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BBC Wordwide announced sales for Banished ahead of MIPTV in Cannes. 

Ahead of launching Banishedin Cannes, BBC Worldwide announces sales of the drama to Mexico (VEO), Poland (TVP1), Israel (Cellcom), Finland (YLE) and Croatia (HRT). Created by Emmy award winning writer, Jimmy McGovern (The Street, Cracker) the series isa compelling, character-led drama based on the lives of the inhabitants of the first penal colony in Sydney. Starring Russell Tovey, Julian Rhind-Tutt, MyAnna Buring and David Wenham, Banished debuted on BBC Two with a 17.6% share easily winning its time slot against all other competition in the UK and more than doubling BBC Two’s prime time average. The seven part series is the first local co-commission for BBC First in Australia.

A number of HQ stills for episodes 5, 6 and 7 of banished have been shared online by Far Far Away. Episode 5 airs on Thursday at 9pm on BBC2. Two preview clips (not featuring Joseph) have been shared on the Banished website.

If you missed tonight's episode of Banished, catch up via iPlayer. It was an incredible episode. 

The last 20 minutes of this episode is a cracking fable, full of brutal love and death, with the fierce dignity of convicts shipped to 18th-century Australia coming face to snarling face with their masters’ bogus authority. The final scene will leave you winded. Exactly what we hoped for from a Jimmy McGovern period drama, in contrast to the previous scenes, which feel merely like a stilted, perfunctory period drama, too glossy and gentle by half. Is it worth it? If you’ve come this far you’d probably say yes. Guardian

Don't miss tonight's episode of Banished - on BBC 2 at 9pm. Catch up with previous episodes on BBC iPlayer.

With James (Russell Tovey) vanished into the bush the attention of Jimmy McGovern’s claustrophobic saga about the first (very reluctant) European settlers focuses on Ewen Bremner’s vicar and his attempt to build a church, and Ross (Joseph Millson) getting his revenge on Kitty for spurning his advances. Or as the gallant Major puts it: “I will not be humiliated by a whore.”

TV Guide has shared a new photo of Joseph as Major Ross and a synopsis for episode 5 of banished, due to air on Thursday 2nd April. 

The bedraggled, starving convicts and power-crazed guards of the penal colony are all equal in the face of a common enemy: nature itself. This week that's made horribly clear when a hapless guard falls victim to an exotic predator in the bush, proving that nobody is safe in this unfamiliar terrain. Major Ross employs the services of the camp's scribe, Letters Molloy, to write a letter to the dead man’s parents informing them of his demise (with the facts rewritten to make the soldier into a glorious war hero, naturally). Meanwhile, an illicit game of cards has dramatic consequences for more than one, and Anne Meredith continues to secretly counsel the grieving Mary – but what might the convict's endgame be?