ABC Comedy - Programs and Schedules

[TV.Cynic]

Week commencing 10 December

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Sunday 10 December

7:30pm Spicks And Specks: Ella Hooper, Akmal Saleh, Robin Lumley & Hamish Blake
8:00pm Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow: Edinburgh
8:45pm Funny As: Tom Gleeson
9:45pm Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled Series Premiere
10:30pm Adam Hills: The Last Leg
11:15pm The IT Crowd: The Final Countdown
11:40pm Wasted
12:05am Murder In Successville: The Mob

Monday 11 December

7:30pm Spicks And Specks: Anne Kirkpatrick, Ohad Rein, Hamish Blake & Fiona
8:00pm Upper Middle Bogan: Your Roots Are Showing
8:30pm Upper Middle Bogan: Picture Perfect
9:00pm Tonightly With Tom Ballard
9:30pm GameFace: Onion
9:55pm Inside Amy Schumer: Brave New Series
10:15pm Never Mind The Buzzcocks: Greg Davies
10:50pm The Office: Hot Girl
11:10pm 30 Rock: Jack Meets Dennis
11:30pm Parks and Recreation: Rock Show

Tuesday 12 December

7:30pm Spicks And Specks: Jim Keays, Geraldine Quinn, Wes Carr, Hamish Blake.
8:00pm Ronny Chieng: International Student
8:30pm Ronny Chieng: International Student
9:00pm Tonightly With Tom Ballard
9:30pm Kiki And Kitty: Live Fast Die Young
9:40pm Kiki And Kitty: Big Trouble In Little Gina
9:55pm Wasted
10:20pm Never Mind The Buzzcocks: Alice Cooper
10:50pm The Office: The Dundies
11:10pm 30 Rock: Tracey Does Conan
11:30pm Parks and Recreation: Pawnee Zoo

Wednesday 13 December

7:30pm Spicks And Specks: Natalie Pa’apa’a, Damien Leith, Cal Wilson & Dave O’Neil
8:00pm Stop Laughing… this is serious: Look At Moi, Look At Moi
9:00pm Tonightly With Tom Ballard
9:30pm Catastrophe
9:55pm Catastrophe
10:20pm Never Mind The Buzzcocks: James Blunt
10:55pm The Office: Sexual Harassment
11:15pm 30 Rock: The Break Up
11:35pm Parks and Recreation: The Stakeout

Thursday 14 December

7:30pm Spicks And Specks: Robert Forster, Dave O’Neil, Sharon O’Neill & Colin Lane
8:00pm The Ex-PM
8:30pm The Ex-PM
9:00pm Tonightly With Tom Ballard
9:30pm The IT Crowd: Something Happened
9:55pm Murder In Successville: Bunch of Cults
10:25pm Never Mind The Buzzcocks: Tinie Tempah
11:00pm The Office: Office Olympics
11:20pm 30 Rock: The Baby Show
11:40pm Parks and Recreation: Beauty Pageant

Friday 15 December

7:30pm Spicks And Specks: Ross Noble, Tim Ross, Clare Bowditch & Jane Scali
8:00pm Hard Quiz
8:30pm Gruen XL
9:15pm Tonightly With Tom Ballard
9:45pm Episodes
10:15pm Episodes
10:45pm Never Mind The Buzzcocks: Cilla Black
11:15pm The Office: The Fire
11:35pm 30 Rock: The Rural Juror
12:00am Parks and Recreation: Practice Date

Saturday 16 December

7:30pm Spicks And Specks: Gina Jeffreys, Juanita Stein, Anh Do & Frank Woodley
8:00pm TBA
8:30pm Live At The Apollo New
9:15pm Comedy Next Gen: Becky Lucas
10:15pm GameFace: Onion
10:40pm Inside Amy Schumer: Brave
11:05pm Catastrophe
11:30pm Catastrophe
11:55pm Episodes
12:25am Episodes
12:50am Siblings: Vet Drugs
1:20am Siblings: Laser Eye Date

[TV.Cynic]

Week commencing 17 December

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Sunday 17 December

7:30pm Spicks And Specks: Kate Ceberano, Michael Chamberlin, Murray Cook & Arj
8:00pm Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow: Manchester
8:45pmDara O’Briain: Crowd Tickler Series Premiere
9:40pm Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
11:10pm The IT Crowd: Something Happened
11:35pm Wasted
12:05am Murder In Successville: Bunch of Cults

Monday 18 December

7:30pm Spicks And Specks: Toni Lamond, Pete Smith, Frankie J Holden and Hamish
8:00pm Upper Middle Bogan: No Angel
8:30pm Upper Middle Bogan: Behind You!
9:00pm Tonightly With Tom Ballard
9:30pm GameFace
9:55pm Inside Amy Schumer: The World’s Most Interesting Woman In The World
10:15pm Never Mind The Buzzcocks: Rhod Gilbert
10:50pm The Office: Halloween
11:10pm 30 Rock: The Head And The Hair
11:30pm Parks and Recreation: Sister City

Tuesday 19 December

7:30pm Spicks And Specks: Marina Prior, John Amis, Dave Hughes & Denise Scott
8:00pm Ronny Chieng: International Student
8:30pm Ronny Chieng: International Student Final
9:00pm Tonightly With Tom Ballard
9:30pm Kiki And Kitty: Episode 3
10:00pm Wasted
10:25pm Never Mind The Buzzcocks: John Barrowman
10:55pm The Office: The Fight
11:15pm 30 Rock: Black Tie
11:35pm Parks and Recreation: Kaboom!

Wednesday 20 December

7:30pm Spicks And Specks: Ali McGregor, Hamish Blake, Courtney Murphy & Carlotta
8:00pm Stop Laughing… this is serious: Hello Possums Final
9:00pm Tonightly With Tom Ballard
9:30pm Catastrophe
9:55pm Catastrophe Final
10:25pm Never Mind the Buzzcocks: Kathy Burke
10:55pm The Office: The Client
11:15pm 30 Rock: Up All Night
11:35pm Parks and Recreation: Greg Pikitis

Thursday 21 December

7:30pm Spicks And Specks: Frank Ifield, Brian Cadd, Mikey Robins, Cal Wilson
8:00pm The Ex-PM
8:30pm The Ex-PM
9:00pm Tonightly With Tom Ballard
9:30pm The IT Crowd: Italian For Beginners
9:55pm Murder In Successville: Dead, Rich and Famous
10:25pm Never Mind the Buzzcocks: Example
10:55pm The Office: Performance Review
11:15pm 30 Rock: The ‘C’ Word
11:35pm Parks and Recreation: Ron And Tammy

Friday 22 December

7:30pm Spicks And Specks: Brian McFadden, Casey Bennetto, Stephen K Amos
8:00pm Hard Quiz
8:30pm Gruen XL
9:15pm Tonightly With Tom Ballard
9:40pm Episodes
10:10pm Episodes
10:40pm Never Mind the Buzzcocks: Jack Whitehall
11:10pm The Office: Email Surveillance
11:30pm 30 Rock: Hard Ball
11:50pm Parks and Recreation: The Camel

Saturday 23 December

7:30pm Spicks And Specks: A Very Specky Christmas
8:30pm TBA
9:00pm The Yearly With Charlie Pickering
10:00pm Live At The Apollo New Series
10:45pm GameFace
11:10pm Inside Amy Schumer: The World’s Most Interesting Woman In The World
11:35pm Catastrophe
12:00am Catastrophe Final
12:30am Episodes
1:00am Episodes

[melbournefan]

So no more Louis Theroux???

They better find another channel for all the other docos and shows then.

[TelevisionAU]

@melbournefan

They better find another channel for all the other docos and shows then.

Some will probably end up on the main channel but would not be surprised if SBS or some of the commercial multi channels swoop in on anything ABC/ABC2 has relinquished

[AustralianAerial]

For lack of somewhere better to post this - includes two promos for ABC Comedy

[Petarkco]

ABC2 is now done. No fanfare, did show a slide saying that ABC COMEDY would return at 7:30pm and now it’s showing the ABC2/Double J slide (showing the incorrect time of 7pm).

[TheEditor]

I don’t mind the logo, but surely when it’s arranged like this the E and M should be switched. I just read it as COEMDY.

[TV.Cynic]

The EPG already updated.

[TV.Cynic]

Station opening

[TelevisionAU]

@TV.Cynic

Station opening

I like the graphics and presentation of the channel. ABC2 certainly needed a refresh in that regard.

Just a pity that they seem to think that comedy didn’t happen before 2010? The ABC would have the biggest comedy archive of all the networks, it’s a shame they can’t (or won’t) tap into it. I guess it’s a lot less labour intensive to focus on more recent content… and to focus on the “young people” I suppose

[TV.Cynic]

PRG, idents line up

[JBar]

@TheEditor

I don’t mind the logo, but surely when it’s arranged like this the E and M should be switched. I just read it as COEMDY.

It’s worse when the ABC logo sits under the jumbled letters. It’s definitely COEMDY.

I still think iView has the best logo by far,

ABC News and ABC Comedy should be variations of that. The ABC logo above and the word News or Comedy under it. Simple and clean.

[Nicholas]

Really love the presentation they have gone with.

[pelican]

Mehhhhh. The presentation feels very Ten or Eleven circa 2012. There’s cheap and cheerful, and then there’s very cheap and kinda patronising too. The logo is messy and is at times way too big. Wish they’d have aligned comedy to the right of the Lissajous like they did with the News logo, which I feel is the best design. Current logo just looks goofy for the sake of being “hilarious”.

I’m a big fan of both the ABC and The Office/30 Rock, but I really doubt the public service benefit to showing these kind of shows during primetime on what should be the ABC’s second most flagship channel. To have the entire schedule dedicated to comedy feels like a cop-out; to have it also filled with American content which could easily be found on a commercial multichannel is a bit on the nose.

I’ll have to check out Ballard’s show though. Looks promising and I like his style.

[TV.Cynic]

@TelevisionAU

The ABC would have the biggest comedy archive of all the networks, it’s a shame they can’t (or won’t) tap into it.

Also seem strange to have that content promoted as “American Comedy Every Week Night”.

[TV.Cynic]

Some more elements of presentation from tonight

[Drew_1981]

Comedy is subjective and also if they’re looking at people/production companies that they have exiting ties with, It’s like hearing the same jokes from your uncle at the Xmas party.

[TV.Cynic]

Overnight slide

[JBar]

@pelican

I’ll have to check out Ballard’s show though. Looks promising and I like his style.

I watched a bit of Tonightly last night and it felt like it was a poor man’s The Weekly with Charlie Pickering which is a poor man’s Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell. Seems like a lot of resources would have gone into producing this show. A lot of money for a show watched by very few people.

The comedy show that followed “Kiki and Kitty” is a strange concept but gave me some good laughs.

[pelican]

Fair enough, but it’s rarely ever fair to judge a show of this genre by its first night.

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart took years to develop its award-winning style. Trevor Noah has taken a while to get into the groove. When Stephen Colbert went to CBS it took him a year to find his bearings on The Late Show. Here in Australia, Mad As Hell had more misses than hits for the better part of two seasons before finally beginning to become more reliably funny (although some episodes still fall flat).

I’ll reserve judgement for Ballard’s show for another six months at least.