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The BBC Points of View team tweeted about hopefully covering Banished this week. This is your chance to tell them how wonderful it is, and ask for series 2!! If you are on Twitter, add your voice!

Hearing loads of praise for #Banished and hoping to cover it for this week. What did you think of it?

— BBC Points of View (@bbcPoV) April 20, 2015

According to this website, Banished will be shown in Australia, on BBC First in June. Along with Wolf Hall, Banished is not one of the fast tracked shows being broadcast on the new channel.  

New period dramas Banished and Wolf Hall may be drawing big audiences in the UK but Australian audiences will be forced to wait for them on BBC First. Wolf Hall, starring Damian Lewis as Henry VIII and Claire Foy as Anne Boleyn, premiered in the UK in January. Averaging 4.4 million viewers it has become the biggest drama on BBC2 since 2002. But it won’t premiere in Australia until Saturday April 11th, nearly four months after its UK launch.

Banished scored its first sale at this year's MIPTV, to Israel's Yes channel, according to TB Vision (pre-sales were already announced by BBCWW). Televisual included Banished in its list of top picks for MIPTV, and Paul Dempsey, president of global markets at BBC Worldwide has been selling its potential. 

Banished has so much to offer international buyers and is a key title for BBC Worldwide. Even though it is set in 18th Century, it’s also a contemporary and very relatable story about friendship, betrayal and the fight for survival. This is fantastic original, big budget British drama, shot in a stunning setting and has real potential for a returning series.

The BBC has uploaded preview clips for next week's final episode of Banished.

C21 shared their latest worldwide hot properties playliest, and Banished is included.

C21′s latest Hot Properties Playlist gathers together the top 21 titles that were new and buzzworthy on networks around the world last month.

INITIAL TX: March 5

CHANNEL: BBC2 (UK)

PRODUCER: RSJ Films and See-Saw Films

DISTRIBUTOR: BBC Worldwide

THEY SAY: Period drama set in the first penal camp established by the British in Australia in 1788, following the relationships of fictionalised early settlers, criminals and soldiers.

WE SAY: Penned by the scribe behind Brookside, Cracker and The Accused, Banished has some trademark Jimmy McGovern social realism about it but also an exotic location, with the occasional sentimental sweeps of a costume drama.