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Back In Time For Dinner
One Australian family goes on an extraordinary time-travelling adventure to discover how the post-World War 2 revolution in the food we eat has transformed the way we live, the fabric of the nation and defined the roles of men and women over the past 60 years.
In each episode Annabel Crabb, will guide our modern day family through a different decade. Back In Time For Dinner offers a unique opportunity to tap into the social, economic, and political imperatives of our times.
The family’s own home is meticulously transformed back in time from the 50s all the way to present day and finally into the future. Following carefully researched recipes they’ll source, cook and eat the same meals as everyday Australian families in each era. The family will live through the highs, lows and challenges that shaped family life in the 20th century.
A Warner Bros. Australia production for the ABC.
Employable Me
It’s hard enough finding a job nowadays, but when you have a disability it can be almost impossible.
Employable Me follows people with neuro diverse conditions such as autism, OCD and Tourette Syndrome as they search for meaningful employment.
The series follows nine warm, funny and generously open participants as their job searches unfold. Each story is told from the characters own perspective and follows their determination. Neuro-psych testing by experts identifies their skills, reveals some astounding cognitive brilliance and helps deliver some truly surprising job outcomes.
A Northern Pictures production. Financed by Screen Australia and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation with financial support of the NSW Department of Family and Community Services and the assistance of Create NSW.
Everyone’s A Critic
Everyone’s A Critic opens the doors into some of the nation’s most prestigious art galleries. The Australian public are then invited in to deliver their opinions on works created by some of our most respected and iconic artists.
Regardless of their education or knowledge of art, the ‘critics’ are asked in each episode to comment, interpret, and respond to a collection of works. Subjects including Australian identity, race relations, love, family, gender and pop culture are explored through paintings, installations, sculptures and photography.
Everyone’s A Critic is candid, emotional, humorous and at times controversial. Part art history, part critique it captures a cultural response to what has and what is happening in our world.
Everyone’s got a story, everyone’s got an opinion, everyone’s a critic.
A Matchbox Pictures Production for the ABC.
General Monash and Me: Peter Greste on Australia’s Greatest ANZAC
Monash is a towering figure in Australia’s story of World War 1; he is celebrated as one of the great tacticians of the Great War with his innovative battle tactics helping to break the stalemate on the Western Front.
A raft of contemporary biographies builds on this mystique, but how accurate are their accounts of him as a commander of the AIF? Was he, as his critics claim, vain, impulsive, egotistical, and prone to exaggeration? Award winning journalist Peter Greste plays detective and military analyst, unearthing private letters, diary entries and army records from protagonists on both sides of the conflict to reveal a much richer and more detailed picture of Monash.
An Artemis Media Production in association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Screenwest, Lotterywest and The Department of Veterans’ Affairs.
Hawke, The Larrikin and the Leader
From the moment Bob Hawke blazed onto the national stage, he was the rock god of Australian politics. Never short on self-belief, he propelled himself head and shoulders above the crowd to become the most popular Prime Minister we’d ever had. But what kind of leader was Bob Hawke? And what are the lessons for today?
Now with unprecedented access to Bob Hawke and intimate first-time accounts from those who were by his side, this two-part political biography takes a revelatory look at the times and the leadership that made us who we are today. The result is a rollicking journey through some of the most tumultuous decades in Australia, made more timely by the 35th anniversary in March 2018 of Bob Hawke winning government, and the current crisis of confidence in Australian political life.
A Southern Pictures production with funding from Screen Australia and the ABC, in association with Create NSW.
Think Tank
Hosted by TV grandmaster Paul McDermott, Think Tank is an exciting new nightly quiz show. Each episode sees three contestants go head to head, pitting their general knowledge and their general luck against each other, drawing on the wisdom of eight relatively ordinary Australians with an extra-ordinary love of trivia and general knowledge.
But be warned…Our Think Tankers – like Australia itself – are made up of a diverse group of people plucked from all walks of life. They are there to help but sometimes they get it wrong.
An ITV Studios Australia production for the ABC.