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'I saw it with everyone else': Having your book turned into a TV show

ABC News Australia - Top Stories · 21 August 2026 at 4:30 am

Chris Hammer wrote the book Treasure & Dirt, but he had no idea how the TV series was going to end, and had to watch it himself.

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