The Secret Life of Us in talks for reboot | Television tonight

Could be The secret life of us on the horizon as a reboot or revival?

According to co-creator/producer Amanda Higgs, early discussions are already taking place.

Speaking at RMIT’s 100 Years of Television symposium last week, she recalled how the groundbreaking show was born.

“I was just watching This life and say, ‘Oh, we can make that show in Australia.’ Good writing, good acting, and then getting creative teams. And actually it’s for young people. At the time, it didn’t seem that difficult to find that market. But that said, we didn’t get a series. We made a telefilm. (TV executives) looked at the telefilm and thought, ‘Oh, this is pretty good.’ Then we had to make the series,” she said.

The secret life of us ran for four seasons from 2001 to 2005 with Claudia Karvan, Sam Johnson, Deborah Mailman, Abi Tucker, Joel Edgerton, Sibylla Budd, David Tredinnick, Spencer McLaren, Damian De Montemas and Michael Dorman.

It’s set in a block of flats in St. Kilda and was a ratings hit for Network 10. So is a new version in the pipeline?

“There’s a lot of talk… well, not a lot… there’s a little bit of talk about whether we’ll do it Secret life again. No! I’m too old to make that show! Higgs revealed.

“I think when you’re creating for a younger audience, you have to have a younger sensibility.”

She added: “Now I look around and think that a lot of the commissioners who have been in television have been in television for a while. So what I think is needed is a new wave of television makers, not white people. Young people. And I think we need it in our commissioners too. I think that’s when things start to change. I was very lucky, I think, with Secret lifeto be one version of that change, or to be part of a conversation where I felt like we had a platform to say things about young people that reflected how we lived.

“But now we need the next one.”