\n\t\t\t\t\tLong-suffering AFL administrator leading the Great Southern Football Club is in a race against time to get Hobart’s stadium off the ground.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
ABC last week announced comedy series Ground Up will return for a second season, starring Gold Logie winner Sam Pang.<\/p>\n
Hugh Shen (Pang) has one year before Tasmania\u2019s long-awaited Great Southern Football Club enters the AFL, and he\u2019s worried about the pricey new stadium under construction. It would be a lot easier if protestors weren\u2019t dumping asbestos, if there wasn\u2019t a global shortage of concrete, and if sinkholes weren\u2019t opening up around Hobart. When Hugh\u2019s not trying to hurdle those obstacles, he\u2019s trying to stop his players mixing with underworld figures, help the club\u2019s inaugural coach through rehab, and find enough players without an ACL injury to field a women\u2019s team.<\/p>\n
Produced by Gristmill (Dear Life, Upper Middle Bogan), the six-part comedy returns with workplace dysfunction, political satire and sporting chaos, as Hugh and his team discover that 2028 is arriving very, very quickly.<\/p>\n
Robyn Butler and Wayne Hope from Gristmill said, \u201cThrilled to be back making more art-imitating-life in Tassie, working with the brilliant mind of Gary McCaffrie and our wonderful cast. Although post his Gold Logie win Sam Pang\u2019s rider now includes \u2018more scenes sitting down.’\u201d<\/p>\n
Returning cast include Emma Harvie, Dylan Murphy, Josh McConville, Lucy Durack and Marg Downey.<\/p>\n
ABC Head of Scripted, Rachel Okine said, \u201cGround Up struck a chord with audiences through its unique blend of workplace comedy, sharp satire and recognisably Australian characters. We\u2019re thrilled to be bringing Hugh Shen and the team back for another season and can\u2019t wait for audiences to see what\u2019s in store.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vic Screen CEO Caroline Pitcher said, \u201cGround Up had a cracking first season, with its distinctive blend of footy and office comedy leaving audiences wanting more. VicScreen is thrilled to support Gristmill and the team to bring fans another winning season.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ground Up season 2 will air in 2027.<\/p>\n
Production Credit: Ground Up is a Gristmill Production for the ABC. Financed in association with VicScreen. 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long-suffering AFL administrator leading the Great Southern Football Club is in a race against time to get Hobart’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":943985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-943984","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\/943984","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=943984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/943985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}