Joe Tucker
Director
Austin (2024)
Season 1
A best-selling, but recently cancelled, children's author has a meltdown when approached by Austin, a neurodivergent 20-something claiming to be his son. He then realises that embracing the young man may be the path to redemption.
Released June 9, 2024
Episode 27 min
None+
4.0
S1E1 - I Think I'm Your Son
Within hours of best-selling author Julian Hartswood being cancelled for reposting a white supremacist, he discovers he has a neurodivergent son called "Austin".
June 9, 2024, midnight
5.0
S1E2 - My Luncheon With Austin
Austin invites Julian and Ingrid home to have lunch with his "embarrassing" family, while Ingrid contemplates some extra-marital wham wham.
June 16, 2024, midnight
5.0
S1E3 - The Bonding Process
On a bonding tour with Austin, Julian starts filming a documentary about "father and neurodivergent son quality time" to spring-clean his image. But Ingrid and Austin get wise to his Machiavellian ways.
June 23, 2024, midnight
4.5
S1E4 - Get It All On Camera
Julian's documentary capturing his growing relationship with Austin is now out in the open and Julian engages an award-winning filmmaker to finish the job. Is bringing Austin to London the perfect treat for him or for Julian?
June 30, 2024, midnight
5.5
S1E5 - Looking For Billie
Austin organises a bespoke celebrity bus tour while Julian contemplates hiring someone to "scrub" his image. Ingrid decides to expand her career, combining her illustrating career with writing.
July 7, 2024, midnight
1.0
S1E6 - Pulped Fiction
When Julian gets fired from his publisher and told his remaining books are to be pulped, Austin leads the charge to break into the warehouse to rescue whatever books are left.
July 14, 2024, midnight
2.0
S1E7 - A Rough Cut
Ingrid discovers a former passion while Austin and Julian prepare for the first screening of the documentary, entitled: The Greatest Man I Never Knew - that will (hopefully) rebrand Julian to the world.
July 21, 2024, midnight
1.0
S1E8 - Austin, We Have A Problem
Julian is concerned when Austin turns his phone off and leaves the house to have some time on his own. In a boutique gallery in outer London Ingrid prepares for an exhibition of her artwork.
July 28, 2024, midnight
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27 min/ep
436 min
June 9, 2024
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