Having already been recognised by Screen Producers Australia, the AACTA awards and Paris’ Series Mania, the series won Logies for most outstanding actor and most outstanding miniseries or telemovie - a result Launceston playwright Vicki Madden described as “the icing on the cake”.

Madden, who created the eight-part series alongside Vincent Sheehan, said the show’s success had more than endorsed her decision to return to Tasmania several years ago. 

“That’s what I intended to do, to come back to Tasmania where I grew up and create a show here so I’m thrilled that it won,” she said.

“It’s the place that I call home and I was really keen to move back here, so I’m lucky with this opportunity that people could see the potential and I think it was the perfect storm of things going right at the right time.” 

The series’ success comes in the midst of a rush of large-scale productions shot in Tasmania, with ABC series Rosehaven also nominated for a Logie and the yet-to-be-released film The Nightingale already attracting plenty of attention. 

Madden she there was no reason Tasmania’s recent boom as a filming location shouldn’t continue.  

“I think there’s a lot of interest at the moment.

“Everyone’s been very interested in the way we were able to budget (The Kettering Incident), and it’s a landscape a lot of people aren’t familiar with.

“We’re going through a real golden age of television so I think producers are anxious to do something unique, and at the moment we’ve got Rosehaven and a couple of shows that are doing quite well.”

Planning for a second series of The Kettering Incident is under way, but Madden says another of her projects could yet beat it to screening.

“I’m also developing a new show called The Gloaming which will also be set in Tasmania. 

“We’re in talks with series 2 of Kettering but that might be next year, so in the meantime I’m working on Gloaming, hoping that that might get up first and then go back to Kettering.

“But then they might also happen at the same time.”