
Starving James Freeman plots with Tommy Barrett and Elizabeth Quinn to kill the blacksmith who has been stealing all his food. Governor Phillip, to maintain order, agrees to have Barrett hanged and gives the task to Reverend Johnson who will not marry them as he does not sanction the Governor's legal power to divorce the pair. The female prisoners are expected to fraternize only with the soldiers and not other prisoners unless they are married an impossible situation because she and her lover, Tommy Barrett, have spouses back in England. When prisoner Elizabeth Quinn is found in the men's quarters, the rules of the penal colony are tested. David Wenham as Captain Arthur Phillip, 1st Governor of New South Wales.Joanna Vanderham as Katherine 'Kitty' McVitie.Jordan Patrick Smith as Private Mulroney.Genevieve O'Reilly as Reverend Johnson's wife.Brooke Harman as Deborah, Governor Phillip's housekeeper.
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The series premiered on 25 June 2015, on BBC First in Australia and BBC UKTV in New Zealand. Filming took place in Sydney in April 2014 and Manchester afterwards. The commissioners for BBC Two are Ben Stephenson and Janice Hadlow. The series, a co-production between RSJ Films and See-Saw Films, was co-commissioned by BBC Two and BBC Worldwide. A thousand prisoners are guarded by one hundred men, and with five men for every woman, tensions are high from widespread polyamory and rape. On July 29, 2016, it was announced that Season 4 will be the last season.Set in the first penal colony founded by the British in New South Wales in the year 1788, in which the British convicts live alongside their Royal Navy marine guards and their officers. Rabbit, a ruthless Ukrainian gangster who has been hunting Lucas and Carrie, his former top thieves, for 15 years. The series began its first season on Cinemax on January 11, 2013.īanshee stars: Antony Starr ( Rush) as Lucas Hood, an ex-con and master thief who assumes the identity of the sheriff of Banshee, where he continues his criminal activities, even as he’s hunted by the shadowy gangsters he betrayed years earlier Ivana Milicevic ( Charlie’s Angels, HBO’s Mind of the Married Man) as Carrie Hopewell, a notorious jewel thief who now lives in Banshee under an assumed identity with her new family, who know nothing of her past Ulrich Thomsen ( The Celebration) as Procter, an intimidating, wealthy local businessman who believes he is above the law Frankie Faison ( The Good Wife, HBO’s The Wire) as Sugar Bates, a wise, powerful former boxer and ex-con who now owns the local watering hole Rus Blackwell ( Burn Notice, HBO’s Recount) as Gulf War hero Gordon Hopewell, Banshee’s district attorney, who is married to Carrie Ryann Shane ( Blue Bloods) as Deva Hopewell, Carrie and Gordon’s rebellious daughter and Ben Cross ( Star Trek, Ben Hur) as Mr. Tropper and Schickler conceived the series and are writers for the project. Ball is an executive producer for the project alongside Greg Yaitanes, Peter Macdissi, Jonathan Tropper and David Schickler.


The series was developed by show runner Alan Ball ( Six Feet Under and True Blood). The series is set in the village of Banshee, Pennsylvania. Banshee is an American drama television series produced by Cinemax.
