Repeat offender: tv remakes, reboots and revival from Prisoner to Wentworth and beyond

Tessa Dwyer; Philippa Burne

Repeat offender: tv remakes, reboots and revival from Prisoner to Wentworth and beyond

Tessa Dwyer, Philippa Burne

Film Screen & Culture

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review

Abstract

With media reports announcing TV's ongoing 'reboot craze', this chapter examines the continuing pull of women-in-prison (WIP) serials across industry shift and transformation, exploring the circuitous, self-generative cycle of revival and remaking set in motion by Australian TV classic Prisoner (1979-86) and its home-grown 'dark reboot' Wentworth (2013-21).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	TV Transformations and Transgressive Women
Subtitle of host publication	from Prisoner Cell Block H to Wentworth
Editors	Radha O'Meara, Tessa Dwyer, Stayci Taylor, Craig Batty
Place of Publication	Oxford UK
Publisher	Peter Lang Publishing
Chapter	2
Pages	35-62
Number of pages	27
Volume	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781789975086
ISBN (Print)	9781789975062
Publication status	Published - 2022

Publication series

Name	Australian Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Publisher	Peter Lang
Volume	4

Keywords

Television
Australian television
Women
Gender
Women-in-prison
TV drama
TV seriality
TV remakes
Reg Grundy
Prisoner
Wentworth
Dangerous Women
Broadcast
Fremantle
Format trade

1 Edited Book

TV Transformations and Transgressive Women: From Prisoner: Cell Block H to Wentworth
Dwyer, T. (Editor), O’Meara, R. (Editor), Taylor, S. (Editor) & Batty, C. (Editor), 2022, Oxford UK: Peter Lang Publishing. 471 p. (Australian Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives; vol. 4)
Research output: Book/Report › Edited Book › peer-review

1 Public event

TV Transformations & Transgressive Women Book Launch
Dwyer, T. (Contributor), O’Meara, R. (Contributor), Taylor, S. (Contributor) & Batty, C. (Contributor)
11 Nov 2022
Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Public event

Wentworth and Prisoner: 40 years of fandom
Tessa Dwyer
30/12/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment

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Dwyer, Tessa ; Burne, Philippa. / Repeat offender : tv remakes, reboots and revival from Prisoner to Wentworth and beyond. TV Transformations and Transgressive Women: from Prisoner Cell Block H to Wentworth. editor / Radha O'Meara ; Tessa Dwyer ; Stayci Taylor ; Craig Batty. Vol. 4 Oxford UK : Peter Lang Publishing, 2022. pp. 35-62 (Australian Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives).

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Repeat offender: tv remakes, reboots and revival from Prisoner to Wentworth and beyond

Abstract

Publication series

Keywords

Research output

TV Transformations and Transgressive Women: From Prisoner: Cell Block H to Wentworth

Activities

TV Transformations & Transgressive Women Book Launch

Press/Media

Wentworth and Prisoner: 40 years of fandom

Cite this