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Banished is a British drama television serial created by Jimmy McGovern. The seven-part serial first aired on 5 March 2015 on BBC Two and was inspired by events in the eighteenth century when Britain established a penal colony in Australia. Set in the first penal colony founded by the British in New South Wales, Australia, in the year 1788; in which the British convicts live alongside their Royal…