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Winners and Losers

Winners & Losers
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Created by Bevan Lee
Starring Virginia Gay
Melanie Vallejo
Zoe Tuckwell-Smith
Melissa Bergland
Blair McDonough
Damien Bodie
Stephen Phillips
Denise Scott
Francis Greenslade
Sarah Grace
Jack Pearson
Tom Wren
Mike Smith
Tom Hobbs
Katherine Hicks
Sibylla Budd
Nick Russell
Nathin Butler
James Saunders
Laura Gordon
Demi Harman
Paul Moore
Country of origin Australia
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 5
No. of episodes 109 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) John Holmes
Julie McGauran
Producer(s) MaryAnne Carroll (S1)
Paul Moloney (S2–)
Location(s) Melbourne, Australia
Running time 44 minutes
Production company(s) Seven Productions
Release
Original network Seven Network
Picture format 576i (PAL)
1080i (HDTV) (2016)
Audio format Stereo
Original release 22 March 2011 (2011-03-22) – 12 September 2016 (2016-09-12)
External links
Website

Winners & Losers is an Australian television drama series first broadcast on the Seven Network on 22 March 2011. It was created by the producers of Packed to the Rafters and is aired in the show's former time slot. Winners & Losers focuses on the lives of four women living in Melbourne, after they win a large amount of money in the Oz Lotto. Seven renewed Winners & Losers for a second season in July 2011 and it began airing from 26 June 2012. Two months later, it was announced the series had been renewed for a third season. A fourth season was confirmed on 19 December 2013. A fifth season was confirmed on 3 December 2014.

Angus Ross, the Director of Programming at the Seven Network, confirmed in an interview with Australian television blog, TV Tonight, that the fifth season of Winners & Losers would be the final season. The season premiered on 5 July 2016 and concluded on 12 September 2016.

Winners & Losers was created by Bevan Lee. Lee wanted to create a drama focusing on females for a number of years before the programme's creation. He also created Packed to the Rafters. While the former is focused on family relationships, Winners and Losers concentrates on friendships and is aimed at a younger demographic. Lee said it focuses on the "fun and drama of how we all carry the inner loser inside us, no matter how much life makes a winner of us." Lee said the programme's genre is "charmedy" consisting of drama, comedy and charm.

The series revolves around the lives of four women: Jenny Gross (Melissa Bergland), Bec Gilbert (Zoe Tuckwell-Smith), Frances James (Virginia Gay) and Sophie Wong (Melanie Vallejo). The girls were "the losers" in high school. Ten years later, they realise they are really winners once they are reunited at their school reunion and afterwards, win the Oz Lotto. At the time of early production, the main actresses were required to spend time together off set to build believable chemistry between themselves. The show's producer Maryanne Carroll was partly responsible for creating the lives of the four main female characters. She oversaw a "team of experts" who chose music for scenes, styled their homes and chose their clothing. The items placed in each home were designed to identify with the characters living there.


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