Wonderland is an Australian television drama. It was created by Jo Porter and Sarah Walker. It premiered on Ten on 21 August 2013. Set in Wonderland, a unique and chaotic apartment building on the doorstep of one of Australia’s most beautiful beaches; join a group of mixed-up twenty-somethings as they navigate the humorous and sometimes painful minefield of love, sex and friendship. On 26 October 2015, it was announced that Wonderland had been cancelled after it "failed to find a sufficient audience". During the course of the programme, 44 episodes of Wonderland aired over three series.
Series overview
| Series | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | |||
| 1 | 13 | 21 August 2013 (2013-08-21) | 13 November 2013 (2013-11-13) | |
| 2 | 15 | 13 August 2014 (2014-08-13) | 19 November 2014 (2014-11-19) | |
| 3 | 16 | 4 February 2015 (2015-02-04) | 20 May 2015 (2015-05-20) | |
Episodes
Season 1 (2013)
Main article: Wonderland (season 1)| No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Australian viewers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "Weddings" | Tori Garrett | Sarah Walker | 21 August 2013 (2013-08-21) | 0.948 |
| 2 | 2 | "Obsession" | Tori Garrett | Margaret Wilson | 28 August 2013 (2013-08-28) | 0.769 |
| 3 | 3 | "Parking" | Jonathan Brough | James Walker | 4 September 2013 (2013-09-04) | 0.688 |
| 4 | 4 | "Celebrity" | Jonathan Brough | Marieke Hardy | 11 September 2013 (2013-09-11) | 0.607 |
| 5 | 5 | "Dreams" | Jo O'Shaughnessy | John Ridley | 18 September 2013 (2013-09-18) | 0.637 |
| 6 | 6 | "Personal Space" | Jo O'Shaughnessy | Jeff Truman | 25 September 2013 (2013-09-25) | 0.420 |
| 7 | 7 | "Hooking Up" | Jet Wilkinson | Alicia Walsh | 2 October 2013 (2013-10-02) | 0.543 |
| 8 | 8 | "Macho" | Jet Wilkinson | Sarah Walker | 9 October 2013 (2013-10-09) | 0.563 |
| 9 | 9 | "Exes" | Darren Ashton | Clare Atkins | 16 October 2013 (2013-10-16) | 0.507 |
| 10 | 10 | "Mothers" | Darren Ashton | Sarah Smith | 23 October 2013 (2013-10-23) | 0.499 |
| 11 | 11 | "Comfort Zone" | Jo O'Shaughnessy | Clare Atkins | 30 October 2013 (2013-10-30) | 0.516 |
| 12 | 12 | "Equal Rights" | Jo O'Shaughnessy | Samantha Strauss | 6 November 2013 (2013-11-06) | 0.502 |
| 13 | 13 | "Messages" | Tori Garrett | Margaret Wilson | 13 November 2013 (2013-11-13) | 0.626 |
Season 2 (2014)
Main article: Wonderland (season 2)| No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Australian viewers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 1 | "Relationship Status" | Tori Garrett | James Walker | 13 August 2014 (2014-08-13) | 0.519 |
| 15 | 2 | "Standing in Line" | Jet Wilkinson | Marieke Hardy | 20 August 2014 (2014-08-20) | 0.532 |
| 16 | 3 | "Fear of Missing Out" | Jet Wilkinson | Jeff Truman | 27 August 2014 (2014-08-27) | 0.501 |
| 17 | 4 | "First World Problems" | Peter Salmon | Kirsty Fisher | 3 September 2014 (2014-09-03) | 0.532 |
| 18 | 5 | "Monogamy" | Peter Salmon | Nick King | 10 September 2014 (2014-09-10) | 0.478 |
| 19 | 6 | "Saving Face" | Jennifer Leacey | Sarah Walker | 17 September 2014 (2014-09-17) | 0.458 |
| 20 | 7 | "Narcissism" | Jennifer Leacey | Christopher Burke | 24 September 2014 (2014-09-24) | 0.418 |
| 21 | 8 | "Liking" | Darren Ashton | Josephine Dee Barrett | 1 October 2014 (2014-10-01) | 0.458 |
| 22 | 9 | "Milestones" | Darren Ashton | Sarah Walker | 8 October 2014 (2014-10-08) | 0.443 |
| 23 | 10 | "Home" | Darren Ashton | Sarah Walker | 15 October 2014 (2014-10-15) | 0.458 |
| 24 | 11 | "Secrets" | Darren Ashton | Jeff Truman | 22 October 2014 (2014-10-22) | 0.447 |
| 25 | 12 | "Sex" | Julie Money | Christopher Burke | 29 October 2014 (2014-10-29) | 0.463 |
| 26 | 13 | "Burn" | Julie Money | Marieke Hardy | 5 November 2014 (2014-11-05) | 0.452 |
| 27 | 14 | "Haunted" | Jennifer Leacey | James Walker | 12 November 2014 (2014-11-12) | 0.455 |
| 28 | 15 | "Blind" | Jennifer Leacey | Josephine Dee Barrett | 19 November 2014 (2014-11-19) | 0.429 |
Season 3 (2015)
Main article: Wonderland (season 3)| No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Australian viewers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 1 | "Rescue" | Darren Ashton | Nick King | 4 February 2015 (2015-02-04) | 0.445 |
| 30 | 2 | "Rejection" | Darren Ashton | Sarah Walker | 11 February 2015 (2015-02-11) | 0.438 |
| 31 | 3 | "Baggage" | Jo O'Shaughnessy | Margaret Wilson | 18 February 2015 (2015-02-18) | 0.397 |
| 32 | 4 | "Withholding" | Jo O'Shaughnessy | Jeff Truman | 25 February 2015 (2015-02-25) | 0.429 |
| 33 | 5 | "Toxic" | Jennifer Leacey | Alicia Walsh | 4 March 2015 (2015-03-04) | 0.373 |
| 34 | 6 | "Fathers" | Jennifer Leacey | Marieke Hardy | 11 March 2015 (2015-03-11) | 0.494 |
| 35 | 7 | "Split" | Adrian Russell Wills | Samantha Strauss | 18 March 2015 (2015-03-18) | 0.401 |
| 36 | 8 | "The Other Woman" | Adrian Russell Wills | James Walker | 25 March 2015 (2015-03-25) | 0.368 |
| 37 | 9 | "Boundaries" | Darren Ashton | Marieke Hardy & Clare Atkins | 8 April 2015 (2015-04-08) | 0.384 |
| 38 | 10 | "Strange Bedfellows" | Darren Ashton | Sarah Mayberry | 15 April 2015 (2015-04-15) | 0.351 |
| 39 | 11 | "Epic" | Catherine Millar | Nick King | 22 April 2015 (2015-04-22) | 0.382 |
| 40 | 12 | "True Love" | Catherine Millar | Kirsty Fisher | 22 April 2015 (2015-04-22) | 0.366 |
| 41 | 13 | "Wild" | Ian Gilmour | Justine Gillmer | 29 April 2015 (2015-04-29) | 0.405 |
| 42 | 14 | "Lost" | Ian Gilmour | Jeff Truman | 6 May 2015 (2015-05-06) | 0.489 |
| 43 | 15 | "Truth" | Jennifer Leacey | Marieke Hardy | 13 May 2015 (2015-05-13) | 0.535 |
| 44 | 16 | "Commitment" | Jennifer Leacey | Sarah Walker | 20 May 2015 (2015-05-20) | 0.635 |
Ratings
Wonderland : AUS viewers per episode (thousands) | Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. Updates on reimplementing the Graph extension, which will be known as the Chart extension, can be found on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. |
| Season | Episode number | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | ||
| 1 | 948 | 769 | 688 | 607 | 637 | 420 | 543 | 563 | 507 | 499 | 516 | 502 | 626 | – | |||
| 2 | 519 | 532 | 501 | 532 | 478 | 458 | 418 | 458 | 443 | 458 | 447 | 463 | 452 | 455 | 429 | – | |
| 3 | 445 | 438 | 397 | 429 | 373 | 494 | 401 | 368 | 384 | 351 | 382 | 366 | 405 | 489 | 535 | 635 | |
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