RETURNING TITLES
Ask The Doctor, Season 2
This innovative factual series returns to deliver more of the latest in health and medical advice for all Australians. In the new season we’ll find out if we really can live to be 100, discover if pets are good for our health and if we can afford to eat the right food. Our inquisitive doctors are back and will put themselves and the public through life-changing experiments, they’ll bust medical myths and bring us the latest in health advice we should all know. Who knows maybe Granny really did know best.
Nothing will be off limits as we investigate and test the latest medical methods to explore and guide the health of our nation.
A WTFN production for the ABC.
Catalyst
Returning in 2018 to take you to the heart of the biggest science stories from Australia and around the world, each hour-long program will delve into the very latest science, meet the researchers at the cutting edge and show how scientific thinking is changing the lives of everyday people.
The series will explore how we can use maths to help us make better decisions and the ways robots are transforming farming across Australia; we’ll meet the intrepid explorers determined to go back to the Moon and discover why we should all make sleep a priority.
It’s a series that will astonish and inform in equal measure. An ABC production.
Compass
Compass returns in March 2018 with brand new episodes. Highlights include Pitch- Up, where Australian families have a chance to make a difference by donating to support grassroots charities; Sacred Space an immersive series featuring high profile Australians including Australia’s first female bishop Kaye Goldsworthy and musician and writer Eddie Ayres; The Street challenges Australian to find real meaning in their lives, and on Good Friday a Compass special Countdown To Calvary presented by Hugh Bonneville is a forensic investigation into the last week of Christ’s life.
An ABC production.
Gardening Australia
ABC’s most down-to-earth gardening program is blossoming in 2018 into a hour-long format that you can catch at the new time of 7.30pm Friday, kicking off on January 26th. Join host Costa Georgiadis and the team as they traverse this amazing country unearthing the best gardens and gardeners in the land.
A new duration, new time slot, new stories, new information from trusted and knowledgeable presenters and plenty of ideas to carry you into a flourishing new year.
An ABC production.
Hard Quiz, Season 3
After the huge success of season two,2 Hard Quiz is back in 2018 for a harder-than- ever third series.
Host and loveable grouch Tom Gleeson grills four self-declared experts on their own unique subjects as they battle each other, and the barbs, to become Hard Quiz Champion.
The contestants give as good as they get to take home the coveted Big Brass Mug™.
When it comes to entertainment, there’s no question Hard Quiz is the answer. A Thinkative TV production for the ABC.
Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery Season 6
Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery is back on the road.
In this ten part series, Julia takes much loved and well known personalities on a trip down memory lane creating unscripted moments, provoking reactions and reflecting dimensions of the guests along the way. Each intimate and revealing journey shows that our past, our present and our future are all there inside us, just waiting to come out, waiting to go for a walk.
Guests this series are: Germaine Greer, Louis Theroux, Rebecca Gibney, Nicky Winmar, Maggie Beer, Barrie Cassidy, Cate McGregor, Brian Cox, Raelene Boyle and Dave Faulkner.
A Cordell Jigsaw Zapruder production for the ABC.
Jack Irish Season 2
Jack (Guy Pearce) stumbles into the world of manipulative pharmaceutical companies, corrupt educational institutions aimed at international students and fatal clinical trials. The apparent suicide of a foreign student triggers a chain of events that will see Jack risking his life to uncover the truth.
An Easy Tiger production for ABC in association with Film Victoria.
Restoration Australia
Restoration Australia gets a makeover and returns for seven episodes in 2018 with new host Stuart Harrison at the helm. Harrison, an architect, and self-confessed history nerd is the co-founder and director of an award-winning architectural practice and an expert on existing building and adaptive heritage re-use projects.
Each episode, Harrison follows the trials and tribulations of a different group of Australians committed to the daunting task of restoring forgotten heritage gems into living homes. This season looks beyond the restoration of colonial and early Australian buildings to embrace significant homes from all periods of Australian history. From Iconic modernist masterpieces to Queenslanders, inner city gasworks and colonial churches, each of the ambitious projects in this fresh new series will inspire and surprise Australian audiences.
An ABC Production with Fremantle Media Australia.
The Checkout Season 6
The Checkout, ABC’s factual consumer affairs series, returns to our screens with new episodes which turn consumer TV on its head with its no-holds-barred, irreverent and entertaining approach to the subject at hand.
As in previous series, presenters will include Julian Morrow and Craig Reucassel from The Chaser team, Kirsten Drysdale, Zoe Norton Lodge, Ben Jenkins, Scott Abbot, Alex Lee, Andy Matthews and Kate Browne from CHOICE.
A co-production between the ABC, Cordell Jigsaw Zapruder and Giant Dwarf.
You Can’t Ask That, Season 3
You Can’t Ask That returns bolder, braver and blunter than ever. Asking misunderstood Australians the most outrageous, uncomfortable and shocking questions sourced from the public, the series holds a mirror to all corners of contemporary life and culture. The series confronts prejudice and discrimination, offering genuine insight into the lives of diverse Australians who live in judgement. Taking a seat and answering the questions in 2018 are: priests, former cult members, swingers, former reality tv stars, people with schizophrenia, sexual assault survivors, drag queens/kings and people with eating disorders.
This groundbreaking format was recently awarded the European Broadcast Union’s Rose d’Dor for Best Reality & Factual Entertainment Program with the series format enjoying immense success internationally, well on the way to becoming the ABC’s biggest original format hit.
With no subjects off limits the questions are confronting, the answers surprising. An ABC production.