Premieres Wednesday, 3 November At 8.30pm On 10 And 10 Play On Demand.
Lust, betrayal and deception will take centre stage when 10’s gripping new drama, Lie With Me premieres Wednesday, 3 November at 8.30pm.
Starring Charlie Brooks ( EastEnders ) and Australia’s own Brett Tucker ( McLeod’s Daughters,Neighbours ), Lie With Me will have you clinging to the edge of your seat and second-guessing the characters you thought you knew.
British woman Anna (Charlie Brooks) and her husband, Jake (Brett Tucker), relocate to his native Australia with their two small children. Haunted by mysterious events that occurred in London, Anna resumes her career and welcomes a young nanny into the house. Becky (Phoebe Roberts) seems a perfect fit, but little does Anna know, she’s hiding a sinister secret.
Desperately looking for someone to trust, and noticing her husband’s secretive behaviour and wandering eye, Anna is pushed to the brink, and sets an elaborate trap with irreversible consequences.
Pretty much sums things up so far, from MediaWeek.
There is a surprising lack of publicity for the new Australian dramaLie With Me that recently topped the UK ratings. Lie With Me (Wednesday on 10) aired as an event on Channel 5 for four straight nights where it beat the BBC and ITV with an average audience of three and a half million viewers.
Now down under, Lie With Me is 10’s only new Aussie drama for 2021 and the channel seems as uninterested in the genre as Seven and Nine are. It’s almost as if commercial television wants local drama to fail. This was originally scheduled for Thursdays, then dropped and re-scheduled, and 10’s media site has never had any episodes to preview. (A lack of previews is happening far too often.)
One thing I noticed in the ads for this show, that nowhere does it mention it’s a new Australian drama - given the lead is very clearly British you’d think this would be something they’d be keen to highlight.
Yes I was about to comment we have not seen promos on high rotation. They could’ve sold it as a drama event mini series as something different for November. 10 are useless. Too obsessed with the low rating bachelorette
This is Australian network television all over now. They promote their tentpole reality shows to death and let everything else wither and die. I have only seen the Lie With Me promo once so far, whereas I have seen The Bachelorette twenty times a day.
Very typical of Ten’s promotions, they should be smarter in scheduling their program promotions. As a viewer, I detest the over saturation of tentpole promos, particularly the long form (60-120 second) ones after you’ve already seen them a few times it becomes tedious, I often change the channel and sample something else after one program has finished but before the next one has started which happens particularly on their multi-channels.
If the show wasn’t already going to flail tonight premiering after The Bachelorette, it’s already been bumped to a 9:45pm start next week following a one off airing of Gogglebox on Wednesday due to the Socceroos game airing on the main channel on Thursday.
So they delay the premiere by a few months just to bump it after one week. Terrible planning and it seems they are deliberately trying to kill it’s audience.
Watching this on 10 play now, it’s not bad at all but there’s no buzz about it whatsoever. Poorly promoted and scheduled, what a shame.
Would be great if it was on P+ so it could be watched without ads, I’d also pay to watch it on 10 play if it didn’t have the giant watermark in the top right hand corner.
Dan doesn’t have high hopes, and doesn’t know the correct name either.
Megan’s a fan, but she doesn’t know the correct Channel 10 Twitter handle.
It was an abrupt start to the first episode tonight with bits of opening credits cut out. The first credits I saw were “with support from Film Victoria”. No mention of Fremantle, Network 10 or Channel 5.
When your only original home grown drama on the channel of the year is thrown out as a few crumbs at the end of the year they can’t really expect anyone to watch. People need a destination for drama - a service or a slot they know they’ll find it in. The free to air commercial channels have long stopped being such a destination.
Seven, Nine and Ten all need to rethink their drama strategies, if airing four hours a year can be considered a strategy. They need to make them events like they make the reality shows events, and probably take a leaf out of ITV’s and C5’s book and air the one or two series they do have stripped across a single week at the end of the year, or over a couple of nights over a couple of weeks. Throwing them out midweek off the back of a reality show which is struggling in the ratings is not going to find it an audience.
They definitely should have held out another week or two as I mentioned and had this air Mon-Thur once HYBPA, Cheap Seats and Gogglebox all wrapped up for the year and promoted it as a multi night event - same as what they did in the UK.
Also a better and consistent marketing strategy as well as actually telling viewers it’s an Australian drama would be a good start too, given the lead is from the UK that may not have been obvious from the promo. They also could’ve highlighted that it’s from the same EP as neighbours for a tie-in, included it’s success in the UK too etc.
They really had nothing to lose after delaying its premiere for Aussie audiences, postponing the launch date by a few months and then launched it off the back of the flailing Bachelorette.
The series premieres on TVNZ1 in New Zealand this Saturday (November 27) at 8.30pm with the first two episodes. Episode 3 and 4 will then air the following Saturday (December 4) at the same time.
