Tangle (TV series)

Tangle
Current intertitle for Tangle.
Genre	Drama
Created by	John Edwards Imogen Banks Fiona Seres
Written by	Fiona Seres Tony McNamara Judi McCrossin
Directed by	Jessica Hobbs Matthew Saville Stuart McDonald Emma Freeman Michael James Rowland
Starring	Justine Clarke Catherine McClements Matt Day Kat Stewart Joel Tobeck Don Hany Eva Lazzaro Blake Davis Lincoln Younes Kick Gurry
Theme music composer	Bryony Marks
Country of origin	Australia
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	22 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Hugh Marks (Southern Star) Kim Vecera (Showtime)
Producer(s)	John Edwards Imogen Banks
Editor(s)	Steve Evans Peter Carrodus
Location(s)	Melbourne Kew Abbotsford
Running time	50-55 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Showcase
Picture format	1080i (HDTV) 576i / 576p (SDTV)
Original run	1 October 2009 – 29 April 2012
External links
Website

Tangle is an Australian drama series for the Showcase subscription television channel. It focuses on the tangled lives of two generations of two families.^[1] Tangle is filmed in Melbourne and first screened on 1 October 2009.^[2][3] It is written by Fiona Seres, Tony McNamara and Judi McCrossin, and directed by Jessica Hobbs, Matthew Saville and Stuart McDonald.^[4] There has so far been 3 seasons.

Plot

Season 1

Tangle revolves around the intertwined lives of the Kovac and Williams families and their network of friends and extended family. Nat Manning (Kat Stewart) returned to her home town of Melbourne after ten years in England on the minor celebrity circuit. She created ripples and then waves in the lives of two clans already struggling under the weight of their myriad secrets. Ally (Justine Clarke) is the devoted wife of builder Vince (Ben Mendelsohn), mother of Romeo and Gigi (Lincoln Younes and Eva Lazarro), who is happy to have her sister Nat back. Politician Tim (Joel Tobeck) had an affair 15 years ago with Nat, and as a result, Nat became pregnant. Tim and his wife Christine (Catherine McClements) patched up their marriage and fought hard for custody of the child, Max (Blake Davis). Divorcee Em is having an affair with married man Vince and doctor Gabriel (Matt Day) has a secret lust for married Ally.

Season 2

Secretive man Joe Kovac (Kick Gurry), brother of Vince, returns, hoping to become a part of a family he was never allowed into. Spiros Georgiades (Don Hany) is recruited by the party as a political adviser to Tim, and develops an attraction to Christine. Tim makes a bid for the top job of Premier, but is kicked out of the party after an honest press conference. Ally and her children, Romeo and Gigi, make a fresh start in a new house; Nat meets a young, successful man and Gabriel's new outgoing girlfriend, Sophie, looks a lot like Ally (according to Nat).

Season 3

Season Three will pull apart and look at just how the generations separate from one another and how the ties of family are stretched. Ally sheds some of love's illusions and begins to see life possibilities beyond her family and Gabriel. Both Romeo and Gigi need her less than she'd imagined, but in different ways, as they build their own lives. When Max moves away, Christine flirts with a parallel life at odds with all previous certainties. Gabriel learns his love for Ally is founded in her unavailability and is finally set free. Nat's chaos is the one constant.^[5]

Cast

Main cast

Supporting cast

• Tony Rickards – Billy Hall
• Jane Allsop – Tanya Hicks
• Lucia Emmerichs – Ophelia Hicks
• Reef Ireland – Ned Dougherty
• Madeleine Jay – Kelly
• Alison Whyte – Nicky Barnham
• Maude Davey – Agatha

Season 1

• John Brumpton – Bryan Dougherty
• Frank Gallacher – Pat Mahady
• Alicia Banit – Leah
• Simon Maiden – Stan/Voice of Yuri

Season 2

• Adam Zwar – Huey Moss
• Leah Vandenberg – Elle Rosenthal
• Todd MacDonald – Paul
• Tim Draxl – Conrad
• Fiona Harris – Sophie
• Ryan Corr – Isaac

Season 3

• Dan Wyllie – Michael Chubievsky
• Michael Clarke-Tokely – Luke Wintle
• Elle Mandalis – Miss Papas
• Nicholas Bell – Sean Roscoe
• Ben Schumann – Harvey

Notable guest cast

• Luke Hemsworth – John (2 episodes, 2009)
• Kate Jenkinson – Melanie (5 episodes, 2009–12)
• Lliam Amor – Robert Barker (2 episodes, 2009)
• Tony Nikolakopoulos – Gordon (3 episodes, 2009–10)
• Richard Sutherland – Jason (1 episode, 2009)
• Marta Kaczmarek – Psychic (1 episode, 2010)
• Alin Sumarwata – Julie (1 episode, 2010)
• Kevin Harrington – Ian (1 episode, 2012)
• John Flaus – Cemetery Keeper (1 episode, 2012)

Production

Showcase renewed Tangle for a third series on 12 December 2010 and production began in June 2011, ending in August.

Tangle is filmed in and around the city of Melbourne, usually set within the more affluent suburbs of the city. The new house in which Ally and her children move to in season three is in Black Rock, and Tim and Christine's house is in Kew. Some other locations that have been used to film throughout the series are:

• Studley Park
• Yarra Bend Park
• Prahran
• Abbotsford Convent
• Parliament House
• Spring Street
• Carlton
• Abbotsford
• Malvern East (Ally's house in Series 1)

Broadcast

Australia

• SoHo^[6]

Republic of Ireland

• RTÉ Two

Asia Pacific (numerous countries)

• Australia Network

New Zealand

• TV One

Poland

• Viacom Blink!

Canada

• Super Channel

DVD Releases

Awards and nominations

See also

• List of Australian television series

References

External links

• Tangle at TV.com
• Tangle at the Internet Movie Database