Redfern Now: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Six powerful, funny, bittersweet stories exploring extraordinary events in ordinary lives. Six families, unconnected, except that their lives are all changed by a seemingly insignificant incident, an accident or a moment's decision that spirals into a lifechanging event. A mother — about to depart on a long-deserved family holiday — is forced to put her life on hold and find a home for her niece and nephew, when her mentally unstable sister is committed. An idealistic Indigenous cop locks up a local troublemaker, brought into the station after a bad fight. When the prisoner is later found dead in his cell, the cop's nightmare begins. After serving six years in jail for killing a man in a street fight, a professional boxer comes home to find he has competition for his wife's attention. A joyride in a stolen car at first leads to tragedy and a jail sentence for an innocent young boy, then twists into an unlikely love story. A middle-class family's façade is brought crumbling down by an anonymous tip off. And a young Aboriginal boy's refusal to stand for the national anthem at school triggers a surprising reaction from teachers and fellow students. Redfern Now is contemporary inner city Indigenous life, told by the people who live it. NOW.

Series details

• Title: Redfern Now
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Drama
• Premiere date: 2012-11-01
• Final broadcast date listed: 2013-12-05
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: ABC
• Network country: Australia
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 7293
• IMDb ID: tt2274800
• TVDB ID: 263763

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2012-11-01; final listed air date 2012-12-06; episode order: 6.
• Season 2: premiered 2013-10-31; final listed air date 2013-12-05; episode order: 6.

Source and licence

Adapted from Redfern Now on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.