In total HARMONY
When life gives Tim Minchin lemons, he doesn’t make lemonade – he makes a hit TV show. Case in point: the unmissable new Foxtel Original drama Upright, premiering on FOX SHOWCASE this month.
Following more than a decade toiling away in the UK and US, the insanely talented multi-hyphenate hit rock bottom in 2017 with the cancellation of the DreamWorks Animation film Larrikins, which he had moved to LA to direct. Subsequently, he made the decision to bring his family – wife Sarah, daughter Violet, 13, and son Caspar, 10 – back home to Australia. These weren’t the circumstances under which he’d envisioned making his triumphant return, but such is life, right?
Eager to find a new project to sink his teeth into, Minchin. However, something wasn’t sticking; with the show initially conceived as a sitcom, Minchin admits he just wasn’t in the right headspace for such a project. That’s when inspiration struck.
