{"id":553923,"date":"2026-07-17T06:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T06:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/553923\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T06:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T06:01:14","slug":"stan-crime-drama-scrublands-gets-third-season-new-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/553923\/","title":{"rendered":"Stan Crime Drama ‘Scrublands’ Gets Third Season & New Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Australian crime drama Scrublands<\/a> is back for a third season, and we\u2019ve got first look images and casting news.<\/p>\n

\n\tLuke Arnold (Black Sails) and Bella Heathcote (Pieces of Her) will return to lead Season 3, which is for Aussie streamer Stan<\/a> and its broadcast sister 9Network. Scrublands: Trust, as it will be known, will see the pair chasing conspiracy and corruption through Sydney\u2019s underbelly and the vast vistas of the Blue Mountains.<\/p>\n

\n\tJoining Arnold and Heathcote are Lincoln Younes\u00a0(Last King of the Cross), and\u00a0Danielle Cormack\u00a0(Wentworth), with\u00a0Sarah Roberts\u00a0(Home and Away) and\u00a0Nicholas Bell\u00a0(Bay of Fires) also returning.<\/p>\n

\n\tEasy Tiger is making the four-part season, which is based on Chris Hammer\u2019s bestselling novel Trust and has Sphere Abacus attached for international distribution. Filming has begun in Sydney, and you can see first-look images above and below.<\/p>\n

\n\tScrublands: Trust will jump the action back a decade on previous seasons. Per the synopsis: \u201cMandy Bond (Heathcote) thought she\u2019d dealt with her past, but an old name has come back to haunt her: Tom Molloy (Younes). The man who stole $15 million before vanishing, the fianc\u00e9 she never told Martin about. His body has been found and with it emerge secrets Mandy is desperate to keep hidden.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMeanwhile her partner, investigative reporter Martin Scarsden (Arnold), is rocked when his long-time mentor, Max Fuller (Bell), apparently suicides mere hours after asking Martin for help on a big story. Martin picks up where Max left off, his search leading him through the back lanes of Sydney, the homes of the rich and powerful, and headlong into a bloody shoot-out in the depths of the Blue Mountains. The closer Martin gets to answers, the more risks he\u2019ll have to take, as killers-for-hire, corrupt developers and powerful figures stand in between him and the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNine Entertainment\u2019s Executive Director of Entertainment, Michael Healy, said the \u201cincredible response to the first two seasons of\u00a0Scrublands\u00a0indicates a massive appetite for premium Australian crime drama.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe continued enthusiasm for this series is a testament to Chris Hammer\u2019s compelling stories and the extraordinary work of our cast and creative team,\u201d added Easy Tiger co-founders and exec producers Ian Collie and Rob Gibson in a statement.<\/p>\n

\n\tCollie and Gibson \u2013 whose company is also set to launch the final season of Colin From Accounts \u2013 produce Scrublands: Trust alongside Ally Henville. Felicity Packard is the writer and producer, with Lisa Matthews the director. Healy and Andy Ryan from 9Network and Stan are exec producers, with Screen NSW providing production support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Australian crime drama Scrublands is back for a third season, and we\u2019ve got first look images and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[986,93,61,60,234366,109946,282],"class_list":["post-553923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-scrublands","tag-stan","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}