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1. Series Synopsis
2. Episodes
Jack Irish: Bl ack Tide
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Characters
Jack Irish: Ba d DeB t s
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4. The People

Behind Jack Irish
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Credits & Copyright
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COntact
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1. Series Synopsis

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Se rie s S y nop sis

Jack Irish (Guy Pearce) is a man getting his life back together again.
A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as
a part-time investigator, debt collector, apprentice cabinet maker, punter
and sometime lover the complete man really. An expert in finding those
who dont want to be found dead or alive, Jack helps out his mates while
avoiding the past. That is until the past finds him.
Jacks world revolves around the racetrack, the local pub and the artisan
woodwork shop where hes apprenticed himself to a master craftsman. But
a phone call from an old client first arouses his curiosity, then preys upon
his sense of justice; and sets Jack on a path which he doggedly pursues.
From bent cops to identical twin thugs, political leaders to investigative
journalists, suddenly everyone seems to want a piece of Jack Irish.
Adapted from the celebrated novels by Peter Temple Bad Debts and
Black Tide - the award-winning Jack Irish books have been acclaimed by
critics; loved for their thrilling storylines, eclectic characters, underlying
humour and most of all for being wonderfully, quintessentially Australian.
The scripts have been written by Andrew Knight (Rake, After the Deluge,
Seachange) and Matt Cameron (Crashburn, Seachange).
Led by Emmy Award winning actor Guy Pearce, an outstanding cast of
Australias best talent feature in the telemovies including Aaron Pedersen,
Marta Dusseldorp, Diana Glenn, Don Hany, Shane Jacobson, Roy Billing,
Colin Friels, Steve Bisley, Damian Richardson, Alexandra Schepisi,
Rhys Muldoon, Martin Sacks, Colin Hay, Emma Booth and international
award-winner, Vadim Glowna.
Produced by Ian Collie of Essential Media and Entertainment (Rake, On Trial), directed by Jeffrey Walker (Angry Boys, Rake) and executive produced by
Andrew Knight, Jack Irish is an Essential Media and Entertainment production for ABC1; financed with the support of Film Victoria, Screen Australia,
ABC Commercial and ZDF Enterprises.

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2. Episodes

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E pisode s
JACK IRISH: BAD DEBTS
A phone message from ex-client Danny McKillop (Simon Russell) doesnt ring any bells for Jack Irish (Guy Pearce). Life is
hard enough without having to dredge up old problems: his beloved football team has moved interstate, the odds on his
latest plunge at the track seem far too long and hes still cooking for one.
But then Danny turns up dead and Jack has to take a walk back into a dark and dangerous past.
Stars: Guy Pearce, Marta Dusseldorp, Aaron Pedersen, Roy Billing, Shane Jacobson, Vadim Glowna, Steve Bisley,
Damien Richardson, Colin Friels and Emma Booth.

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E pisode s
JACK IRISH: Black Tide
Jack Irish (Guy Pearce) has no shortage of friends, but family members are short in supply. His wife was murdered by an
ex-client and his father is a fading photo on the pubs football wall of fame. So when Des Connors (Ron Jacobson), the last
link to his dad, calls to ask for help in the matter of a missing son, Jack is happy to lend a hand.
But sometimes prodigal sons go missing for a reason. As Jack begins to dig, he discovers that Gary Connors (Nicholas
Coghlan) was a man with something to hide. And his friends are people with darker and more deadly secrets.
Stars: Guy Pearce, Don Hany, Aaron Pedersen, Roy Billing, Diana Glenn, Shane Jacobson, Vadim Glowna, Kate Atkinson,
Ron Jacobson, Marta Dusseldorp, Bob Franklin, Lachy Hulme, Alexandra Schepisi, Rhys Muldoon, Martin Sacks.

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3. Characters

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Ch a r ac te r s
GUY PEARCE
JACK IRISH
Jack Irish is a man getting on with life. After his wife Isabel was killed by an
ex-client, he went on a massive drinking binge trying to obliterate himself.
Thanks to his friends, he didnt quite succeed. Hes given up criminal law
and now spends his time helping out mates. He works for Harry Strang
doing debt collection and helping pull racing stings. He can also be found
in Charlie Taubs cabinetmaking workshop learning to work with wood the
old way. And his home away from home is the Prince of Prussia pub last
bastion of the Fitzroy Football Club, where his old man was a legend.
MARTA DUSSELDORP
LINDA HILLIER
Linda is a newspaper journalist who has sacrificed relationships and intimacy for her career. Smart and dry she is exceptionally good at her job.
Linda has no problem separating sex and love and is disarmingly direct and
pragmatic when shes after the former. She jokes about always falling for
disheveled, burnt out sleaze bags, which explains her instantaneous attraction to Jack who satisfies all the criteria with the exception of sleaze.
To her delight she comes to learn that Jack has a robust, almost oldfashioned moral compass, perhaps more reliable than her own.

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Ch a r ac te r s
AARON PEDERSEN
CAM DELROY
Cam is the sort of guy you want on your side when the shit hits the fan.
Harry Strangs rugged and somewhat enigmatic right hand man is wiry and
agile, doing all the things that Harry cannot or will not do. Cam is handy
with a gun, efficient with his fists, and even better with racing statistics and
horses. He is streetwise and seemingly unflappable under pressure.
ROY BILLING
HARRY STRANG
Once a successful horse trainer, Harry is now a stylish and wealthy racing
personality. Strategic, fair-minded and patient, especially when it comes to
his racing stings, Harry has developed his own morality code over a lifetime
in the racing game and never takes down anyone who doesnt deserve it.

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Ch a r ac te r s
SHANE JACOBSON
BARRY TREGEAR
Barry grew up in the country and retains a disarming comical charm despite
being inherently racist, sexist and every other ist you can think of. Barrys
part of The Old Cullture - old school policing where touching someone up
with a phone book in their cell is considered a public service. Belligerent,
crass, lazy and discontented with his job he seems an unlikely associate for
Jack but their relationship goes back to Jacks first big case as a lawyer.
VADIM GLOWNA
CHARLIE TAUB
Charlie is an artisan cabinetmaker old enough to have invented mortise

and tenon joints. Despite his cultivated grumpiness Charlie has a genuine
paternalistic fondness for Jack, who works for him part-time in exchange
for cabinetmaking lessons. Charlie is less than impressed with the way Jack
earns a living, dismissing gambling and horseracing as surefire routes to
ruin. Proud, frugal, patient and sage he imparts lessons in life to Jack along
with the secrets of woodworking.

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4. The People

Behind Jack Irish

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Th e Peopl e Be hin d Jack Irish

ANDREW KNIGHT
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER AND SCRIPTWRITER ( BAD DEBTS )

Andrew has written, produced or executive produced more than 1,000 hours of television as well as five feature films, and
is widely recognised as one of the best creatives in the business. His credits include Rake (co-written with Peter Duncan),
Tripping Over, CrashBurn, After the Deluge, SeaChange, My Brother Jack, Spotswood, Simone de Beauvoirs Babies, Kangaroo Palace, Siam Sunset, Jimeon, The Fast Lane and D-Generation. He co-founded the company Artist Services, which
produced some of the most loved television in Australia including Fast Forward, Full Frontal and Big Girls Blouse. His
programs have won some 48 industry awards, including AFIs, Logies, AWGIES, Screen Producers Guild as well as the
Peoples Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. He currently is working on a number of new projects, including co-writing a
second series of Rake for ABC1.
IAN COLLIE
PRODUCER
Ian is a partner at Essential Media & Entertainment one of Australias best known television production companies.
A highly experienced drama and factual television producer, Ian Collies credits include the award-winning drama series
Rake, telemovies Stepfather of the Bride and Hell Has Harbour Views along with docudramas and factual series such as On
Trial, The Making of Modern Australia, Whatever: The Science of Teens, Rogue Nation, The Catalpa Rescue, A Case for the
Coroner, Art House, The Shadow of Mary Poppins and The Original Mermaid. Ian is a qualified solicitor and former executive director of the Arts Law Centre of Australia. As well as producing Jack Irish, Ian has recently executive produced
Australia on Trial and is currently producing the second series of Rake for ABC1.

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Jeffrey Walker
Director
One of Australias most in-demand directors, Jeffrey Walkers credits include; Rake, Angry Boys, Small Time Gangster, Wild
Boys, Dance Academy, H20: Just Add Water, City Homicide and All Saints. A former actor, he made his film debut opposite
Russell Crowe in Proof and appeared in the acclaimed series Round the Twist, The Wayne Manifesto (for which he won an
AFI Award), Ocean Girl, Thunderstone and Spy Shop. As well as the Jack Irish telemovies, in 2011, Jeffrey directed and associate produced Small Time Gangster and is currently in development with the Seven Network for a new comedy series.
In 2010 he won the Australian Directors Guild Award for Best Direction in a Childrens Program for Dance Academy and
has twice been nominated for Best Direction in Television at the AFI/AACTA Awards.
MATT CAMERON
SCRIPTWRITER ( BLACK TIDE )

Matt is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter, whose credits include Seachange, Crashburn, and Newstopia. He
was the script editor for KATH & KIM and co-creator/co-writer/director of the AWGIE award-winning Introducing Gary
Petty. He has written numerous award-winning plays which have been performed throughout Australia and internationally
including; Tear From A Glass Eye, winner of Wal Cherry Play of the Year Award with productions by Playbox, Black Swan
and Londons Gate Theatre, where he was nominated for Evening Standard Awards; Footprints On Water, winner of British
Council International New Playwriting Award; Mr Melancholy, winner of ANPC/New Dramatists Award with productions in
Australia, New York, Paris and Poland; Poor Boy, featuring the songs of Tim Finn; Hinterland and Man The Balloon.

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PETER TEMPLE
WRITER ( NOVELS )
Temple grew up in South Africa and studied history and politics. He then
worked as a journalist for newspapers and magazines in several countries
before he went to Australia in 1980 where he worked for the Australian
Society magazine. He also gave lectures in journalism and media studies at
the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and other universities.
In 1995 he started his own business and began writing crime novels. His
first novel, Bad Debts introduced the private investigator and former lawyer
Jack Irish, which determines in Melbourne. In 1997 he was awarded the
Australian Ned Kelly Award for best first novel. Since then, he writes thrillers featuring Jack Irish and also other investigators. He won the Ned Kelly
Award for Best Novel four more times so far.
Temple's novels are very deeply involved with the Australian community.
For the longest time he was not published abroad, because his publisher
Random House found that he was "too Australian". So in 2003 he moved to
an independent publisher from Melbourne, who introduced him successfully
on the international market.
His most successful novel, The Broken Shore (Cold August / 2005) has
been translated into many languages and is read all over the world.
In addition to the Ned Kelly Award, and two more general Australian book
prizes, Temple became the first Australian writer to receive the renowned
British Duncan Lawrie Dagger award (Gold Dagger) in 2007. The Broken
Shore is set in rural Australia and takes on the problems of the Australian
Aborigines and the Australian local government.

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5. Credits &

Copyright

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Cre dit s
Produced by:

Essential Media & Entertainment in Association with ABC TV Australia,

Screen Australia and Film Victoria
Producer:
Ian Collie (ian.collie@essential-media.com)
Executive Producer:
Andrew Knight
Director:
Jeffrey Walker
Writer:
Peter Temple (novel)
Scriptwriter:
Andrew Knight (Bad Debts), Matt Cameron (Black Tide)
COPYRIG HT
2012 Essential Media and Entertainment, Screen Australia, ABC TV and Film Victoria

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SCRIPTWRITER ( BLACK TIDE )

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