Traditionally if Aussie audiences went for a period drama it was a bodice-ripping BBC yarn like the recent Downton Abbey, but 2011 has been the year that has seen a pair of local historical dramas head from television’s outback to the mainstream. After three years mining the recent criminal past, Nine Network’s Underbelly series took a gamble and went right back to the 1920s for Underbelly: Razor the story of the razor gangs that terrorized Sydney during a bloody battle against two … [Read more...] about Blasts from the past