Taurus Rising

Taurus Rising is an Australian <a href="/facts/Soap_opera/oddx9g1n">soap opera</a> produced by the <a href="/facts/Reg_Grundy_Organisation/KIU6Jb2n">Reg Grundy Organisation</a> for the <a href="/facts/Nine_Network/dhxzVt5Q">Nine Network</a> in 1982. Originally intended by the network to be a replacement for <a href="/facts/The_Sullivans/VdJWVjKQ">The Sullivans</a>, the series was one of a number of attempts to provide an Australian alternative to the glossy American supersoaps <a href="/facts/Dallas_(TV_series)/3wNXFeqX">Dallas</a> and <a href="/facts/Dynasty_(1981_TV_series)/PuQ29paf">Dynasty</a> and featured two wealthy <a href="/facts/Sydney/8TegRcwB">Sydney</a>-based feuding families, the Brents and the Drysdales. To this end, it represented something of a stylistic departure for Grundy's. Unlike most other Australian soap operas which were recorded on <a href="/facts/Videotape/fNekHd5Y">videotape</a>, Taurus Rising was shot entirely on film. The series began at 8.30pm time-slot in a two hour movie pilot and continued for a couple of weeks on Tuesday nights. Due to a decline in ratings it was delegated to Friday nights at 10pm by the time of the finale during 1982. Taurus Rising has never screened on Nine Network since the original screening.
Taurus Rising proved to be an expensive failure after it failed to win an audience and was cancelled after 21 episodes. The series did later prove popular in international markets and was subsequently sold to American cable television, marketed as a 21-part "<a href="/facts/Miniseries/J7KVThLr">miniseries</a>".

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