Discussion of ABC’s 2025 slate of programming.
ABC Upfronts are Thursday 21 November.
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Absent from upfronts:
- Monday Night Experts
- Question Everything
- Fisk
- Ladies in Black
- House of Gods
- White Fever
- Troppo
- Total Control
- Maggie Beer’s Big Mission,
- Tony Armstrong’s Extra-Ordinary Things,
- Grand Designs Transformations
- Stuff the British Stole,
- Better Date than Never
- This Is Going To Be Big
- Australia’s Open
- That Pacific Sports Show
- Planet Lulin
- Tales from Outer Suburbia
- Little J And Big Cuz
- Ginger And The Vegesaurs
- After the Party
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Total Control has finished its run.
Overall a good line-up of drama and comedies. But I would like to see live televised sport returning to the ABC. There are still sporting competitions out there that deserve national TV exposure.
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I agree - sadly most of the commercials have sealed up most of the rights to sports, and the remaining one’s wouldn’t possibly have an audience large enough to justify the expenditure, keeping in mind the ABC no longer has in-house OB vans and teams available.
However, as always, a very variety of shows from the ABC - along with SBS and 10, there is more of a range of shows for everyone than what Seven and Nine offer these days.
Shame it appears there’s nothing for 6:30pm weeknights.
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Total Control had a conclusion and we already knew that was the end of that series.
Extra-Ordinary Things was based on finding items for an exhibition so that concluded too.
Pretty sure Maggie’s mission was completed too.
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What do you think of the ABC’s 2025 lineup:
- Excellent
- Decent - Sure more things will be announced
- Okay - Not bad, but not great
- Bad
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When repeats of Hard Quiz do better than the 6pm show and the Drum, they’re not gonna bother trying anything new.
C21 reports the ABC had acquired the rights to Channel 5 drama The Hardacres, the 10th season of Grandchester, and upcoming BBC arts documentary Picasso, in addition to The One That Got Away, and the reboot of Bergerac, which were revealed at the upfronts last Thursday.
Since Britbox in Australia has already bought the rights to The Hardacres, it looks like the ABC has got the second window.
Sue Perkins’ Big Adventure: Paris to Istanbul is “coming soon” to the ABC. The 6-part series was produced by Perpetual Entertainment and premiered on Channel 4 UK on November 5.
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More information and program synopses of the ABC’s Banijay Rights package.
This show appears to have gone missing from any of the releases, maybe a mix up somewhere given Britbox already secured the rights?
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