The Killing Season (Australian TV series)

This article is about the Australian TV series. For the U.S. TV series, see The Killing Season (U.S. TV series). For other uses, see Killing Season.

The Killing Season is a 2015 Australian three-part documentary television series which analyses the events of the Rudd–Gillard government which lasted from 2007 until 2013; a turbulent period in Australia’s modern political history. Journalist Sarah Ferguson interviewed the Australian Labor Party decision-makers and strategists who engaged in internal conflict that brought down a government which had successfully countered the 2007–2008 financial crisis.^[1]

Ratings

Episode		Original air date	Overnight viewers	Nightly rank	Consolidated viewers	Adjusted rank	Ref
1	Part One	9 June 2015	986,000	#5	1,179,000	#2	[2][3]
2	Part Two	16 June 2015	968,000	#7	1,130,000	#3	[4][5]
3	Part Three	23 June 2015	979,000	#6	1,121,000	#5	[6][7]

Soundtrack

The soundtrack accompanying the opening titles and credits is the version of Schubert's Piano Trio No. 2 used in Stanley Kubrick's 1975 film Barry Lyndon.^[8]

Awards

• Outstanding Public Affairs Report – 2016 Logie Awards
• AACTA Award for Best Documentary or Factual Program^[9]

See also

• Labor in Power, as series on the first decade of the preceding Labor government from 1983 to 1996
• The Howard Years, a series on the preceding Coalition government from 1997 to 2007
• Nemesis, covering the Coalition government from 2013 to 2022