Underbelly nabs top writers’ award
Aug 16th, 2008 | By David Harper | Category: TelevisionNews.com.au: Peter Gawler, Greg Haddrick and Felicity Packard won the award for best television mini series adaptation for their interpretation of the book Leadbelly: Inside Australia’s Underworld, by Melbourne journalists John Silvester and Andrew Rule.
Yet to be seen in Victoria after being banned by a judge because of its potential impact on a murder trial earlier this year, the highly acclaimed Underbelly won huge ratings in every other state for its dramatisation of Melbourne’s underworld wars which claimed 27 lives between 1995 and 2004.