ABC Comedy - Programs and Schedules

###Week commencing 21 February 2016


Sunday 21 February
7:30pm Build a New Life in the Country: Rutland
8:15pm Dream Build: Wheatsheaf House
8:25pm Gruen Pitch Rewind: No To Buying
8:30pm Warehouse Comedy Festival: Joel Creasey: The Acid Tongue Prince
9:00pm Steve Coogan As Alan Partridge & Other Less Successful Characters
10:30pm Never Mind the Buzzcocks: Peter Andre

Monday 22 February
7:30pm Doctor Who: The Empty Child
8:15pm Doctor Who Confidential: Special Effects
8:30pm Louis Therouxā€™s LA Stories: Edge Of Life
9:30pm Ross Kemp: Extreme World: Northern Ireland

Tuesday 23 February
7:30pm Doctor Who: The Doctor Dances
8:15pm Doctor Who Confidential: Weird Science
8:30pm Good Game
9:00pm Peep Show New Series
9:30pm Banged Up Abroad: Mexican Prison Escape

Wednesday 24 February
7:30pm Doctor Who: Boom Town
8:15pm Doctor Who Confidential: Unsung Heroes And Violent Death
8:30pm Meet the Elephant Man Premiere Special
9:20pm Bodyshockers: Nips, Tucks and Tattoos

Thursday 25 February
7:30pm Doctor Who: Bad Wolf
8:15pm Doctor Who Confidential: The World Of Who
8:30pm The Weekly With Charlie Pickering
9:00pm Extras: Special
10:25pm Never Mind the Buzzcocks: Kristen Schaal

Friday 26 February
7:30pm Doctor Who: The Parting Of The Ways
8:15pm Doctor Who Confidential: The Last Battle
8:30pm The Boarding School Bomber
9:25pm Her Majestyā€™s Prison: Aylesbury

Saturday 27 February
7:30pm Penn And Teller: Fool Us
8:15pm Would I Lie To You?
8:45pm Mock The Week Looks Back At: Health
9:15pm Comedy Up Late: Harley Breen, Nazeem Hussain, Michael Che, Loretta Maine
9:50pm Live at the Apollo: Josh Widdicombe, Trevor Noah & Eddie Izzard
10:35pm Inside Amy Schumer: Terrible People

###Week commencing 28 February 2016


Sunday 28 February
7:30pm Build a New Life in the Country: Nottinghamshire
8:20pm Dream Build: Stringybark House
8:30pm Warehouse Comedy Festival: Randy: Randy Is Sober
9:00pm Russell Howard: Right Here Right Now
10:35pm Never Mind the Buzzcocks: Kristen Schaal

Monday 29 February
7:30pm Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion
8:30pm Louis Theroux: By Reason of Insanity Series Premiere
9:30pm Ross Kemp: Extreme World: Las Vegas

Tuesday 1 March
7:30pm Doctor Who: New Earth
8:15pm Doctor Who Confidential: Fear Factor
8:30pm Good Game
9:00pm Peep Show
9:30pm Banged Up Abroad: Raving Arizona

Wednesday 2 March
7:30pm Doctor Who: Tooth And Claw
8:15pm Doctor Who Confidential: Friends Reunited
8:30pm The Ugly Face of Disability Hate Crime Premiere
9:20pm Bodyshockers: Nips, Tucks and Tattoos

Thursday 3 March
7:30pm Doctor Who: School Reunion
8:15pm Doctor Who Confidential: Script To Screen
8:30pm The Weekly With Charlie Pickering
9:00pm The Office Specials
9:45pm Never Mind the Buzzcocks: Eamonn Holme

Friday 4 March
7:30pm Doctor Who: The Girl In The Fireplace
8:15pm Doctor Who Confidential: Cybermen
8:30pm The Anti-Social Network
9:30pm Captive For 18 Years: The Jaycee Lee Story

Saturday 5 March
7:30pm Penn And Teller: Fool Us
8:15pm Would I Lie To You?
8:45pm Mock The Week Looks Back At: Animals
9:15pm Comedy Up Late: Ronny Chieng, Kate McLennan, Josh Thomas, Sam Simmons
9:50pm Live at the Apollo: Jack Dee, Seann Walsh & Milton Jones
10:35pm Inside Amy Schumer: Sex Tips

###I Wil Not Be Silenced

Monday 7 March at 9:30pm

One young Australian womanā€™s horrific gang rape has led to a seven-year battle for justice with the Kenyan legal system culminating in a highly publicized court case. Rape and gang rape victims rarely report rapes and do not testify against their attackers in Kenya because they fear for their lives. Supported in her quest by a courageous ighranking police officer and some senior legal officials, much is at stake as Charlotte Campbell Stephen seeks justice against all odds.

Throughout the case Charlotteā€™s testimony has detained her attackers in prison. Her life has been in constant danger. Her indomitable strength and her sense of outrage at the lack of rights for Kenyan women has been her inspiration and brought many silenced women out of the dark to stand at her side. Charlotteā€™s case is a test case for the women of Kenya and the reformers in the Kenyan legal system.

###Muslim Drag Queens

Friday 11 March at 9:30pm

Asif Quraishi: ā€œI am a Muslim, Iā€™m British Pakistani and Iā€™m also a drag queen. I have to fight every day just to be me. I receive constant death threats. Iā€™ve heard people say my parents should burn in hell for bringing me into the world. Is somebody gonna kill me? Thereā€™s a whole community thatā€™s living in Britain that is hidden. Now is the time to come out. Youā€™ve got to be big, bold and have balls of steel.ā€

Narrated by Ian McKellen, this powerful documentary introduces the members of Britainā€™s underground Muslim drag queen community. How do gay Muslims publicly reconcile their secularity with their cultural identity?

###My Self Harm Nightmare

Monday 14 March at 9:30pm

Highlighting the soaring rates of eating disorders and self harm among young people, this film explores the internetā€¦ where they go to share their secrets

###HACK LIVE on Body Obsession

Tuesday 15 March at 9:35pm

triple jā€™s Hack host Tom Tilley moderates a live television event and social media experience to find out whether Australians are too obsessed with their bodies.

###Plus Sized Wars

Thursday 17 March at 9:30pm

The average size of women is on the increase. To cope with a boom in demand, the plus size fashion industry is going through the roof.

###Naked As on ABC2 & triple j

No Bodyā€™s Perfect

Following the breakout success of 2HIGH and 2SEXY, ABC2 in collaboration with triple j, will spend a week undressing our national obsession with how we look. Naked As, a week of special programming looking at bodies, in all their shapes and sizes, screens from Sunday 13 March ā€“ Saturday 19 March.

With factual programming from Australia and around the world, covering topics from body building, to steroid use, labiaplasty, to eating disorders and body dysmorphia, ABC2 examines why our shape is so seemingly tied to our happiness, and what social media and the explosion of the selfie is doing to our self confidence. Meanwhile, on triple j, discussions will get under the skin of whatā€™s driving our fixation.

At the heart of the week will be Hack Live on Body Obsession where Tom Tilley will explore, in a live TV and social media event, our fixation with body shape. Are we too obsessed or not obsessed enough? Social media and the internet have changed the game when it comes to selfies and self image, so just what affect is it having on young Australians today.

Also screening during the week are Australian premieres of My Self Harm Nightmare; Bodyshockers: Nips, Tucks, Tattoos; Plus Sized Wars and Tattoo Disasters UK. Plus screenings of the Australian documentaries The Vagina Diaries and Head First: Tailor Made Bodies as well as international documentaries Louis Theroux: Under the Knife; Dying for Clear Skin; Desperately Hungry Housewives; Gokā€™s Teens: The Naked Truth; Glamour Model Mum and Me; 45 Stone Virgin; Glamour Model Mum; Baby and Me; Inside the Body Beautiful; My Baggy Body and I want to Change My Body.

So whatā€™s the truth about body image? Itā€™s time to find out. No bodyā€™s perfect

###Hunted

Wednesday 23 March 8:30pm

If you had to disappear tomorrow - with some of the worldā€™s best missing persons experts looking for you - and the most cutting edge technology keeping tabs on your electronic footprint, could you just vanish?

14 British citizens are given fugitive status and go on the run. For up to 28 days they must evade capture from some of the worldā€™s best investigators. As the fugitivesā€™ soon find out hiding in the UK isnā€™t easy when everything they do leaves a trail. The UK has 1 CCTV camera for every 11 people, and we leave a vast electronic footprint from cash withdrawals, supermarket shopping, texts, calls and social media posts.

Leading the hunt is Chief Brett Lovegrove, former Head of Counter Terrorism for City of London Police who led the City of London Police response to the 7/7 bombings. He runs a team of 30 hunters carefully selected from law enforcement, military intelligence, cyber analysis, online profiling and human tracking.

###Scrotal Recall

From Thursday 24 March at 10:05pm

Scrotal Recall is a 6-part U.K. comedy series following the disastrous exploits of 20-something romantic Dylan (Johnny Flynn), who plans to use his STI diagnosis as a positive journey of self discovery.

Dylan receives his Chlamydia diagnosis and has to contact all the girls he has ever slept with to inform them. He casts his mind back three years ago to Abigail, the first girl on his alphabetical list of exesā€¦

###How Gay is Pakistan?

Friday 1 April at 8:30pm

This eye-opening film meets the Pakistanis living openly as LGBT despite constant fear of retribution.

Being gay is illegal in Pakistan: punishable by up to ten years in prison and, in some cases, death by stoning. But, despite this, the country has a vibrant gay scene thatā€™s growing. So why are gay rights not being addressed here?

This is a complicated place, where homosocial behaviour, like men holding hands, is common and accepted. In this revealing journey to the country of his birth, presenter Mawaan Riswan talks to the people struggling to assert their sexuality against a complex backdrop.

From the activists campaigning for gay rights despite the threat of violence, to the transgender sex worker considering surgery, and the men who identify as straight but enjoy gay sex, Mawaan discovers a fascinating world hidden from public view. During his time in Pakistan heā€™s also surprised to be offered a miracle herbal cure for his own homosexuality.

In this country, gay sex is practised privately more than Mawaan thought possible. In How Gay is Pakistan? he uncovers poignant stories that epitomise the LGBT experience in a country riven with contradiction.

###Week commencing 6 March 2016


Sunday 6 March
7:30pm Build a New Life in the Country: Eastbourne
8:15pm Dream Build: Runaway Bay
8:30pm Rob Brydon Live
9:50pm Never Mind the Buzzcocks: Eamonn Holmes
10:25pm The Anti-Social Network

Monday 7 March
7:30pm Doctor Who: Rise Of The Cybermen
8:15pm Doctor Who: Confidential
8:30pm Louis Theroux: By Reason of Insanity Final
9:30pm Ross Kemp: Extreme World: Lebanon

Tuesday 8 March
7:30pm Doctor Who: The Age Of Steel
8:15pm Doctor Who Confidential
8:30pm Good Game
9:00pm Peep Show
9:25pm I Will Not Be Silenced Premiere Special

Wednesday 9 March
7:30pm Doctor Who: The Idiotā€™s Lantern
8:15pm Doctor Who Confidential
8:30pm Jono: Love Me, Love My Face
9:30 pm Bodyshockers: Nips, Tucks and Tattoos

Thursday 10 March
7:30pm Doctor Who: School Reunion
8:15pm Doctor Who Confidential: Script To Screen
8:30pm The Weekly With Charlie Pickering
9:00pm The Office Specials
9:55pm Inside Amy Schumer: Meth Lab
10:15pm Never Mind the Buzzcocks: Rizzle Kicks

Friday 11 March
7:30pm Doctor Who: The Satan Pit
8:15pm Doctor Who Confidential
8:30pm Jamie: Drag Queen At 16
9:30pm Muslim Drag Queens Premiere Special

Saturday 12 March
7:30pm Penn And Teller: Fool Us
8:15pm Would I Lie To You?
8:45pm Mock The Week Looks Back At: Education
9:15pm Comedy Up Late: Joel Creasey, Tommy Little, Urzila Carlson, Sammy J
9:50pm Live at the Apollo: Live at the Apollo: Sean Lock, Romesh Ranganathan & Marcus Brigstocke
10:35pm Inside Amy Schumer: Meth Lab

###Week commencing 13 March 2016


Sunday 13 March
7:30pm Build a New Life in the Country: France
8:20pm Dream Build: Model House
8:30pm Louis Theroux: Under the Knife
9:30pm Head First: Tailor Made Bodies
10:30pm Muslim Drag Queens

Monday 14 March
7:30pm Doctor Who: Love And Monsters
8:15pm Doctor Who: Confidential: The Fright Stuff

8:25pm TBA
8:40pm Desperately Hungry Housewives
9:30pm My Self-Harm Nightmare Premiere/ Naked As Special
10:20pm Gokā€™s Teens: The Naked Truth

Tuesday 15 March
7:30pm Doctor Who: Fear Her
8:15pm Doctor Who: Confidential: Welcome To Torchwood
8:30pm Good Game
9:00pm The Vagina Diaries: Opening Shot
9:35pm Hack Live On Body Obsession (Live) Premiere/ Naked As Special

Wednesday 16 March
7:30pm Doctor Who: Army Of Ghosts
8:15pm Doctor Who: Confidential: Finale
8:30pm Glamour Models, Mum and Me
9:30pm Bodyshockers: Nips, Tucks And Tattoos
10:15pm Tattoo Disasters UK

Thursday 17 March
7:30pm Doctor Who: Doomsday
8:20pm TBA
8:30pm Glamour Model Mum, Baby & Me
9:30pm Plus Sized Wars
10:20pm The Agony Of The Body Premiere/ Naked As Special

Friday 18 March
7:30pm Doctor Who: The Runaway Bride
8:30pm Inside The Body Beautiful: How Cosmetic Surgery
9:30pm 45 Stone Virgin
10:20pm My Baggy Body

Saturday 19 March
7:30pm Penn And Teller: Fool Us: Pilot
8:35pm Inside The Body Beautiful: How Fat Works
9:35pm I Want To Change My Body

###Week commencing 20 March 2016


Sunday 20 March
7:30pm Build a New Life in the Country
8:15pm Dream Build: Link House
8:30pm Jo Brand: Barely Live
9:20pm Bodyshockers: Nips, Tucks And Tattoos
10:10pm 45 Stone Virgin

Monday 21 March
7:30pm Doctor Who: Smith And Jones
8:15pm Doctor Who: Confidential: Meet Martha Jones
8:30pm Louis Theroux: Transgender Kids Premiere Special
9:30pm Ross Kemp: Extreme World: Ukraine

Tuesday 22 March
7:30pm Doctor Who: The Shakespeare Code
8:15pm Doctor Who: Confidential: Stage Fright
8:30pm Good Game
9:00pm Peep Show
9:30pm Banged Up Abroad: Snakes on a Plane

Wednesday 23 March
7:30pm Doctor Who: Gridlock
8:15pm Doctor Who: Confidential: Are We There Yet?
8:30pm Hunted Series Premiere
9:25pm Bodyshockers: Nips, Tucks And Tattoos
10:15pm Tattoo Disasters UK

Thursday 24 March
7:30pm Doctor Who: Daleks In Manhattan
8:20pm Doctor Who: Confidential: A New York Story
8:30pm The Weekly With Charlie Pickering
9:00pm Episodes: Episode One
9:35pm Never Mind the Buzzcocks: Michael
10:05pm Scrotal Recall _Series Premiere_

Friday 25 March
7:30pm Doctor Who: Evolution Of The
8:15pm Doctor Who: Confidential: Making
8:30pm First Dates
9:15pm The Queen Of Versailles

Saturday 26 March
7:30pm Highway Thru Hell: Welcome To Winter
8:15pm Would I Lie To You?: The Unseen Bits
8:45pm Mock The Week Looks Back At: Entertainment
9:15pm Comedy Up Late: Harley Breen, Nazeem Hussain, Michael Che, Loretta Maine
9:45pm Live at the Apollo: Adam Hills, Andi Osho & Terry Alderton

###Songs To Have Sex To

Friday 8 April at 9:30pm

DJ Edith Bowman embarks on a mission to find out what is THE best song to have sex to, taking us on a journey into art, science, history and pop culture ā€“ and finding out along the way if her own favourite can be trumped.

###Week commencing 27 March 2016


Sunday 27 March
7:30pm Build a New Life in the Country: Barbados
8:15pm Dream Build: House House
8:30pm March Of The Penguins
9:50pm Bodyshockers: Nips, Tucks And Tattoos
10:35pm Louis Theroux: Transgender Kids

Monday 28 March
7:30pm Doctor Who: The Lazarus Experiment
8:15pm Doctor Who: Confidential: Monsters Inc
8:30pm Louis Theroux: Americaā€™s Medicated Kids
9:30pm Ross Kemp: Extreme World: South Africa

Tuesday 29 March
7:30pm Doctor Who: 42
8:15pm Doctor Who: Confidential: Space Craft
8:30pm Good Game
9:00pm Peep Show
9:25pm Banged Up Abroad: Hippy Mafia

Wednesday 30 March
7:30pm Doctor Who: Human Nature
8:15pm Doctor Who: Confidential: Alter Ego
8:30pm Hunted
9:20pm Bodyshockers: Nips, Tucks And Tattoos
10:10pm Tattoo Disasters UK

Thursday 31 March
7:30pm Doctor Who: The Family Of Blood
8:15pm Doctor Who: Confidential: Bad Blood
8:30pm The Weekly With Charlie Pickering
9:00pm Episodes: Episode Two
9:30pm Never Mind the Buzzcocks: Jack Whitehal

Friday 1 April
7:30pm Doctor Who: Blink
8:15pm Doctor Who: Confidential: Do You Remember The First Time?
8:30pm First Dates
9:15pm TBA
9:30pm How Gay is Pakistan? Premiere Special

Saturday 2 April
7:30pm Highway Thru Hell: Dead Lift
8:15pm Would I Lie To You?: At Christmas
8:45pm Mock The Week Looks Back At: Law And Order
9:15pm The Trip To Italy: Il Cenobio dei Dogi, Camogli
9:45pm Live at the Apollo: Jack Whitehall, Katherine Ryan & Rich Hall

###Charlie Pickering: Live at the Time of Recording

Sunday 10 April at 8:30pm

With sold-out shows in Edinburgh, London, Johannesburg, Auckland, The Middle East and every city in Australia, Charlie Pickering: Live at the Time of Recording is a collection of Charlieā€™s favourite stories and hilarious jokes from his years on the stage.

###Week commencing 3 April 2016


Sunday 3 April
7:30pm Build a New Life in the Country: Wales
8:15pm Dream Build: Bisley House
8:30pm Russell Kane: Smokescreens And Castles
9:50pm Bodyshockers: Nips, Tucks And Tattoos
10:35pm Louis Theroux: Americaā€™s Medicated Kids

Monday 4 April
7:30pm Doctor Who: Utopia
8:15pm Doctor Who: Confidential: Ello Ello Ello
8:30pm Louis Theroux: Law & Disorder in Lagos
9:30pm Ross Kemp: Extreme World: Central America

Tuesday 5 April
7:30pm Doctor Who: The Sound Of Drums
8:15pm Doctor Who: Confidential: The Saxon Mystery
8:30pm Good Game
9:00pm Peep Show
9:30pm Banged Up Abroad: Vietnam POWs: McCain and Brace

Wednesday 6 April
7:30pm Doctor Who: Last Of The Time Lords
8:15pm Doctor Who: The Valiant Quest
8:30pm Hunted
9:20pm Bodyshockers: Nips, Tucks And Tattoos
10:10pm Tattoo Disasters UK

Thursday 7 April
7:30pm Doctor Who: Voyage Of The Damned
8:45pm The Weekly With Charlie Pickering
9:15pm Episodes: Episode Three
9:45pm Never Mind the Buzzcocks: Warwick Davis

Friday 8 April
7:30pm Doctor Who: Partners In Crime
8:20pm Doctor Who: Confidential: A Noble Return
8:30pm First Dates
9:15pm TBA
9:30pm Songs To Have Sex To Premiere Special

Saturday 9 April
7:30pm Highway Thru Hell: The Comeback Kid
8:15pm Would I Lie To You?: Danny Dyer, Jon Richardson, Joe Lycett, Moira Stuart
8:45pm Mock The Week Looks Back At: Science And Technology
9:15pm The Trip To Italy: Da Giovanni, San Fruttuoso
9:45pm Live at the Apollo: Nina Conti, Jimeoin & Rob Beckett

Ah so this is why Scrotal Recall isnā€™t on Netflix like other countriesā€¦ because ABC2 bought it.

I see Episodes was on ABC2 last night also :slight_smile:

Yes

http://forums.mediaspy.org/t/abc2-programs-and-schedules/442/31?u=tv.cynic

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