Wakefield is an eight-part Australian television drama series that premiered on ABC iview on 2 April 2021 and was shown on ABC TV in weekly episodes from Sunday 18 April.

[2] Wakefield is a psychological mystery revolving around the staff and patients who populate Ward C of a psychiatric hospital in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, centred on psychiatric nurse Nik.

[3] The eight-part series was filmed in 2020, at a number of locations in Australia: Sydney; the Blue Mountains; a New South Wales (NSW) northern rivers cane farm near Murwillumbah with Mt.

Wakefield is created by Kristen Dunphy, who is also the showrunner with Sam Meikle.

The series is written by Kristen Dunphy, Sam Meikle, Joan Sauers and Cathy Strickland.