Tasmania will be the back-drop for a new Australian comedy television series.
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Hobart-born Luke McGregor and fellow Utopia star Celia Pacquola will create and star in Rosehaven, an eight-part series to be filmed entirely in the state.
The state government, through Screen Tasmania, will invest $450,000 in the series.
It is expected the production will employ nearly 80 Tasmanian cast and crew, provide 10 traineeships for emerging screen practitioners, and inject more than $1.8 million into the local economy.
It is not known where the show will be filmed.
Rosehaven is set in a small fictional town and follows two friends - McGregor and Pacquola - as they return from mainland Australia to help McGregor's ailing family real estate business.
The Kettering Incident producers Andy Walker and Fiona McConaghy will return to Tasmania to work on the project.
Filming will begin early next year.