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As the film’s opening credits proclaim: Nic Cage is The Surfer, but he’s struggling to catch a wave. Securing his family’s future with a seafront house on a glorious beach in Western Australia is his main ambition. There’s just one issue: the locals aren’t friendly. Spearheaded by their cultish leader Scally (Julian McMahon), the jumped-up blokes who claim the beach as their own would rather knock your teeth out than let you surf. However, ‘The Surfer’ is determined, he’ll just have to suffer first.

Unfortunately, so will we: The audience.

I have a theory about Nic Cage and his relationship with the filmmakers that cast him. You see, the man operates on multiple levels of ‘Cage-ness’ based exclusively on what is asked of him. For example, in Face/Off or Con Air, we probably have near total levels of Cage-ness. Even this year, we saw...

A psychological thriller directed by Lorcan Finnegan (Vivarium, Nocebo), The Surfer has been acquired for early 2025 theatrical release by Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions.

Check out a first-look image above and expect more soon.

In The Surfer, when a man (Nicolas Cage) returns to his beachside hometown in Australia, many years since building a life for himself in the U.S., he is humiliated in front of his teenage son by a local gang of surfers who claim strict ownership over the secluded beach of his childhood.

Wounded, “The Surfer” decides to remain at the beach, declaring war against those in control of the bay. But as the conflict escalates, the stakes spin wildly out of control, taking “The Surfer” to the edge of his sanity.

Julian McMahon, Nic Cassim, Miranda Tapsell, Alexander Bertrand, Justin Rosniak, Rahel Romahn, Finn Little and Charlotte Maggi star alongside Nicolas Cage in the upcoming film.

Following its six-minute standing ovation as a midnight movie selection at the Cannes Film Festival, Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions have acquired North American distribution rights to The Surfer, the psychological thriller directed by Lorcan Finnegan.

Adam Fogelson, chair of Lionsgate Motion Picture Group, and Roadside Attractions co-presidents Eric d’Arbeloff and Howard Cohen made the announcement.

“Lorcan’s movie is a stunning visual experience with an incredible palette, coupled with Nicolas Cage at his absolute best,” said Lauren Bixby, SVP of Acquisitions and Co-Productions, Lionsgate Motion Picture Group. “We could not be more proud to bring this film to theaters.”

Cohen and d’Arbeloff concurred, “We cannot wait for The Surfer to ride the theatrical wave next year. One man’s gnarly quest to introduce his son to a legendary surf spot ranks among the greatest Nicolas Cage performances.”

Julian McMahon, Nic Cassim, Miranda Tapsell, Alexander Bertrand, Justin Rosniak, Rahel Romahn,...

Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions have jointly acquired North American rights to Lorcan Finnegan’s Cannes selection The Surfer starring Nicolas Cage.

‘The Surfer’: Cannes Review

Set in Australia, The Surfer premiered in Cannes Midnight and centres on a man who returns to the idyllic beach of his childhood to surf with his son and is pushed to breaking point when he gets drawn into a conflict with powerful locals.

The cast includes Julian McMahon, Nic Cassim, Miranda Tapsell, Alexander Bertrand, Justin Rosniak, Rahel Romahn, Finn Little, and Charlotte Maggi.

Thomas Martin wrote The Surfer and the producers are Leonora Darby,...

Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions have acquired North American rights to “The Surfer,” a psychological thriller starring Nicolas Cage that premiered at Cannes Film Festival.

The movie will be released in theaters on a yet-to-be-determined date in 2025. Lorcan Finnegan directed “The Surfer,” a story about a man who returns to the idyllic beach of his childhood to surf with his son. But, according to the official logline, “he is humiliated by a group of powerful locals and drawn into a conflict that rises with the punishing heat of the summer and pushes him right to his breaking point.”

“Lorcan’s movie is a stunning visual experience with an incredible palette, coupled with Nicolas Cage at his absolute best,” said Lauren Bixby, Lionsgate’s senior VP of acquisitions and co-productions. “We could not be more proud to bring this film to theaters.”

Roadside Attractions co-presidents Eric d’Arbeloff and Howard Cohen believe the...

Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions have taken North America to the Nicolas Cage feature The Surfer which received a six-minute standing ovation at Cannes following its midnight section premiere. A 2025 theatrical release is planned.

In the Lorcan Finnegran directed movie, a man returns to the idyllic beach of his childhood to surf with his son, but is humiliated by a group of powerful locals and drawn into a conflict that rises with the punishing heat of the summer and pushes him right to his breaking point. Julian McMahon, Nic Cassim, Miranda Tapsell, Alexander Bertrand, Justin Rosniak, Rahel Romahn, Finn Little, and Charlotte Maggi also star in the movie which was penned by Thomas Martin.

The news of the deal comes in the wake of Cage seeing a big box office opening with Neon’s Longlegs at $22.4M this past weekend, making it his first movie since 2011 to open north of $20M.

Nicolas Cage plays the title character of “The Surfer,” but it’s not until the film’s final minute that he climbs onto a surfboard. The movie, while set on a muscle beach in Australia, isn’t about surfing. It’s about male anxiety, male power, male midlife crisis, male rituals of pain and dominance, and how much theater Nicolas Cage can wring out of all of that. “The Surfer” premiered last night at a Cannes midnight show, and that’s smart programming, because it really is a midnight movie — the kind of trippy slapdash comic nightmare where the only way to watch it is to sit back and “go with it.”

Cage makes that easy to do. The film has been designed as a bad-trip psychodrama that’s also a high-camp Nicolas Cage freak-out. I only wish that “The Surfer,” as directed by Lorcan Finnegan and written by Thomas Martin,...

There’s no point in hiring Nicolas Cage if you’re not going to let him rip with a wackadoodle, Ott performance, and he duly delivers in the sly psychological thriller The Surfer. Calibrating his character’s descent into mental and physical disarray so that it happens by evenly distributed degrees, Cage is in only moderately demented form overall here. That suits director Lorcan Finnegan (Without Name, Vivarium) and screenwriter Thomas Martin’s ambitions to call back to and yet also spoof vintage Australian New Wave films like Nicolas Roeg’s Walkabout (1971), dreamtime stories about alienated outsiders.

Toxic masculinity, the Big Bad de nos jours, also seems to be on their mind although the performances and cinematic quirks (zooms, jump cuts, all that jazz) are so hammy and gestural there’s nothing subtle about the critique. But that’s what makes it fun.

Unfolding largely on a beach and its...

Nicolas Cage soaked up the applause as his new trippy psychological thriller “The Surfer” scored a six-minute standing ovation at a Cannes Film Festival midnight screening on Friday night.

Cage appeared to be having a ball, beaming from ear to ear and waving across the room as cheers erupted around the Palais for the film, a wild, mind-bending adventure that sees the fan favorite hit the sort of deranged peaks not witnessed on screen since “Mandy.” At one point he took the mic to ask how to say “eat the rat” in French — a line from the film (and likely to become a meme) — roaring “mangez le rat!” to the delight of the crowd.

Cage also used the opportunity while on the mic and standing next to Thierry Fremaux to claim that, back in 2021, he’d phoned the Cannes director to ask if his drama “Pig” could premiere in at the festival.

For some years now, Nicolas Cage has been a genre unto himself: desperate, deranged, deliciously cheesy, with that special mastery of dialogue that moves seamlessly from a panting whisper to a bellow and back again. Put Cage’s name above the title and your film has an immediate brand that not only rides over script glitches but does a full Fast and Furious speed-jump over the top of any yawning gaps in probability.

Nic Cage as a surfer dude? Unlikely, but who cares? Nic Cage as an Australian? “I thought you were American,” says someone he meets on the beach in The Surfer. So did we all, my friend. So, he moved to California in his teens and now he’s back, intent on buying back the house where he grew up, which is why he sounds straight outta Noo York? No one would swallow that one, but whatever!

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Richard Roxburgh, star of hit Netflix show “Rake” and “Elvis,” stars in “The Correspondent,” a fact-based thriller. He portrays Peter Greste, the veteran Australian TV news reporter who was arrested and detained in Cairo in 2013 while reporting for Al Jazeera.

Production of “The Correspondent” wrapped in Sydney, Australia after being directed by Kriv Stenders, who enjoyed major success in Australia with “Red Dog” and also directed hit “Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan.”

The film is based on Greste’s memoir “The First Casualty” and has an adapted screenplay by Peter Duncan. Greste is an award-winning foreign correspondent who, along with two of his colleagues, was reporting on the Arab Spring uprising. Days into his assignment, he became a pawn in a deadly game of ancient rivalries. Surviving an inexplicable nightmare with only his wits keeping him alive, Greste was sentenced to seven years in jail, but was released...

Production in Western Australia has wrapped on psychological thriller “The Surfer,” starring Nicolas Cage. Producers have released a first-look image of a tousled and confused-looking Cage inside a car that his character may have slept in.

When a man returns to Australia to buy back his family home after many years in the U.S., he is humiliated in front of his teenage son by a group of local surfers who claim ownership over the secluded beach of his childhood. Wounded, he defies them and remains at the beach, demanding acceptance. As the conflict escalates he is brought to the edge of his sanity and his identity is thrown into question.

The film is directed by Lorcan Finnegan (“Vivarium”) and written by Thomas Martin, with production taking place entirely a single location in Yallingup in Western Australia.

Joining Cage is an Australian ensemble cast including Julian McMahon (“Nip/Tuck”), Nicholas Cassim...

Exclusive: Here’s your first look at Nicolas Cage in psychological thriller The Surfer, which has recently wrapped shoot in Western Australia.

Oscar winner Cage will play a man who returns to Australia to buy back his family home after many years in the U.S. but is humiliated in front of his teenage son by a group of local surfers who claim ownership over the secluded beach of his childhood. Wounded, he defies them and remains at the beach, demanding acceptance. As the conflict escalates he is brought to the edge of his sanity and his identity is thrown into question.

Directed by Lorcan Finnegan (Vivarium) and written by Thomas Martin, the feature film was shot in a single location in Yallingup in Western Australia.

Joining Cage in the ensemble cast are Julian McMahon (Nip/Tuck), Nicholas Cassim (Mr Inbetween), Miranda Tapsell (The Dry), Alexander Bertrand (Australian Gangster), Justin Rosniak...

Network: FX

Episodes: 26 (half-hour)

Seasons: Three

TV show dates: September 25, 2018 -- July 13, 2021

Series status: Ended

Performers include: Scott Ryan, Damon Herriman, Damon Herriman, Justin Rosniak, Brooke Satchwell, Jackson Tozer, Nicholas Cassim, Chika Yasumura, Edmund Lembke-Hogan, and Matt Nable.

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A drama TV show, Mr Inbetween was created by its star, Scott Ryan. It's based on a cult film that Ryan made more than a decade earlier.

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Ray's story is coming to a close. FX has announced that season three of the Mr Inbetween TV series will launch on Tuesday, May 25th. There will be nine episodes this time around and those will wrap up the series. A fourth season isn't planned.

A gritty comedy-drama series from Australia, Mr Inbetween was created by its star, Scott Ryan. The series also stars Damon Herriman, Justin Rosniak, Brooke Satchwell, Jackson Tozer, Nicholas Cassim, Chika Yasumura, Edmund Lembke-Hogan, and Matt Nable. In the series, Ray Shoesmith (Ryan) has many roles -- as a father, an ex-husband, a boyfriend, a caretaker to a sick brother, and a best friend. His life is further complicated because Ray also happens to be a criminal-for-hire. In season two, Ray's work and personal life collided and he struggled to keep both of them from imploding.

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Scott Ryan in ‘Mr Inbetween.’

In the heart-wrenching climactic scene of the last episode of Mr Inbetween, Scott Ryan’s Ray Shoesmith carried out the mercy killing of his brother then torched the house.

So what is next for the troubled hit man and single father as Ryan maps out the third season of the FX/Fox Showcase drama laced with dark humour?

Without spoilers, the show’s star, creator and writer tells If: “Season three will probably be more like season one in tone; it won’t be as dark as season two. But there will also be room for some pretty dark stuff.”

Justin Rosniak as Ray’s gormless best friend Gary will be even more prominent in the new season. Also returning are Chika Yasumura as his daughter Brittany and, he hopes, Damon Herriman as his boss, nightclub owner Freddy.

Ryan is still weighing up whether there...

‘Mr Inbetween’.

FX has renewed hitman comedy/drama Mr Inbetween for a third season, due to air locally on Foxtel’s Fox Showcase.

Created, written by and starring Scott Ryan, the Sydney-shot series follows charismatic yet volatile hitman Ray Shoesmith.

Ray “takes care of people” — collecting debts, relieving them of drugs and guns, and often taking care of them on a more permanent basis. Ray demands respect and does not tolerate it when someone disregards his very clear code of ethics.

Ryan won the Aacta Award for Best Lead Actor in a TV drama for his portrayal of Shoesmith last year. It’s a character he first introduced to the world via 2005 mockumentary The Magician.

Other members of the cast include Brooke Satchwell, Justin Rosniak, Chika Yasumura, Nicholas Cassim and Damon Herriman.

Both season one and two were directed by Nash Edgerton and produced by Michele Bennett for Jungle Entertainment,...

The Mr Inbetween TV show was commissioned for FX Australia as its first original drama production. Though that channel closed before the series could air, FX in the United States ordered a second season, despite some very low ratings. Will the channel keep this gritty series going and order a third season or, will it be cancelled instead? Stay tuned. Status update below.

An FX half-hour dramatic TV show, Mr Inbetween was created by its star, Scott Ryan. The series also stars Damon Herriman, Justin Rosniak, Brooke Satchwell, Jackson Tozer, Nicholas Cassim, Chika Yasumura, Edmund Lembke-Hogan, and Matt Nable. In the series, Ray Shoesmith (Ryan) has many roles -- as a father, an ex-husband, a boyfriend, caretaker to a sick brother, and a best friend. His life is further complicated because Ray also happens to be a criminal-for-hire. In season two, Ray's work and personal life collide and...

Can Ray keep it together during the second season of the Mr Inbetween TV show FX? As we all know, the Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether a TV show like Mr Inbetween is cancelled or renewed for season three. Unfortunately, most of us do not live in Nielsen households. Because many viewers feel frustrated that their viewing habits and opinions aren't considered, we'd like to offer you the chance to rate all the season two episodes of Mr Inbetween below. Status update below.

An FX half-hour dramatic TV show, Mr Inbetween was created by its star, Scott Ryan. The series also stars Damon Herriman, Justin Rosniak, Brooke Satchwell, Jackson Tozer, Nicholas Cassim, Chika Yasumura, Edmund Lembke-Hogan, and Matt Nable. In the series, Ray Shoesmith (Ryan) has many roles -- as a father, an ex-husband, a boyfriend, caretaker to a sick brother, and a...

FX is not on the fence about Mr. Inbetween. The network just announced they've renewed the TV show for the 2020-21 season.

The half-hour drama stars Scott Ryan as Ray Shoesmith, a father, ex-husband, boyfriend and best friend who happens to be a hitman. The series also stars Damon Herriman, Justin Rosniak, Brooke Satchwell, Jackson Tozer, Nicholas Cassim, Chika Yasumura, Edmund Lembke-Hogan, and Matt Nable.

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In its first season, the title of FX’s Mr. Inbetween suggested several things. The first was the niche its main character, Ray Shoesmith (played by the show’s creator, Scott Ryan), has carved out for himself providing violent, often lethal, solutions to other people’s problems. The second was the show’s careful perching on the line between drama and comedy, with each compact, under-30-minute episode mixing wry humor with much darker material. The third was the way that Ryan couldn’t seem to decide whether he was...

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How long can Ray keep his worlds apart? Has the Mr Inbetween TV show been cancelled or renewed for a third season on FX? The television vulture is watching all the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of Mr Inbetween season three. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you?   

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Airing on the FX cable channel, Mr Inbetween was created by its star, Scott Ryan. The series also stars Damon Herriman, Justin Rosniak, Brooke Satchwell, Jackson Tozer, Nicholas Cassim, Chika Yasumura, Edmund Lembke-Hogan, and Matt Nable. In the series, Ray Shoesmith (Ryan) has many roles -- as a father, an ex-husband, a boyfriend, caretaker to a sick brother, and a best friend.

(L-r) Scott Ryan, Nash Edgerton, Chika Yasumura, Michele Bennett, Nicholas Cassim and Brooke Satchwell.

In the writer’s room that is Scott Ryan’s head, the marginalised and charmingly transgressive characters of Mr Inbetween have staged a coup. Unconcerned with character arcs or narrative demands, they flow with dark authenticity.

“I sit down and I just write a bunch of shit, I sit at the computer and stuff comes into my head. It’s like being a medium that channels spirits. I just channel down whatever it is up there,” explained Ryan the creator and star of the dramedy, the second season of which begins today on Foxtel, at a Q&a screening earlier this week.

“I think we have to be open to that creative force or whatever you want to call it and let it work through you and not try to put conditions on it. You let...

Scott Ryan as Ray Shoesmith.

Ben Oxenbould, Josh McConville, Rebecca Montalti and Rose Riley are the new faces in the second season of Mr Inbetween, the comedy/drama created by and starring Scott Ryan as criminal-for-hire Ray Shoesmith.

Directed by Nash Edgerton and produced by Blue-Tongue Films, Jungle Entertainment and Michele Bennett’s Pariah Productions, the new series premieres on Fox Showcase at 2 pm on Friday September 13, express from its Us debut on FX.

Shoesmith’s definition of “taking care of people” means collecting debts, relieving them of drugs and guns and often taking care of them on a more permanent basis.

In season two his work and personal life begin to collide and he finds himself struggling to keep both sides of his life from imploding.

Brooke Satchwell returns as his girlfriend Ally with Justin Rosniak as best friend Gary, Chika Yasumura as daughter Brittany, Nicholas Cassim as brother Bruce,...

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Ray knows how to be a hitman but is his show be a hit in the ratings? Has the Mr Inbetween TV show been cancelled or renewed for a second season on FX? The television vulture is watching all the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of Mr Inbetween season two. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you?   

What's This TV Show About?

Airing on the FX cable channel, Mr Inbetween was created by its star, Scott Ryan. The series also stars Damon Herriman, Justin Rosniak, Brooke Satchwell, Jackson Tozer, Nicholas Cassim, Chika Yasumura, Edmund Lembke-Hogan, and Matt Nable. In the series, Ray Shoesmith (Ryan) struggles to juggle all of the roles that many adult men have in life -- a...

“American Horror Story: 1984” will premiere on September 18 at 10 p.m., FX announced Monday. The cabler also announced the returns of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” “Mayans Mc” and “Mr. Inbetween.”

“1984” is the ninth installment of Ryan Murphy’s horror drama. The uber-producer previously unveiled a teaser for the season, stylized in the vein of 1980s slashed movies. While the teaser did not reveal returning cast members, Murphy also previously announced that Emma Roberts would be part of the cast.

Meanwhile, the second season of “Mayans Mc” will premiere September 3 at 10 p.m; the second season of “Mr. Inbetween” premieres September 12 at 10 p.m; and the 14th season of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” kicks off September 25 at 10 p.m on Fxx.

“Mayans Mc” is the follow up to “Sons of Anarchy.” Co-created by Kurt Sutter and Elgin James, the story follows Ezekiel “Ez” Reyes (Jd Pardo), who...

In a Gold Derby exclusive, we have learned the category placements of the key Emmy Awards contenders for FX. For this season, the cable network has newcomers “Pose” and “What We Do in the Shadows” (Natasia Demetriou), returning shows “American Horror Story” and “Better Things” (Pamela Adlon), plus limited series “Fosse/Verdon” as part of their 2019 campaign.

Below, the list of FX lead, supporting and guest submissions for their comedies, dramas and limited series. More names might be added by the network on the final Emmy ballot. Also note that performers not included on this list may well be submitted by their personal reps.

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Drama Actor – Cody Fern

Drama Supporting Actress – Kathy Bates, Frances Conroy, Leslie Grossman, Billie Lourd, Adina Porter, Emma Roberts

Drama Supporting Actor – Billy Eichner, Cheyenne Jackson, Evan Peters, Billy Porter

Drama Guest Actress – Connie Britton,...

There's no in between here. Variety reports FX has renewed Mr Inbetween for a second season.

The crime drama stars Scott Ryan as Ray Shoesmith, a man struggling to juggle the roles in his life — father, ex-husband, boyfriend and best friend — while being a hitman for hire. The cast also includes Damon Herriman, Justin Rosniak, Brooke Satchwell, Jackson Tozer, Nicholas Cassim, Chika Yasumura, Edmund Lembke-Hogan, and Matt Nable.

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The Mr Inbetween TV show was commissioned for FX Australia as its first original drama production but that channel closed before the series could air. Does that mean that Mr Inbetween has essentially already been cancelled or, could FX still decide to make season two? Stay tuned. *Status update below.

An FX half-hour drama TV show, Mr Inbetween was created by its star, Scott Ryan. The series also stars Damon Herriman, Justin Rosniak, Brooke Satchwell, Jackson Tozer, Nicholas Cassim, Chika Yasumura, Edmund Lembke-Hogan, and Matt Nable. In the series, Ray Shoesmith (Ryan) struggles to juggle all of the roles that many adult men have in life -- a father, ex-husband, boyfriend and best friend. His life is further complicated because Ray also happens to be a hitman-for-hire.

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Scott Ryan (Photo: Mark Rogers)

Scott’s Ryan’s professional hitman Ray Shoesmith is set for further adventures next year after FX Networks and Foxtel confirmed there will be a second season of Mr Inbetween.

A renewal was almost certain after the six-part comedy/action drama produced by Michele Bennett for Jungle Entertainment and Blue-Tongue Films posted strong ratings in the Us, averaging 2.25 million viewers across all linear and non-linear platforms.

The gain in total viewers for the first episode of the Nash Edgerton-directed show was 113 per cent over seven days, a bigger increase than that for the last six FX drama series premieres. The second episode registered a 110 per cent jump in total viewers.

Created and scripted by Ryan, the show co-stars Damon Herriman, Justin Rosniak, Brooke Satchwell, Jackson Tozer, Nicholas Cassim, Chika Yasumura and Matt Nable. Most of the cast is expected to return, with Bennett producing again.

FX has renewed Australian drama “Mr Inbetween” for a second season.

The second season will premiere in 2019, broadcasting day-and-date on FX in the U.S. and Foxtel in Australia.

The half-hour drama was created by and stars Australian actor Scott Ryan and directed by Nash Edgerton. In “Mr Inbetween,” Ryan plays Ray Shoesmith, a father, ex-husband, boyfriend and best friend: tough roles to juggle in the modern age — and even harder when you’re a criminal for hire. Ryan first introduced audiences to the hitman’s story when he wrote, directed and starred in the 2005 indie flick “The Magician.”

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“It’s been fantastic to see ‘Mr Inbetween’ embraced by fans and critics. The exciting, offbeat and fast moving first season is defined by the magnetic performance and creative vision of Scott Ryan and director Nash Edgerton,...

Just hours ahead of its season one finale on FX, Mr Inbetween, the new Aussie drama series from Scott Ryan and Nash Edgerton, has been renewed for a second season. Season 2 will premiere in 2019, broadcasting day-and-date on FX in the U.S. and Foxtel in Australia.

Mr Inbetween is written by Ryan and Edgerton, who also directs, and stars Ryan as criminal-for-hire Ray Shoesmith. Damon Herriman, Justin Rosniak, Brooke Satchwell, Jackson Tozer, Nicholas Cassim, Chika Yasumura and Matt Nable also star.

“It’s been fantastic to see Mr Inbetween embraced by fans and critics. The exciting, offbeat and fast moving first season is defined by the magnetic performance and creative vision of Scott Ryan and director Nash Edgerton,” said Eric Schrier, President of Original Programming for FX Networks and FX Productions. “Our thanks to Nash and Scott, our partners at Foxtel, fellow executive producer Jason Burrows, producer Michele Bennett, and the great cast and crew.

“Mr. Inbetween” has scored an order for a second season at FX and Foxtel, Australia’s leading cable network.

The series stars Scott Ryan as Ray Shoesmith, a father, ex-husband, boyfriend and best friend: tough roles to juggle in the modern age. Even harder when you’re a criminal for hire. The six-episode season, written by Ryan and directed by Nash Edgerton, stars Ryan, Damon Herriman, Justin Rosniak, Brooke Satchwell, Jackson Tozer, Nicholas Cassim, Chika Yasumura and Matt Nable. The second season will debut in 2019, broadcasting day-and-date on FX and Foxtel.

The series was shot in Australia and produced by Blue-Tongue Films and Jungle Entertainment, in association with FX Productions, Screen Australia and Create Nsw. Ryan, Edgerton and Jason Burrows are executive producers and Michele Bennett is producer.

“It’s been fantastic to see ‘Mr. Inbetween’ embraced by fans and critics. The exciting, offbeat and fast moving first season is...

Scott Ryan in ‘Mr Inbetween’.

After directing, writing and starring as the lead in 2005 feature The Magician, Scott Ryan was still full of ideas about where to take his character, charismatic hitman Ray Shoesmith.

“Because of the low budget nature of the film, 80 per cent of the things I wanted to do I couldn’t do…. I had all these ideas, and I was like, ‘Oh, maybe a TV show’,” he said.

Together with the film’s producer, Blue-Tongue Films’ Nash Edgerton, Ryan worked for years to get a series up that was centred on Shoesmith. They came close several times, only to have it fall down at the last minute.

Ryan eventually gave up on the idea that they were ever going to succeed. However, Edgerton persisted.

“He was the first person to really get The Magician. He gets it, he really gets it, and that’s why he...

Does Ray's FX show have a shot at survival? As we all know, the Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether a TV show like Mr Inbetween is cancelled or renewed for season two. Unfortunately, most of us do not live in Nielsen households. Because many viewers feel frustrated that their viewing habits and opinions aren't considered, we'd like to offer you the chance to rate all the season one episodes of Mr Inbetween below.

An FX half-hour drama TV show, Mr Inbetween was created by its star, Scott Ryan. The series also stars Damon Herriman, Justin Rosniak, Brooke Satchwell, Jackson Tozer, Nicholas Cassim, Chika Yasumura, Edmund Lembke-Hogan, and Matt Nable. In the series, Ray Shoesmith (Ryan) struggles to juggle all of the roles that many adult men have in life -- a father, ex-husband, boyfriend and best friend. His life is...

Before “Barry” stormed (North) Hollywood and “Killing Eve” killed everyone but, “Mr. Inbetween” wedged itself into the first-ever Sundance Episodic lineup. Premiering alongside everything from a screaming, drooling, animated tortoise to Steve James’ acclaimed Starz docuseries “America to Me,” the half-hour Australian import broke through with an unnervingly natural approach to a mob hitman’s sordid profession. Bits of unsuspected violence are cut with moments of utter absurdity. It’s surprising and intriguing, but Nash Edgerton’s unassuming vision is also a thoughtful evaluation of an ugly world where violence is the accepted norm.

“Mr. Inbetween” stood out then — and stands out now, after FX picked it up in the U.S. — for its pitch-black comedy, but it resonates because the eponymous mister is caught in an internal moral struggle he’s only now becoming aware of; he’s not actively trying to quit the game, like Barry Berkman, nor...

TV and film have long been fascinated with the inner lives of spies, assassins, and people who otherwise operate underground and out of sight. Untangling the possible motivations someone might have to live such a life, not to mention carry out startling and sometimes downright horrific acts, provides so much narrative catnip that hardly a month goes by without a new variation on the same theme. 2018’s TV has already had a couple sterling examples in HBO’s “Barry” and BBC America’s “Killing Eve,” both of which manage to depict the lives of assassins in ways we’ve never seen before — which is, after so many other attempts, a real feat.

So if you’re going to try your hand at a hitman story, it’s on you to come up with something more interesting than the many dozens we’ve seen before. “Mr Inbetween,” unfortunately, doesn’t.

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“I wouldn’t say I enjoy hitting people,” Ray Shoesmith explains. “If I hit somebody, I generally got a pretty good reason.”

Ray, the main character of the Australian drama Mr Inbetween, which debuts Tuesday on FX (I’ve seen all six episodes) is many things: divorced father to elementary schooler Brit (Chika Yasumura), new boyfriend to Ally (Brooke Satchwell), friend to Gary (Justin Rosniak) and caretaker to his ill brother Bruce (Nicholas Cassim). Ray is also a killer for hire, continuing 2018 TV’s fascination with oddball assassins (see: HBO’s Barry,...

Scott Ryan, creator and star of FX’s new Mr Inbetween, already has won TCA’s award for Most Low Key Panelist.

In May, FX announced it had ordered a six-episode first season of Mr Inbetween, a half-hour drama series from Ryan and Nash Edgerton, inspired by Ryan’s 2005 cult film The Magician, for premiere on FX and Foxtel in Australia this fall.

Created by and starring Ryan, and directed by Edgerton, Mr Inbetween centers on Ray Shoesmith, a father, ex-husband, boyfriend, best friend, hit-man.

Ryan, who is Australian, got asked the inevitable America-centric question, wanting him to weigh in on a what a big deal it is to get a U.S. pickup. “I was a little surprised,” he said, refreshingly hype-free.

“It was great to get picked up for sure,” he added, taking the prize.

Another TV critic wanted Ryan to explain the difference between American and Australian crime shows.

It’s almost time to get your motor runnin’ and head out on the highway: FX has set 10 Pm Tuesday, September 4, for the premiere of Mayans M.C., the Sons of Anarchy spinoff from Kurt Sutter.

FX Networks also said today that Mr. Inbetween, the new half-hour drama created by and starring Scott Ryan, will premiere in September. More on that below.

Mayans M.C. is set in a post-Jax Teller world and stars Jd Pardo as Ezekiel “Ez” Reyes, who is fresh out of prison and a prospect in the Mayans M.C. charter on the Cali/Mexi border. Now, Ez must carve out his new identity in a town where he was once the golden boy with the American Dream in his grasp.

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FX has unveiled the debut date for Kurt Sutter’s “Mayans M.C.” The cable channel has also set the returns for “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” and “American Horror Story.”

Comedy “Mr Inbetween” does not yet have a specific date, but it will start in September, FX said. So will all these other ones.

In “Mr Inbetween,” Scott Ryan plays “Ray Shoesmith,” a father, ex-husband, boyfriend and best friend: tough roles to juggle in the modern age. It’s even harder when you’re a criminal for hire, per FX’s teaser description.

The six-episode season, written by Ryan and directed by Nash Edgerton, also stars Damon Herriman, Justin Rosniak, Brooke Satchwell, Jackson Tozer, Nicholas Cassim, Chika Yasumura and Matt Nable. “Mr Inbetween” was shot in Australia and is produced by Blue-Tongue Films and Jungle Entertainment, in association with FX Productions, Screen Australia and Create Nsw. Ryan, Edgerton and...

FX has just picked up something from down under.

The cabler placed a series order for “Mr Inbetween,” a half-hour drama created by and starring Australian actor Scott Ryan and directed by Nash Edgerton, Eric Schrier and Nick Grad, Presidents of Original Programming for FX Networks and FX Productions announced Friday.

In “Mr Inbetween,” which wrapped filming in Australia earlier this year, Ryan plays Ray Shoesmith, a father, ex-husband, boyfriend and best friend: tough roles to juggle in the modern age — and even harder when you’re a criminal for hire. Ryan first introduced audiences to the hitman’s story when he wrote, directed and starred in the 2005 indie flick “The Magician.”

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Along with Ryan, the cast includes Damon Herriman (“Justified”), Justin Rosniak, Brooke Satchwell, Jackson Tozer, Nicholas Cassim, Chika Yasumura and Matt Nable.

Ryan, Edgerton and Jason Burrows executive produce, with Michele Bennett grabbing a producer credit. The six-episode season, written by Ryan and directed by Edgerton (the man behind the camera for Amazon Studio’s “Gringo”), is slated to premiere on FX and Foxtel this fall. FX and Foxtel have commissioned a writers room for a season 2.

The FX Original Series hails from Blue-Tongue Films ad Jungle Entertainment, in association with FX Productions, Screen Australia and Create Nsw.

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“‘Mr Inbetween’ is an extraordinary achievement for Scott Ryan, who took it from an indie film with a cult following to a half-hour drama that he stars in,” Schrier said. “Scott is one of those rare creators who can bring his own character to life on screen, and he is perfectly paired with Nash Edgerton, who brilliantly directed all six episodes. This project is a great inaugural step with Foxtel as the home of FX Original Series in Australia.”

“I couldn’t be happier to be sharing Scott Ryan’s character Ray with as many people as possible, and Scott and I couldn’t be more excited to have ‘Mr Inbetween’ on FX and Foxtel,” Edgerton added.

Edgerton, also an established Hollywood stuntman, has other film and television credits that include “The Matrix” trilogy, “Star Wars Episode II,” “Star Wars Episode III,” “The Thin Red Line,” “The Great Gatsby,” “The Gift” and “Zero Dark Thirty.”

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Four months after its Indie Episodics showcase at the Sundance Film Festival, Mr Inbetween has received a series order at FX.

The Australian half-hour drama, which wrapped production on its six-episode season earlier this year and is set to premiere in the fall, was created by and stars Scott Ryan, while Nash Edgerton (Gringo) directed the freshman run. A writers room has already been commissioned for a possible Season 2.

Ryan plays Ray Shoesmith, a father, ex-husband, boyfriend and best friend: tough roles to juggle in the modern age, and even harder when you’re a criminal for hire.

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FX has given a six-episode order to half-hour drama “Mr Inbetween,” based on a short film by Australian actor Scott Ryan.

Ryan stars as criminal-for-hire Ray Shoesmith, who is also occupied by juggling his roles as an ex-husband, father, boyfriend and best friend. Ryan created the series and stars. Nash Edgerton is director, co-writer and executive producer with Ryan and Jason Burrows. Michael Bennett is producer.

The series was shot in Australia earlier this year. “Mr Inbetween” will premiere on FX and Oz’s Foxtel in the fall. FX and Foxtel have already commissioned a writers room for a possible season two. In addition to Ryan, the series stars Damon Herriman, Justin Rosniak, Brooke Satchwell, Jackson Tozer, Nicholas Cassim, Chika Yasumura and Matt Nable.

“‘Mr Inbetween’ is an extraordinary achievement for Scott Ryan, who took it from an indie film with a cult following to a half-hour drama that he stars in,...

FX has ordered a six-episode first season of Mr Inbetween, a half-hour drama series from Scott Ryan and Nash Edgerton, inspired by Ryan’s 2005 cult film The Magician, for premiere on FX and Foxtel in Australia this fall. FX and Foxtel have commissioned a writers room for a second season.

Created by and starring Ryan and directed by Edgerton, Mr Inbetween centers on Ray Shoesmith (Ryan), a father, ex-husband, boyfriend and best friend: tough roles to juggle in the modern age. Even harder when you’re a criminal for hire.

In addition to Ryan, Damon Herriman (Justified), Justin Rosniak, Brooke Satchwell, Jackson Tozer, Nicholas Cassim, Chika Yasumura and Matt Nable also star.

The first season of the FX original series was shot in Australia and produced by Blue-Tongue Films and Jungle Entertainment, in association with FX Productions, Screen Australia and Create Nsw. Michele Bennett is Producer and Ryan, Edgerton and Jason Burrows are Executive Producers.

Australian dramedy Mr Inbetween is moving from the big screen to the small screen.

FX on Friday handed out a six-episode series order for half-hour dramedy Mr Inbetween, created by and starring Australian actor Scott Ryan.

The series was shot in Australia and is based on the 2005 cult indie feature The Magician, in which Ryan plays Ray Shoesmith, a father, ex-husband, boyfriend and best friend — all tough roles to juggle in the modern age and even harder when you're a criminal for hire. Damon Herriman (Justified), Justin Rosniak, Brooke Satchwell, Jackson Tozer, Nicholas Cassim, Chika Yasumura and Matt Nable ...

The ABC’s latest political satire, At Home With Julia, wraps today. The series, which invites Australians into The Lodge and life of Prime Minister Gillard (Amanda Bishop) and her partner Tim Mathieson (Phil Lloyd) is set to air on ABC1 on Wednesday 7 September, 9.30pm.

The 4×30 minute series finds the Prime Minister and Mathieson struggling with alone time as they get harrassed by Bob Katter, live in fear of terrorist attacks and receive unsolicited advice from Paul Keating.

In a statement, Executive Producer/co-writer Rick Kalowski said, “We can’t believe the quality of the cast we got. Or how little we were able to pay them.”

With a cast of sketch and stage comedians, the production is set to spoof Kevin Rudd (Paul McCarthy), Paul Keating and Tony Jones (both played by Jonathon Biggins), Wayne Swan (Alan Dukes) Tony Abbott (Nicholas Cassim), Bob Katter (Drew Forsythe), and Rob Oakeshott...