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800 Words

When Erik Thomson's wife dies, he makes a rash decision to move his kids away from Sydney to the town of Weld, New Zealand where he spent his youth.

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Recently widowed Sydney newspaper columnist George Turner (Erik Thomson) sets out to make a fresh start with his teenage children by moving to the tiny New Zealand town where he vacationed as a child. When the transition proves to be more difficult than he anticipated, George and his grieving family find themselves facing an uncertain future.

800 Words, Thursday at 8 p.m. on PBS 6.

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