Celebrate 15 years of video games and Good Game Spawn Point with 10 Super Silly Super Specials! Join Gem, Harry, and some new friends in the brand-new den of gaming as they imagine what would happen if life was more like their favourite games.
Episode 1, The Fumbled Fall Guys Fest!
When Harry and Gem decide to throw a Fall Guys party for their best friend Screen Goblin, a disagreement puts their plans in jeopardy! Will they be able to compromise, or will the party end up an epic fail?
Production credit: An ABC production
Premieres Tuesday 13 August at 9pm on ABC Family and ABC iview.
Explorer and naturalist Steve Backshall explores some of the most remote locations on earth, venturing into the unknown, to discover fresh insights that could help to secure a future for the worldâs wildlife.
The Strange Chores team of teenage monster hunters are back to give household chores a supernatural twist, turning ordinary life upside down and twisting the dullest parts of a kidâs life into a crazy tangle of monsters, magic and mayhem.
Finally finding a balance between their ordinary lives and their secret after - school adventures, season 3 sees Charlie, Pierce and Que ascend to the next level of their training as they are now called upon to do chores for the monsters themselves â each with their own insane, eerie and irreverent odd-jobs.
From stealing a dragonâs tooth for the Tooth Fairy, delivering invitations for Dracula, and hanging out with the son of Hades, to work experience at the Ministry of Monster Hunters, evicting a gang of mutant (but cool) Cockroaches and protecting Wolfman from the Little Pigs - the gang quickly discover that the monsters have even stranger chores than they could ever have imagined!
Production credit: The Strange Chores is a Ludo Studio and Media World Pictures production for the ABC, starring Charlotte Nicdao, Michael Philippou, Cash Gallagher-Ruru and Nick Tate. Principal production funding from Screen Australia, in association with VicScreen and Screen Queensland. Created by Daley Pearson and Charlie Aspinwall, Directed and Designed by Scott Vanden Bosch. Writers: John McGeachin, Luke Tierney, Alix Beane, Magda Wozniak, Nicholas Lin, Francis Stanton and Lauren Brown. Executive Producers Charlie Aspinwall, Daley Pearson and Colin South. ABC Executive Producer Jo Boag. Head of ABC Children & Family, Libbie Doherty. Produced by Carmel McAloon, Co-Produced by Lauren Brown. Animation Director Canaan Mendelsohn, editor Lora-Mae Adrao, 12field Studio Manager Kelly Lynagh. Music by Joff Bush, Daniel OâBrien and Joseph Twist. International Distribution by Boat Rocker Studios.
You canât fully compare ABC ME to ABC Family because ABC Family has now taken a backseat to the primary ABC Kids preschool brand. While ABC Family does air some former ABC ME content, this is mostly limited to the time leading up to their nightly closedown.
Claiming that ABC ME didnât cater to audiences during primetime is somewhat unfair. The reality is, ABC never fully embraced the original vision for ABC3/ME as a uniquely Australian childrenâs content hub. Instead, they chose to co-produce much of the so-called âoriginalâ content with international public broadcasters like CBC and BBC, or even with commercial competitors. On top of that, they filled other timeslots with acquired programs from those same broadcasters and others.
ABC ME was never truly given the opportunity to succeed because it was never allowed to fully define its own brand or offer a clear âpoint of differenceâ to distinguish itself.
There is no comparison. All ABC Family is a glorified ABC Kids with the graphics in dark mode. The only reason the ratings have doubled is because last I looked - children donât regularly change channels.
And another point, ABC Kids has âBig Timeâ from 7pm nightly with quote-on-quote older kids like Andy & The Band.
What is the point. The âbig kidsâ block starts in 30 minutes anyway.
All in all - I completely agree with @greenpeaâs statement.
I can say, as someone who enjoyed ABC Me, not having access to that type of show on FTA is annoying (because given picking between Fresh of the Boat on ABC Kids/Family and Mythbusters on ABC Entertains - none of them really hit at the demographic IMO)
And 9Go doesnât do tween/teen shows at that hour, and I donât want to watch Nickelodeon/10âs Friends reruns for hours on end)
Why the ABC felt the need to bring everything to look like the ABC Kids look (ABC News, ABC Family, ABC Entertains) is beyond me. Shouldnât each channel have their own look and feel to a point??
(Sorry if this sounds like a rant - had to cover some picking points I have with ABC switching it up with ABC Family & Kids)
C21 reports the ABC has bought season 2 of NZ comedy Double Parked from distributor Seven.One Studios International. It premiered on ThreeNow in August this year. The first season is streaming on iView.
Secrets of the Zoo gives unprecedented behind-the-scenes access to The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium. Follow the dramatic, heartwarming and often hilarious stories of the animals and animal lovers, alike.
A litter of orphaned wild dogs seeks acceptance from the pack leader while under the watchful eye of the vet team. Meanwhile, an endangered chuckwalla beats the odds, and a 44-year-old orangutan gets a complete physical ahead of the zooâs biggest birthday bash of the year.
Production credit: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
US sitcom Abbott Elementary (currently streaming on Disney+) will have its FTA premiere tonight, with double episodes from 8.40pm. There are 13 episodes on season 1.
Episode 1: Pilot
Passionate teachers - and a slightly tone-deaf principal - are determined to help their students succeed.
Episode 2: Light Bulb
Going against everyoneâs advice, Janine takes it upon herself to fix every problem herself when she notices a flicking light bulb in the hallway.
New baking competition show Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking started last Saturday (March 22). New episodes air on ABC Family at 7.30pm Saturdays and repeated at 9.25pm Thursdays. All six episodes are available on iView.
The show was renewed for a second season in January this year.
All episodes available to stream on ABC iview from Friday 28 April
A workplace comedy following a group of dedicated, passionate teachers â and a slightly tone-deaf principal â as they navigate the Philadelphia public school system.
Despite the odds stacked against them, they are determined to help their students succeed in life, and though these incredible public servants may be outnumbered and underfunded, they love what they do â even if they donât love the school districtâs less-than-stellar attitude toward educating children.
Production credit: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. & 20th Television
Bertie Gregory travels the world to show extraordinary animalsâ daily lives like never before.
Armed with state-of-the-art tech, Bertie and his team brave extreme conditions to reveal the challenges these animals endure.
Animals Up Close with Bertie Gregory shows all the moments he and his team face while adapting to unpredictable wildlife in remote environments where filming rarely goes as planned.
Why is Blueys Big Play airing on Family. The audience looks under six and funnily enough I saw an ABC goodnight ident before the close of Kids at 7.30 before the show?
What audience are you peddling to? Feels odd imo to air a show aimed for a Kids audience not on ABC Kids
