No,they finished filming season four in August it will premiere in UK/US on January 1 next year.
I’m sure I read that David Walliams and Friend was coming to the ABC perhaps for a Christmas special? Cannot find any info .
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###The Royal Variety Performance 2016
Sunday 25 December at 7.30PM
Comedian, actor and children’s author David Walliams hosts The Royal Variety Performance 2016 in the presence of Their Royal Highnesses, The Prince Of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall, from one of the most iconic and well-loved live venues in the UK, the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith.
David will introduce legendary performers Barry Gibb and Sting, superstars Gary Barlow and Robbie Williams, the award-winning Sheridan Smith and Emeli Sandé, plus this year’s magical Britain’s Got Talent winner Lance Corporal Richard Jones, and a number of sensational surprises.
The cast of The Beatles Cirque Du Soleil’s LOVE show will be flying in from Las Vegas for a special anniversary performance; there will also be sneak previews from the casts of Gershwin’s classic musical An American In Paris and Gary Barlow’s The Girls, both of which open in the West End early next year.
Diversity return to the stage where they first auditioned for Britain’s Got Talent and comedy talent includes Joe Lycett, Alan Davies and Rob Beckett.
More show-stopping numbers are provided by Amber Riley, star of the Tony award- winning musical Dreamgirls, One Republic, DNCE, ABC and McFly’s Tom Fletcher, who will be premiering his new book The Christmasaurus with an enchanting one off performance.
David said: “I’m very honoured and excited to be hosting the Royal Variety Performance. I was lucky enough to host back in 2012, so will be looking forward to another fabulous evening with huge talent”.
The event is staged in aid of the Royal Variety Charity (formerly the Entertainment Artistes’ Benevolent Fund), whose patron is Her Majesty, The Queen. The money raised from the show helps those people from the world of entertainment in need of care and assistance.
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###Week commencing 18 December
Sunday 18 December
7:40pm Joanna Lumley’s Japan
8:30pm Midsomer Murders: Habeas Corpus Rpt
10:00pm Call The Midwife: Christmas Special Rpt
11:15pm An Accidental Soldier
Monday 19 December
8:00pm Back Roads: Thursday Island
8:30pm Restoration Man: Sunday School, Harrogate
9:20pm Fukushima
ABC’s Mark Willacy revisits the people he met during his 5 years reporting on this century’s worst nuclear disaster. From the earthquake & subsequent tsunami to the ‘ghost towns’ of Ground Zero being reclaimed by nature.
10:20pm Silent Witness
Tuesday 20 December
8:00pm Simply Nigella Christmas Special
9:00pm Rick Stein: From Venice To Istanbul
10:00pm QI Christmas Special Rpt
10:35pm Silent Witness
Wednesday 21 December
8:00pm Hard Quiz Final
8:30pm Walliams And Friend Series Premiere
9:10pm QI Christmas Special Premiere Special
9:40pm Adam Hills: The Last Leg
10:25pm Ja’mie: Private School Girl
10:50pm Jonah From Tonga
Thursday 22 December
8:00pm TBA
8:30pm TBA
9:40pm Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries Rpt
10:35pm No Offence
11:25pm The 2015 Pub Quiz Rpt
Friday 23 December
8:00pm A Taste Of Landline
8:30pm Vera
10:00pm Hard Quiz
Saturday 24 December
7:30pm TBA
8:20pm Inspector George Gently Rpt
9:50pm Michael McIntyre’s Christmas Comedy Roadshow
###Week commencing 25 December
Sunday 25 December
7:20pm The Queen’s Christmas Message
7:30pm Royal Variety Performance 2016 Premiere Special
9:25pm The Queen At Ninety
10:55pm 20 Feet From Stardom
Monday 26 December
7:30pm Doctor Who: The Return of Doctor Mysterio Premiere Special
8:30pm Call The Midwife: Christmas Special Premiere
9:50pm The Agony Of Christmas
10:15pm Robbie Williams: One Night At The Palladium
Tuesday 27 December
7:30pm Big Ted’s Excellent Adventure: 50 Years Of Play School Rpt
8:30pm Simply Nigella
9:00pm Rick Stein: From Venice To Istanbul
10:00pm QI Christmas Special Rpt
10:35pm Silent Witness
Wednesday 28 December
7:30pm David Attenborough’s Great Barrier Reef: Builders Rpt
8:30pm Roald Dahl’s Esio Trot Rpt
10:00pm Adam Hills: The Last Leg Final
10:45pm Ja’mie: Private School Girl
11:10pm Jonah From Tonga
Thursday 29 December
7:30pm David Attenborough’s Great Barrier Reef: Visitors Rpt
8:30pm TBA
10:30pm No Offence
Friday 30 December
7:30pm David Attenborough’s Great Barrier Reef: Survival Rpt
8:30pm Vera: Ghost Position
10:00pm The Agony Of New Year’s Eve
Saturday 31 December
7:30pm The Yearly With Charlie Pickering
8:30pm New Year’s Eve: Family Spectacular
9:00pm New Year’s Eve: Family Fireworks
9:15pm New Year’s Eve
12:00am New Year’s Eve: Midnight Fireworks
12:15am rage: New Year’s Special
###Stephen Fry in Central America
From Tuesday 10 January 8:30pm
Episode One: Mexico
Stephen Fry explores Mexico travelling in his yellow American school bus. From cowboys and canyons larger than the Grand Canyon in Chihuahua, to donkey fiestas in abandoned silver mines. The great Aztec cities, their godlike salamander which can regrow any part of its body amaze, in Mexico City he takes part in a soap opera, and is moved to tears in a demonstration against the narco wars. Heading for the Pacific coast he is entranced by the migration of the Monarch butterfly and the courage of the Acapulco cliff divers.
###Would I Lie to You? At Christmas
From Thursday 22 December at 8:00pm
Rob Brydon is back in the host’s chair for a festive edition of the award-winning comedy panel show “Would I Lie to You?”. Rob is joined by the lightening-quick team captains, David Mitchell and Lee Mack.
###Week commencing 1 January
Sunday 1 January
7:30pm The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo Premiere Special
The 2016 Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo is a truly international event featuring acts & performers from around the world, marking Her Majesty the Queen’s 90th Birthday, performed in front of the majestic Edinburgh Castle.
9:00pm Midsomer Murders: The Incident At Cooper Hill
10:30pm Mademoiselle C
Monday 2 January
7:30pm 7.30 Return
8:00pm Back Roads: Katanning
8:30pm Four Corners Rpt
9:25pm Fake Or Fortune
10:25pm Silent Witness
Tuesday 3 January
8:30pm Simply Nigella Final
9:00pm Rick Stein: From Venice To Istanbul Final
9:30pm David Beckham: Into The Unknown
11:10pm Silent Witness
Wednesday 4 January
8:00pm QI: Kitchen Sink
8:30pm Stop Laughing This Is Serious: Faark, Faark
9:30pm TBA
10:30pm Ja’mie: Private School Girl
11:00pm Jonah From Tonga
Thursday 5 January
8:00pm Would I Lie To You?
8:30pm Grand Designs
9:20pm Restoration Man:
10:10pm No Offence
Friday 6 January
8:00pm A Taste Of Landline
8:30pm Vera
10:00pm Slow Train Through Africa with Griff Rhys Jones
10:50pm Adam Hills: The Last Leg
Saturday 7 January
7:30pm Doctor Thorne
8:20pm Grantchester
9:10pm Grantchester
10:00pm Inspector George Gently
##abc summer highlights
The festive fun kicks off with ABC iview’s Binge on the Best of Australian Comedy featuring some of Australia’s best comedians and actors in shows that will keep audiences laughing. These include (amongst many others) Josh Thomas’ Please Like Me (all 4 series), Luke McGregor and Celia Paquola’s loveable new comedy Rosehaven, Shaun Micallef’s unique political comedy The Ex-PM, side-splitting satirical kitchen comedy The Katering Show (both series) plus two new series Fancy Boy and Wham Bam Thank You Ma’am will premiere.
Wrapping up 2016, Charlie Pickering, Tom Gleeson and Kitty Flanagan dissect the year with their trademark caustic humour in The Yearly with Charlie Pickering. A range of Christmas specials will delight audiences including the convivial Steven Fry in the QI Christmas Special (his last ever!), the comic Would I Lie to You? Christmas Special, festive feasts in the Simply Nigella Christmas Special, Father Brown Christmas Special, Call the Midwife Christmas Special and on Christmas Day the star studded 2016 Royal Variety Performance with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. On Boxing Day, Dr Who fans will receive a belated present with Dr Who: The Return of Doctor Mysterio and The Power of The Daleks on ABC iview.
If you just want to escape it all, Robyn Davidson narrates a remarkable new Australian documentary looking at the story of camels first bought into the country for the Burke and Wills expedition in the 1860’s whose descendants continue to populate our deserts, in Running Wild: Australia’s Camels. And lovers of Australian stories will delight in the AACTA Award nominated coming of age film Girl Asleep based on the critically acclaimed play which premieres in December. Other premiere summer titles include the entertaining travel special Stephen Fry in Central America, the absolutely fabulous Joanna Lumley’s Japan, David Walliams first sketch show since Little Britain Walliams and Friends, and everyone’s favourite, Kevin McCloud, returns in a new four-part series of Grand Designs Living in the City / Wild / Suburbs / Country.
For the young at heart, ABC2 Sunday Best returns with a spotlight on the web with We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileak and new series Stupid Man, Smart Phone which asks “can you survive the most remote locations in the world using only your mobile phone?”. And you can dial up your Christmas cheer factor with Ricky Gervais Live and a special Christmas episode of Live at the Apollo. Music lovers will find a happy home on ABC2 from Christmas Day onwards. Tune in for the premiere of a new documentary Queen: From Rags to Rhapsody followed by an encore of Queen: Live at the Odeon. On Boxing Day we showcase the Rolling Stones with The Stones in Exile and Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones and an encore of the magical Crowded House: Live at Sydney Opera House.
Finally, not to be missed is the 2016 Family Fireworks and Midnight Fireworks. Broadcast live from Sydney, available for the first time this year in spectacular HD and live on ABC iview.
Full list of summer programs and TX dates for ABC, ABC2 and ABC iview
ABC
Would I Lie To You? New Series - Thursday 1 December at 8pm
Joanna Lumley’s Japan Series Premiere - Sunday 4 December at 7.40pm
Glenn Murcutt: Spirit of Place Premiere -Tuesday 6 December at 9.30pm
Girl Asleep Premiere - Sunday 11 December at 10pm
Running Wild: Australia’s Camels Premiere - Monday 12 December at 9.20pm
The Book Club’s Five of the Best Special - Tuesday 13 December at 9.30pm
The Yearly with Charlie Pickering Special - Wednesday 14 December at 8.30pm
Simply Nigella Christmas Special Premiere - Tuesday 20 December at 8pm
QI Christmas Special Premiere - Wednesday 21 December at 8.30pm
Wallams and Friends Premiere - Wednesday 21 December at 9.10pm
Would I Live To You? Christmas Special Premiere - Thursday 22 December at 8pm
Father Brown Christmas Special Premiere - Saturday 24 December at 7.30pm
2016 Royal Variety Performance Premiere - Sunday 25 December at 7.30pm
Dr Who: The Return of Doctor Mysterio (Christmas Special) - Monday 26 December at 7.30pm Premiere
Call The Midwife Christmas Special Premiere - Monday 26 December at 8.30pm
NEW YEAR’S EVE 2016 Exclusive - Saturday 31 December from 8.35pm
Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2016 Premiere - Sunday 1 January at 7.30pm
Grand Designs: Living In The… Specials Series Premiere - From Sunday 8 January at 7.40pm
Stephen Fry in Central America Series Premiere - Tuesday 10 January at 8.30pm
Australian of the Year 2017 Exclusive - Wednesday 25 January at 7.30pm
ABC2
All New Penn and Teller New Series - Saturday 3 December at 7.30pm
Stupid Man, Smart Phone New Series - Wednesday 7 December at 8.30pm
Candidate Games Special - Wednesday 7 December at 9.20pm
My Mania and Me Premiere - Wednesday 7 December at 9.50pm
Wham Bam Thank You Ma’am Series Premiere - Thursday 8 December at 9.30pm with all episodes available immediately on iview
Fancy Boy Series Premiere - Thursday 8 December at 10pm with all episodes available immediately on iview
Archer series 6 New Series - Tuesday 13 December at 10.10pm
Opening Shot: The End of the Line Premiere - Wednesday 14 December at 9.20pm
Mr Posh: Million Dollar Fraudster Premiere - Wednesday 14 December at 9.50pm
Queen: Rags to Rhapsody Premiere - Sunday 25 December at 8.30pm
Stones in Exile Special - Monday 26 December at 8.30pm
Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones Special - Monday 26 December at 9.30pm
Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man Special - Monday 26 December at 11pm
Joy Division Special - Tuesday 27 December at 11.05pm
Raw Nerve Short Films Premiere - from Monday 2 January to Friday from 10.30pm
Tattoo Disasters UK New Series - Tuesday 10 December at 8.30pm
How To Build A Human Special Premiere - Wednesday 18 January at 9.15pm
Red Dwarf New Series - Thursday 19 January at 9.40pm
Reggie Yates Inside the Billionaire’s Wardrobe Special - Monday 23 January at 9.30pm
ABC iview
BINGE ON THE BEST COMEDY SEASON From December 8th
• Rosehaven
• Please Like Me series 1 – 4
• Wham Bam Thank You Ma’am
• Fancy Boy
• The Ex -PM
• Sammy J and Randy in Ricketts Lane
• The Katering Show series 1 and 2
• Soul Mates series 1 and 2
• It’s a Date series 1 and 2
• ABC Comedy Showroom including Ronny Chieng International Student and The Letdown
OTHER ABC IVIEW TITLES
Goober Digital First - Monday 26 December
Lost in Pronounciation Digital First - Monday 26 December
Almost Midnight Digital First - Monday 26 December
Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks Series Premiere - Monday 26 December
My dad was whingeing about how I buggered the TV up and turned off closed captions (which I did not) a few days ago, and it looks like he’s not alone!
###Grand Designs Specials
From Sunday 8 January at 7:40pm
Living in the City - Sunday 8 January at 7:40pm
Kevin McCloud draws on 15 years of Grand Designs and the astonishing homes that have been filmed in this time to look at the challenges of self-building in the city. Kevin reveals which designs work best and why.
Living in the Wild - Sunday 15 January at 7:40pm
Kevin McCloud looks at the challenges of self-building in the UK’s most remote places, Where beautiful landscape often meets savage weather.
Living in Suburbia - Sunday 22 January at 7:40pm
Kevin McCloud looks at how self-builders in the UK suburbs are transforming this most maligned of residential environments.
###Fukushima
From Monday 19 December at 9.30pm
ABC Correspondent Mark Willacy was one of the first journalists on the scene after the double headed tsunami and nuclear disaster in 2011 and has reported on it extensively since.
Fukushima is a one hour ABC News special that follows on from his award-winning report on Foreign Correspondent earlier this year.
It’s like a postcard of rural Japan… lush forests, waterfalls and bubbling streams; quaint villages where pink cherry blossoms festoon the streets.
But there’s a grotesqueness here. Houses that rang with the sounds of life and laughter are being swallowed by weeds and vines; inside they are choked by cobwebs and dust.
This is the countryside of Fukushima. Five years after the nuclear meltdown dozens of ‘ghost towns’ surrounding the stricken nuclear plant remain full of radiation and are virtually empty of people.
In contrast, the stricken Fukushima plant itself is thronging with activity. About 6500 courageous workers toil to contain the radiation but, as former Japan Correspondent Mark Willacy reports, it could scarcely be said that they are winning.
Fukushima is an unmissable forensic investigation into this century’s worst nuclear disaster and a personal journey in which Willacy returns to visit the people he has met during his five years of reporting the issue.
###Week commencing 8 January
Sunday 8 January
7:40pm Grand Designs: Living In The City
Kevin McCloud draws on 15 years of Grand Designs and the astonishing homes that have been filmed in this time to look at the challenges of self-building in the city. Kevin reveals which designs work best and why
8:35pm Midsomer Murders: The Incident At Cooper Hill
10:05pm Rwanda & Juliet Premier Special
Monday 9 January
7:30pm 7.30
8:00pm Back Roads: Hermannsburg
8:30pm Four Corners Rpt
9:15pm Fake Or Fortune
10:20pm How To Stay Young: The Body
11:20pm Golf: PGA TOUR Highlights
Tuesday 10 January
8:00pm Griff’s Great Britain: South Downs
8:30 pm Stephen Fry In Central America: Mexico Series Premiere
9:15pm Joanna Lumley’s Trans-Siberian Adventure
10:05pm Redesign My Brain With Todd Sampson
Wednesday 11 January
8:00pm QI: Kitsch
8:30pm Stop Laughing This Is Serious: Look At Moi, Look At Moi
9:30pm Catherine Tate’s Nan
10:05pm Wham Bam Thank You Ma’am
10:35pm Ja’mie: Private School Girl
11:05pm Jonah From Tonga
Thursday 12 January
8:00pm Would I Lie To You?
8:30pm Grand Designs
9:20pm Restoration Man:
10:05pm No Offence
Friday 13 January
8:00pm A Taste Of Landline
8:30pm Vera
10:00pm Slow Train Through Africa with Griff Rhys Jones
10:50pm Adam Hills: The Last Leg
Saturday 14 January
7:30pm Doctor Thorne
8:20pm Sherlock: The Empty Hearse
9:50pm Foyle’s War: High Castle
11:20pm Gruen Planet
Walliams and Friend has more than 1 episode , is the ABC only airing it on the 21st ?
Only one episode scheduled so far.
As well as the changes to ABC HD, it appears that they’re now using a new CC icon at the start of programs:
In comparison, the old one:
As minor as this is, the question has to be asked: Could we possibly be looking at a hint of further things to come with the On-Air Presentation of the ABC’s main channel in 2017?
Afterall, we already know that ABC News & Local Radio will be getting a branding refresh next year and it is well worth remembering that over the last 10-15 years or so, the ABC has typically relaunched the general branding of it’s main TV channel approximately every three years or so. The current “#ourABC” branding will be three years old next July, so…
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Great to see the ABC supporting comedies.
###Call the Midwife - Season 5
From Wednesday 4 January at 8:30pm
The hugely successful series starring Jenny Agutter, Pam Ferris, Helen George, and Linda Bassett returns with more touching and compelling stories from the nurses and nuns of Nonnatus House.
Easter approaches, and for the nuns and midwives of Nonnatus House it’s as busy as ever as babies are born to myriad families across the borough.
One such delivery brings with it its own set of shocks, as Patsy (Emerald Fennel) helps experienced mother Rhoda Mullucks give birth to a baby with severe deformities, with no clear explanation. As the mother refuses to reject her new-born child, the father struggles to come to terms with the harsh realities of his daughter’s problems. Support and intervention from Sister Mary Cynthia (Bryony Hannah), Dr Turner (Stephen McGann) and Shelagh (Laura Main) proves invaluable as they try to rebuild this loving family.
Meanwhile, the new exercise craze has reached Poplar, led by Nonnatus’ very own Trixie (Helen George). As she begins teaching a keep-fit class, she’s surprised when the exercises lead to a medical emergency for one of her group. The experience leads her to realise that women sometimes lack a basic understanding of their own bodies, and she aims to rectify it, one patient at a time.
###Death in Paradise - Season 5
From Saturday 4 February at 7:30pm
With a new team firmly in place, DI Humphrey Goodman (Kris Marshall) is finally making himself at home on the beautiful island of Saint Marie. But he can’t help feeling that something’s missing from his life. When he decides buying a boat might be the plan, Dwayne (Danny John-Jules) correctly diagnoses a mid-life crisis – that the real root of Humphrey’s malaise is a lack of love life.
For the ever-analytical Humphrey, romance is just another puzzle to be pulled apart by the
power of logic. Confident there’s a formula to finding love, he enlists the help of Florence (Joséphine Jobert), only to discover the complexities of dating are more confusing than any case he’s tried to crack.
Humphrey’s deductive powers may not be much use on the singles scene but, back on the job, his considerable intellect and experience are tested to the full. From a model strangled straight after coming off the catwalk, to a poisoning in which Commissioner Patterson himself is implicated, these are some of Saint Marie’s most perplexing murders yet.