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Season 3 crowdfunding campaign starts October 23

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As previously announced, there’s going to be a third season of Night Terrace – and we’ll need your help to make it! Our Kickstarter campaign will kick off on Wednesday, October 23 (based on Australian Eastern Daylight Time), with a planned release window of May 2020.

By supporting the campaign and pledging some cash, you’ll make possible eight more episodes of Night Terrace – and get yourself some great rewards into the bargain! Rewards include:

  • Early access to a digital copy of the new season, plus extra bonus material!
  • A Night Terrace USB key and key-ring!
  • A Kickstarter-exclusive audiobook of Night Terrace short stories, read by Ben McKenzie and written by some of our favourite authors!
  • A Kickstarter-exclusive bonus episode!
  • Your name – or even voice – mentioned in the show!

This time around some of the rewards will only be available through backing the Kickstarter, and won’t be released anywhere else. We want this season to be the biggest and best yet, so we’re shooting for the moon!

We’ll link to the campaign from our front page when it’s ready to kick off; until then, watch our site and social media for more information.

Season three coming to Kickstarter in 2019

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With season two getting near the end of its premiere run on BBC Radio 4 Extra, we’re excited to announce our plans to make a third season of Night Terrace!

Sue, Anastasia and Eddie return for eight more episodes!

Anastasia has been all over space and time with Eddie Jones and Sue Denholm, but there’s still of lot of universe out there. Picking up after the end of season two, season three will have the housemates travelling far across the galaxy, seeing alien life from an entirely new angle, and paddling through the timstream of human history.

The main cast of Jackie Woodburne, Petra Elliott and Ben McKenzie all return, as do company players Amanda Buckley and Dave Lamb. There’ll also be a full supporting cast of guest stars. The series will be written by John Richards, Lee Zachariah, David Ashton and Ben McKenzie, and produced by John and Ben, with music and sound design by David. Season two is planned for release in May 2020.

A new Kickstarter campaign means new rewards – many of which will be familiar to backers of our previous two seasons! Get a digital copy of the new season for $5 off the usual asking price, or get a physical copy on a special USB key with a custom key ring. If you want more, there are signed scripts, the chance to have your name or voice in an episode, and even get an associate producer credit!

As well as the familiar rewards, we have a few new ones this year. We’re particularly excited about releasing a collection of original Night Terrace short stories, by the writers and guest authors – including George Ivanoff! – which will be read as an audio book by Ben McKenzie. They’ll be exclusive to the higher tiers of the Kickstarter campaign, so don’t miss out if you want to hear them!

The campaign will launch in mid-October, just after the end of season two’s broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra. Watch our web site, email newsletter and social media for more information – and maybe a surprise or two – in the lead up to the campaign.

Season two guest star: Dave Callan!

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We’re pleased to announce another of our great guest stars for season two: comedian Dave Callan! Dave will appear in this season’s historical episode, but that’s all we’ll say. No spoilers!

dave-callanFondly remembered for his long stint as “the beardy one with the beautiful accent” on Australian variety shows Rove and Rove Live, Callan is best known as a Triple J DJ – he presents “The Graveyard Shift” from 1 AM on Sundays – and one of Melbourne’s favourite comedians. He’s often on the telly with appearances on Spicks and Specks, the Comedy Festival Gala and Good News Week, as well as being a regular game reviewer on ABC2’s Good Game. He’s performed live comedy at the Edinburgh Fringe and toured Britain, South East Asia, the U.S. and even Hobart.

In recent years he’s departed from regular stand-up to embrace his other love, one he has in common with our mascot, the bilby: dance! His 2014 show A Little Less Conversation was such a hit he’s followed it up with this year’s A Little Less Conversation 2: A Little More Less Conversation, playing at Trades Hall at 9:45 PM (8:45 on Sundays) until the festival ends on April 19.

Dave is not a stranger to voice work; he’s fondly remembered for his segment on Rove Live, “Words That Sound Better When Said By Dave” (for which a Facebook fan page still exists!), and in 2011 played the role of Fergal, a Sea Cucumber who runs an Irish Pub, in the adult animated web series Mollusks, alongside a stellar cast of Sean Micallef, Roz Hammond and Bob Franklin.

So let’s celebrate that beautiful voice with a clip of Dave dancing!

If you want to make sure Dave Callan has his chance to shine in Night Terrace, why not go to Kickstarter right now and become a backer? There are many wonderful rewards on offer, and you won’t have to watch Dave dance again.

A short history of the bilby in dance

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Happy Easter everyone! Did you know that in Australia, wild rabbits are considered a pest, causing considerable harm to farmlands and native wildlife? That’s why we have a movement here to replace bunnies at Easter with bilbies, native marsupial animals which are cuter and kinder to the Australian environment!

We’ve adopted the bilby as a mascot here at Night Terrace, and for the last two years produced some informative videos about them (and the music they enjoy). So please enjoy these videos from this year and last!

…and all that dancing inspired us to celebrate reaching half of our Kickstarter goal in a particular way: thirty second dance party!

Jane Badler joins the cast of Night Terrace

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We’re excited to announce another TV veteran has joined the cast of Night Terrace – Jane Badler, best known as the huge-haired, hamster-eating reptilian overlord Diana in the classic 1980s TV series V!

Jane will appear as the only person who knows how and why Anastasia’s house is travelling in space and time. But is she a hero or a villain?

In a prolific television career, Jane was a lead in the late 80s version of Mission: Impossible, returned to V for the second series of the 2009 remake, and has appeared on numerous shows including The Highwayman, Fantasy Island, Falcon Crest (where she squared off against Vertigo star Kim Novak), Murder She Wrote, Sky Trackers, Cluedo, Blue Heelers, Spicks and Specks and Offspring.

Night Terrace will be the second time she’s been head to head with Jackie Woodburne, as Jane had a four-month run in Neighbours in 2010 playing a femme fatale named (surprise!) Diana.

Jane also has a successful singing career, with albums including The Devil Has My Double and Tears Again, and she’s currently recording in LA. Her latest single, “Volcano Boy”, is released on March 31st. You can find out more via her web site, janebadler.com.

Night Terrace has reached 80% of it’s budget but we still need to cross that line to produce the show! Become a backer now!

The Journey Begins!

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Only 6 hours in to our crowd-funding campaign we’ve raised 25% of our target. Thank you to everyone who’s joined us so far, we’re thrilled to have you onboard!

We’re also pleased to see so much interest in Night Terrace, with pieces by everyone from TV Tonight to Tansy Rayner Roberts, from cnet to DNA. Click those names to see what they said – and our thanks to all of them for getting the word out!

You can find our kickstarter campaign here and see the great rewards on offer. We can’t make Night Terrace without you, so tell your friends! Tell your enemies! Lean out of a window and shout about it like you’re Peter Finch in Network! Actually, don’t do that (but it is a great film). Come join us! JOIN USSSSSS!

Night Terrace Kickstarter launching today!

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The Night Terrace Kickstarter campaign launches today! We’ll be pushing the “launch” button and sending the campaign out into space and time at around 1 PM (Melbourne time). You’ll be able to pre-order the first series of eight episodes as a digital download, or you can grab a copy on physical media including  custom USB keys, limited edition CDs or a very limited edition clear 12″ vinyl of episode one! You can also get a signed script, have your name mentioned in an episode, or even deliver a line of dialogue yourself.

We’re looking to raise $9,420, an amount we’ve calculated to cover all the base costs of the production as well as the costs of producing your rewards, and taking into account all Kickstarter and transaction fees. The campaign will run for thirty days, and if we manage to hit the goal, we’ve already thought of a few exciting stretch goals – but we’ll let you know about them if it looks like we’ll get that far!

We’ll let you know when the campaign is live and link to it from the web site, and you’ll have until noon Melbourne time on Saturday, April 12 to decide if you want in. We hope you’ll join us on the first journey of the Terrace!