terry Stapleton
Producer Graham Moore
Production company Crawford Productions
Original release
Network Nine Network
Release30 January 1986 (1986-1-30) –
10 January 1987 (1987-1-10)

Prime Time is an Australian soap opera drama television series produced by Crawford Productions that aired on the Nine Network in from January 1986 to January 1987. Prime Time was the last Australian soap produced with exterior location scenes shot on film and interior scenes shot on videotape. The series was not a popular success and was cancelled after sixty episodes.

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Premise

The series was set at a fictional television station, Channel 5, and dealt with the behind-the-scenes goings-on on the set of a current affairs series called Assignment.

Cast

Reception

In 2020, Fiona Byrne of the Herald Sun included Prime Time in her feature about "Truly terrible TV shows that flopped". [1] Of the show, she stated: "Prime Time was a little watched, long-forgotten drama series which screened on Channel 9 for one season in 1986." [1]

References

  1. 1 2 Byrne, Fiona (19 August 2020). "Truly terrible TV shows that flopped" . Herald Sun . Retrieved 4 October 2024– via Gale.
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