Picnic at Hanging Rock (TV series)

Hester Appleyard purchases an isolated mansion out in the Australian bush to transform into a school for young ladies - a few months later, Appleyard College is a success. On Valentine's Day, 1900, when students and staff go for a picnic to Hanging Rock, three of the school's star students and their governess mysteriously vanish. Their disappearance leaves a devastating impact on students, staff, their enigmatic and formidable headmistress and the township at large. Theories abound, secrets are exposed and hysteria sets in, until eventually, the lives of the characters unravel.

• Natalie Dormer as Mrs Hester Appleyard, headmistress
• Lily Sullivan as Miranda Reid
• Lola Bessis as Mademoiselle Dianne de Poitiers, mistress of French Conversation
• Harrison Gilbertson as Michael Fitzhubert
• Samara Weaving as Irma Leopold
• Madeleine Madden as Marion Quade
• Inez Currõ as Sara Waybourne
• Ruby Rees as Edith Horton
• Yael Stone as Miss Dora Lumley, mistress of Deportment and Bible Studies
• Philip Quast as Arthur Appleyard, Hester's late husband
• Marcus Graham as Tomasetti
• James Hoare as Albert Crundall
• Mark Coles Smith as Tom
• Don Hany as Dr. Mackenzie

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• Anna McGahan as Miss Greta McCraw, mistress of Geography and Mathematics
• Sibylla Budd as Mrs Valange, mistress of Art and Literature
• Randall Berger
• Kate Bradford as Rose Kenton
• Ines English
• Kaarin Fairfax as Cook
• John Flaus as Mr. Whitehead, the gardener
• Mayah Fredes as Rosamund Swift
• Roslyn Gentle as Mrs. Fitzhubert
• Emily Gruhl as Minnie
• Kym Gyngell as Charlie Seymour-Baker
• Huw Higginson as Jasper Cosgrove
• Rob Jacobson
• Felix Johnson as Trooper Nolan
• Markella Kavenagh as Myrtle
• Julie Nihill as Mrs. Horton
• Jonny Pasvolsky as Sgt. Bumpher
• Alyssa Tuddenham as Lily Kenton
• Bethany Whitmore as Blanche Gifford

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Filming commenced in February 2017 at Labassa, Caulfield, Mandeville Hall, Toorak, Rippon Lea, Elsternwick, Werribee Park, as well as Lysterfield Park and on Fraser St in the Victorian goldfields town of Clunes. Larysa Kondracki served as showrunner and directed the first three episodes.{{cite web |last1=Gilbert |first1=Sophie |title=The Enduring Mystery of 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/05/picnic-at-hanging-rock-review-amazon/561263/ |website=The Atlantic |publisher=Atlantic Media |language=en |date=29 May 2018}}

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File:Natalie Dormer, Picnic at Hanging Rock.jpg

The series premiered in Australia on Showcase in 2018.{{cite web|url=https://www.showcasechannel.com.au/shows/picnic-at-hanging-rock/|title=Picnic at Hanging Rock|first=|last=|date=7 December 2017|accessdate=2 May 2018|work=Showcase|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180502141126/https://www.showcasechannel.com.au/shows/picnic-at-hanging-rock/|archive-date=2 May 2018|url-status=dead}} The program was acquired by the BBC in the United Kingdom, Canal+ in France, RTÉ in Ireland and Amazon Prime Video in the United States.{{cite web|url=https://thewest.com.au/entertainment/picnic-at-hanging-rock-for-2018-tv-debut-ng-s-1806581|title=Picnic at Hanging Rock for 2018 TV debut|first=Stewart|last=Clarke|date=7 December 2017|accessdate=12 January 2018|work=The West Australian}} The series was also broadcast in Greece by ERT.

{{RT prose |score=79 |count=53 |average=6.5 |consensus=Natalie Dormer charms in Picnic at Hanging Rock, a stylish retelling of an Australian classic -- though convoluted sub-plots at times distract from its otherwise tantalizing delights. |ref=yes |access-date=6 April 2023}}

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20170217142655/https://www.foxtel.com.au/got/whats-on/foxtel-insider/foxtel/picnic-at-hanging-rock.html Picnic at Hanging Rock] at Foxtel
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Category:Fiction set in 1900

Category:Lesbian-related television shows

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Category:Television series about missing people

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