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''Winners & Losers'' is an Australian television drama series first broadcast on the Seven Network on 22 March 2011. It was created by the producers of ''Packed to the Rafters'' and is aired in the show's former time slot. ''Winners & Losers'' focuses on the lives of four women living in Melbourne, after they win a large amount of money in the Oz Lotto. Seven renewed ''Winners & Losers'' for a second season in July 2011 and it began airing from 26 June 2012. Two months later, it was announced the series had been renewed for a third season. A fourth season was confirmed on 19 December 2013. A fifth season was confirmed on 3 December 2014. ==History== ''Winners & Losers'' was created by Bevan Lee. Lee wanted to create a drama focusing on females for a number of years before the programme's creation.〔 He also created ''Packed to the Rafters''.〔 While the former is focused on family relationships, ''Winners and Losers'' concentrates on friendships and is aimed at a younger demographic. Lee said it focuses on the "fun and drama of how we all carry the inner loser inside us, no matter how much life makes a winner of us."〔 Lee said the programme's genre is "charmedy" consisting of drama, comedy and charm.〔 The series revolves around the lives of four women: Jenny Gross (Melissa Bergland), Bec Gilbert (Zoe Tuckwell-Smith), Frances James (Virginia Gay) and Sophie Wong (Melanie Vallejo). The girls were "the losers" in high school. Ten years later, they realise they are really winners once they are reunited at their school reunion and afterwards, win the Oz Lotto. At the time of early production, the main actresses were required to spend time together off set to build believable chemistry between themselves. The show's producer Maryanne Carroll was partly responsible for creating the lives of the four main female characters.〔 She oversaw a "team of experts" who chose music for scenes, styled their homes and chose their clothing. The items placed in each home were designed to identify with the characters living there. A pilot episode for the programme was created and shown to a research group. Network Seven's then-head of drama, John Holmes, said the research produced the expectation of high ratings.〔 The series began airing on the Seven Network from 22 March 2011, four weeks earlier than originally planned.〔 The fourth season of ''Packed to the Rafters'' was put on hiatus to allow ''Winners & Losers'' to air in its timeslot. The move was part of a programming strategy, with the aim of attracting a high viewing figures. The first episode gained the highest ratings of the evening,〔 averaging at 1.7 million viewers.〔 The Seven Network decided to air the second and third episodes back to back, securing the highest ratings once again. The programme continued to fare well with ratings in the following weeks.〔 However the ratings for episode seven indicated that ''Winners and Losers'' had lost over four hundred thousand viewers. Though it was considered a ratings success and is among the twelve most watched programmes in Australia.〔 On 5 July 2011, Seven announced that it had renewed ''Winners & Losers'' for a second season in 2012. Filming for the new season began on 23 August 2011 and Lee said viewers would see big changes.〔 He told the ''Herald Sun's'' Colin Vickery, "We turn the girls' lives on their heads in a pretty major way in the final episode (of series one). That will give us a new launching pad for season two."〔 Filming on the second season was completed on 5 April 2012. The second season began airing from 26 June 2012. Seven renewed ''Winners & Losers'' for a third season on 7 August 2012. Production on the third series began in September and the actors began filming the following month.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=In production )〕 Seven's head of drama, Julie McGauran commented "2013 is going to be a landmark year for Channel Seven's drama department. Our drama slate is at full capacity with the return of ''Winners & Losers'' as well as ''Packed to the Rafters'', ''Home and Away'' and the new drama ''A Place to Call Home''."〔 The third season began airing from 9 July 2013. The show was renewed for a fourth season, with production beginning in early 2014. The show was renewed for a fifth season on 3 December 2014.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Winners & Losers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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