Summary

Outrageous Fortune is a New Zealand television comedy/drama series, produced by South Pacific Pictures in 2005 and shown by TV3 on Tuesday nights. The show has currently finished airing its third season. The Nine Network in Australia previously screened Season 1 during the summer of 2006. In 2007, rival, Network Ten picked up the second season and began airing it on the 16 November 2007 at 10:30, however Channel Nine resumed screening the remaining unaired episodes from Season One during December 2007. It is currently being re-run on the Foxtel channel Arena from December 2007 through to 2008. As such, it is currently being seen on three Australian networks (Ten, Nine and Arena) The central plot is that a family of criminals decide to go straight after the father is jailed. Like the show itself, episodes take their names from Shakespeare quotations. The main characters each walk a fine line between right and wrong according to their respective values - the law, the criminal code of honour, loyalty to family, and respectability.