True_Colours_(Australian_TV_series)

<i>True Colours</i> (Australian TV series)

True Colours (Australian TV series)

Australian TV series


True Colours is an Australian drama miniseries broadcast from 4 July 2022 on SBS TV and NITV. The four-part miniseries was created, written and directed by Erica Glynn and Steven McGregor, and stars Rarriwuy Hick as a detective in a remote community in the Northern Territory.

Synopsis

True Colours tells the story of detective Toni Alma, who is assigned to investigate a suspicious car accident in Perdar Theendar, the Aboriginal community she left as a child. The story touches on the place of Indigenous Australian art and the practices of the global art world, and explores Aboriginal culture.[1]

Cast

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Production

The four-part miniseries was created, written and directed by Erica Glynn and Steven McGregor.[2] Danielle MacLean also wrote for the series, which was produced by Greer Simpkin, David Jowsey and Penny Smallacombe for SBS Television and NITV.[3]

It was filmed entirely on location in the Macdonnell Ranges, east of Alice Springs,[3] including in the community of Amoonguna.[4] Hundreds of works by artists from Central Australia feature in the series, which represents Arrernte culture and language.[5]

Release and reception

True Colours premiered simultaneously on SBS Television and National Indigenous TV on 4 July 2022 as well as on SBS on Demand, running over four consecutive nights on television.[5]

Critics gave the series favourable reviews, with TV Week calling it "authentic and powerful".[5]


References

  1. Knox, David (5 August 2021). "SBS / NITV begin filming new local drama, True Colours". TV Tonight. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  2. Keast, Jackie (18 November 2020). "SBS orders 'Copping it Black'; Yoson An, Alyssa Sutherland to lead 'New Gold Mountain'". if.com.au. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  3. "What the critics are saying about groundbreaking drama 'True Colours'". SBS Television. 1 July 2022. Retrieved 4 July 2022.

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