Austin (2024)
Synopsis
A best-selling, but recently cancelled, children's author has a meltdown when approached by Austin, a neurodivergent 20-something claiming to be his son. He then realises that embracing the young man may be the path to redemption.
First Air Date: 2024-06-09
Last Air Date: 2025-09-14
Number of Seasons: 2
Number of Episodes: 16
Created By: Joe Tucker, Lloyd Woolf, Darren Ashton, Ben Miller
Networks: ABC TV
Top Cast
- Ben Miller as Julian Hartswood
- Sally Phillips as Ingrid Hartswood
- Michael Theo as Austin Hogan
- Gia Carides as Mel Hogan
- Roy Billing as Bill Hogan
- Kate Elliott as Heidi
- Ellie McKay as Florence Hartswood
- Charlotte Nicdao as Yolanda Cox
- Richard Davies as Eric
- Tai Hara as Barman Luke
Seasons
Season 1 (2024)
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Episodes:
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Ep. 1: I Think I'm Your Son
Within hours of best-selling author Julian Hartswood being cancelled for reposting a white supremacist, he discovers he has a neurodivergent son called "Austin".
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Ep. 2: My Luncheon With Austin
Austin invites Julian and Ingrid home to have lunch with his "embarrassing" family, while Ingrid contemplates some extra-marital wham wham.
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Ep. 3: The Bonding Process
On a bonding tour with Austin, Julian starts filming a documentary about "father and neurodivergent son quality time" to spring-clean his image. But Ingrid and Austin get wise to his Machiavellian ways.
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Ep. 4: Get It All On Camera
Julian's documentary capturing his growing relationship with Austin is now out in the open and Julian engages an award-winning filmmaker to finish the job. Is bringing Austin to London the perfect treat for him or for Julian?
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Ep. 5: Looking For Billie
Austin organises a bespoke celebrity bus tour while Julian contemplates hiring someone to "scrub" his image. Ingrid decides to expand her career, combining her illustrating career with writing.
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Ep. 6: Pulped Fiction
When Julian gets fired from his publisher and told his remaining books are to be pulped, Austin leads the charge to break into the warehouse to rescue whatever books are left.
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Ep. 7: A Rough Cut
Ingrid discovers a former passion while Austin and Julian prepare for the first screening of the documentary, entitled: The Greatest Man I Never Knew - that will (hopefully) rebrand Julian to the world.
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Ep. 8: Austin, We Have A Problem
Julian is concerned when Austin turns his phone off and leaves the house to have some time on his own. In a boutique gallery in outer London Ingrid prepares for an exhibition of her artwork.
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