FIVE BEDROOMS
COMEDY / DRAMA / ROMANTIC COMEDY
AUSTRALIA
2019-2023
FIVE BEDROOMS is an Australian comedy-drama television series, which first screened on Network 10. The eight part series premiered on 15 May 2019, at 8:40 pm. In the United States, the series started streaming on Peacock on April 15, 2020. In October 2019, the drama was renewed for a second season by 10 which was set premiere in 2020, however due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the second season was rescheduled to air in 2021 instead. In May 2021, the Australian broadcast of the series was announced to be moving from Network 10 to the 10 affiliated streaming service, Paramount+. Filming of the fourth season began in Melbourne in September 2022. FIVE BEDROOMS consists of 32 episodes.
STORY: Five Bedrooms tells the story of five people at different times of their lives. They bond after they find themselves seated together at the singles table at a wedding. After a few too many drinks, the solution to all of their problems seems to be buying a house together; a five bedroom house.
GAY COUPLE STORYLINE: This year may be different in what is usually a family centered occasion with Harry's Uncle Akshay Mama and his immediate family, Manju (Kumud Merani) has decided to extend the guest list to include Harry's (Roy Joseph) roommates, Marty (Dennis Coard) and most importantly for Harry, Xavier (Josh McKenzie), that is until Manju tells him that Xavier's invitation can only be as a friend and not a boyfriend. Harry has to decide what to do in the conflict between opening up to traditional Akshay Mama, the likelihood of he not only accepting Xavier as Harry's boyfriend but accepting Harry's homosexuality remote at best, against believing that for the first time in his life he is in love. An admission by Xavier may complicate matters even more.
Harry Sethi (Roy Joseph) & Xavier (Josh McKenzie)
ROY JOSEPH (2019-2023) ?, 1994, San Fernando, Trinidad & Tobago
JOSH MCKENZIE (2021) August 7, 1985, Auckland, Australia
SPECIAL: Roy Joseph born in Trinidad & Tobago moved to Israel and from Israel to Australia with family when he was six years old. “My parents are both from India, my mum is Iraqi / Indian, my dad is Indian, and they’re both Jewish. “I grew up Jewish with little bits of connection to being Indian here and there, really just in some of the food we ate. Culturally, I’m not Indian. Religiously, I grew up Jewish. So Indian is just a part of my ethnicity.”
AWARDS: 'Five Bedrooms" 7 nominations.
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