'Soundtrack To Our Teenage Zombie Apocalypse' is a 10 x 30 minute series offering action-packed, cranked-to-11, zombie-fuelled fun, underscored with music from Australia's hottest new bands.
ABC has today announced Soundtrack To Our Teenage Zombie Apocalypse, a brand-new series about four music-obsessed teens who are trapped in an abandoned building during a zombie apocalypse and are on a mission to win triple j Unearthed High.
Directed by Imogen McClusky, written by Adam Bigum and Hannah Samuel, and arriving via ABC’s kids platform ABC ME, this series contains an expansive soundtrack that showcases the diversity and strength of Australia’s best-emerging musicians, featuring tunes from favourites Ruby Fields, Caroline and Claude, The Rions, HYG, Teenage Joans, Beddy Rays, Smol Fish, Fritz, Maia, Vacation Club and more.
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Starring newcomers Mina-Siale, Nick Annas, Ruby Archer and Isaiah Galloway, this series “finds bandmates Ella and Nick stuck in a zombie-infested ABC building, surviving on vending machine snacks while they try to finish off the song that’ll take them to the big leagues. But when Ella’s high school nemesis, Veronica, and Nick’s crippling celebrity crush, Locksley, appear out of thin air, they feel their chances of escaping and – more importantly – of winning Unearthed High start to slip away”.
Soundtrack to Our Teenage Zombie Apocalypse unpacks the experience of COVID lockdown and the conflicting, challenging emotions many have felt over the last few years. This is a story about complex friendships, resilience, and empowerment through creativity during uncertain times, mixed with the thrills and chills of a zombie classic.
Soundtrack To Our Teenage Zombie Apocalypse is an ABC Original production, created and developed by Executive Producer Mary-Ellen Mullane and Supervising Producer Lyndal Mebberson, of the ABC Children’s Department.
Soundtrack to Our Teenage Zombie Apocalypse will launch Monday 15 August, and broadcast weeknights at 6:30pm on ABC ME. The first five episodes will be available on ABC iview from 6:30pm, Monday 15 August. The remaining five episodes will be available from 6:30pm, Monday 22 August.
Find out more on the ABC’s iview website here.
