Australia S-Unit (season 3)

Australia S-Unit is a series developed by Daniel Isaac and James Burnell. The third season started releasing in January 2014 and will continue for five episodes, concluding in May. It is the confirmed final season of the series and will conclude the overall story arc of the show. Daniel Isaac has confirmed that the first episode will introduce the season's story arc and that the next three episodes will feature stand alone stories. Daniel confirmed however that the stand alone stories will also feature references and small continuations of the season's story arc, which will then be heavil focused on in the finale. Season Three saw James Burnell depart as series producer with Rhys Cropper taking over the role.

The story will continue on from where Season Two left off, with Derek in jail for Kale's crimes.

Cast
Other confirmed new cast members include; Alia McCormack, Jordon Lane, Ash Singh, Rajesh Singh, Brody Olsen, Natalie Haider and Kent Lee.

Episodes
Season Three will contain the traditional five episodes that run each series which will be released monthly. Daniel Isaac has confirmed that episode one will pick up from where the season two finale left off. He has also confirmed that three episodes of the season will feature stand alone stories.

Writing
Daniel Isaac has confirmed he will be writing all the episodes for the season as he did with Season Two. On 18 June 2013, it was announced that all scripts were complete and being reviewed by producer Rhys Cropper. Isaac has revealed that the scripts for the third season are longer than that of both the first and second; while the average script length for the second season was 25 pages, the average script length for the third season was 28 pages. On 21 June 2013, Isaac confirmed that the script for the finale is 35 pages in length, ten pages longer than the script for the second season finale.

Filming
Filming for season three began in April 2013 with the first episode. Isaac stated he planned for the first two episodes to to be finished by the beginning of July, and they were both completed by June. Isaac also announced that he allowed for the remaining episodes to have at least two months of filming, leading up to the end of the year.

Initial filming for the third episode of season three began on the 21 June 2013, with Daniel Isaac filming with the help of James Burnell.

In late July 2013, Isaac announced that a dispute with a cast member may have cause the season to be unfinished, forcing some of the episodes to be released as audios. However, this dispute was resolved, with initial filming of the disputed cast member was completed.

In early December 2013, Isaac announced that filming for the finale of Season 3 would not enter production until June/July 2014. However, in January 2014, he stated that filming was being pushed earlier and would be filmed in January.

Post-production
Like the second season, and most of the first, Isaac edited all of the episodes of the third season. Isaac reported that the first and second episodes, when they were in editing stages, ran at approximately 28 and 23 minutes, respectively, though not complete. He also stated that he planned for each episode to be a minimum of 30 minutes in length, a standard also used for the second season.

Production on the season was announced complete in late January. All episodes have been filmed and editing is currently under way.

Release
Season 3 will begin broadcast on 25 January 2014. It was originally due to be released on a bi-monthly basis, but when filming was pushed to a much earlier date, Isaac confirmed that the episodes will be released monthly instead.