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Although Jimmy McGovern is a prolific script-writer, only works which are eligible for inclusion in AustLit (by having Australian settings or content) have been individually indexed.
Awards for Works
form yBanished( dir. Dan Percivalet. al. )agentAustraliaUnited Kingdom (UK):BBC Worldwide,201575398632015series - publisher film/TV historical fiction
'Jimmy McGovern’s fast-paced fictional seven-part series opens at dawn in New South Wales, Australia, 1788. Tents are pitched and there is a scattering of timber buildings on a strip of land between the impenetrable bush and the mighty Pacific Ocean.
'It is here that the convicts transported on the First Fleet and their masters are waking up to another sweltering hot day in a place where anything can happen and death stalks everyone. With supplies running out and ill-equipped for life on this inhospitable shoreline, who will survive the next ten days?'
Source: BBC press release (http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/worldwide/120314banished.html). (Sighted: 1/7/2014)