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Wentworth Premiered on SoHo on May 01, 2013

Fans of the iconic Prisoner series which pushed boundaries over three decades ago and still today boasts a loyal following worldwide, will remember Bea Smith as gutsy and fearless, ruling Wentworth Correctional Centre with an iron fist.

But who was Bea Smith before prison? How did a wife and mother from the suburbs become a top dog without rival?

Wentworth is a dynamic, often confronting, drama series that begins with Bea’s early days in prison. Set in the present day, it is a modern adaptation of Prisoner contemporising legendary characters and their stories for today’s audience. This ten-part series takes the viewer inside to an uncompromising environment exploring the politics of women in a world without men, and how such a threatening experience both challenges and often changes those confined and working behind the razor wire.

The audience will be introduced to Bea all over again and meet her allies and enemies in the form of inmates: Doreen Anderson, Liz Birdsworth and Franky Doyle, and there are new faces such as Jacs Holt, the ruthless matriarch of a crime family who now reigns over Wentworth.

Favourite officers will also return. Meg Jackson carries a shameful secret; Vera Bennett, the well-meaning officer who discovers everyone has a price; Erica Davidson, the crusading lawyer; Matthew Fletcher who believes in retribution rather than rehabilitation and Meg’s husband Will Jackson. whose past still haunts him.

Each episode explores an individual character’s backstory providing an insight to what makes them tick and the circumstances that led them to Wentworth. In doing so we discover the difference between an inmate and an officer is sometimes simply geography, because they’re all prisoners in surprisingly different ways.

Like the original Prisoner, Wentworth is, at its heart, a series about survival, a character drama featuring women living in a pressure cooker environment. Despite the rivalries and power struggles, this family of misfits and rebels are forced to forge unlikely friendships and allegiances if they want to survive their time inside.

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Believe it or not but I remember the original Cell Block H

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What a way to start with the other prisoner bargaining for a packet of fags and I suppose I shouldn't of been surprised what the girls do in their cells but how timed Bea Smith was when she first arrived was interesting as from the original she ruled the place, Franky getting Bea smuggling drugs in was interesting as she had no idea who she was meeting and then getting caught was sad, over all not a bad start with them now thinking she killed a guard

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As it was a flashback I'm assuming there is more to come that will explain why she's inside unless it's attempted murder but the way he kicked her I wouldn't blame her for trying to kill him

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Will putting the squeeze on the girls to find out the truth about who killed Meg was understandable but blackmailing Doreen into helping him was cruel

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Erica leaking the story to the papers was a sneaky way to get Vera's temporary job but I hope Vera gets her nickname and we find out why like she had in the original show

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I just watched the first episode of Prisoner Cell Block H and Vera was given her nickname from the start but I don't know why and Franky is a bit of a psych trashing the place when she can't have her own way but Bea is Queen Bea right from the outset

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I just goggled the new Governor Erica Davidson from the original show and she was in over 400 episodes

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Poor Debbie having to have a strip search because of the drug dog and all because one of her friends smoked a joint and to make things worse Bea having to hurt Franky so to protect her daughter

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What a sick woman getting the child to swallow drugs to smuggle into prison

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Erica was lucky she wasn't caught playing with herself while watching Franky making out

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You can understand why Bea attacked her husband when he threatened to hurt Debbie and as it's follows the original show but you have to feel sorry for Vera with her domineering mother

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I've watched the first 50 episodes of Prisoner: Cell Block H and as this is begins with Bea’s early days in prison most of the characters are the same but the biggest change has got to be Meg's death as it was her husband who was killed in the original

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Jacs brutal attack on Bea was diabolical but the way Franky got payback was awesome and using Debbie's visit as leverage to get Bea to talk was cruel

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When Bea finds out Jacs's son has got Debbie hooked on heroin I think she will kill her and that's probable how she becomes top dog and as Debbie died in the original it looks like it's following the same storyline

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What a double tragedy for Bea being told Debbie is dead and she can't go to her funeral but she played the part brilliantly and I cant believe they changed their minds only to change it back but suicide attempt was a surprise and looks like the season final is going to be great

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Bea going to the convener first was a surprise but provoking Jacs in the hope she would make the first move was great and framing Jacs for Meg's death was impressive but her dying was predictable

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