Aussie Luke Hemsworth Joins the Cast of Prime Video's Global Hit Series Deadloch Season Two

Luke joins the series regulars, as well as recently announced cast members Steve Bisley, Shari Sebbens, Jean Tong, Nikki Britton, Genevieve Morris

Prime Video releases new images of Luke Hemsworth on set

QUEENSLAND, Australia - November 5, 2024 - Prime Video, Guesswork Television, and OK Great Productions today announced that Australian actor Luke Hemsworth will join lead cast members Kate Box, Madeleine Sami, Nina Oyama and Alicia Gardiner in Season Two of the Prime Video global hit series, Deadloch.

In the new season, Dulcie and Eddie are in Darwin investigating the death of Eddie's former policing partner, Bushy, but when a body is discovered in a remote town, they are flung into a new sweatier, stickier investigation.

Created and written by powerhouse comedy minds, Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan, Hemsworth (Westworld, Thor: Love & Thunder) will play Jason Wade, creator and star of 'Jason Wade's Adventures Down Under' and the owner of 'Jason Wade's Land of Crocs and Other Animals' Wildlife Park.

Having completed filming in the Northern Territory, production has now moved to Queensland, utilising the Brisbane studios and for cast safety, the less croc infested waters.

Creators, executive producers and writers Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan said, "Luke Hemsworth is joining our cast as croc-wrangling Territory icon, Jason Wade. We're feeling very happy with ourselves about this because he's perfect. It's perfect casting."

Previously announced new cast members include; Steve Bisley (The Great Gatsby, Mystery Road: Origin, Mad Max), Shari Sebbens (The Sapphires, Thor: Love and Thunder and The Office), Jean Tong (Safe Home, Heartbreak High), Genevieve Morris (Bloom, No Activity), Byron Coll (Time Bandits, The Luminaries), Nikki Britton (How to Stay Married), Anthony J Sharpe (Joe v Carole, Human Error), Blake Pavey (Urvi Went to an All Girls School), Damien Garvey (The Artful Dodger, Jack Irish, Rake), Ngali Shaw (The Twelve, Ladies in Black), Bev Killick (Savage River, Jones Family Christmas), Ling Cooper-Tang (Troppo, Apples Never Fall, Nautilus), Ursula Yovich (Top End Wedding, Mystery Road and the upcoming Top End Bub), Syd Brisbane (High Country, Stateless), Ines English (Last Days of the Space Age) and Lennox Monaghan (Windcatcher).

Deadloch Season Two is created and written by Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan who also serve as executive producers alongside Kevin Whyte and Tanya Phegan from Guesswork Television. Andy Walker is the producer and the series is directed by Beck Cole and Gracie Otto. Deadloch is produced by Guesswork Television, OK Great Productions and Amazon MGM Studios.

Deadloch Season Two is financed with the Assistance of Screen Territory through its Production Attraction Incentive Program and proudly supported by the Queensland Government through Screen Queensland's Production Attraction Strategy.

Since 2019, Prime Video has commissioned 30 Australian Original series and features in Australia - The Test S1-3, Making Their Mark, LOL: Last One Laughing Australia with Rebel Wilson, Back to the Rafters, Luxe Listings Sydney S1 - S3, award-winning feature-length documentary Burning, The Moth Effect, Head Above Water, Kick Like Tayla, Warriors On The Field, Class of '07, Deadloch S1 & S2, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Dance Life, the lifestyle special Hugh van Cuylenburg: G.E.M, a series of ten stand-up comedy specials, Neighbours, Hot Potato: The Story of the Wiggles, Five Blind Dates, and the upcoming The Office, The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Top End Bub.

Prime members will be able to watch all episodes of Deadloch anywhere and anytime on the Prime Video app for smart TVs, mobile devices, Fire TV, Fire TV stick, Fire tablets, Apple TV and stream online. In the Prime Video app, Prime members can download episodes on their mobile devices and tablets and watch anywhere offline at no additional cost. Prime Video is available in Australia at no extra cost to a Prime membership at just AU$9.99/month or $79 annually. New customers can find out more at www.primevideo.com and subscribe to a free 30-day trial.

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About Guesswork Television

Guesswork Television is a full-service production company with offices in Melbourne and Sydney, specialising in narrative comedy, authored documentary, studio entertainment shows and podcasts. Guesswork's crime/comedy pedigree was burnished with season one of Deadloch, the global hit that turned the serial killer genre on its head and made it funny, thrilling and engrossing.

Since kicking off in earnest in 2012, Guesswork shows and their creators have bagged a Primetime Emmy and multiple other awards including Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards, Logie Awards, Writers' Guild Awards, Screen Producers Australia Awards and numerous other guild awards. In 2018, Guesswork Television was honoured by its peers as the Screen Production Business of the Year.

In 2023, Guesswork debuted Deadloch (8 x 60 minute comedy drama for Amazon Prime Video) and Queerstralia (a Zoë Coombs Marr doco series for the ABC). Past glories have included: Hannah Gadsby: Nanette, Please Like Me, Rosehaven, Frayed (co-produced with Merman), Get Krack!n, The Katering Show (Season 2), as well as live standup comedy specials for Paramount+, Amazon Prime Video and Stan. Guesswork's current slate of entertainment projects includes Hard Quiz and The Weekly With Charlie Pickering.

About OK Great Productions

Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan formed Ok Great Productions in 2019 to make a slate of projects that propel the voices of funny people. Together they have created the narrative comedy, Bleak - an award-winning 4-part web series about Life shitting on your face - which was later made into a 30-minute pilot for Australia's national broadcaster, the ABC.

In 2014, the Kates created The Katering Show, an 8 x 10 min web-series about an intolerable foodie (McLennan) and her food intolerant friend (McCartney) - which they wrote and directed, and also produced with Tamasin Simpkin. The first season of The Katering Show debuted on Youtube in 2015 and was viewed over 2 million times within its first week online. To date, the channel has over 100,000 subscribers and episodes have had over 9 million views. The series won 'Best of the Fest' and 'Best Short-Form Digital Series' at the New York Television Festival and was nominated for a 'Best Indie Web Series' at the Streamy Awards (US). In Australia, ABC's catch-up service, iView, commissioned a second season of the show and this production remains one of the platform's highest viewed original series. The Katering Show has also aired on ABC TV's main channel.

In 2017, McCartney and McLennan set their sights on the chirpy world of morning television with their full length satirical comedy Get Krack!n, which was made with the ABC and NBC's SVOD service Seeso.

In 2023, Deadloch was release globally on Prime Video to great audience and critical success.