\n\t\t\t\t\tSam Pang stars as an AFL administrator from Melbourne tasked with establishing a new Tasmanian football club.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Ground Up, a six-part series starring Sam Pang as an AFL administrator will screen on ABC in June.<\/p>\n
The AFL workplace comedy by Gristmill also features Emma Harvie (Colin From Accounts, RFDS), Dylan Murphy (Upper Middle Bogan), Josh McConville (Plum, Black Snow), Lucy Durack (Lift, Love in Lockdown) and returning to her comedic roots, Marg Downey (The Newsreader, Dear Life, Fast Forward).<\/p>\n
Guest cast includes Broden Kelly, Christie Whelan Browne, Dave Thornton, Tegan Higginbotham, Toby Truslove, Lisa McCune, Lachlan Fairbairn, and many more.<\/p>\n
After years of trying, Tasmania has finally been given the green light to field a team in the AFL \u2013 but there\u2019s a catch. The locals have to build a new stadium.<\/p>\n
Given Tasmania has a housing crisis, and a health crisis\u2026 and two sizeable stadiums, not everyone thinks the 1.13 billion dollar taxpayer spend is the greatest idea.<\/p>\n
AFL administrator Hugh Shen (Pang) has been sent from Melbourne, tasked with establishing the club. There\u2019s a divided public to win over, oppressive deadlines to meet, feisty protesters to handle and inoffensive mascots to employ.<\/p>\n
Oh \u2013 and there\u2019s also the small matter of finding the coach and the players, which might lead, eventually, to someone playing football.<\/p>\n
Should all be a piece of cake.<\/p>\n
Production Credit: Ground Up is a Gristmill Production for the ABC. Major production investment from the ABC, in association with Screen Australia. Financed in association with VicScreen and Screen Tasmania. Creator\/Writer: Gary McCaffrie. Director: Wayne Hope. Producers: Robyn Butler, MaryAnne Carroll, Wayne Hope and Gary McCaffrie. Executive Producers: Robyn Butler, Wayne Hope and Greg Sitch. ABC Executive Producers: Todd Abbott and Rachel Okine. International sales by Super Java Distribution.<\/p>\n
Sunday 7 June at 8:30pm on ABC.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Pang stars as an AFL administrator from Melbourne tasked with establishing a new Tasmanian football club. Ground…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-650634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}