Bump (Australian TV series)

Bump is an Australian comedy-drama television series created by Claudia Karvan and Kelsey Munro which premiered on Stan on 1 January 2021. Set in and around an inner city high school, the series centres around Oly, an ambitious and high-achieving teenage girl who has a surprise baby and the complications that ensue for two families. The ten-part first series was produced by Roadshow Rough Diamond.

Season 2 premiered on 26 December 2021 and season 3 premiered on 26 December 2022. A spin-off series set in the same universe, Year Of, was released on 9 June 2023. Season 4 of Bump went into production in July 2023 and was released on 26 December 2023.

Season 5 of Bump was announced on 12 March 2024. Bump has since become Stan Australia's longest running local drama.

Cast

 * Nathalie Morris as Olympia 'Oly' Chalmers-Davis
 * Carlos Sanson Jnr as Santiago 'Santi' Hernández
 * Claudia Karvan as Angie Davis
 * Angus Sampson as Dom Chalmers
 * Ricardo Scheihing Vásquez as Matías Hernández
 * Ava Cannon as Jacinda Hernández Chalmers-Davis
 * Safia Arain as Reema
 * Ioane Saula as Vince Ingram
 * Catalina Palma Godoy as Ángel
 * Paula García as Rosa Hernández
 * Peter Thurnwald as Lachie Koh
 * Roman Delo as Zac Russo
 * Sarah Meacham as Madison
 * Claudia de Giusti as Bernadita
 * Miguel Andrade as Alejandro
 * Ryan Johnson as Tim

Production
The series was co-created by Claudia Karvan and Kelsey Munro, who also co-wrote with a writing team of Jessica Tuckwell, Timothy Lee, Mithila Gupta and Steven Arriagada. Karvan produced along with John Edwards and Dan Edwards. Geoff Bennett, Gracie Otto and Leticia Cáceres directed the series.

In January 2021 the series was renewed for a second season. In July it was confirmed that production on season 2 was underway in Sydney and that a third season had also been confirmed. On 25 November 2021 a trailer for season 2 was released along with an announcement that the season was scheduled to be released on 26 December 2021.

A fourth season was commissioned in July 2023, with a fifth season being announced in March 2024.

The school scenes are filmed on and around Sydney Secondary College Blackwattle Bay Campus.

International broadcasts
On 18 June 2021, Canada's CBC premiered the first season of Bump on its CBC Gem streaming service, adding the second season on 29 July 2022. In the United Kingdom, the series began airing on BBC One on 20 October 2021, and also was made available on the BBC iPlayer streaming service. The second season debuted on 17 June 2022. The third season debuted in May 2023.

In March 2022, the series was picked by The CW in the United States; it premiered on 11 August 2022. The network however removed it from its schedule after broadcasting five episodes of the second season in September 2023.