Southern Star Group is Australia's largest independent television production and distribution group.

Southern Star Entertainment is Australia’s largest independent television production group. The company produces content for drama, entertainment and children’s programming.

Popular series produced by Southern Star Entertainment include dramas Rush (Ten), Love My Way (Foxtel), Rescue Special Operations (Nine), Tangle (Showtime) and Bed of Roses (ABC), Bluewater High (ABC), Sea Princesses (Seven), Bottletop Bill (ABC) and Hi-5 (Nine).

Southern Star Entertainment is currently producing the new Bananas in Pyjamas Animated Series for the ABC. The largest and most expensive animated project in Australian television history is being made in Singapore & Sydney.

Southern Star Entertainment is also one of the largest producers of non-scripted television in Australia and currently makes Deal or No Deal (Seven), Beauty & the Geek (Seven), Wipeout (Nine), Strictly Speaking (ABC) and Ready Steady Cook (Ten).

Over the 10 years, Southern Star Entertainment has produced over 100 hours a year of free-to-air original content in both scripted and non-scripted television.

Southern Star Entertainment was acquired by Endemol B.V. in March 2009. Endemol is the largest independent TV, cross platform and digital production company in the world producing worldwide hits like Big Brother, Deal or No Deal, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Star Academy and Wipeout. Endemol comprises a global network of companies that spans 26 countries on 5 continents.

For further information visit their website at www.endemol.com

Prime-time drama

• Love My Way
  Love My Way
  Love My Way was a Logie Award winning and critically acclaimed Australian television drama series. It won the AFI award for Best Television Drama Series for each of its three seasons ....
  
  
• The Surgeon
  The Surgeon
  The Surgeon was an Australian primetime television Medical drama. It screened at 9:30pm on Thursdays on Network Ten and in Ireland early morning on RTÉ One. The show was based at a fictional hospital named Sydney General Hospital....
  
  
• Blue Heelers
  Blue Heelers
  Blue Heelers is an Australian police drama series which depicted the lives of police officers stationed at the fictional Mount Thomas police station in a small town in Victoria.- Overview :...
  
  
• The Secret Life of Us
  The Secret Life of Us
  The Secret Life of Us was a television drama series set in the beachside suburb of St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia. The series was produced by Southern Star Entertainment and screened in Australia from 2001 to 2005 on Network Ten and on Channel 4 in the UK...
  
  
• Water Rats
  Water Rats (TV series)
  Water Rats is an Australian TV police procedural broadcast on the Nine Network from 1996 to 2001. The series was based around the men and women of the Sydney Water Police who fight crime across Sydney Harbour and surrounding locales. The show was set on and around Goat Island in Sydney...
  
  
• Police Rescue
  Police Rescue
  Police Rescue was an Australian television series which originally aired on ABC TV between 1989 and 1996. It was produced by ABC and Southern Star Xanadu in association with the BBC....
  
  
• Murder Call
  Murder Call
  Murder Call was an Australian television series, created by Hal McElroy for the Southern Star Entertainment and seen on the Nine Network between 1997 and 2000. The idea to the series was born by the books of Tessa Vance by Jennifer Rowe: Suspect/Deadline and Something Wicked...
  
  
• Rescue: Special Ops
  Rescue: Special Ops
  Rescue: Special Ops is an Australian television drama series that first screened on the Nine Network in 2009. Filmed in and around Sydney, the program is produced by Southern Star Entertainment with the assistance of Screen Australia and the New South Wales Government.This drama series focuses on a...
  
  
• Wild Boys

Children's and family television programming

• Foreign Exchange
  Foreign Exchange (TV series)
  Foreign Exchange is an Australian fantastic's television programme broadcast by Southern Star during 2004. It starred Lynn Styles as Hannah O'Flaherty, a feisty Irish girl, and Zachary Garred as Brett Miller, a sun-drenched Australian boy. The pair are brought together from opposite sides of the...
  
  
• The Adventures of Sam
  The Adventures of Sam
  The Adventures of Sam is an Australian children's TV series that aired in 1997. Set in the 1850s, it followed a boy named Sam Donahue as he had adventures around the world while trying to find his brother....
  
  
• Blue Water High
  Blue Water High
  Blue Water High is an Australian television drama series, broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on ABC1 and on Austar/Foxtel Nickelodeon channel in Australia and on various channels in many other countries...
  
  
• RAGGS Kids Club Band
  RAGGS Kids Club Band
  The Raggs Band is a US-based musical troupe of five canine characters who have played over 2,000 live performances on four continents since 2002.-Creation:...
  
  
• The Sleepover Club
  The Sleepover Club
  The Sleepover Club is a series children's books by authors Rose Impey, Fiona Cummings, Narinder Dhami, Sue Mongredien, Jana Hunter and Angie Bates and a children's television programme based on the series. While the books are set in Cuddington, Leicester, England, the television show is set in the...
  
  
• Tracey McBean
  Tracey McBean
  Tracey McBean is a series of children's books drawn and written by Mary Small and Arthur Filloy about Tracey McBean, a young Australian female inventor who was the protagonist and main character in the series...
  
  
• The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky
  The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky
  The Adventures Of Bottle Top Bill And His Best Friend Corky is an Australian children's animated television program that was first screened on ABC2 in 2006. The animation is a mixture of CGI, 2D and stop motion.-Series Synopsis:...
  
  
• Magic Mountain
  Magic Mountain (television series)
  Magic Mountain is an Australian children’s television programme broadcast on the ABC from 1997 to 1999. It was released on video, but there has been no DVD release yet. The series was last repeated on ABC1 in January and February 2004...
  
  
• Oscar and Friends
• LazyTown
  LazyTown
  LazyTown is a children's television program that was produced in Iceland with a cast and crew from Iceland, the United Kingdom and the United States. It was created by Magnús Scheving, a gymnastics champion and CEO of LazyTown Entertainment, who also stars in the show...
  
  
• Faireez
• CBS Storybreak
  CBS Storybreak
  CBS Storybreak is a Saturday morning anthology television series that originally aired on the CBS network during the 1985 season. Hosted by Captain Kangaroo's Bob Keeshan , the episodes are half-hour animated adaptations of some of the most beloved children's books published at the time of airing,...
  
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• The Berenstain Bears
  The Berenstain Bears (1985 TV series)
  The Berenstain Bears is an Australian-American co-produced animated television series based on Stan and Jan Berenstain's Berenstain Bears children's book series, produced by Hanna-Barbera and Southern Star Productions....
  
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• Teen Wolf (with Clubhouse Pictures)*
• Marvin: Baby of the Year (TV special)*
• Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue
  Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue
  Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue is an animated drug prevention television special starring many of the popular cartoon characters from American weekday, Sunday morning and Saturday morning television at the time of this film's release...
  
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• Peter Pan and the Pirates
  Peter Pan and the Pirates
  Peter Pan & the Pirates is an American animated television series based on J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan that originally aired on Fox Broadcasting Company from September 8, 1990 to September 10, 1991. Repeats continued to air until September 11, 1992. A repeat of the series' Christmas episode was aired...
  
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• Mad Scientist*

*Produced as Southern Star/Hanna-Barbera Australia.

Reality television programming

• Big Brother Australia - Nine Network
  Nine Network
  The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...
  
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• Deal or No Deal
  Deal or No Deal (Australian game show)
  Deal or No Deal is an Australian game show airing on the Seven Network and in New Zealand on Prime . It was the first international version of the game show, after the original Dutch version. It was the first of the versions to use the Deal or No Deal name...
  
  - Seven Network (2009–present, joint by a Seven News
  Seven News
  Seven News is the television news service of the Seven Network in Australia.National bulletins are presented from Seven's high-definition studios in Martin Place, Sydney, while flagship 6pm bulletins are produced in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth. The network also produces Seven...
  
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External links

• Southern Star Group