.svg)
Harrow is an ABC crime drama produced by Brisbane-based Hoodlum Entertainment. It follows Dr Daniel Harrow (Ioan Gruffudd), a brilliant, rule-bending Queensland forensic pathologist who will do whatever it takes to give the dead a voice. Filmed in Brisbane, the series ran for three seasons on ABC TV and ABC iview between 2018 and 2021, mixing gritty forensic mysteries with a dark sense of humour.
Alongside seasons two and three, the ABC and Hoodlum wanted a companion web series that would take audiences deeper into the real science behind each week's case. The Science of Harrow needed to be bite-sized for iView and YouTube, scientifically accurate and true to the show's darkly comic tone, turning topics like parasites, porphyria and nerve agents into content people would actually enjoy watching.
Fotomedia handled filming, animation and post-production across ten short episodes, released in 2019 and 2021. Darren Gilshenan reprised his role as the show's prickly senior pathologist, Dr Lyle Fairley, presenting each episode in character as he unpacked the real science behind the causes of death and mysteries in Harrow's cases, from infectious diseases and porphyria to forensic botany, auto-brewery syndrome and nerve agents. Our animation team built segments that flowed seamlessly out of the live-action footage, giving complex science clear visual context without losing the show's wit. The result was a criminally educational series that kept Harrow fans learning between episodes.
