‘There was a full five-metre croc’: Deadloch returns for season two – this time in the Northern Territory

The Emmy-nominated Australian crime comedy ventures to the Top End, where its creators found big characters, comic set-pieces and lots of crocs Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email It wasn’t long after touching down in the Northern Territory that the Deadloch co-creator Kate McCartney realised the show’s second season needed teeth. “I always had a pretty firm regard for crocodiles,” McCartney says. “But once I got up there and I saw one, I was like, ‘This is gonna become my entire personality.’” The season one finale of the Emmy-nominated series had already committed McCartney and her longtime collaborator Kate McLennan to swapping the southern gloom of Tasmania for the muggy heat of the territory. The location proved serendipitous: once the pair behind Get Krack!n and the Katering Show landed in Darwin, they found an abundance of big characters and comic set-pieces ripe for their next whodunnit. They also booked themselves into three croc tours in a single day. “It was too many croc tours,” McCartney says. “Having someone talk to you in those reflective sunglasses … they have this power, they’re part-entertainment, part-safety officer. The things t