Adapting to Survivors
Australian series The Survivors blends a murder mystery with character drama to explore the fallout from a past tragedy within a small coastal town. Exec producers Tony Ayres and Andrea Denholm open the book on this Netflix adaptation of Jane Harper’s novel. After just three days on Netflix, Australian drama The Survivors drew 5.3 million views and crashed into the Top 10 lists of 76 countries around the world. Just don’t count executive producer Tony Ayres among the viewers. “I’m excited and happy that people are watching it – and it puts my viewing habits to shame, because when a new show drops, I never watch it straightaway,” he laughs. “It usually takes me about six months to get to a new show, so the fact that so many people are watching it within days of its release is both gratifying and shaming. You never know, when you make a work, how it’s going to be received, or whether it’s going to be read the way you intend it to be read. So far, so good.” Of course, Ayres is already well versed with the six-part series, which debuted globally on June 6 and transports audiences down under to Evelyn Bay, where the close-knit community is still reeling from a past tragedy. The story centres on Kieran Elliott, whose life changed forever when his brother, Finn Elliott, and Toby Gilroy drowned and a young girl, Gabby Birch, went missing. Fifteen years later, his guilt resurfaces as he returns to his … Continue reading Adapting to Survivors
