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Returning: Rake

Rake is returning -to Sundays- with guest stars including Magda Szubanski, Dan Wyllie, Cate Blanchett & Aden Young.

2014-01-13_1836Season 3 of ABC’s Rake is around the corner, moving to Sunday nights and set to begin from the first day of ratings, Sunday February 9 at 8.30pm.

Guest stars include Magda Szubanski, Genevieve Lemon, Dan Wyllie, Bruce Spence, Jane Allsop, Tom Hobbs, Ian Meadows plus cameos from Cate Blanchett, Aden Young and Elizabeth Debicki.

Cleaver Greene languishes in prison surrounded by enemies – Cal McGregor, Col and the Corella brothers, but also friends. Many former colleagues from Macquarie Street and the bench are also guests of Her Majesty courtesy of corruption scandals. His cell-mate Mal fancies himself as more than a friend. A convicted murderer, he watches Cleaver’s back – constantly. Cleaver even gets appearance work before the kangaroo court that metes out prison justice. But he needs all his cunning and a dose of luck to avoid assaults, protect his friends and find a way to outwit an appeals bench deliberately selected to keep him locked away forever.

Cleaver might not be so keen on freedom if he knew what was happening in the outside world. Wendy has plans underway to finally move on from Cleaver and start a new life with Roger, whose sports medicine practice is thriving. Fuzz is making plans with his deeply Christian girlfriend Tara that will take him a long way from his father both physically and morally.

Scarlet has taken over Cleaver’s clients along with his assistant, Nicole, despite her being the mother of Barney’s love child. Scarlet, Barney and Nicole have formed an uneasy menage, locked together by a challenge in Barney’s life that would rock Cleaver to the core – if he knew.

Scarlet and David are torn between love for each other and duties that make their affair impossible. David’s tenuous grip on opposition leadership could not survive exposure, and he is the only thing standing between media and mining magnate Tikki Wendon and her monstrous casino slated for prime harbourside land. However, Tikki has an insurance plan involving a weak government, an aggressive merchant bank and former Attorney General, Cal McGregor as soon as he gets out of prison.

Cleaver is better off not knowing Missy’s biopic is about to hit cinema screens with a surprise casting choice. Nor discover Kirsty Corella’s plans for him, or just how much trouble can be caused by a pair of coke-fuelled rogue traders, or a sexy drug and alcohol counsellor, or a Medicare scammer with a plate of special muffins. If Cleaver knew the avalanche of disasters set to fall on his nearest and dearest, he would probably prefer to stay inside.

Stars: Richard Roxburgh, Danielle Cormack, Russell Dykstra, Matt Day, Adrienne Pickering, Caroline Brazier, Kate Box, Damien Garvey, Keegan Joyce.

Recurring guest roles: Steve Le Marquand. Robyn Malcolm , Martin Sacks, Kerry Walker, Rhys Muldoon.

Sunday February 9 at 8.30pm ABC1.

10 Responses

  1. I’m not sure why they would pump more money into a show that failed so miserably. I’m looking forward the US showing these makers how it’s done.

  2. Rake is without question the best Australian drama in a generation and deserves this primetime slot. I really hope the audience votes with their remotes and makes this the appointment viewing choice and time shifts whatever commercial TV throws at it. Why watch tedious commercials?

  3. It’s not April 1st, so the ABC must be throwing Rake under the bus to make The Time of Our Lives’ ratings look good.

    8:30pm Sunday in the middle of the storm will erupt “after the Tennis” when Seven, Nine and Ten go all guns blazing for advertising share. The suburbs will be watching that battle, The ABC’s mostly over 55s will avoid Rake like the plague and the inner-city hipsters will all watch it on iview.

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