Reef Doctors is an Australian television drama series that premiered on Network Ten on 9 June 2013.
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Pre-production
Reef Doctors was the first non-children's show produced by Jonathan M Shiff. As well as starring in the series, Lisa McCune is a co-producer. Filming commenced on 28 November 2011 in Queensland, around the Great Barrier Reef, and finished in April 2012. The series was due to be broadcast from September 2012, but was pushed back to June 2013.
Ratings and reception
The series received mixed reviews upon its long-overdue premiere.
The first episode finally aired on 9 June 2013 at 6:30pm, attracting low ratings of just 357,000 for Network Ten. These low figures caused Ten to move the show into a different time-slot, on Fridays at 9:30pm, but even that proved to be too much to ask, because it then failed to attract reasonable viewing figures in its changed time-slot. As a result, the show was subsequently moved to Ten's digital channel Eleven from 29 June 2013.
Cast
Lisa McCune as Dr. Sam Stewart
Richard Brancatisano as Dr. Rick D'Alessandro
Rohan Nichol as Toby McGrath
Susan Hoecke as Freya Klein
Andrew Ryan as Gus Cochrane
Tasneem Roc as Olivia Shaw
Rod Mullinar as Sonny Farrell
Justin Holborow as Jack Stewart
Chloe Bayliss as Nell Saunders
Kristof Piechocki as Malcolm Reid
Matt Day as Prof. Andrew Walsh
Alexandra Davies as Gillian
Paul Bishop as Inspector Matthew Stanton
Sally McKenzie as Gracie
Annabelle Stephenson as Sarah
Michael Dorman as Scottie
Tony Nikolakopoulos as Barry