- Marcia Gardner is an Australian writer and script producer for many shows. Gardner helped write for many shows such as Blue Heelers (1994), Sea Patrol (2007), Better Man (2013), All Saints (1998), Celblok H (2014). Gardner would serve as the lead script producer of hit Australian Prison Drama Wentworth (2013) from its second season onward and also served as a writer for many episodes.- IMDb Mini Biography By: PhaseItIn
- I just never believed it was over. I just kept saying to Jo (Porter, Fremantle Director of Scripted), 'We've set this up.' At the end of season four, (Series Producer) Pino Amenta and I went in to Foxtel and we wanted to pitch 4 more seasons. It was always in our mind that there were 8 seasons. I came up with an idea for 100 episodes. We put a birthday cake on the pitch document - the first Foxtel drama series that's gone to 100.
- We have managed to maintain such a high standard on the show because we have the time to really do that development work, which is so important. I think a lot of shows fall over because they get shortchanged in development. That process is really rushed. The key to making a quality show is development time.
- was living in the States when Prisoner was on air in Australia so I'd never seen it. It had just completely passed me by. When I got this gig I deliberately didn't watch it, because I didn't want to be influenced by it. (Writer) Pete McTighe is the external hard drive of all things Prisoner. So whenever we really need somebody I ask Pete, 'Is there a heritage character that could fulfill this character function? I have the best of both worlds.
- We look at the entire season and what that might encompass: what the big story pillars are going to be... what the big character arcs are going to be for all our core characters. We look at that on a big whiteboard and break it all down, in not much detail. Just big story movement and character movements. So we get a sense of the patchwork quilt across the entire season.
- We work a little bit differently from most shows in that we do pretty much everything together.
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