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I’m carrying on my annual tradition with this blog post – buying the Previews edition of TV Week and blogging about what shows look good to watch this year (and that I’ll possibly review).

Starting with shows that I am currently reviewing that will be airing again, RFDS’ third season will hopefully be airing this year (it appeared in the Previews edition last year). According to the edition, the third season picks up a year later, with the RFDS family dealing with the aftereffects of a tragedy. Interestingly, the third season was filmed in the Flinders Ranges and Adelaide, as opposed to its usual location of Broken Hill, due to the main filming location, Broken Hill airport, undergoing updates.

I was happy to see a full blurb for the third and final season of The Newsreader (last year’s Previews edition had a blurb that ended with an incomplete sentence). The blurb for the final season was as follows:

“With Helen and Dale having split, there’s potential for new love. At the 1989 Logie Awards, Dale hits it off with Kay, who’s now out of rehab, and the gossip magazines go wild. Meanwhile, Helen forms a close bond with her producer, Bill, and is Noelene ready to become a mum?”

In regards to new shows to potentially review, this year’s Previews edition didn’t disappoint.

Madam, which will air on the Nine Network, is a comedy starring Rachel Griffiths as a “married mother of two who – after discovering her husband has been cheating on her with a sex worker – uses his money to open a ‘feminist and ethical’ brothel.”

Top End Bub, which will air on Prime Video, is a comedy drama that is the sequel to the 2019 Australian film, Top End Wedding. The film’s original cast returns and the story will focus on the arrival of a new baby.

Playing Gracie Darling, which will air on Paramount Plus, is a mystery thriller focusing on a woman Joni, whose best friend, Gracie Darling, disappeared during a séance. Decades later, Joni returns to her home town to figure out what really happened the night Gracie went missing.

Good Cop/Bad Cop, which will air on Stan, is a drama police procedural with a dose of comedy thrown in. The series will focus on sibling detectives trying to keep the peace in a small Pacific northwest town where the Chief of Police just happens to be their dad. Despite casting American actors, Leighton Meester and Clancy Brown, as one of the sibling detectives and the Chief of Police respectively, the show was filmed in Queensland.

The Family Next Door, which will air on the ABC, is a drama adapted from the bestselling novel of the same name and focuses on Isabelle Heatherington, who moves to a seaside town, intent on solving a mystery. According to the blurb, four women are her suspects and they each have something to hide.

Sunny Nights, which will air on Stan, is a comedy drama that focuses on American siblings, Vicki and Martin moving to Sydney to start a spray tan business and unexpectedly get caught up in the criminal underworld.

I’m looking forward to watching and reviewing new seasons of the shows I’ve reviewed, as well as checking out the new shows listed above, when they air.