Plot

Mercury is set in the fast paced, cut throat world of print journalism. It revolves around the day to day running of a quality weekly newspaper - The Sunday Mercury.

The Sunday Mercury is a weekly paper published in Melbourne that tends to upset the government in power (and the opposition) as it reports the news. Reporters scramble to get their story on page one, and zealously guard their "turf" while their editor is more interested in the final product and less in the bruised egos of his staff of the ire of the Victoria Prime Minister.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>

Starring Academy-Award winner Geoffrey Rush, Mercury is set in the cut throat world of print journalism, centering on the quality Sunday broadsheet-The Sunday Mercury. It's a newspaper as bold as a current affairs show, as elegant as a high fashion magazine; it's intelligent and reliable, racy and courageous, hard hitting and sensitive. It's as complex as the journalists who make it-an extraordinary tribe of self-ordained heroes, incurable gossips, and rampant egos-obsessed with one thing: Getting their stories in the paper. For these reporters, journalism isn't a job, it's a way of life.

Mercury is set in the fast paced, cut throat world of print journalism. It revolves around the day to day running of a quality weekly newspaper - The Sunday Mercury. About real people and real journalists in a large metropolitan city in the 90's, this series reveals the methods used by old time reporters to secure a scoop, and the learning curve of the cadets who strive to emulate them. Mercury enters the world of an extraordinary tribe of self-ordained heroes, incurable gossips and rampant egos, who are obsessed with the hunt for an exclusive and the filing of their stories by deadline.