| Genre: | Reality |
| Creator: | Ben Alcott & Toby Yoshimura[1] |
| Director: | Ben Alcott, Max Bourke |
| Starring: | Nicola Johnson Luke Scott Monique Sheehan Annika Tyr-Egge Joey Crutch Lize Poole Jesse Morgan Alex Antonopolis Rob Wentworth Iona Frisbee (aka Twiby) Ruby Smith Courtney Bliss |
| Narrated: | Nicola Johnson |
| Theme Music Composer: | The Material |
| Opentheme: | "What Happens Next"[2] |
| Country: | Australia |
| Language: | English |
| Num Seasons: | 1 |
| Num Episodes: | 8 |
| Executive Producer: | Toby Yoshimura |
| Producer: | Jayne Parker |
| Location: | Freshwater, New South Wales |
| Cinematography: | Ben Alcott |
| Company: | Freehand Group |
| Channel: | MTV Australia |
Freshwater Blue is an Australian reality-drama series created by Toby Yoshimura and Ben Alcott for MTV Australia. The series follows the lives of twelve friends who have completed their secondary education and face the challenges of friendship and relationship issues as well as becoming young adults. The show is set in the Northern Beaches suburb Freshwater. The show's opening theme song, "What Happens Next", was written and performed by American band The Material.
Freshwater Blue was created by Toby Yoshimura who had previously worked as a producer for television network NBC. Yoshimura, who was trying to contrive a concept for a reality television show, acquired inspiration by a programme that was being developed in the United States, relating to Spring Break. It is also inspired by other MTV series from the US such as , The Hills . Yoshimura pondered what Australian teenagers did when they finished high school and after further research came across the annual Schoolies week held in the Gold Coast. After travelling to Australia and discovering that Schoolies wasn't as untamed as Spring Break he opted to create a real life drama of what happens after school stating,
The show for me was a diary of a girl and her friends as she stumbles through[...] the most important time of her life, right after school and in between real life[...] it's real life decisions with alcohol and bikinis.The programme was produced by production company, Freehand, and was broadcast online via the shows official website and social networking site Facebook.[3] The show first aired on the official website on 2 March 2010 with each episode running for eight-ten minutes. On 25 October 2010 it was announced by MTV Australia that they had picked up the series with Rebecca Batties from the network stating "After seeing a webisode[..] the MTV team and I instantly loved it. We knew intrinsically that if we added MTV’s trademark production values, we could take it to a wider Australian youth audience[...]"[4] There are no plans for a second season of this series.
The first season of Freshwater Blue premiered on 2 December 2010 and will consist of 8 episodes.[13]