How many episodes are in Ground Up?

Ground Up has 6 episodes in this listed season.

When does Ground Up premiere?

Ground Up premieres on 2026-06-07.

Is Ground Up a new series?

Ground Up is a new series (Season 1).

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Ground Up(2026)

Archived · ABC iview

7.5M6 eps

S01

ComedySports

ON AIR: JUN 7Season 1Archived listing

What to Expect

PremiereLens read

Ground Up is a mockumentary comedy set around the push to build a new AFL stadium in Tasmania, and the format fits the material perfectly. Talking-head interviews and observational footage let the bureaucratic chaos speak for itself, with deadpan delivery doing most of the heavy lifting.

The billion-dollar price tag is the fault line the whole thing runs along. Locals disagree, officials talk past each other, and civic ambition keeps colliding with practical reality in ways that are quietly absurd rather than broadly satirical. The comedy accumulates through collective incompetence and competing agendas, each episode adding another layer of institutional friction to a project that probably should have been simpler.

Best for

deadpan mockumentary, local politics comedy and Comedy

Story lane

Comedy and Sports

Commitment

Season 1 · 6 episodes

Where

ABC iview

Official Premise

Tasmania has finally been given the green light to field a team in the AFL - but there's a catch. The locals have to build a new stadium, and not everyone thinks the billion dollar spend is a good idea.

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Why this pick

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Why this pick

Ground Up’s observational humor about local projects colliding with incompetence fits The Chair Company’s workplace humiliation that spirals into paranoia. Expect documentary-style scenes of office indignity that keep escalating, with jokes landing beside genuine dread, darker and stranger than Ground Up’s community warmth.

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