Foxtel announces programme line-up for 2016


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Rebecca Hawkes

| 06 November 2015





Foxtel is promising more Australian original TV series in 2016 than ever before, with two new local dramas and a host of lifestyle shows among its local programming line-up.


The Foxtel Original drama series Secret City is a political thriller starring Anna Torv, Dan Wylie, Damon Herriman and Academy Award nominee Jacki Weaver. The Kettering Incident, featuring Elizabeth Debicki and Matt Le Nevez, will also debut next year.

Foxtel's LifeStyle FOOD channel will air the new show Donna Hay – Basics to Brilliance, while LifeStyle will premiere the localised format, I Own Australia's Best Home and Tiny House World: Australia.

In addition, 2016 will see new series of Wentworth, A Place to Call Home, Australia's Next Top Model, The Real Housewives of Melbourne, The Recruit, Crimes That Shook Australia, Coast, The Great Australian Bake Off, Gogglebox Australia, Selling Houses Australia, Grand Designs Australia and River Cottage Australia.

"Our growing commitment to producing exclusive home-made signature programming for our subscribers will continue in 2016, with more Australian original series than ever before. Our significant investment in acquisitions will also continue, giving Foxtel viewers the biggest array of overseas series available in Australia," said Brian Walsh, executive director of television, Foxtel.

International shows are also represented through content deals with HBO, Showtime, BBC Worldwide, NBCUniversal, Paramount, Disney, CBS Sony, Warner Bros and 20th Century Fox.

HBO's anticipated new dramas Vinyl – produced by Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger – and Westworld, starring Anthony Hopkins, are among the 2016 line-up from the US, while new British drama comes in the shape of literary classic War and Peace with an all-star cast including Lily James, Paul Dano, James Norton, Jim Broadbent, Gillian Anderson, Greta Scacchi, Stephen Rea, Ken Stott and Ade Edmondson. Also new to BBC First next year will be The Night Manager, based on the novel by John Le Carré.

International hits Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, Fear The Walking Dead, Ballers, Luther, Ray Donovan, Girls and American Idol will also return on the Australian pay-TV platform next year.

"Our on-demand Foxtel Anytime offering will continue to be the driving force behind the most comprehensive nationwide streaming service available to all customers as part of their package. Over the next year, Foxtel will provide its subscribers with more than 16,000 hours of programming, available anytime," added Walsh.