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Burying Brian

2008 - 2008

Episode 1

2nd July 2008
Episode 1
Jodie Welch's life is turned upside down after she loudly and drunkenly declares to her friends in a bar that she wishes her husband, Brian, would drop dead - and then finds her wish granted shortly after getting home. In a panic, she realises that her husband's accidental death will now look anything but, so she enlists her friends' help to remove his body and bury it in an empty field, thus removing all evidence of his death.

Where was Gerri the day Brian died?

9th July 2008
Episode 2
Gerri helps Jodie 'sell' her husband's disappearance with Operation Cheating Bastard. But can Jodie live with the consequences? She's had to lie to her children, and Theresa has lied to her husband.

Where was Theresa the day Brian died?

16th July 2008
Episode 3
Jodie is struggling with her secret, Theresa is feeling the strain of lying to her husband, and Gerri is ready to snap. To make matters worse, Brian's mother Rhonda turns up on Jodie's doorstep.

Where was Brian the night he died?

23rd July 2008
Episode 4
Jodie tries to get on with her life, but it seems everyone else has other ideas, including Brian, whose secrets are starting to come to light. Their son Josh makes an inappropriate new friend - Brian's very young, very pregnant mistress, Kimberley. Plus, the four old friends finally have a major falling out and earthmovers are digging up the vacant lot next door.

Where was Denise the day Brian died?

30th July 2008
Episode 5
Jodie's friends have ditched her, leaving only Denise who is behaving strangely. When her plan to move Brian's body goes badly wrong, Jodie is faced with blackmail on one side and discovery on the other.

Episode 6

6th August 2008
Episode 6
While Jodie searches frantically for Denise, Theresa finds support from an unlikely source. Can Brian finally be laid to rest?
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Burying Brian is a New Zealand television series produced by Eyeworks Touchdown which premiered on Television New Zealand's TV ONE on 2 July 2008, and ran for 6 episodes. The series is about Jodie and her three female friends. At the beginning of the first episode, Jodie's husband Brian dies during a domestic dispute. Jodie believes that she may go to jail for his murder, but her friends convince her not to report the death, but instead to bury the body and make it appear that he has run off with another woman. Although the series was a ratings success, no further episodes were made after the first season.

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