Wentworth (season 1)
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| Country of origin | Australia |
| No. of episodes | 10 |
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| Original network | SoHo |
| Original release | 1 May – 3 July 2013 |
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The first season of the crime drama television series Wentworth originally aired on SoHo in Australia. The season consisted of 10 episodes and aired between 1 May and 3 July 2013. It was executively produced by FremantleMedia's director of drama Jo Porter. The series serves as a re-imaging of Prisoner, which aired on Network Ten from 1979 to 1986. Lara Radulovich and David Hannam developed Wentworth from Reg Watson's original concept. The season was shot over four months from 10 October 2012.
The show is set in modern-day Victoria, Australia and focuses on the fictional women's prison Wentworth. The central characters in the prison are inmates Bea Smith (Danielle Cormack), Franky Doyle (Nicole da Silva), Doreen Anderson (Shareena Clanton), Liz Birdsworth (Celia Ireland), Jacs Holt (Kris McQuade) and prison officers Vera Bennett (Kate Atkinson), Matthew Fletcher (Aaron Jeffery), Will Jackson (Robbie Magasiva), Erica Davidson (Leeanna Walsman) and Meg Jackson (Catherine McClements).
The season received generally favourable reviews from critics. The first episode of Wentworth attracted 244,000 viewers, making it the most watched Australian drama series premiere in Foxtel history. The complete first season was released on DVD and Blu-ray in Australia on 18 November 2013.
Bea Smith is taken to prison after attempting to murder her violent, rapist husband and is immediately taken in by the lesbian, drug-dealing Franky Doyle. Liz Birdsworth and Doreen Anderson also befriend Bea. Governor Meg Jackson is becoming increasingly suspicious about the ladies and their ways of bringing crystal meth into the prison. Deputy Governor Vera Bennett makes Meg look incompetent towards lawyer Erica Davidson. Jacs Holt, Franky's rival, is released from solitary and starts a riot with Franky. Doreen leaves her daughter Kaiya with Bea to assist Franky, but when Kaiya runs off, Bea follows after her and finds Meg lying dead in a pool of her own blood.
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