BALLARAT has been put on the map with The Doctor Blake Mysteries set to air in the UK this month.
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The 10-part drama series, filmed in Ballarat and starring Craig McLachlan, will be go to air on BBC1 from next Monday.
The television drama will be the first Australian-made show to make it onto the British television station.
Producer George Adams said the fact that BBC1 had taken Blake after only one season was unique and unheard of.
"It is a great validation of not only Blake, but the rise in quality of Australian TV drama," he said.
In Australia, the highly successful series achieved a national average audience of 1.5 million viewers across its 10 weeks on air, with ABC audiences to be treated to another series of The Doctor Blake Mysteries in 2014.
The series is currently filming a further 10 episodes in Ballarat, with production due to wrap at the end of this year.
Set in the late 1950s, The Doctor Blake Mysteries sees Craig McLachlan star as the intriguing Dr Lucien Blake, Nadine Garner as housekeeper Jean Beazley, Cate Wolfe as the district nurse Mattie O'Brien and Joel Tobeck as the tenacious Chief Superintendent Matthew Lawson.
