Ten is focusing on homegrown drama in a bid to win back Aussie audiences Anthony Hayes, Diana Glenn, Martin Henderson and Adrienne Pickering star in new Channel 10 series Secrets and Lies Source: Supplied Eurovision host Julia Zemiro Source: Supplied CHANNEL 10's banking on the success of homegrown drama to lure viewers back to the network with another new series heading into production. First it was Wonderland, starring Brooke Satchwell and Jessica Tovey, now Secrets and Lies, a thriller set in Brisbane, began filming this week. New Zealand actor Martin Henderson plays the lead role of Ben Gundelach, a man who discovers the body of a dead boy and finds himself the prime suspect in his murder. It's Henderson's first job back in Australia in 15 years after he relocated to the US and worked with Naomi Watts in The Ring and Cate Blanchett in Little Fish. He says it was the meatiness of the role which lured him back. ``It's fun to be finally back here," he says. ``I was chomping at the bit to get down here to do it. ``It's nice emotional stuff you can really get into and it's really well written. All the characters are really well-formed, very relatable and regular people. Also starring in the drama is Adrienne Pickering (The Reef), Anthony Hayes (Devil's Dust), Diana Glenn (Jack Irish: Black Tide), Ben Lawson, Damon Gameau and Philippa Coulthard. BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning production company Hoodlum is behind the series. Henderson said the Brisbane location was refreshing. ``It is really nice, a tropical version of where I grew up in New Zealand," he says. ``I am hoping to get some time to pop down to Sydney while I am here and also over to see some family back home as well. Henderson's last Australian drama was Big Sky in 1997 opposite Gary Sweet, another Ten production. Zemiro has a Euro tipple EUROVISION song contest presenter Julia Zemiro says she and co-host Sam Pang know how to enjoy a drink _ responsibly. The pair, who are fronting the Australian coverage of the final on SBS ONE tonight, managed to break the no-alcohol rule when they were working on the competition in Azerbaijan, and smuggled in a bottle of champagne. ``Sam and I are responsible," Zemiro says. ``Very famously, about 15 years ago, SBS sent a guy... who did it and he was pissed on camera and lost his job. ``We just thought if you can't have a drink at Eurovision, where can you? In Moscow the whole arena was dry and you couldn't get a drink in the audience. It was bizarre. In Norway and Germany you could. Everywhere else it was fine. The RocKwiz host, who has been in Malmo in Sweden for the competition, also realised a childhood dream when she met supergroup ABBA. ``My first concert when I was 10 years old was ABBA in 1977," Zemiro says. ``I have always loved them and for us to get them was great. We went to the opening of their museum in Stockholm. It was a 10-year-old girl's dream come true. This is the 30th year SBS ONE has broadcast the competition and Zemiro has been hosting with Pang for five years. She says the organisers were so delighted with Australia's interest in the competition they asked the co-hosts to make a short film. ``We made a promo on the Opera House steps and on Bondi Beach, doing fun things and explaining why Australia loves Eurovision," she says. ``One hundred and twenty million people are watching. I told my relatives in France it will be in English so you won't be able to understand it but it will be great. Hills eyeing domination HE has UK audiences on side and Australia is loving his latest chat show, but Adam Hills says he won't be happy until he gains world domination. ``I want a show that is on air in Australia, America and the UK at the same time," the comedian says. ``A few years ago I was in LA having a meeting and they said, `What do you want to do now?' and I said, `I want more, I want global domination'." Hosting Adam Hills Tonight on ABC1 on Wednesdays, the comedian, who attracted 800,000 viewers to last week's show, says he came close to his aim last year when The Last Leg, his Paralympics-based skit show, was showing here and in the UK at the same time. ``I thought I'm getting closer," he says. ``Give it five more years." But Hills admits he could struggle to fulfill his ambitions because of time constraints. ``It already looks like I am booked up until the end of November, in fact probably until the end of the year," he says. ``Next year, if The Last Leg goes well, we could be looking at August 2014. ``I said to Channel Four (the UK network airing his show), `I will be horrifically jetlagged for that first show', and they said, `Good we will make a big deal of it and say you don't know where you are and what time zone you are on'. I said, `If you are up for it, I am'. Hills already has British Prime Minister David Cameron as a fan of his wit and he is hoping to get some Australian politicians on board. ``We have asked (Prime Minister) Julia Gillard and (Opposition Leader) Tony Abbott," he says. ``I think Julia's people have said yes. ``We need to make them feel like they aren't being ridiculed. It's tense times, no-one wants to put a foot out of place. They need to go on TV and push their case but I think they are a little bit scared. Spin-off is a step Closer MARY McDonnell may be hard as nails as Captain Sharon Raydor in The Closer but she says she was anything but confident when offered a spin-off show, Major Crimes, starting Monday night on Channel 9. The actress says she thought she may have made a big mistake with her solo outing. ``There were moments when I went, `What have I done? What am I doing? Can this happen? Is this going to work?'  In Major Crimes, Raydor takes charge after Brenda Leigh Johnson (Kyra Sedgwick) leaves. Unlike her predecessor, she wants to take a more team-orientated leadership approach with her leadership style but is up against her previous history of investigating the staff now under her. McDonnell, who was nominated for an Emmy for The Closer, says the support of the cast and writers helped her find faith. ``It was a collective commitment," she says. Beauty And The Beast Wednesday, 9.30pm, Ten AUSTRALIAN actor Jay Ryan stars in this reimagining of the classic tale as Vincent _ a soldier who, as a result of a military experiment gone wrong, has now mutated into a beast. Ryan, who stars opposite Kristin Kreuk (Smallville) who plays Catherine Chandler in the show, says he had to spend up to four hours a day in make-up. ``It's quite a big prosthetic consisting of about eight pieces so it goes halfway down the torso and right up the neck and covers the full face. So as the series goes along more and more of the beast is revealed. We don't show our goodies up front. Home is away HOME and Away may be the breeding ground for Aussies making it big in the US but you won't see any former cast mates back on the Seven network in their new US roles. Lincoln Lewis's show Westside is expected to air on Channel Nine. Meanwhile Luke Mitchell is going to debut in his American drama, Tomorrow People, on Channel Ten. They are just two of the Aussie actors whose shows have been optioned by networks for the next TV season. Rebel Wilson's comedy series will also air on Nine. Call The Midwife Tonight, 8.30pm, ABC1 IT'S the finale of this much-loved show, which was hit by The Voice but still managed to pull in a respectable number of viewers. Tonight sees Chummy (Miranda Hart) about to give birth, as well as a budding romance begin between Jenny (Jessica Raine) and Alec (Leo Staar). Hart, who also wrote the series, says all that baby handling hasn't made her broody. ``The birth scenes might get everyone at home crying but they're so technical to film that most of the time the only thing I'm thinking is, `please don't let me drop the baby'. Sister Evangelina (Pam Ferris) gets the line of the episode: ``It's a baby, not a lubricated penguin. They don't come sliding out to order.