There’s a new drama series coming up on the ABC this month and I want to be among the first to tell you it’s a cracker.
It’s called Crownies and it begins on ABC1 on Thursday, July 14, at 8.30pm.
Slick, sharp and sexy, it’s a This Life-style lawyer drama with a hot cast.
I watched the first three episodes in one go. Greedy, I know, but they left me hungry for more.
The ABC’s first long-form drama since MDA ended in 2005, the 22-episode series follows the professional and private lives of five young lawyers working in the Department of Public Prosecutions.
As they jostle to make their names and/or get justice prosecuting cases that seem to have been ripped from the headlines, the ambitious spunks find themselves in all manner of emotional and ethical tangles – with victims of crime, police, their much-older bosses and with each other.
Todd Lasance heads the cast and the ex-Home and Away pin-up is a revelation.
I must confess I never paid much attention to Lasance during his stint in boardies, despite his 2009 Silver Logie for most popular actor.
Blond-haired dreamboats all seem to blend into one in Summer Bay.
This year Lasance has shaken off the soap stud tag with eye-catching performances in the Underbelly telemovie Tell Them Lucifer Was Here, Rescue: Special Ops and Cloudstreet.
But Crownies, and the role of cocksure solicitor Ben McMahon, stamps him as certified leading man material, and not just because of his daring office desk tryst with a judge’s associate during the DPP Christmas party in the opening episode.
Another star-making turn comes from Indiana Evans, also a Home and Away graduate.
She plays the youngest and least experienced of the DPP lawyers, Tatum Novak, whose Gen-Y sass and breezy self-confidence liven up the department’s stuffy corridors.
Funny, smart and a little bit racy, Crownies is this year’s Rake and well worth a look.
OMG!!! I am tooooooooooooo excited about this!!!