Foreign Exchange is an Australian fantastic's television programme broadcast by Southern Star during 2004. It starred Lynn Styles

Lynn Styles

Lynn Styles or Lynn Style is an Irish actress. She played the role of Hannah O'Flaherty in the television series Lynn Styles or Lynn Style is an [[Ireland|Irish]] actress. She played the role of Hannah O'Flaherty in the [[television]] series Lynn Styles or Lynn Style is an [[Ireland|Irish]] actress...

 as Hannah O'Flaherty, a feisty Irish girl, and Zachary Garred

Zachary Garred

Zachary Garred is an Australian actor. He played the role of Brett Miller in the television series Foreign Exchange. His height is 1.82 meters.Zac currently works at Pippi's at the point in Speers Point, NSW, Australia.-Filmography:-External links:...

 as Brett Miller, a sun-drenched Australian boy. The pair are brought together from opposite sides of the world, due to a transfer portal. The series of 26 episodes was created by the Australian John Rapsey and directed by Annie Murtagh-Monks and Gillian Reynolos.

Characters

• Brett Miller (Zachary Garred
  Zachary Garred
  Zachary Garred is an Australian actor. He played the role of Brett Miller in the television series Foreign Exchange. His height is 1.82 meters.Zac currently works at Pippi's at the point in Speers Point, NSW, Australia.-Filmography:-External links:...
  
  ): A young Australian surfer who finds a portal that takes him to Ireland, in the basement of a boarding school, O'Keeffe's College. He becomes the best friend of Hannah, and they never tell anyone about the portal. Originally an only child, his mother Jackie re-married to Craig and he now has a little sister Meredith. Also living in the home is Wayne, his big brother. In Ireland, Brett finds work as a janitor's assistant. Initially in love with Tara, over the course of the series, he realises that his true passion is Hannah.
• Hannah O'Flaherty (Lynn Styles
  Lynn Styles
  Lynn Styles or Lynn Style is an Irish actress. She played the role of Hannah O'Flaherty in the television series Lynn Styles or Lynn Style is an [[Ireland|Irish]] actress. She played the role of Hannah O'Flaherty in the [[television]] series Lynn Styles or Lynn Style is an [[Ireland|Irish]] actress...
  
  ): An Irish student at O'Keeffe's College, best friend of Brett. She boards at the school as a roommate with Tara. Hannah is smart and a close friend of Cormac, the local genius. The school's director, Miss Murphy (Barbara Griffin), is suspicious of her disappearances (when she goes to Australia). Hannah loves Brett's family and vice versa. In Australia everyone thinks she is a surfer.
• Cormac MacNamara (Robert Sheehan): One of the smartest students at O'Keeffe's College. He always has some new invention and is a close friend of Hannah.
• Tara Keegan (Danielle Fox-Clarke): Hannah's roommate, who never suspected the portal. She likes to appear popular, but has a good heart. Tara is interested in fashion, shopping, gossip, beauty treatments and money. Often she leaves school only to go to the shopping mall. Initially Brett is in love with her.
• Martin Staunton (Dan Colley): Son of the vice-director and advisor of O'Keeffe's College, boyfriend of Tara. His father is rich.
• Meredith Miller Payne (Chelsea Jones): Daughter of Jackie and Craig, little sister of Wayne and Brett. Meredith is a generous, kind, honest, intelligent girl and always gives her opinion. She likes Brett and Hannah a lot, and she thinks that they are an item, and also likes Wayne although he is often rude and loud. She loves to read.
• Wayne Payne (Joel Turner
  Joel Turner (actor)
  -Credits:* Streetsmartz as Stavros Papadopoulos* Foreign Exchange as Wayne Payne-References:* *...
  
  ): He is the big brother of Brett and Meredith. He likes fighting with Brett.
• Jackie Miller-Payne (Kirsty Hillhouse): Mother of Brett and stepmother of Meredith and Wayne. She is a great cook and runs the family restaurant.
• Craig Payne (Greg McNeill, credited as Gregory O'Neill): Husband of Jackie, father of Wayne and Meredith, stepfather of Brett. He tries to live with their three children of an organised manner.
• Seamus McCracken (Peter Dineen): Caretaker and janitor of the college and boss of Brett.
• Eilish Murphy (Barbara Griffin): Director of O'Keeffe's College. She suspects that Brett and Hannah keep a secret.
• Bernadette (Isobel Greene).
• Henry and Rachel (Gerard Curran and Anna Carroll).
• Micheal (jamie Brooks).

Synopsis

Foreign Exchange had two major sets, one in Ireland

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

, and the other in Perth, Western Australia

Perth, Western Australia

Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....

. Character Brett Miller and his family live underneath their restaurant, only to find a rock that opens a portal into the basement level of O'Keefes College, an Irish boarding school. (Which is in reality Castlehackett House, near Tuam

Tuam

Tuam is a town in County Galway, Ireland. The name is pronounced choo-um . It is situated west of the midlands of Ireland, and north of Galway city.-History:...

, Co. Galway) Here he unexpectedly bumps into Hannah O'Flaherty, a student from Galway, who is delighted to learn that when she to turns a similar rock on her side of the portal, she can escape the grey and winter of Ireland to the sun and summer of Australia. The show revolves around these two characters who are the only two to know and use the portal with the exception of Cormac MacNamara, who learns about the portal near the end of the season.