TEN POUND POMS - SUNDAY 9pm bbc. TV PACE. NO SPOILERS

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In dreary postwar Manchester, Annie Roberts is at her wits end when husband Terry spends all his wages down the pub. Desperate for a better life for her children, Annie responds to an emigration advert that promises Brits a prosperous new life in Australia for a tenner. Expecting whitewashed houses and sun-soaked adventures, the Roberts family arrive in Sydney to find life down under isn't quite what they've been sold.

Ten Pound Poms is the new original drama series created by BAFTA-winning Danny Brocklehurst (Brassic, Ordinary Lies) produced by Eleven, the team behind the award-winning Sex Education. A co-production between BBC and Stan, the series will premiere on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the UK and as a Stan Original Series in Australia.

The six-part series follows a group of Brits as they leave dreary post-war Britain in 1956 to embark on a life-altering adventure on the other side of the world.

For only a tenner, they have been promised a better house, better job prospects and a better quality of life by the sea in sun-soaked Australia.

But life down under isn’t exactly the idyllic dream the new arrivals have been promised. Struggling with their new identity as immigrants, we follow their triumphs and pitfalls as they adapt to a new life in a new country far from Britain and familiarity.

At the heart of the drama are Annie (Faye Marsay) and Terry Roberts (Warren Brown). They try to make the best of the situation for their family, but the poor living conditions at the hostel and local attitudes towards immigrants test them in ways they couldn’t have imagined.

They aren’t the only people at the hostel avoiding the truth. Kate (Michelle Keegan) is a young nurse who arrives without her fiancé and will do whatever it takes to try and rewrite her devastating past.

Bill (Leon Ford) has lost his family business back home and is so desperate to prove he’s living the Australian dream that he’ll stop at nothing in order to get a lifestyle he can’t sustain.

Teenager Stevie (Declan Coyle) comes from a troubled background and hopes to use this new adventure to escape his oppressive father.

Meanwhile Ron (Rob Collins), an indigenous Australian war veteran, struggles with feeling like an outsider in his own country.

Cast
Michelle Keegan - Kate Thorne
Faye Marsay - Annie Roberts
Warren Brown - Terry Roberts
Hattie Hook - Pattie Roberts
Finn Treacy - Peter Roberts
Stephen Curry - JJ Walker
David Field - Dean
Emma Hamilton - Sheila Anderson
Leon Ford - Bill Anderson
Berynn Schwerdt - Arty
Cheree Cassidy - Marlene
Rob Collins – Ron

I suppose it was deliberately left open to interpretation.

I think Sheila went off with JJ and that's why it had his mother welcoming the newcomers.

I think the newcomers are all British. I'm not getting any feeling that they aren't having rewatched their arrival.

I agree.

I may pass on series two if they make it.
I found this a hard watch and didn't like any of them much. I feel the daughter will have to put with a lot of racism and problems having a mixed heritage child , but I can imagine the dad from the uk will show up I suppose ( if they make another one)
Can't imagine Stevie's parents wanting him to be with her and a baby at his age either.
I guess they have a lot of material left to work with though. Especially with new people showing up and horrible mum in charge.

Still hasn't seen e6. Have a vizier last few replies

Some of the stories were wrapped up a bit too neatly e.g. Pattie's baby, Sheila and JJ's romance. The protest wasn't very credible - it got violent way too quickly. Arty had barely registered with me as a character and then he got killed off. Kate's story ended on a cliffhanger. I'm kind of glad it's over and I'm not sure I'll come back for Series 2.

JJ's unpleasant mum greeting the newcomers at the end was designed to show us things hadn't really changed, I guess. Hopefully JJ and Sheila were together somewhere, and Kate had taken Michael back to his home!

Either that , or it hasn't been decided if there's to be a second series or leaving it open to interpretation could also imply they didn't really know how to end it . I dislike open endings and it's put me off if they do a second series .

I think the ending was quite clever. It finished the stories off to a certain extent but did leave an opening for a second series.

Kate found her son but might have run off with him
JJ has clearly left the camp, probably with Sheila.
Pattie has had her baby but the future is quite uncertain.

I'd watch a second series. I found it quite enjoyable.

See I told you Patty’s friend would step up and offer to be her husband and father to the baby!

I didn’t like the end - has Kate kidnapped Michael?
What about her fiance?
Where are JJ and Sheila?
We heard no more about the aboriginal Rob or the boy who was run down.

I’m sure there will be a second series and I’m sure I will watch it as I don’t like loose ends however bad the storyline is

She looked a lot less formal at the end though

You did tell us! I didn't believe it would happen!

Kate's fiance seem to be be a nice decent chap at the end .

It had been made out he was someone who she was scared of ?

Yes agree it was made out like he was an abuser or something

Ditto! I really enjoyed it.

Just finished this and found it super enjoyable.
However I HATE how all of the woman except Kate (who has essentially kidnapped a child!!) have been "saved" by white males.
I understand the historical context etc but really? Every female storyline was wrapped up with them being rescued by a man.

Annie wasn't saved by anyone.

Annie was saved by Marlene getting her out of jail

I guess so. By woman though (a strong independent woman at that)

Only Pattie and Sheila were saved by white males and in circumstances where only a man could really have done it.

Finally seen last episode

Agree loose ends but making way for s2

Kate says she will take it home after a drive with real mummy and Micheal

Michel wouldn't have recognised kate as his mum surely

Jj saved the singer and assume lived happily after

Glad baby was ok. Didn't look that prem

Not sure the point of the riot or why Archie had to die

Nothing of the stolen money

Or the boy they ran over

I watched it to see it through. I like a period drama and this was a different period and a different situation, so had promise. Some of the casting was good. Some of the acting was very two dimensional and the storylines hackneyed.

My favourite part of the final episode was when I got confused and thought the blonde woman saying 'Welcome to Paradise' was one of the blonde European women from one of the huts. There was a close up of her, but I can't recall if we ever learnt her name. Then to realise it was JJ's mother, well, that kind of works in reverse, not the paradise of a fresh start with proper admin and a well run camp, but such as it ever was, the absolute opposite of paradise.

It was obviously good that Kate's fiance wasn't at all as he'd been painted, but I have big misgivings about what Kate's up to. She'd agreed to go up to the Northern Territories was it, or Cairns? so a very long way from where they are now.

Obviously it's left wide open for a follow up series, but I'm not sure it's for me.

I've been trying really hard to finish watching this but I just can't really follow it and I don't really care about any of the characters. Some of them are really horrible. It just all seems a bit pointless. It has call the midwife vibes but you had the satisfaction of following a pregnancy or two to conclusion every episode in call the midwife. This is just a load of random stuff happening that I couldn't really give a crap about.

Brilliant

It's back for s2

https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a46598752/michelle-keegan-ten-pound-poms-series-2/?utmsource=crm&utmmmedium=email&utmcampaign=SPYYN202402022TV&utmcontent=na&utmmterm=SPYNPP_NFA&HearstNode=470C65E40F22C66FF5F8B6B107C56D385DF17F76FFA714BC66145CFE9C206443

Good news.

Oh that's good

Look forward to it airing