Victorian upside for Underbelly
NINE Network executives, still choking on the banning of television crime drama Underbelly in Victoria, can only look on enviously as the tie-in book flies off the shelves there. Underbelly cannot be screened in Victoria because of a court ruling that it could influence a gangland murder trial. Yet the book Underbelly: The Gangland War, by crime reporting duo John Silvester and Andrew Rule, is available nationally and selling like hotcakes. One month after its mid-January release, it went into a third print run.