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Melanie Munt Lisa as Lisa. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. This weird little town has the best surf he has ever seen. Filmed on the West Australian coast in the town of Albany.

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Straight to your inbox. Sign up to our newsletter using your email. Enter your email to sign up. You know, trying to fit in and feeling like you are always doing everything wrong. The series captures this admirably, with young actor Sean Keenan perfect as the straw-haired surf rat Lockie, out of his depth and paddling hard.

A lot of the cast and crew had to move to Albany - they had to bus in people for the crowd scenes. I thought the set would be pandemonium but I was really impressed. They were all six months older by the time they finished, which is a lot for a year-old. Screen adaptations of much-loved books can be painful for authors not to mention audiences but Winton says he was happy to let the TV folk take control. I wasn't going to hang around like a ghost at a funeral.

Trying to squeeze three books' worth of material into 26 episodes meant some narrative gymnastics - some "sticking new stuff in here and cutting out old stuff there," Winton says.

Winton is less thrilled with the timeslot - weekdays at 4pm. It's better than that. He says there is dire need for family TV - the kind of stuff everyone can watch together without the kids dying of embarrassment and the parents from boredom. In a sense, it's a shame that the network doesn't know what it's got.

Oh, well. As surfer and noted philosopher Lockie Leonard once put it: "Sometimes life's just one long whack in the goolies. TIM Winton is one of our most celebrated writers, a prolific and award-winning author of enviably luscious words packed together to create grand tales such as Dirt Music, Cloudstreet and The Riders.

But the thought of being too involved in making a TV adaptation of his works overwhelms him. I don't ask for script control either - I could have insisted on it, but what's the point? Well a production company has, adapting the Lockie Leonard trilogy of books which charts the uncomfortable adolescent years of a boy growing up in a remote coastal town in Western Australia.

They have been popular since the first release in and have featured in several stage productions. The series, set in Albany but called Angelus , brings the lively and thoughtful Lockie to life. It has a sense of direction which talks to, rather than at, those in their early teens. The story is loosely based on Winton's own experience when his policeman father was transferred to Albany for three years from It was a pretty mixed time as a teen, but by and large I was happy.

The episode series, starring Sean Keenan as Lockie, will be seen on Nine at 4pm three days a week, and Winton is impressed with it. I watched with old people, nine-year-olds, year-olds, and everyone engaged with it, so I was pretty happy. The series was filmed in Albany and Winton says memories and the feelings that went with them bubbled up.