Outland (TV series)

Outland is an Australian television comedy series which screened in 2012 on ABC1. The six-part comedy series was written by John Richards (episodes 1 - 6) and Adam Richard (episodes 1 - 3). It is based on the 2006 short film of the same name.

The first public screening of Outland took place at the science fiction convention Continuum 7, where brief clips of episodes 1 and 4 were shown, on 12 June 2011.^[1] The full series was played over two nights at the 16th Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival,^[2] on 18 and 19 October 2011, where it won an audience award.^[3] The series was also screened at the 3rd annual Bent-Con convention in Burbank, California on 2 December 2012.^[4]

The first episode screened on Australian television on 8 February 2012, at 9.30pm. In New Zealand, it screened in February–March 2014 on digital channel Choice TV.

Outside of the show itself, the character of Fab has a Twitter feed (@FabXXL), Adam Richard makes a blog in character as Fab, where he talks about what happened in the week's episode and reviews a science fiction film, and writer John Richards has online commentary tracks that can be synced up to each episode at https://soundcloud.com/outland-commentaries.

Overview

Outland revolves around the lives, loves and never-ending dramas of the members of science-fiction fan club.^[5]

Cast

• Christine Anu as Rae
• Ben Gerrard as Toby
• Paul Ireland as Andy
• Adam Richard as Fab
• Toby Truslove as Max

References

External links

• Outland at the Internet Movie Database