Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Title:

800 words. Season 1 / Seven Productions / South Pacific Pictures series created by James Griffin and Maxine Fleming ; written by James Griffin, Maxine Fleming, Timothy Balme, and Natalie Medlock; directed by Pino Amenta and Mike Smith; produced by Chris Hampson ; directed by Mike Smith, Pino Amenta, Michael Hurst, Murray Keane.

Publisher, Date:

Bethesda, MD : Acorn Media, [2016]

[Silver Spring, MD] : RLJ Entertainment, [2016]

Description:

2 videodiscs (363 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

DVD video 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

widescreen (1.78:1)

DVD-video NTSC

video file DVD video region 1

Summary:

George Turner, a recent widower, quits his job as a popular 800-word columnist for a Sydney newspaper. On an impulse, he buys a house online in a remote seaside town in New Zealand. He then has to break the news to his two teenage kids, Shay and Arlo, who just lost their mom and now face an even more uncertain future. When the family arrives in their new home, the colorful and inquisitive locals ensure Turner's dream of a fresh start does not go according to plan.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: Not rated ; "Contains coarse language, nudity, and sexual situations" -- Container.

Subjects:

Journalists -- Australia -- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Drama.

Single fathers -- Drama.

Moving, Household -- New Zealand -- Drama.

Australians -- New Zealand -- Drama.

New Zealand -- Drama.

Genre:

Television series.

Fiction television programs.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.