The Luminaries (miniseries)

The Luminaries
Genre	Drama
Based on	The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
Written by	Eleanor Catton
Directed by	Claire McCarthy
Starring	Eve Hewson Eva Green Himesh Patel Ewen Leslie Marton Csokas Benedict Hardie Erik Thomson Richard Te Are
Composer	David Long
Country of origin	New Zealand United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	6 (list of episodes) Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox television with "list_episodes" parameter using self-link. See Infobox instructions and MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE.
Production
Executive producers	Claudia Bluemhuber Georgina Gordon-Smith Claire McCarthy Mona Qureshi Christian Vesper Timothy White
Producers	Lisa Chatfield Luke Robinson Judith Tyre
Production location	New Zealand
Running time	60 minutes
Production companies	Working Title Television Southern Light Films TVNZ Fremantle Silver Reel
Original release
Network	TVNZ 1 (NZ) BBC One (UK)
Release	17 May 2020 (2020-05-17)
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The Luminaries is a 2020 drama television miniseries written by Eleanor Catton (based on her 2013 novel The Luminaries) and directed by Claire McCarthy. The series is centred on a young adventurer named Anna Wetherell (Eve Hewson), who has travelled from the United Kingdom to start a new life in New Zealand during the 1860s West Coast gold rush.

In New Zealand The Luminaries premiered on TVNZ 1 on 17 May 2020 and then had its first broadcast in the UK on BBC One on 21 June 2020. The series has received mixed reviews from critics, though it went on to earn 14 nominations at the 2020 New Zealand Television Awards, winning 8 of them.