True Colours (Australian TV series)

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True Colours is an Australian drama miniseries broadcast from 4 July 2022 on SBS TV and NITV. The four-part miniseries was created, written and directed by Erica Glynn and Steven McGregor, and stars Rarriwuy Hick as a detective in a remote community in the Northern Territory.

Synopsis

True Colours tells the story of detective Toni Alma, who is assigned to investigate a suspicious car accident in Perdar Theendar, the Aboriginal community she left as a child. The story touches on the place of Indigenous Australian art and the practices of the global art world, and explores Aboriginal culture.^[1]

Cast

• Rarriwuy Hick as Detective Toni Alma
• Warren H. Williams as Samuel Alma
• Luke Arnold as Nick Gawler
• Errol Shand as Bull
• Emilie de Ravin as Liz Hindmarsh
• Trisha Morton-Thomas as Theodora
• Ben Oxenbould as Gingerbread Man
• Miranda Otto as Isabelle Martin
• Megan Hollier as Amanda

Episodes

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date	Australia viewers (millions)
1	"Episode 1"	Erica Glynn	Steven McGregor, Warren H Williams, Erica Glynn	July 4, 2022 (2022-7-4)	N/A
2	"Episode 2"	Steven McGregor	Danielle MacLean, Warren H Williams, Erica Glynn	July 5, 2022 (2022-7-5)	N/A
3	"Episode 3"	Erica Glynn	Erica Glynn, Warren H Williams	July 6, 2022 (2022-7-6)	N/A
4	"Episode 4"	Steven McGregor	Steven McGregor, Warren H Williams, Erica Glynn	July 7, 2022 (2022-7-7)	N/A

Production

The four-part miniseries was created, written and directed by Erica Glynn and Steven McGregor.^[2] Danielle MacLean also wrote for the series, which was produced by Greer Simpkin, David Jowsey and Penny Smallacombe for SBS Television and NITV.^[3]

It was filmed entirely on location in the Macdonnell Ranges, east of Alice Springs,^[3] including in the community of Amoonguna.^[4] Hundreds of works by artists from Central Australia feature in the series, which represents Arrernte culture and language.^[5]

Release and reception

True Colours premiered simultaneously on SBS Television and National Indigenous TV on 4 July 2022 as well as on SBS on Demand, running over four consecutive nights on television.^[5]

Critics gave the series favourable reviews, with TV Week calling it "authentic and powerful".^[5]