- New drama: Return to Paradise, Ladies in Black, House of Gods.
- Shaun Micallef returns to ABC.
- New comedies: Austin, White Fever.
- Returning: Fisk, The Newsreader, Total Control, Troppo.
- Factual: Maggie Beer’s Big Mission, Miriam Margolyes Impossibly Australian, Tony Armstrong’s Extra-Ordinary Things, new doco on Coalition govt.
- Plus Grand Designs Australia, extra Gruen, Spicks & Specks, Muster Dogs, Hard Quiz, The Weekly and Bluey.
Shaun Micallef is returning to ABC with a brand new untitled Entertainment present, there’s a brand new Aussie-based spin-off of Death in Paradise referred to as Return to Paradise and a brand new tell-all documentary on the previous Coalition governments below PMs Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison.
ABC unveiled its 2024 showcase highlights at an occasion at its Ultimo headquarters this afternoon, hosted by Chief Content Officer Chris Oliver-Taylor and Head of Screen Content Jennifer Collins.
Other new dramas is a TV adaptation of interval retail drama Ladies in Black, Iraqi-Auatralian drama House of Gods plus extra of The Newsreader, Total Control and Troppo.
In Comedy, Kitty Flanagan returns for extra Fisk, plus new comedy Austin that includes Love on the Spectrum‘s Michael Theo in an performing position and Korean-Aussie comedy White Fever.
Chris Oliver-Taylor advised TV Tonight, “In factual we’ve received Maggie Beer, Miriam Margolyes, Tony Armstrong, three actually vital docuseries coming in. We’ve additionally received Grand Designs Australia in unique episodes for the primary time and Grand Designs Transformations, which is unique format spun off designs by Fremantle, and extra Restorations. There’s many extra issues in there as effectively. So I feel that factual slate is implausible.”
Also returning are Stuff the British Stole, Better Date than Never, Spicks & Specks, Muster Dogs, Gruen, The Weekly, Take 5 with Zan Rowe, Hard Quiz -and there’s a 28 minute Bluey particular in 2024.
ABC is but to substantiate its News slate for 2024 however TV Tonight understands there are not any modifications to its schedule.
Further feedback from Chris Oliver-Taylor are under.
New:
Return to Paradise
An unique home-grown spin-off of the worldwide hit Death in Paradise, Return to Paradise combines the DNA of the unique international smash hit homicide thriller collection, with a brand new, distinctive take, all set towards the spectacular backdrop of the Australian coastal panorama. Australian ex-pat Mackenzie Clarke is the seemingly golden woman of the London Metropolitan police pressure – with an intuitive method to detective work, she has constructed a status for having the ability to crack probably the most inconceivable of circumstances. However, she’s immediately compelled to up sticks and transfer again to her childhood house of Dolphin Cove, a ravishing, coastal paradise and Mackenzie’s worst nightmare. Having escaped her hometown on the earliest alternative six years in the past, Mackenzie vowed she’d by no means come again, leaving lots of unfinished enterprise and unanswered questions. On her return, she’s nonetheless no fan of the city, and the individuals of Dolphin Cove are actually no followers of hers. In truth everybody would like her to not be there, together with Mackenzie herself. But when a homicide takes place in Dolphin Cove, Mack can’t assist however put her impressed detective brilliance to good use and determines, regardless of her reservations, that she must make the perfect of it, together with tying up the free ends with the person she left on the altar six years in the past. Created and Executive Produced by Peter Mattessi, James Hall and Robert Thorogood, Return to Paradise includes a crack Australian writing crew led by Mattessi alongside Elizabeth Coleman, Alexandra Collier and Kodie Bedford. A BBC Studios Productions Australia and Red Planet Pictures manufacturing for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Executive Producers for BBC Studios Productions Australia are Kylie Washington and Warren Clarke, for Red Planet Pictures Belinda Campbell and Tim Key, and for ABC Commissioning Editor Brett Sleigh. ABC Head of Scripted Rachel Okine.
Ladies in Black
Following on from the movie of the identical title and drawing inspiration from the much-loved 1993 novel, Ladies In Black sees the beloved girls from Goodes Department Store fling open their store doorways to the fabulous 60’s. The heartwarming six-part drama collection takes place in 1961, six months after the occasions of the unique story, the place amidst this backdrop of main societal shifts, the ladies embracing extra freedom and independence are compelled to confront private selections and challenges which forged shadows over their as soon as cherished desires. A Bunya Entertainment manufacturing. Major manufacturing funding from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Screen Australia. Financed with help from the South Australian Film Corporation and Screen NSW. Producers Sophia Zachariou, Angela Littlejohn, Greer Simpkin, David Jowsey. ABC Commissioning Editor Louise Smith. ABC Head of Scripted Rachel Okine. International Sales by ABC Commercial.
COT: “It’s bloody superb, primarily based on the movie and the much-loved 1993 novel. It’s set in 1961 with Debi Mazar, Jessic de Gouw, Miranda Otto within the forged. It appears to be like epic and great, shot in South Australia. I feel it’s gonna be good…. I actually need all our dramas to be 6 (episodes). If it really works, you would possibly get away with 8. We’re discovering 8 is just a little bit too lengthy, audiences are discovering different issues. So we predict 6 is our candy spot for drama in the meanwhile.”
House of Gods
It’s election day at The Messenger, a Shi’ite mosque within the bustling metropolis of western Sydney, Australia. In the working to take the mantle of head cleric is the charismatic and visionary Sheikh Mohammad and his key opponent is conservative hardliner Seyyed Shaaker. But when a controversial picture of Sheikh Mohammad goes public, his election bid is derailed. Nonetheless, in a shock victory, Sheikh Mohammad wins the vote 4-3. Unbeknownst to Sheikh Mohammad, his eldest son, Isa resorts to determined measures to make sure his father’s election. A story of religion, household, secrets and techniques and lies, House of Gods takes audiences behind the partitions of an imam’s household and the neighborhood he leads, exploring the non-public value of energy and ambition. A Matchbox Pictures manufacturing. Major manufacturing funding from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Screen Australia. Financed with help from Screen NSW. Produced by Bree-Anne Sykes. Executive produced by Blake Ayshford, Debbie Lee and Sheila Jayadev. ABC Commissioning Editor Brett Sleigh. ABC Head of Scripted Rachel Okine. International gross sales by NBCUniversal Global Distribution.
White Fever
Jane (Ra Chapman) is a cocky Korean-Australian adoptee with a love of bushy white guys – the hairier and whiter the higher. When her buddies name her out for having a white man fetish she units out to attempt to reprogram her libido, reignites a reference to childhood buddy, Yu Chang (Chris Pang) and stumbles into the method of discovering out who she actually is. From hens’ nights to nation weddings, moon crystals, “gotcha” days and adoptee dinners, it’s a Ok-Pop-infused, action-packed, wild journey stuffed with revelations, surprises and a big serving to of Asian popular culture. Created and written by Ra Chapman with writers Michele Lee, Clare Atkins and Harvey Zielinski. A Black Sheep Films, Orange Entertainment Co. and Unruly Productions collection. Major manufacturing funding from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Screen Australia. Financed with help from VicScreen. Producers Katherine Fry and Lisa Wang. Executive Producers Dan Lake, Kurt Royan, Ra Chapman and Rosie Lourde. ABC Commissioning Editors Louise Smith and Todd Abbott. Head of Scripted Rachel Okine. International Sales by ABC Commercial.
COT: “I feel it may very well be implausible. But let’s see. Korean-Australian -love it!”
Austin
When much-loved youngsters’s creator Julian Hartswood (Ben Miller, Bridgerton, Death in Paradise) inadvertently causes a social media storm, his profession and that of his illustrator spouse Ingrid (Sally Phillips, Veep, Bridget Jones’s Diary) seems to be over. That is till Austin (Michael Theo, Love on the Spectrum), the neurodivergent son that Julian by no means knew existed, turns up out of the blue. Could embracing this contemporary nuclear household be Julian’s route again from cancellation? Will Ingrid forgive him for being such a pompous shit? One factor is for sure: if Julian thinks Austin goes to be a push over, he’s in for a impolite awakening. A Northern Pictures manufacturing for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Major manufacturing funding from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in affiliation with Screen Australia, Screen Canberra and ITV Studios which additionally handles worldwide distribution. Post, digital and visible results help by Screen NSW.
COT: “It’s fabulous that Michael Theo has come from Love on the Spectrum to be starring in a comedy with Sally Phillips & Ben Miller. He’s taking part in a model of himself, as a neurodivergent son of Ben Miller.”
Shaun Micallef’s Unnamed Project
Shaun Micallef’s Unnamed Project will ship the whole lot its title guarantees – and extra. The ABC legend returns in 2024 in a model new present that’s certain to please taxpayers. “I can’t let you know an excessive amount of about what we’ll be doing” teased Micallef at a latest Senate Hearing. ’Suffice to say, it is not going to characteristic cooking, house renovations, marriage, singing, sport, RBT models, canines, wilderness survival, quiz questions, information clips, inventory footage, carrying masks, border safety, superb races, Lego, sitting on a panel or being marooned on an island in your underwear.” An ITV Studios Australia & Giant Baby manufacturing for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
COT: “It’s not Mad as Hell it’s a model new present. Shaun and his well-known buddies with great enjoyable and frivolity on set.”
Miriam Margolyes Impossibly Australian
Miriam Margolyes is off on a brand new journey — and this time it’s private. Miriam is returning house to Australia after nearly a yr abroad. But she’s not coming again the particular person she was. Miriam has had a coronary heart process – and it’s left her anxious concerning the future and her place in it. But she’s decided to get her mojo again, so on the best way house, she’ll be stopping at three locations she’s at all times needed to discover: Perth, Byron Bay and Broken Hill. Miriam hopes these iconic areas can be full of people that can train her what it means to embrace change and face the long run, regardless of the obstacles. In this journey of discovery, can Miriam uncover what she wants? Is Australia nonetheless a spot the place we are able to forge our personal futures? And can we, towards the chances, discover the acceptance and belonging all of us crave? Developed and Produced by Southern Pictures in affiliation with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the BBC and Screen NSW. Distributor: ABC Commercial. Executive Producer Laurie Critchley. ABC Commissioning Editor Julia Hanna. ABC Head of Factual Susie Jones. International gross sales: ABC Commercial.
Maggie Beer’s Big Mission
Spurred by the surprising findings of malnutrition from the Aged Care Royal Commission in 2021, Australian meals icon, Maggie Beer, leads an formidable social experiment to enhance the meals and eating room expertise at an aged care house. Over 4 months, Maggie and a crew of specialists will improve the menu, eating room, gardens and tradition to convey extra pleasure and wellbeing to the residents. Together they are going to overcome restricted meals budgets and work circulate challenges to ship a nutritious and attractive new menu in a residential aged care house in Perth, Western Australia. The foundation of all of the meals modifications will sit round Maggie’s mantra “Make Every Mouthful Count”. This can be 78-year-old Maggie’s most formidable venture thus far and the one she would be the proudest of – if the crew can pull it off – because it may present inspiration and a roadmap for a brand new mannequin of care in aged care throughout the nation. An Artemis Media manufacturing for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Major manufacturing funding from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Screen Australia in affiliation with Screenwest and Lotterywest. Series Director and Producer Laki Baker. Senior Producer Phillipa Hutchison. Executive Producer Celia Tait. ABC Commissioning Editor Julie Hanna. ABC Head of Factual Susie Jones. International Sales: ABC Commercial.
COT: “Maggie Beer’s Big Mission I’m fairly enthusiastic about. I feel going into previous peoples’ properties and meals and asking ‘What are we doing to our older Australians?’ is a very vital collection and Maggie’s completely positioned to go in there and attempt to shine an actual gentle on it out of the Royal Commission of 2021. It was not my fee, I inherited that, however I feel it’s a implausible fee. ”
Tony Armstrong’s Extra-Ordinary Things
In this five-part collection, Tony Armstrong unfolds his bike and goes on the street to be taught concerning the untold historical past of Australia. Meeting on a regular basis Aussies with odd issues that maintain extra-ordinary tales, he hears of pure disasters, of homelands far-off, of sports activities, music and protests. Tony’s on a mission to construct his very personal exhibition for the National Museum of Australia that tells a little-known historical past of our nation. Tony Armstrong’s Extra-Ordinary Things will see sentimental possessions positioned entrance and centre as we unravel a few of Australia’s most defining moments, one factor at a time. A Fremantle Australia manufacturing for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Major manufacturing funding from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Screen Australia. Executive Producer Sophie Meyrick. Director and Producer Hayden Guppy. Producer Ash Gibb. ABC Commissioning Editor Julie Hanna. ABC Head of Factual Susie Jones.
COT: “He’s discovering specific issues and speaking about them….sentimental possessions, all these sort of issues. It’s enjoyable in Tony’s personal great comedic, but additionally participating, model. You snort and cry.”
I Was Actually There
What if our historical past was advised by the individuals who have been truly there? What if this retelling got here with all its unvarnished, irreverent and infrequently contradictory humanity nonetheless intact? I Was Actually There, from the makers of You Can’t Ask That, will interview Australians who have been there when our most defining and memorable occasions occurred. What was it wish to witness the miraculous rescue on the Beaconsfield Mine? Or flee the raging waters of the Boxing Day tsunami? Or wag faculty to satisfy the Beatles of their prime? Through highly effective modern interviews with various and vibrant characters, the present will ask these Australians what they noticed, how they reacted and the way it modified them. While trying to the previous, the collection will mirror who we are actually and study why these moments nonetheless resonate. A Docker Media manufacturing for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Finance by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Screen NSW. Executive producer Kirk Docker. Producers Loni Cooper, Josh Schmidt and Jess Skinner. Created by Kirk Docker, Aaron Smith and Jon Casimir. ABC Commissioning Editor Julie Hanna. ABC Head of Factual Susie Jones. International gross sales: ABC Commercial.
Grand Designs Australia
Grand Designs Australia is all about ardour, innovation, threat and reward, and the extraordinary lengths individuals will go to construct their dream house. Host Anthony Burke charts the journeys of a few of our most imaginative and bold architectural trailblazers, as they push their funds and their households to the restrict of their quest to create spectacular properties. From one finish of Australia to the opposite, Anthony will meet and help owners as they embark on a rollercoaster journey of dedication, creativity, and endurance. This is Australian structure at its greatest. A Fremantle Australia manufacturing for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Supervising Executive Producer Brooke Bayvel. Executive Producer Michael Collett. ABC Commissioning Editor Jo Chichester. ABC Head of Factual Susie Jones. International Distribution: Fremantle Distribution.
Grand Designs Transformations
Hosted by Professor of Architecture Anthony Burke and introducing award-winning inside designer Yasmine Ghoniem, Grand Designs Transformations options fascinating tales of formidable owners who’re remodeling their property into the house of their desires… each in and out. From the crew behind Grand Designs Australia and Restoration Australia, this brand-new collection places Australia’s boldest and most impressed house renovators to the take a look at, stretching their expertise, funds and relationships within the quest to create their good house. Each episode showcases two distinctive tales and two beautiful house reveals: be it inside design, renovation, or a landscaping makeover. Throughout the collection, Anthony and Yasmine are alongside for the journey, offering perception, professional recommendation and the odd shoulder to cry on. A Fremantle Australia manufacturing for the ABC Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Supervising Executive Producer Brooke Bayvel. Executive Producer Michael Collett. Series Producer Chris Perry. ABC Commissioning Editor Jo Chichester. ABC Head of Factual Susie Jones. International Distribution: Fremantle Distribution.
This Is Going To Be Big
This Is Going To Be Big follows a bunch of youngsters, dwelling with disabilities and neurodiversity, as they put together for his or her first highschool musical concerning the lifetime of John Farnham. With help from heart-of-gold academics and devoted mother and father, that is an intimate statement of scholars who are sometimes ignored of the highlight. Filmed over 9 months, this tender and humourous coming of age documentary explores themes of resilience, friendship, belonging and self acceptance, and the ultimate efficiency celebrates love and creativity in equal measure. A Fremantle Australia and Truce Films manufacturing, produced in affiliation with Australian Broadcasting Corporation, principal growth and manufacturing funding from Screen Australia, developed and financed in affiliation with VIC Screen, financed in affiliation with Melbourne International Film Festival Premiere Fund and financed with help from Netflix and Abstar Productions. Director Thomas Charles Hyland. Executive Producer David Briegel-Jones. Executive Producers/Producers Josie Mason Campbell for Fremantle Australia, Jim Wright for Truce Films. Producers Catherine Bradbury. ABC Head of Factual Susie Jones. ABC Commissioning Editor Kalita Corrigan.
Australia’s Open
Through the lens of this distinctive fourteen-day tennis slam Australia’s Open unpacks the complicated journey Australia has navigated to its present standing on the worldwide stage. Examining the occasions which have shaken and formed it each on and off the courtroom the movie will reveal how the evolution of the occasion has mirrored Australia’s personal journey as a nation, from poor colonial cousin to a mature and assured world participant. A Good Thing Production. Financed by Screen Australia, Film Victoria and the Melbourne International Film Fund. Producers Charlotte Wheaton and Nick Batzias. Executive Producer Virginia Whitwell. ABC Executive Producer Rachel Robinson. ABC Commissioning Editor Jo Chichester.
Returning:
The Newsreader S3
We first met Dale Jennings (Sam Reid) and Helen Norville (Anna Torv) in 1986 when a fledgling Dale was determined to be a star newsreader, and Helen was combating to be taken significantly as a journalist… …now, in season three, Dale and Helen have lastly achieved each these lengthy held desires. Dale is News At Six’s ‘King of News’, and Helen’s fearless worldwide reporting has gained her nice acclaim… But when a cynical community transfer sees the 2 former lovers pitted in direct competitors, their kinship can be examined as by no means earlier than. Over the course of 1989, Helen and Dale will compete to cowl a cascade of historic occasions… from the Exxon Valdez oil spill, to the Tiananmen Square bloodbath, the boycotts of South Africa’s Apartheid, and the autumn of the Berlin Wall. A Werner Films Production for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Major manufacturing funding from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Screen Australia in affiliation with VicScreen. Created by Michael Lucas. Written by Michael Lucas, Christine Bartlett, Adrian Russell Wills and Niki Aken. Directed by Emma Freeman. Produced by Michael Lucas. Executive Producers Joanna Werner, Stuart Menzies and Emma Freeman. ABC Commissioning Editor Brett Sleigh. ABC Head of Scripted Rachel Okine. Worldwide distribution is managed by Entertainment One (eOne).
COT: “It’s a fairly fast turnaround on function. So they’ll be again on this time subsequent yr, possibly contact earlier. It’s again in 1989, a great deal of nice tales, it is going to be implausible from Werner Productions movie and the identical forged.”
Total Control S3
It’s been two years because the explosive occasions of the second season and outsider turned kingmaker, Alex Irving, is totally at house within the nation’s capital. But what she’s about to find will take a look at her like by no means earlier than. The assume tank run by Rachel Anderson’s reprobate advisor Nick Pearce – the one which made substantial donations to her election marketing campaign – was backed by non-public pursuits with a view to purchase political affect. Rachel stuffed up. And the corruption allegations may destroy them each. As Alex and Rachel battle to manage their political destinies, they are going to uncover the reality about who was behind the darkish cash. And why. Can Alex obtain the change she’s been combating for or will it value her the whole lot? The gripping last instalment of this acclaimed political drama is to not be missed. A Blackfella Films manufacturing. Major manufacturing funding from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Screen Australia. Financed with help from Screen NSW with Screen ACT and VicScreen. Producers Darren Dale and Erin Bretherton. Executive Producers Rachel Griffiths and Stuart Page. ABC Commissioning Editor Louise Smith. ABC Head of Scripted Rachel Okine. International Distributor is All3Media International.
Troppo S2
Six months on, and Ted (Thomas Jane) and Amanda (Nicole Chamoun) examine a weird native homicide and an unique drug ring, while Amanda tangles with an previous enemy and a brand new love, and Ted’s previous stalks him and his household to Crimson Lake – with lethal penalties. A Perpetual Entertainment and Beyond Entertainment (a Banijay firm) manufacturing in affiliation with Renegade Entertainment, with main manufacturing financing from AGC Television in affiliation with Screen Queensland, the collection can have its Australian premiere on ABC TV and ABC iview. Leonine Studios is dealing with worldwide distribution.
Fisk
Helen (Kitty Flanagan) is now a reputation companion at Gruber & Fisk which suggests new duties and pressures, largely attributable to Ray (Marty Sheargold) having different issues taking on his time. Things like his new (age acceptable) lady-love and her “trend profiling” enterprise. Meanwhile Roz (Julia Zemiro) has a midlife disaster, Viktor (Glenn Butcher) resigns as Roz’s assistant and George (Aaron Chen) jumps ship to work for Conch Mediation. On the house entrance, Helen has lastly moved out into a spot of her personal. But true to type she quickly will get her new neighbour offside. And in an ironic twist, Helen and Viktor develop into the stereotypical, over-emotional, irrational, bickering relations when Dad (John Gaden) decides to replace his will. An Origma 45 manufacturing for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation with help from VicScreen. Written by Kitty Flanagan and Penny Flanagan. Directed by Kitty Flanagan and Tom Peterson. Produced by Vincent Sheehan and Nicole Minchin. Executive Producer Greg Sitch. ABC Commissioning Editors Todd Abbott and Brett Sleigh. Head of Scripted Rachel Okine.
Spicks & Specks S11
Join Adam Hills, Myf Warhurst, Alan Brough and a slew of Australia’s greatest comedians and stars of the music trade, as they return for one more season of Australia’s hottest music quiz present. Also returning would be the music, humour, tales, and video games the present is thought for– together with the Secret Song. Spicks and Specks, there is no such thing as a substitute. Spicks and Specks is an ABC Production. ABC Head of Entertainment Rachel Millar.
Better Date Than Never S2
Following the endearing and common first collection, Better Date Than Never returns with extra tales of a various group of single love seekers as they take an enormous step in anybody’s life – into the relationship world. Looking for love this season can be some returning characters who’re persevering with their seek for that particular somebody, in addition to some new singles able to step into the relationship world. As their tales develop – connections can be made, hearts will break, love will blossom. A Northern Pictures manufacturing for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Series Director Mariel Thomas. Supervising Producer Jenni Wilks. Executive Producers Karina Holden and Cian O’Clery. ABC Commissioning Editor Stephen Oliver. ABC Head of Factual Susie Jones. International gross sales: NH Media Sales.
Stuff the British Stole S2
Hosted by Walkley award-winning journalist Marc Fennell (Mastermind, The School That Tried To End Racism, The Feed), Stuff The British Stole returns with a brand new eight-part season, taking viewers on a globe-trotting, emotional quest for reality amidst bitterly contested histories. The fascinating new season will provide an indepth exploration of recent exceptional treasures acquired by means of the years of the British Empire. Expect a spectacular vary of colonial bounty, priceless jewels, breathtaking antiquities and swashbuckling tales. An Australia-Canada co-production, co-produced by Wooden Horse, WildBear Entertainment and Cream Productions (Canada) for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and CBC. Major manufacturing funding from Screen Australia.Financed with help from the Canada Media Fund, Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit, Ontario Creates. Produced in affiliation with VicScreen. FremantleMedia will distribute the collection world-wide. Executive producers Richard Finlayson and Jude Troy (Wooden Horse), Alan Erson and Michael Tear (WildBear Entertainment) and David Brady and Kate Harrison (Cream Productions). Executive Producer, Creator, Writer and Host Marc Fennell. ABC Commissioning Editor Kalita Corrigan. ABC Head of Factual Susie Jones. CBC General Manager, Entertainment, Factual and Sports Sally Catto. CBC Executive Director of Unscripted Content Jennifer Dettman. CBC Senior Director, Documentary Sandra Kleinfeld. CBC Executive in Charge of Production, Unscripted Content Nic Meloney.
Muster Dogs S2
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation hit collection is again! Narrated by Lisa Millar, this new collection sees 5 loveable Australian Border Collie pups from the identical litter despatched to graziers round Australia to coach their pups to develop into working canines in simply 12 months. Under the watchful eye of professional trainers, the puppies and their new house owners will hit coaching milestones earlier than assembly for the final word working canine problem the place one can be topped Champion Muster Dog. This collection explores the distinctive bond graziers have with their canines and addresses points dealing with regional communities within the agricultural trade, together with the necessity to construct a workforce expert in coaching muster canines to interchange machines. An Ambience Entertainment manufacturing for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Production funding from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Screen Queensland and Screen NSW. Executive Producer Matthew Street. Producers Monica O’Brien and Michael Boughen. Co-producer John Unwin. ABC Executive Producer Rachel Robinson. ABC Commissioning Editor Jo Chichester. ABC Head of Factual Susie Jones. International Distributor: ABC Commercial. Narrator Lisa Millar.
Take 5 with Zan Rowe
Take 5 with Zan Rowe is again on ABC TV and ABC iview, following two critically acclaimed seasons. Music is reminiscence. Hearing a music can take you again to a spot, a sense, singular time in your life. It unlocks us and has the ability to reunite us. You can be taught so much about somebody from their mixtape. Join Zan Rowe as she asks extraordinary individuals to share the 5 songs that made them who they’re at this time. Come alongside for the journey, and let’s Take 5! Take 5 is Zan Rowe’s common award-winning Double J radio phase and podcast turned critically acclaimed tv collection. Across six episodes, famend figures in music and display be part of Zan to delve into a few of the most private moments of their lives. They share 5 songs which have soundtracked their journey by means of life and invite us to consider our personal. Take 5 is an ABC Production. Created, Hosted and Written by Zan Rowe. Executive Producer Nikita Agzarian. Series Producer Josh Schmidt. Director / DOP Aaron Smith ACS. Producers Zan Rowe, Phoebe Bennett and Tania Doumit.
Back Roads
Catalyst
Compass
Fresh Blood
Gardening Australia
Hard Quiz
Landline
Media Watch
Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Offsiders
The Weekly With Charlie Pickering
Gruen
That Pacific Sports Show
Restoration Australia
News & Current Affairs
Untitled ABC News Docuseries
In a landmark ABC News manufacturing, this forthcoming collection tells the story of politics, ambition and energy within the 9 years of Coalition authorities. Following within the custom of Labor in Power, The Howard Years and The Killing Season this three-part collection captures the pivotal moments within the management of Prime Ministers Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison – how they gained, used and finally misplaced energy. In their very own phrases, key gamers on this tumultuous interval of Australian political historical past inform all in riveting no holds barred interviews. An ABC News Production. Reporter/interviewer Mark Willacy. Series Producer Caitlin Shea. Executive Producer Morag Ramsay. Head of Investigative Journalism and Current Affairs Jo Puccini.
Arts
Creative Types with Virginia Trioli
Creative Types is a collection through which journalist and unabashed arts fanatic Virginia Trioli explores the essence of creativity with a few of Australia’s greatest inventive minds. Drawing from all artforms: performing, directing, writing, visible and performing arts, every episode will showcase inventive Australians on the peak of their abilities and inform the story of the triumphs and occasional disasters of their journey to the highest. Our friends can be prolific, influential and provoking. They can be ingenious creatives Virginia has a fascination with and desires to get to know. An ABC manufacturing. Executive Producer Jaya Balendra. Director Stamatia Maroupas. ABC Head Arts, Music and Events Kath Earle.
The Art Of
The Art of… is a refreshing new arts and tradition present, hosted by Namila Benson and her crew of excessive profile inventive buddies. Each episode, we go on inventive missions of epic proportions and take a look at to determine who we’re and the way we received right here. Every episode Namila and our visitor hosts will zero in on an thought they care deeply about. It is perhaps The Art of… Sex, The Art of… Resistance and even, The Art of… Hair! Namila and her fellow visitor presenters go on adventures exploring historic and modern music and artwork, chatting with up-and-coming artists and mega stars from Australia and across the globe who might help unpack, illuminate and re-imagine these concepts. As effectively as assembly excellent musicians, visible artists and creatives, the viewers additionally follows the journey of our hosts as they grapple with the theme of the episode, what it means to them and the influence it has on their day-to-day life. Each episode of The Art of… is private, sincere and actual. The present can even characteristic artwork historian slash TikTook juggernaut Mary McGillivray’s exploration of every episode’s theme by means of artwork historical past. The Art of…is an thrilling new collection that may enlighten, confront, thrill and encourage. An ABC Production. Series Producer Emma Watts. Executive Producer Zoe Norton Lodge. ABC Head Arts, Music and Events Kath Earle.
Kids:
Planet Lulin (previously FANG)
What child doesn’t love an alien comedy? Twelve-year-old Lulin resides her greatest undercover alien life within the small Aussie ‘burb of Bogger’s Marsh. That is, till her Astoradian powers kick in and begin creating chaos. All Lulin desires to do is win SCI-BOG, the varsity science Olympiad, however with extra-terrestrial power and intergalactic invaders monitoring her each sign, Year 6 simply grew to become a query of survival! Introducing exceptional new expertise Nina Gallas as Lulin O’Hara, supported bymultiple Gold Logie Award profitable actor Lisa McClune and Australian comic Zachary Ruane as you’ve by no means seen both of them earlier than. A Moody Street Kids and Princess Pictures manufacturing for ABC. Major manufacturing funding from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Screen Australia. Financed with help from VicScreen. International gross sales by ABC Commercial. Created by Melanie Sano. Producers Pennie Brown, Antje Kulpe. Directors Craig Irvin, Sarah Hickey, Nina Buxton. Executive Producers Gill Carr, Emma Fitzsimons. ABC Commissioning Editor Mary-Ellen Mullane. ABC Head of Children & Family Libbie Doherty.
Cool Stuff with Fizzy and Suds
Take a have a look at the world by means of Fizzy & and Suds’ eyes – two animated bubbles who like to discover the actual world from a pre-schooler’s perspective. They’re each passionate, curious, and at all times discover one thing concerning the world round them that captures their creativeness. These effervescent hosts will information younger viewers by means of a collection of matters, from trains and vans to ballet and dinosaurs. The collection celebrates the second in a baby’s life after they uncover and develop excessive intense pursuits. Each episode explores these pursuits, each new and acquainted, in a synapse-crackling manner that celebrates enquiry-led play. A Tilt Media and Entertainment Production for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Major manufacturing financing from ABC in affiliation with Screen NSW. International gross sales by ABC Commercial. Director Genevieve Clay-Smith. Producer Sam Griffin. Executive Producer Chris Hilton. ABC Commissioning Editor Mary-Ellen Mullane. ABC Head of Children & Family Libbie Doherty.
Tales from Outer Suburbia
Adapted from Shaun Tan’s multi-award-winning ebook “Tales From Outer Suburbia”, the TV adaption explores when ‘nearly thirteen-year-old’ Klara and her sixyear-old brother Pim transfer to Outer Suburbia with their newly single mom Lucy. The siblings’ summer season vacation turns right into a collection of sudden and surreal adventures. The household goes on a roller-coaster journey of emotion, encountering bizarre and miraculous phenomena as they adapt to their new actuality. Tales from Outer Suburbia is a Highly Spirited and Flying Bark Productions manufacturing for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Major manufacturing funding from Screen Australia and the Australian Children’s Television Foundation in affiliation with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Produced in New South Wales and Western Australia with Siamese and financed with help from Screenwest. International gross sales by the Australian Children’s Television Foundation. Adapted from Shaun Tan’s multi-award-winning ebook Tales From Outer Suburbia. Directed by Noel Cleary. Creative Director Shaun Tan. Producers Sophie Byrne and Alexia Gates -Foale. Executive Producers Barbara Stephen, Bernadette O’Mahony, Julia Adams and Francesca Hope. ABC Commissioning Editors Libbie Doherty and Jo Boag. ABC Head of Children & Family Libbie Doherty.
Bluey particular
Bluey, the largest little present on Earth, is getting even greater with The Sign, a 28-minute particular episode premiering on ABC Kids and ABC iview in 2024. ‘The Sign’ is an extra-long episode of the worldwide TV hit present, with a working time of 28 minutes. It is penned by Bluey creator and author, Joe Brumm, directed by Richard Jeffery, and produced by Ludo Studio. “We’re so excited to share {that a} 28-minute particular episode is coming in 2024. There’ll be numerous laughs, thrilling visitor voices, and positively a couple of tears. We’re so extremely happy with the superior crew behind the collection and we are able to’t look ahead to Australia and the world to look at this very particular Bluey episode with their household and buddies,” stated Ludo Studio. This true-blue Australian collection is created by creator / showrunner Joe Brumm, Emmy® awarding-winning government producers Charlie Aspinwall and Daley Pearson, producer Sam Moor and supervising director Richard Jeffery. The collection is government produced by Libbie Doherty, ABC Head of Children and Family, and Henrietta HurfordJones, Director of Children’s Content for BBC Studios. Bluey collection 3 is a Ludo Studio manufacturing for ABC Kids. Principal manufacturing funding from BBC Studios, in affiliation with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Screen Australia. Post Production, Digital and Visual Effects work undertaken in Queensland, Australia with funding from The Queensland Government by means of Screen Queensland and the Australian Government.
Ninganah Lullaby particular
Ninganah Lullaby was created on the lands of the Bundjalung and Gadigal individuals. The unique music was written and carried out by Troy Cassar-Daley and consists of Bundjalung and Gumbaynnggirr language. It is about on Gumbaynnggirr Country (his Nan’s / Mother’s Country). For Troy the music is about tenting as a child together with his cousins and being requested to calm down and fall asleep – which was at all times arduous to do. It’s about making an attempt to be quiet and nonetheless at evening time, despite the fact that you’re excited. Studio Gilay’s animation for Ninganah Lullaby weaves each human and spirit entities into the story of a younger boy (Djardi) who falls right into a barely surreal dream on a tenting journey. In his dream he snuggles up on the again of an enormous Squirrel Glider and soars above Country. Language, information and kinship are entwined with plant, animal, sky and waterways. In addition, we have a good time lesser identified (and endangered) animals round Bundjalung & Gumbaynnggir Country. The Goonge (Ghost) spirits are sleepy little dancers. Their choreography, a rhythmic hypnosis that washes sleepiness over the animals. Original Song Troy Cassar-Daley (Gumbaynggirr/Bundjalung). Creative Director Jake Duczynski. Producer James Hackett and Melissa Azizi. Production Company Studio Gilay (Gadigal land, Eora Nation) ABC Commissioning Editors Margaret Ross and Nicole Cheek. Location of lullaby Station Creek (Gumbaynggirr / Bundjalung Country).
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