Netflix renames Australian neo-western as Territory ready for October launch

Territory has been filmed in the Northern Territory and South Australia

Netflix’s Outback-set drama series from Australian producers Ronde Media has been renamed Territory and will premiere globally in October.

The show, which is described as a neo-western, has been filmed over the past year on location in the Northern Territory and South Australia under the working title Desert King.

The six-part series is set on a working cattle station in the Top End area of the Northern Territory, which provides the backdrop to erupting tensions between rival cattle family factions, desert gangsters, Indigenous elders and mining billionaires. The production secured A$1.3m (US$800,000) from agency Screen Territory’s Production Attraction Incentive Programme.

The streamer has also revealed the cast of the show, which includes Anna Torv (The Newsreader, The Last of Us), Sam Corlett (Vikings: Valhalla), Michael Dorman (For All Mankind, Patriot) and Dan Wyllie (Love My Way).

Territory was created by Timothy Lee (Mystery Road, Bump) and Ronde Media’s Ben Davies (Bondi Rescue, The First Inventors). The executive producers are Davies, Rob Gibson (The Twelve, Colin from Accounts) and Ian Collie (Jack Irish, Scrublands) and the producer is Paul Ranford (True History of the Kelly Gang). The show was written by Lee, Kodie Bedford, Steven McGregor and Michaeley O’Brien and directed by Greg McLean (La Brea, Wolf Creek).