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Mercury (1996)

Mercury poster
Country
Australia
Length
1 season, 13 episodes
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Editors and reporters work at a Melbourne weekly newspaper. The show follows their professional and personal lives as they produce stories for the paper.

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What happens

Mercury is a 1996 Australian television series about the editors and reporters of the Sunday Mercury, a fictional Melbourne weekly paper. The series is notable for featuring Geoffrey Rush in a lead role, and originally aired on ABC for a single series of 13 hour-long episodes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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