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Mercury

Creator & Principal Writer: Cliff Green
Executive Producer: Sue Masters
Producers: Fiona Eagger, Stephen Corvini
Directors: Julian McSwiney, Kate Woods, Ian Watson, Brendan Maher

Aired: 1996 (ABC)

Starring Academy-Award winner Geoffrey Rush, Mercury is set in the cut throat world of print journalism, centering on the quality Sunday broadsheet — The Sunday Mercury. It's a newspaper as bold as a current affairs show, as elegant as a high fashion magazine; it's intelligent and reliable, racy and courageous, hard hitting and sensitive. It's as complex as the journalists who make it — an extraordinary tribe of self-ordained heroes, incurable gossips, and rampant egos — obsessed with one thing: Getting their stories in the paper. For these reporters, journalism isn't a job, it's a way of life. (1x90min & 12x60min)