Matchbox Pictures has announced production of a new 13-part TV show for ABC3, Nowhere Boys. The fantasy action-adventure series follows four boys who get lost in the forest and discover, when they return home, that they are in an alternate world identical to theirs except for one startling difference – they were never born.
Currently shooting in Melbourne, the series is created and produced by Tony Ayres (The Slap and Underground: The Julian Assange Story), series produced by Beth Frey (Next Stop Hollywood, Dr Sarmast’s Music School) and executive produced by Michael McMahon (Next Stop Hollywood and The Slap) and Helen Panckhurst (The Straits and My Place). Matchbox has assembled a terrific team including directors Daina Reid (Paper Giants: Magazine Wars, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Howzat! Kerry Packer’s War), Peter Carstairs (September), Alister Grierson (Sanctum, Kokoda) and Craig Irvin (Tethered), who has also been a writer on the series.
