Upright
- TV comedy drama
- Sky Atlantic / Sky Comedy
- 2019 - 2022
- 16 episodes (2 series)
Comedy drama following a pair of strangers on a road trip across Australia with a battered upright piano. Stars Tim Minchin, Milly Alcock, Heather Mitchell, Daniel Lapaine and Ella Scott Lynch
Key details
- Genre
- Comedy Drama
- Broadcast
- 2019 - 2022
- Channels
- Sky Atlantic, Sky Comedy
- Episodes
- 16 (2 series)
- Creator
- Chris Taylor
- Stars
- Tim Minchin, Milly Alcock, Heather Mitchell, Daniel Lapaine and Ella Scott Lynch
- Writers
- Chris Taylor, Tim Minchin, Kate Mulvany, Leon Ford and Niki Aken
- Director
- Matthew Saville
- Producers
- Jason Stephens, Melissa Kelly, Chris Taylor, Morwenna Gordon, Tim Minchin, Helen Bowden, Penny Win, Carly Heaton and more
- Company
When your most cherished possession is a battered upright piano, you only have one option if you need to travel across Australia: take it with you.
The story follows two misfits, thrown together by chance in the middle of the Australian desert, who forge the unlikeliest of bonds in their quest to get a precious piano from one side of the country to the other.
Lucky Flynn hasn't spoken to his family in years. He's broke, distant and damaged. He's also a gifted pianist, whose talent for music is matched only by his talent for self-destruction. When he learns that his mother has only days left to live, Lucky sets off in a hire car to drive the 4,000km from Sydney to Perth to say goodbye, taking with him his only cherished possession in the world: a battered and scarred upright piano.
But what should have been a straightforward drive across the outback soon becomes a test of Lucky's emotional fitness, when he quite literally runs into Meg, a hilarious, tough-as-nails teenager, who we soon discover has plenty of scars and secrets of her own.
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Additional details
- Production
- Location
- Camera set-up
- Single camera
- Picture
- Colour
Website links
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Thursday 28th November 2019 at 10pm on Sky Atlantic
- Most recent repeats
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- Tuesday 20th December 2022 at 1:05am on Sky Comedy - Series 2, Episode 8
- Tuesday 20th December 2022 at 12:30am on Sky Comedy - Series 2, Episode 7
- Saturday 26th November 2022 at 11:05pm on Sky Comedy - Series 2, Episode 2
Recording details
- South Australia and Western Australia - Filmed on location