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Anthony LaPaglia, Sigrid Thornton join The Code.

Marquee names join Ashley Zukerman, Dan Spielman and Adele Perovic for season two of ABC drama.

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Anthony LaPaglia and Sigrid Thornton have been announced as part of the season two cast for ABC thriller, The Code.

They join with returning stars Ashley Zukerman, Dan Spielman and Adele Perovic.

The Playmaker series will be filmed in Sydney, Canberra and Far North Queensland, again written by\ Shelley Birse and directed by Shawn Seet.

Playmaker’s David Taylor and David Maher said: “We are delighted that The Code has been universally embraced by audiences and critics alike, and season two takes it to a new level – with a stellar cast, political intrigue and thrilling action.”

ABC TV’s Carole Sklan said: “The ABC is delighted to be bringing back this brilliant, original political thriller. At its heart is the complicated emotional relationship between two brothers as they try to find a straight path in a crooked world.”

The series is tipped for 2016.

Hoping to escape the storm they unleashed at the end of season one, bruised, but essentially scot-free – Jesse (Ashley Zukerman) and Ned (Dan Spielman) are confronted with the terrifying possibility of being extradited to the US to face serious charges in an American court.

Fortunately for the Banks brothers, Australian National Security is sitting on an explosive case they cannot crack, and Jesse Banks might just be the man to do it. Exchanging his hacker skills for their freedom, Jesse and Ned are drawn into a dark world that could not only cost their own lives but all that they hold dear.

Exploring the value of freedom of speech and the delicate balance between personal liberty and national security in the digital age, The Code Season Two unveils the rapidly spreading and very real threat of cybercrime and its capacity to bring an entire country to its knees.

Created and written by Shelley Birse, produced by David Maher, David Taylor, Diane Haddon and Shelley Birse, directed by Shawn Seet, and executive produced by the ABC’s Carole Sklan and David Ogilvy, the six-hour political thriller will be filmed in Sydney, Canberra and Far North Queensland.

A Playmaker production for ABC TV, The Code was developed through the Scribe Initiative and is produced with the assistance of Screen Australia, Screen NSW, Screen Queensland, the ACT Government and Screen ACT.

14 Responses

  1. The ABC is slipping into irrelevance with yet another drama which was full of sound and fury but essentially unengaging and unintelligible. It was poorly written and it should not have been renewed. Viewers turned off in droves. It seems that the ABC has quite a reasonable drama budget but lacks the people in-house to do much with it. Is it because it is impossible to get rid of the executives there once they get employed? There appears to be a very low level of accountability. Perhaps it is time to move people on.

  2. I found The Code to be last year’s most over-rated drama. The storytelling was confusing, I could not follow what was happening and therefore I could not buy into the drama even though I really tried. In the end this series was less than the sum of its inconsistent parts. The audience abandoned it and a second series was not deserved. Who is actually in charge of making these decisions?

    1. I abandoned it after about 20 minutes of episode 1. As with other Australian dramas, the makers didn’t seem to know how to engage an audience and get them hooked.

  3. “…brilliant, original…” hardly. The bar is so low in this country. Probably because decision makers are so ill-versed and out of touch. Just hope it improves a thousand fold from the very average Series 1.

    1. The Code was not the same melodrama we see from Winners & Losers, House Husbands, Offspring -so it’s claim on originality is not unfair. Even comparing with procedurals such as Hiding, City Homicide, Cops LAC, Stingers, Rush, Sea Patrol, it made some moves they haven’t.

  4. I hope the writing’s better this time around. There were some silly scenes and I found a lot of it wasn’t very believable. The last ep I watched was when that guy killed that woman sitting in the car outside the security gate of “Evil Corp”.

    Actually, the acting wasn’t that great either. maybe it was the direction because even Aaron Pedersen came across as a bit cartoonish at times. And the dialogue could’ve done with a lot less of various characters explaining their motivations to the audience all the time.

    Still, what I saw was a lot better than the even less I saw of Hiding.

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