{"id":79340,"date":"2021-09-20T04:58:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T18:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/?p=79340"},"modified":"2021-09-14T14:30:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T04:30:30","slug":"ballarat-sets-the-scene-for-new-tv-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/news\/ballarat-sets-the-scene-for-new-tv-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballarat sets the scene for new TV series"},"content":{"rendered":"

BALLARAT will soon hit the small screen when murder mystery period piece, New Gold Mountain<\/em>, airs on SBS next month.<\/p>\n

The Goalpost Television production explores the wild west that was Ballarat in 1857, and the tensions that rise between European, American and Chinese miners after a woman\u2019s body is discovered on the outskirts of a Chinese camp.<\/p>\n

Producer of the four-part series, Kylie du Fresne, said while the show is set in the nation\u2019s past, its contemporary relevance still stands.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Australia we certainly have never really explored deeply that the Chinese were so instrumental in the success of the Goldfields,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you look at the success of what the Goldfields did building Melbourne and the money that it brought to the state and to the country, there was something like 10,000 Chinese miners who were instrumental in that.\u201d<\/p>\n

New Gold Mountain<\/em> cast and crew spent some two weeks, or about one third, of total shooting time at Sovereign Hill to create the show.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the first period TV series ever commissioned by SBS, and Ms du Fresne said the location allowed the series to be an accurate historical representation of life in the region over 150 years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cSovereign Hill was so instrumental in the realisation of this series, there\u2019s just no way that we could\u2019ve made this show and put to screen what a period correct 1850s Ballarat main street and all the various buildings that go with that was,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe could never have afforded to do that ourselves, it was like having this amazing Hollywood backlot to ourselves which is far beyond the normal resources for Australian period shows.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe series would not have existed I don\u2019t think if we couldn\u2019t have shot at Sovereign Hill, and we really designed and wrote the storylines around that location and that museum.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms du Fresne said she hoped Ballarat viewers would react \u201cwith a great sense of pride\u201d to the series, with the first episode scheduled to premiere on Wednesday, 13 October at 9.30pm on SBS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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