Top End Wedding's TV spin-off Top End Bub gets September 12 air date
The film's TV follow-up, Top End Bub, will premiere on Tuesday, September 12, on Prime Video.
The series sees Love Child star Miranda Tapsell and The Great's Gwilym Lee reprise their roles as newlyweds Lauren and Ned in the next chapter of their story, which picks up a few years on from when we saw them last.
'Lauren and Ned are living their best life in the city, which is tragically interrupted when Lauren's sister Ronelle (Shari Sebbens) dies in a car crash in the Top End,' an official release reads.
'Rushing back to Darwin, Lauren and Ned are thrown into the chaos of Top End life with Lauren's parents, Daffy (Ursula Yovich) and Trevor (Huw Higginson), and confronted with another curveball when they unexpectedly become the guardians of Ronelle's lively and cheeky young daughter, Taya.
The role of Taya is played by young WA-raised Gladys-May Kelly, who is making her screen debut.
Rounding out the cast are Elaine Crombie, Rob Collins, and Tracy Mann, alongside Brooke Satchwell, Guy Simon, and WA-raised actor, Clarence Ryan.
The series, created, written and executive produced by Miranda Tapsell and Joshua Tyler and produced by Goalpost Pictures, was filmed in and around Darwin and the Tiwi Islands last year and is directed by Christian Van Vuuren and Shari Sebbens.
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