The Killing Season is a 2015 Australian television three-part documentary series which analyses the events of the Rudd–Gillard government of 2007–2013, a turbulent period of Australian political history. Journalist Sarah Ferguson interviewed the Australian Labor Party decision-makers and strategists who engaged in internal conflict that brought down a government which had successfully countered the post-2008 global financial crisis.[1]
Episode | Original air date | Overnight viewers | Nightly rank | Consolidated viewers | Adjusted rank | Ref | |
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1 | Part One | June 9, 2015 | 986,000 | #5 | 1,179,000 | #2 | [2][3] |
2 | Part Two | June 16, 2015 | 968,000 | #7 | 1,130,000 | #3 | [4][5] |
3 | Part Three | June 23, 2015 | 979,000 | #6 | 1,121,000 | #5 | [6][7] |
The soundtrack accompanying the opening titles and credits is the version of Schubert's Piano Trio No. 2 used in Stanley Kubrick's 1975 film Barry Lyndon.[8]