Actor Ryan Corr says the Nine Network's new series Love Child follows the lead of Puberty Blues by pushing the boundaries of commercial TV drama.
Love Child, set in 1969, is about a spirited housewife, Joan Miller, who gets swept up in the plight of five young women in an unwed mothers home attached to a hospital.
The series stars Jessica Marais as Miller, Jonathan LaPaglia as Dr Patrick McNaughton and Mandy McElhinney as matron Frances Bolton.
Corr plays Johnny Lowry, who went on the run after being drafted into the Vietnam War and is the father of the child of a married woman who has fled Brisbane.
He says the series is closer to what viewers might watch on a US cable TV channel and not something they'd expect to tune into on a commercial Australian network.
"Love Child is a real game changer," Corr told AAP from the set of the Russell Crowe movie, The Water Diviner at Worlds End, in South Australia.
"It's breaks the mould a little bit and takes a few more risks, just like the American cable networks are doing and are having so much success as a result.
"Puberty Blues has done it and now Love Child is having a go.
"(Commercial TV dramas) are delving into ideas and times that we haven't necessarily done before and Love Child is a really good example of that."
Love Child is one of several productions Corr has worked on since the kitchen sink drama Packed To Rafters ceased last year.
He appears in the ABC comedy series The Moody's, which has just started airing, and the horror sequel Wolf Creek 2.
Corr is currently working on The Water Diviner with Crowe, which wraps in March. He then has a BBC production in the offing and a theatre production opposite Rake star Richard Roxburgh.
The BBC production, which Corr is yet to sign off on, is about settlement in Australia and the transportation of convicts to Australia.
"One of the great things about this job is it can take you around all over the place which you wouldn't otherwise have," Corr says.
"When you can line up work in different mediums, theatre, TV and film, and go from role-to-role and they're all different, that's what makes being an actor very fulfilling."
