51min - July 1987: As the country prepares for a vital general election, Dale, Helen and their colleagues at the News at Six have the pressure of up to six hours of unbroken air time.
53min - The country is rocked by an unprecedented mass shooting in Clifton Hill in Melbourne. The team rush to get footage onto air - but their judgement is called into question.
50min - As the global financial crisis mounts, Helen is plunged into freefall when a gossip journalist threatens an exposé about her troubled past.
50min - The hype is building for 1988 bicentenary. As Geoff covers the First Fleet re-enactment for the rival network, it is interrupted by an Indigenous Australian activist.
55min - News is approached by Geoff's daughter Kay with the offer of an exclusive, but Helen is shocked at the depth of Kay's desperation.
59min - As the team prepare for the biggest event of the year, Australia Day 1988, personal and professional dilemmas abound. Helen prepares for a job in the US, and Dale faces a crisis.
...a classy, well-acted period drama, a slow-burn character study, a nifty pop-history lesson and a crash-c... Read more
...the most fun I’ve had watching telly in a long time.
...turns 1980s Aussie politics into edge-of-seat thrills.
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