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Scenes of a crime All eyes are on Welsh star Ioan Gruffudd and his co-star – Brisbane – in the TV drama Harrow Amy Price
AHOY THERE … Ioan Gruffudd stars as the boat-dwelling Dr Daniel Harrow in the ABC forensic drama series Harrow.
In a mild Brisbane winter last year international actor Ioan Gruffudd drove across the Story Bridge en route to his character Dr Daniel Harrow’s forensic lab on Turbot St. Overseeing his progress from behind the camera was director Kate Dennis, fresh from her Emmy nomination for The Handmaid’s Tale. Keli Lee, boss of ABC Studios International, had flown from London to oversee Harrow, the first drama for the new Disney-owned international production house which she would, in coming months, pitch to global networks at a showcase in London. For the first time in a major drama production, southeast Queensland was not being transformed into another place: New York City as it was for Thor: Ragnarok, and as a facade for Caribbean beaches in Pirates of the Caribbean 5. Instead, Brisbane was included as the show’s second main character and a point of difference to forensic dramas that had come before it. That was what Hoodlum Entertainment set out to achieve when they conceived Harrow, a deeply intellectual forensic drama about an unorthodox and witty forensic pathologist who lives in an
unkempt boat on the Brisbane River, which winds through the city like a vein. “Brisbane is known around the world; it’s a city we never get to see on Australian television and we think that should be exploited much more,” Harrow’s executive producer Leigh McGrath says. “It’s got the tropical heat and humidity which I think adds a different feel to a forensic drama. Normally they are cold, they are Scandi noir, whereas we went the opposite. Imagine finding a body covered in maggots in the heat. It’s a very different feel and that’s something we deliberately wanted from the start.” Harrow was filmed throughout Brisbane in the second half of 2017 – at locations including Redlands, West End, Kangaroo Point, South Brisbane, New Farm, the Sunshine Coast, Nambour and Harrisville, near Ipswich. It airs on Friday nights on ABC, with the season finale on May 11. The entire series is available now on ABC iview. Dr Harrow is a senior medical examiner at the fictional Queensland Institute of Forensic Medicine, played by the heritage-listed Brisbane Dental
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