15 August 2013 (2013-08-15) – 30 November 2016 (2016-11-30)
Upper Middle Bogan is an Australian television comedy program created by Robyn Butler and Wayne Hope. It began screening on ABC on 15 August 2013. The series is directed by Hope and Tony Martin. The second and third series began airing on 16 October 2014 and 12 October 2016, respectively.[1]
Synopsis
Upper Middle Bogan follows the story of two different families connected by blood. Bess Denyar is a doctor who lives in a nice house in an inner city suburb of Melbourne with her architect husband Danny and 13-year-old twins Oscar and Edwina. Bess is stunned when she finds out from blood test results that she is adopted. This occurs when her overbearing posh mother Margaret is admitted to the hospital for high blood sugar levels. Bess tries to meet her birth parents, Wayne and Julie Wheeler. She is shocked to learn that she has three siblings (Amber, Kayne and Brianna) and that her biological family, the "bogan" Wheelers, head a drag racing team in the outer suburbs of the city.[2]
The town house featured as Margaret Denyar's house in Upper Middle Bogan is located at Summerhill Road in Brighton East, Victoria.[3] It is used to shoot both interior and exterior scenes for the series.[3] The house was sold for $1,905,000 at an auction held on 24 May 2014.[3][4]
In the United States, the show was retitled Bess of Both Worlds when it began streaming on the subscription video-on-demand service Hulu in 2015.[8][9] The series now streams under its original title on Prime Video in the U.S. In New Zealand, the show airs Thursday nights at 10:00 pm on TV One. Episodes are available weekly to stream through TVNZ's Watch Now service.[10] Available in UK and USA Netflix as of late 2024. [11]
