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Prime Time (1986)

Prime Time poster
Genre
drama television series
Country
Australia
Elsewhere
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How it feels

This Australian soap follows the personal and professional lives of people working in a television newsroom. The show blends love affairs and office rivalries with the daily pressures of producing a nightly news broadcast.

dramaticsoapydatedconventionalslow-pacedsentimentalearnestnaturalistic

What happens

Prime Time is an Australian soap opera drama television series produced by Crawford Productions that aired on the Nine Network in from January 1986 to January 1987. Prime Time was the last Australian soap produced with exterior location scenes shot on film and interior scenes shot on videotape. The series was not a popular success and was cancelled after sixty episodes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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