Watch Series: Banished Released in (2015) - Season 1 produced by UK, The TV Series categorized in Drama, and content rating 1h with duration 60 min broadcasted as these networks BBC Two, BBC UKTV, BBC First, Streamed at Putlocker & directed by Jimmy McGovern, Jeffrey Walker, Daniel Percival. At its heart, Banished is a story of survival. Though it is set in the stark historical reality of the founding of the penal colony in Australia in 1788 after the arrival of the First Fleet, it is not the story of Australia and how it came to be. Rather, it is a tale of love, faith, justice and morality played out on an epic scale in a confined community where the stakes are literally life and death. - Season 1