Who created and wrote the 2015 TV series Banished?
Banished (TV series) Banished (TV series) Banished was a British drama television serial created by Jimmy McGovern. The seven-part serial first aired on 5 March 2015 on BBC Two and was inspired by events in the eighteenth century when Britain established a penal colony in Australia. It has been announced that Banished will not be returning for a second series. Set in the first penal colony founded by the British in New South Wales in the year 1788, in which the British convicts live alongside their Royal Navy marine guards and their officers. A thousand prisoners are guarded by one hundred men, and
Banished (TV series) was BBC2’s second biggest new drama launch for several years, behind "Wolf Hall", which began in January with an overnight audience of 3.9 million. "The Guardian" newspaper has named the series "I'm a Convict, Get me Out of Here!" with reference to the reality TV series "I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!". "The Telegraph" gave the TV series two stars out of five because of its "grim" nature and comparing it to the TV series "Lost". Some noted that there are no Indigenous Australian characters, omitting their perspective on the advent of the colony. Banished (TV series) Banished was