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8:30pm Thursday, September 16 on TV One

From the creators of Go Girls and Outrageous Fortune , new local series This Is Not My Life is an absorbing new mystery drama starring Charles Mesure, Tandi Wright, and Miriama McDowell.

A new television production company was created to make This Is Not Your Life, one that has a host of New Zealand film and television luminaries behind it.

GRST is a company headed up by series writers and creators Gavin Strawhan and Rachel Lang, and executive producers Steven O'Meagher and Tim White.

O'Meagher explains how the company came to be, "after the release of Out Of The Blue, Tim and I were looking to get into high end television, to do something that was different from what we'd seen before, coincidentally Gavin and Tim had lunch together and Gavin suggested there was a project he and Rachel had been working on for some time. So one thing lead to another."

9:15pm Thursday, September 2 on TV One

From the creators of Go Girls and Outrageous Fortune , new local series This Is Not My Life is an absorbing new mystery drama starring Charles Mesure, Tandi Wright, and Miriama McDowell.

This Is Not My Life originally started life as an idea for a teen series, but it soon took on a grown-up life of its own, evolving as its creators developed their world and characters.

Co-creator and writer Rachel Lang explains, "it's been a long process because it's a mystery series with unfolding clues. It's taken us quite a lot of hard work and brain power to kind of tease it out."

8:30pm Thursday, August 26 on TV One

From the creators of Go Girls and Outrageous Fortune , new local series This Is Not My Life (tonight on TV ONE at 8.30pm) is an absorbing new mystery drama starring Charles Mesure, Tandi Wright, and Miriama McDowell.

For well-known Kiwi actor Joel Tobeck, his role in TV ONE's new local drama series This Is Not My Life was all about community. Joel has a thriving career spanning New Zealand, Australia and the United States, and spends considerable time away from his Waikato home base.

"I'd been overseas for a long time working and any chance to work at home, to be closer to the family I'd take. I really thought the project was great - I believed in what they were doing. It's a great idea, great concept and I haven't really played a bad guy for a while so I was definitely drawn to it."

8:30pm Thursday, August 19 on TV One

Something completely different from the creators of Go Girls and Outrageous Fortune , new local series This Is Not My Life is an absorbing new mystery drama starring Charles Mesure, Tandi Wright, and Miriama McDowell.

Artist Tracey Collins has a unique look - with her trademark peaked hairstyle and funky clothes she is instantly recognisable. Collins' task on This Is Not My Life, as the production and costume designer, was to design and create a unique world which would be instantly recognisable as New Zealand, but markedly different from our existing Kiwi reality.

8:30pm Thursday, August 12 on TV One

Tandi Wright plays New Zealand's own desperate housewife in new local drama This Is Not My Life. Her character, Callie, is a woman who craves her husband's love and family stability; but instead finds herself living with a man who doesn't recognise her or their children.

"Callie's not just desperate, she's not just a housewife, she is both of those things. But she's so much more," says Wright. "For Callie, Alec (Charles Mesure) is the centre of her world. She wants to be loved, he is everything to her and she would do anything to please him and to protect her family. She's quite a tiger in that respect. Of course, she's concerned that he can't remember her. That's not good for anyone's self esteem - how could you really completely forget the love of your life?"

8:30pm Thursday, August 5 on TV One

Kiwi actor Miriama McDowell gave up a Northern Hemisphere summer and returned home to a soggy New Zealand winter for the chance to be in the new local mystery drama This Is Not My Life, tonight at 8.30pm on TV ONE.

McDowell is one of New Zealand's brightest rising stars, appearing in recent local feature films such as Dean Spanley and No.2, in which she played the flamboyant Hibiscus. In This Is Not My Life, McDowell plays femme fatale Jessica Wilmott, who intrigues Alec Ross (Charles Mesure), a man questioning the reality around him.

8:30pm Thursday, July 29 on TV One

From the creators of Go Girls and Outrageous Fortune, new local series This Is Not My Life is an absorbing new mystery drama starring Charles Mesure, Tandi Wright, and Miriama McDowell.

In the peaceful, leafy New Zealand suburb of Waimoana, a man wakes up in a lovely home, to his lovely wife and children. But he can't remember anything - not who he is, not having a wife and kids, not even his own name. The people around him call him Alec Ross, but he only has their word for it. Setting out to discover what's going on, he stumbles on the truth - this is not his life and he may not get out alive. This is TV ONE's new local drama, This Is Not My Life, starting tonight at 8.30pm.