YOUR ONE-STOP GUIDE TO MUSIC • FILM • TV • REVIEWS 15 MAY 2019 JD PARDO REVVED UP FOR MORE MAYANS MC JEROME FLYNN FROM GOT’S BRONN TO JOHN WICK LEIGH PAATSCH BEST KEANU REEVES MOVIES TO STREAM HOME RUN Can Channel Ten’s relationship drama Five Bedrooms be the next Offspring? inside YOUR WEEKLY 7-DAY TV GUIDE V1 - MHSE01Z02MA HERALDSUN.COM.AU WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 2019 HIT.TV 35 COVER STORY HOT GAME OF THRONES FINALE Prepare for the bitter end. And then the prequels Sharing the load and sequels SOME OF THE FIVE Ten is confident BEDROOMS CAST ROY JOSEPH, its ensemble cast STEPHEN PEACOCKE, KAT experiment Five STEWART, KATIE ROBERTSON AND Bedrooms will be HUGH SHERIDAN ON SET, AND KATE MILLER- a ratings winner BELOW, STEWART AND PEACOCKE HEIDKE AT like its other hit EUROVISION relationship Is this the year we pull it off? Pending dramas, writes usual Euro block Colin Vickery voting nonsense wo of Channel 10’s most popular dramas of all time are Offspring and The Secret Life Of Us. TNow Five Bedrooms, with a cast headed by Kat Stewart and Stephen Peacocke, is mining JACK VIDGEN similar territory with hopes of a ON THE VOICE Good to see his ratings bonanza. familiar face on the The set-up is simple. Five TV. Well, it’s a singles meet at a wedding and vaguely familiar decide to buy a house together face these days as a way to get a foot in the overheated property market. Liz, played by Stewart, is a lawyer struggling with a messy divorce and spiralling debt. Ben (Peacocke) is a tradie who has lived in a caravan for the past two years. Heather (Doris Younane) has been trapped in a dull marriage for 25 years. Ainsley (Katie Robertson) and Harry (Roy Joseph) also jump on board. Hugh Sheridan is part of the cast as real estate agent Lachlan. NOT Call it a Married At First Sight-like social experiment. CELEBRITY Can these five people from very NAME GAME different walks of life manage to liked it and my wife (Bridgette no money so I just had my swag If you think 6pm live harmoniously when they “THEY’RE NOT THE TYPE OF PEOPLE Sneddon) said ‘is there anyone rolled out on my floor for the TV news is are suddenly thrown together YOU WOULD EXPECT TO HAVE attached?’ ” Peacocke says. first eight months.” dumbed-down, try under the one roof? DINNER TOGETHER LET ALONE LIVE “I said Kat was and also Five Bedrooms gives this brain drain. Offspring, with Asher Keddie Doris and she said ‘there’s your Younane a chance to shine in a Sheesh as Nina Proudman and Stewart UNDER THE SAME ROOF” answer’. She loves both of them central role after recent as sister Billie, lasted seven as actors and she said ‘anything supporting turns in The Wrong years and chalked up 85 “They’re (characters) a Braxton on Home and Away. that Kat does she is excellent Girl, Janet King, Catching Milat episodes. motley crew. They’re not the But it is Australia that has and it is always popular’. and Party Tricks. The Secret Life Of Us, with a type of people you would expect provided him with his meatiest “Ben looks for the best in Younane sprang to fame as cast including Claudia Karvan, to have dinner together let roles of late — Detective Josh people. He doesn’t judge, and he school psychologist Yola Samuel Johnson and Deborah alone live under the same roof. Levine alongside Rebecca is a bit of a larrikin. Fatoush in 1990s drama Mailman, just pipped that with “Liz has a lot of status Gibney in Wanted, Lieutenant “I’m used to being in a Heartbreak High. The following 86 episodes. anxiety. She is someone who is Adrian Roberts in Danger Close: share house. In my decade she played Moira Doyle If Ten gets its way, really accomplished and smart , and first year at across 94 episodes of ELECTION Five The Battle Of Long Tan McLeod’s CAMPAIGN Bedrooms will make it a trifecta. but is caught up in the world of now Ben. Newcastle Daughters. ADS ON TV “It (Five Bedrooms) is a little success. “When I read the University, I’d “For me, Heather resonates. Good news: we bit Offspring but when we show “She had many properties script, I moved from Women of her age group only have to it to people they say it feels and a lavish lifestyle but after an really Bourke and had watching this are going to endure it for a few more like The Secret Life of Us,” awful divorce she has to absolutely get it. more days Ten program chief Beverley downscale enormously. “Women of Heather’s age McGarvey says. “This is an opportunity to group (50s) can feel invisible. “It has a really good cast, is live with her best friend (Harry) They want to redefine really watchable, and the lead- and it seems like a sound short- themselves after their kids have in audience we get for term stepping stone. grown up. MasterChef Australia will really “Offspring was very much “Heather comes into this at a help the show get going.” through Nina’s perspective point in her life where she’s just Having Stewart on board is but this is a true ensemble not happy with who she is. an obvious win. The key piece. “She is looking for a change creatives, Michael Lewis and “Billie was someone and this happens to come up. A ED SHEERAN Christine Bartlett, were writers who didn’t have a filter lot of women act on it and AND JUSTIN on Offspring and had her in but Liz is all about others are too scared to. BIEBER’S I mind from the start. filters. She is all about “I remember reading it (first DON’T CARE “Liz is 42 and I don’t think in the mask. She has got script) thinking “I’ve got to play Well … it’s better her wildest dreams she thought a lot of walls up.” this role’. The writers have than that new she would be in a share-house,” Peacocke flirted created such a complex, Taylor Swift song Stewart says. with Hollywood interesting dynamic character “Although the show is stardom (Hercules, for me.” different to Offspring it has a Whisky Tango similar generosity and warmth Foxtrot) after his WATCH FIVE BEDROOMS, which I really like. It is years portraying Channel 10, tonight, 8.40pm inherently optimistic. Darryl “Brax” V1 - MHSE01Z02MA.