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[07/27/25 - 01:05 PM]
Prime Video Announces Premiere Date for Highly-Anticipated Australian Original Series "Top End Bub"
A TV series follow-up to the 2019 box office smash "Top End Wedding," "Top End Bub" is a heart-warming eight-part series that sees Miranda Tapsell and Gwilym Lee reprise their roles as Lauren and Ned.

[via press release from Amazon]

Prime Video Announces Premiere Date for Highly-Anticipated Australian Original Series "Top End Bub"

A follow-up to 2019 box office hit Top End Wedding, the eight-part series starring Miranda Tapsell and Gwilym Lee launches September 12 on Prime Video in Australia and New Zealand

SYDNEY, Australia - July 28, 2025 - Prime Video today announced that the highly-anticipated Australian Amazon Original series, Top End Bub will launch on Prime Video in Australia and New Zealand on September 12.

A TV series follow-up to the 2019 box office smash Top End Wedding, Top End Bub is a heart-warming eight-part series that sees Miranda Tapsell (Love Child, The Sapphires, The Artful Dodger) and Gwilym Lee (Bohemian Rhapsody, The Great) reprise their roles as Lauren and Ned.

Lauren and Ned are living their best life in the city, which is tragically interrupted when Lauren's sister Ronelle dies in a car crash in the Top End. Rushing back to Darwin, Lauren and Ned are thrown into the chaos of Top End life with Lauren's parents, Daffy and Trevor, and confronted with another curveball when they unexpectedly become the guardians of Ronelle's lively and cheeky young daughter, Taya.

Rounding out the ensemble cast are returning favourites Ursula Yovich, Huw Higginson, Shari Sebbens, Elaine Crombie, Rob Collins, and Tracy Mann, alongside new cast Brooke Satchwell, Guy Simon, Clarence Ryan, and making her screen debut as Taya, Gladys-May Kelly.

The series is created, written and executive produced by Miranda Tapsell and Joshua Tyler and produced by Goalpost Pictures. Goalpost Pictures' Rosemary Blight is Executive Producer, and the series is directed by Christian Van Vuuren and Shari Sebbens. Top End Bub is supported by Screen Australia, Screen Territory, and the South Australian Film Corporation. The series will launch on Prime Video in Australia and New Zealand and is distributed internationally by ZDF Studios.

Since 2019, Prime Video has commissioned 31 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, The Office, The Narrow Road to the Deep North and upcoming Top End Bub and recently announced new production The Untitled AFL Docuseries.

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About Prime Video

Prime Video is a first-stop entertainment destination offering customers a vast collection of premium programming in one app available across thousands of devices. On Prime Video, customers can customize their viewing experience and find their favourite movies, series, documentaries, and live sports - including Amazon MGM Studios-produced series and movies Red One, You're Cordially Invited, The Accountant 2 The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Fallout, Reacher, The Boys, Cross, The Summer I Turned Pretty and The Idea of You; licensed fan favourites Dawson's Creek and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; exclusive access to coverage of live sports such as ICC World Cup Cricket, NBA and WNBA, and acclaimed sports documentaries including The Test series, Kelce; and programming from partners such as Paramount+, Apple TV+, Hayu, beIN SPORTS and MGM+ via Prime Video add-on subscriptions. Prime Video is one benefit among many that provides savings, convenience, and entertainment as part of the Prime membership. All customers, regardless of whether they have a Prime membership or not, can rent or buy titles, including titles such as Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy and Bring Her Back, via the Prime Video Store. Customers can also go behind the scenes of their favourite movies and series with exclusive X-Ray access. For more info visit www.amazon.com/primevideo.

About Goalpost Pictures

Goalpost Pictures is one of Australia's leading independent producers of feature films and TV drama. Their credits include the worldwide #1 Box Office hit THE INVISIBLE MAN, produced with Blumhouse for Universal, written and directed by Leigh Whannell and starring Elisabeth Moss; the internationally acclaimed BLACK SNOW S1&2, for Stan and Sundance Now, created by Lucas Taylor, and winner of the 2024 Screen Business Export Award at the Australian Screen Producer Awards; the Amazon Original movie FIVE BLIND DATES for Prime Video Australia, written by Shuang Hu and Nathan Ramos Park; the box office hit films TOP END WEDDING, written by Joshua Tyler and Miranda Tapsell and directed by Wayne Blair, which had its world premiere at Sundance Film Festival 2019; and 2012's THE SAPPHIRES, also directed by Wayne Blair, which premiered at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival; the critically acclaimed drama series NEW GOLD MOUNTAIN which premiered in Australia on SBS Television in 2021; the film CARMEN, directed by Benjamin Millepied, starring Melissa Barrera and Paul Mescal, which premiered at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival; and the award-winning series CLEVERMAN which had its world premiere at the 2016 Berlin Film Festival before broadcasting on ABC Television in Australia, SundanceTV in North America and BBC3 in the UK.





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