The Girl on the Train had previously aired on 10 (the FTA premiere was January 6, 2019).
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I think I remember watching it on 10, wasn’t too bad.
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Although most likely to be shown on ABC-TV Plus, is there not a very slim chance that “About Sex” could be shown on ABC ME given that it’s aimed at teenagers?
The Wonder Gang - Season 2
From Monday 18 October at 7:40am
Willow, Whyla and Wes are The Wonder Gang. They’re a determined team of fact finding kids who will do whatever it takes to answer any questions about Australia’s amazing animals and nature. With the help of their cute quokka pals Quidget, Quinton and Quest, they research, observe and experiment in their library and laboratory to find facts for kids everywhere.
Mark Seymour+The Undertow: Slow Dawn Live
Friday 5 November 8.30pm
The ‘Undertow’ playing songs from the world recorded live on the floor of the Forum in the heart of Melbourne, Australia.
“For a long time I’ve suspected that artists become cocooned by their own success. That through drive and ambition they lose sight of how the world really is. After decades of touring, that blinkered dinosaur might well be me.
With that in mind, and a darker sense that the world, particularly the U.S., was on the brink of some great catastrophic change, I decided to travel across America, South Africa and Ireland, without a plan. Unencumbered by the routine of performance.
And in the thick of it, it dawned on me that we were following old trails; that these lands were littered with the debris of civilization where pilgrims and armies had gone. Some to escape, others to plunder and destroy, long ago.
Ideas arrived. Notes. Stories of cities, towns and wilderness. Ruined suburbs, derelict schools and hospitals, castles, monasteries, the churned grassy slopes where prairie wars were once waged, land taken and given up, the sound of big animals roaming free, roaring in the dark and the garish pride of a giant neon cowboy looming over a Nevada casino.
Not long after we returned the world shut down, as did all the rooms I assumed would open their doors so that I could bring these stories home.
The change was sudden. Shocking. And there was a sense too, that it might be permanent. I felt the need to seize the opportunity to document the band performing these songs live, in a moment in time when the possibility might never arrive again…
How frail we are in the face of nature. Here are eleven songs gleaned from the world in a time of darkness. Through a train window, behind the wheel of a Chevrolet Spark and a push bike ride through Austin, Chicago…” -Mark Seymour
Kylie Minogue: In Golden
Friday 12 November 8.30pm
Filmed at various UK venues over the course of Kylie Minogue’s tour of the same name in late 2018, Golden: Live in Concert is a beautifully shot record of a performer at the top of her game.
Off the back of her No 1 album released earlier that year – her 14th studio album – and containing a host of her biggest hits from through the years, the show was both critically acclaimed and a commercial success.
The film was directed by Blue Leach and Kylie’s creative director, Rob Sinclair, and won the award for Best Live Concert at the 2019 UK Music Video Awards. A TV version aired on Channel 4 in the UK as a Christmas Day special and on Channel 9 in Australia on New Year’s Eve.
Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace
Friday 19 November 8.30pm
Nick Cave performs solo at the piano, in a film shot June 2020 at London’s iconic Alexandra Palace.
In this unique performance, Nick Cave performs songs from his extensive back catalogue, including a selection of rare tracks. The songs are taken from across the breadth of Cave’s career, including early Bad Seeds and Grinderman, right through to the most recent Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album, Ghosteen.
Includes piano renditions of Girl In Amber, Nobody’s Baby Now, The Mercy Seat, Jubilee Street, Higgs Boson Blues, Into My Arms and The Ship Song.
The performance was filmed by award winning Cinematographer Robbie Ryan (The Favourite, Marriage Story, American Honey) in Alexandra Palace’s stunning West Hall and edited by Nick Emerson (Lady Macbeth, Emma, Greta). Cinematography by Robbie Ryan.
Production credits: A Ros & Lawrence Production
Brian Johnson: A Life on the Road
From Wednesday 1 December 9.00pm
Brian Johnson: A Life On The Road is a six-part series featuring AC/DC Brian Johnson in conversation with some of the biggest names in Rock and Roll history as they explore the realities of life on a global rock tour. In this first episode he chats with The Who’s Roger Daltrey.
Brian Johnson has known Roger Daltrey for 40 years and their lives have followed a similar trajectory, from humble origins to global stardom. Brian meets Roger outside the house he grew up in, in Shepherd’s Bush, London. They take a walk through the neighbourhood streets and end up at Bush Hall, where The Who rehearsed in their early days.
In Bush Hall, Brian and Roger discuss how in many ways, the modern rock tour was invented by The Who. They pioneered many of the moves and postures of the live rock show: the bombast, the aggression, the strutting, the element of danger on stage, the ear-splitting loudness, and the move into bigger arenas with laser shows and giant TV screens. And while on the road, The Who were second to none in terms of rock and roll mayhem – it was a non-stop carnival of drugs, groupies, and wrecked hotel rooms.
Brian and Roger’s conversation turns to The Who’s 1969 album Tommy and subsequent tour – and how it transformed The Who from a quirky, antagonistic art-rock band into stadium-filling Rock Gods.Their tête-à -tête then focuses on a series of historic gigs, in particular some of The Who’s experiences in America which turned them into the kind of band which, in the 1970s, would go on to shape modern touring on an epic scale, with all its pomp and excess.
Production credits: A Sky UK Production
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Would I Lie To You At Christmas
Thursday 9 December 9.00pm
Rob Brydon is back in the host’s chair for a very special Christmas episode of the award-winning comedy panel show Would I Lie to You?
This week, guests Jo Brand, Joe Swash, Joe Lycett and Ruth Madeley join Lee Mack and David Mitchell to sort the festive facts from the fibs.
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Brassic - Season 3
From Tuesday 4 January 9.30pm
In a daring and in-your-face start to the series, Vinnie finally gets released from prison and with the newly promoted Detective Carl Slater watching his every move, he is doing his best to lie low.
Brassic returns brasher and bolder than ever. In the last season, fans were left with a cliff-hanger: What did Erin whisper to Vinnie before he got arrested? The answer to this and much more will be revealed in season three!
Vinnie, freshly out of prison, is jubilant to be reunited with his gang of mates but dismayed to learn that he now has the newly promoted Detective Carl Slater watching his every move. Vinnie knows he needs to keep out of trouble… but playing it safe has never been his strong point.
Soon he and his lifelong friends are back to their usual tricks with a hilarious new onslaught of wild and wonderful heists on the horizon.
Bigger, braver and more bonkers than ever, it’s a hectic world of bulls, snakes, kidnappings, betrayal, and this time, a full-size horse…
Production credit: A Sky One original.
Return to Belsen
Sunday 23 January 8.30pm
Examining the legacy of the Nazi death camp and what it can teach us today.
When British troops liberated the Belsen Nazi death camp in April 1945, war correspondent Richard Dimbleby made a historic broadcast, revealing to the world for the first time the true horror of the Holocaust.
Now, 76 years on, broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby traces his father’s footsteps, exploring Belsen’s legacy and its important lessons for the present day.
We follow as he visits Anne Frank’s grave and talks to both survivors and Germans who lived and worked nearby. He’ll also reflect on the recent and worrying resurgence of antisemitism in Europe.
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ABC TV Plus will fasttrack the Christmas special of The Last Leg this Saturday (Xmas Day) at 8.30pm, hours after the UK broadcast. Special guests are Joanna Lumley, Big Zuu, and The Darkness.
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Live at the Apollo - Season 16
From Saturday 19 February 8.30pm
Live At The Apollo is back for a 16th series with seven all new episodes, welcoming an array of established and up-and-coming stand-ups to the world-famous Apollo stage. At the forefront of its genre, the roll call of stand-ups who have performed in front of the renowned Live At The Apollo lights plays out like a who’s who of comedic royalty and this series is no different.
I’m Wanita
World Television Premiere - Wednesday 2 March 8.30pm
The story of ‘Australia’s Queen of Honky Tonk’, a renegade country music singer on a mission to record an album in the Mecca of country music - Nashville USA - and realise her lifelong dream of stardom, before it’s too late.
I’m Wanita is the story of a renegade country music singer from Tamworth, Australia, hell-bent on realising her childhood dreams of stardom. Self-crowned as ‘Australia’s Queen Of Honky Tonk’, Wanita is still waiting for the recognition she knows she deserves.
Wanita embarks on a quest to record an album in the country music Mecca of Nashville, but her inability to toe the line threatens to derail her plans – can she keep her date with destiny?
There will also be a special encore screening of I’m Wanita on ABC TV at 9.30pm on Tuesday 8 March as part of the ABC’s celebration of International Women’s Day.
Production credit: Screen Australia and Australian Broadcasting Corporation present in association with Screen NSW a production by People Productions in association with Acme Film Company.
Women of Steel
World Television Premiere - Sunday 6 March 8.30pm
A rousing Australian documentary, many years in the making, that follows a group of determined local women in their 14- year fight for the right to work in Wollongong’s steel industry.
Wollongong, 1980: Sparked by the sexual abuse of young women working at a local chicken shop, women turned to the major employer of the area, BHP, for work. They were told “there’s no jobs for women” so a group of Australian and migrant women began a campaign against BHP – Australia’s most powerful company.
Their political and legal battle for the right to work and respect changed the rules forever.Here they tell their personal stories for the first time. It’s an exciting true story about how a group of seemingly ordinary women were determined to overcome a giant.
Production credit: Directed and produced by Robyn Murphy.
Tate Britain’s Great Art Walks - Season 2
From Wednesday 9 March 8.30pm
Every episode, art historian Gus Casely-Hayford accompanies a guest celebrity of the arts, and together they explore a specific work of art that has inspired them.
Gus Casley-Hayford and world famous comedian Billy Connolly embark on a journey through Cookham, Berkshire – the home and artistic inspiration for Stanley Spencer, the man once dubbed the divine fool of British Art.
Through this lively journey uncovering every nook and cranny of the village that served as his muse, Gus and Billy discover this fascinating character who displayed true genius and as an artist was prolific.
Stanley painted over 400 works in his lifetime, many of them of them set in his beloved Cookham, which he lovingly referred to as his village in heaven!
Production credit: 7 Wonder Productions
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Compass
Return Sunday 13 March 7.30pm
Geraldine Doogue is intrigued when rising media star, Marc Fennell, nominates his kitchen as his Sacred Space - “The family hub” where life, food and family connect past to present.
Compass is back in 2022 with a special edition of Sacred Space. Host Geraldine Doogue is in for a tasty treat when she visits high-profile journalist, television host, award-winning podcaster and father Marc Fennel.
Centred around his Sacred Space - the family kitchen - Marc reflects on his childhood and explores the challenges and opportunities his Pentecostal upbringing brought to his multicultural family. For the first time Marc ponders his own connection to Christianity, sharing the thrills and hard knocks that have shaped him.
As Marc prepares lunch for Geraldine, he opens up about his evolving, complex relationship with food, the role it played in his early career and how this shaped his success in recent years. Geraldine and Marc discuss the impact of social media on body image and sense of self, while debating the moral dilemma new media poses to society.
From movie reviewer to driving international conversations on topics such as racism, Marc’s kitchen has remained his Sacred Space where life, food and family connect with the past and present.
This deep dive into the life and spiritual journey of Marc Fennell reveals astute and moving insights not only into his own life but into his aspirations and hopes for the future Australia that he will leave for his children.
Production credit: Presenter: Geraldine Doogue. Producer: Deborah Boerne. Editor: Andrew Hope. EP: Amanda Collinge and Jessica Douglas-Henry.
Louis Theroux: Forbidden America
From Sunday 13 March 8.30pm
Louis Theroux meets the latest incarnation of the American far right: a political movement born out of the internet and increasingly making its presence felt on the political stage.
Louis Theroux returns with a gripping series exploring controversial corners of American entertainment and meets those accused of dangerous, toxic, and criminal behaviour.
In the first episode, Louis meets a young generation of leaders and content creators of the internet’s far right – some of whom have grown in notoriety since the Capitol Hill riots on 6th January.
These figures are breeding a fast-growing ‘dissident’ nationalist movement through online networks.
Production credit: A Mindhouse production for BBC
Art Works - Season 2
Wednesday March 16 8:00pm
Hosted by Namila Benson, Art Works is the ABC’s weekly half-hour arts show sharing the most inspiring, surprising, and formative ways that Australian creatives are telling our stories today.From Boorloo (Perth) to Meanjin (Brisbane), Art Works takes you across Australia and into the studios, rehearsal rooms and backyard sheds of emerging creatives and established professionals.
The show will delve into the full spectrum of the arts and creative industries. Showcasing behind- the-scenes stories, spotlights and interviews, Art Works asks everything from who, to how-to, to why?!
Celebrating the diversity of Australian creatives and bringing new voices and ideas into the conversation, the show redefines how we tell the stories of Australia today and tomorrow. Art Works invites audiences to look, debate, consider and reflect on what the arts bring to all our lives.
Production credit: Series Producer: Bryson Hall, Managing Editor, Arts: Edwina Throsby.
I think the Artworks timeslot is wrong. Either that or Compass @TV.Cynic.
That was the times provided for both. I have worked out the actual time for Art Works.
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Spicks and Specks repeats have been airing at 7.30pm on ABC TV Plus weeknights for many years now. But lately, the channel have been airing variations in that timeslot.
I’ve noticed that Mondays have “docos” airing at 7.30 (David Attenborough this week; The Planets next Monday) and Anh’s Brush with Fame on Wednesdays (this and next week). With Spicks and Specks remaining on Tuesday, Thursdays and Fridays at 7.30pm.
State of the Union - Season 2
Tuesday 5 April 8.55pm + BINGE
Brendan Gleeson and Patricia Clarkson star in an all new season of State of the Union. The series follows Scott and Ellen as they meet in a café before their weekly marriage counselling, piecing together why things fell apart.
In this season, liberal campaigning Ellen (Patricia Clarkson) drags her traditional, self-made husband Scott (Brendan Gleeson) out of his comfort zone and into a hipster Connecticut coffee shop, where they have 10 minutes before their marriage counselling session to drink a coffee, gather their thoughts and argue about everything from Quakerism to pronouns.
Each week, between the bickering, they begin to piece together what has gone wrong between them and as the weeks go by, they start to deconstruct their 30-year marriage. Past betrayals are aired, their sex life is re-examined, and their vulnerabilities are finally shared.
By the end of ten weeks of marital counselling, they’re not the same couple they used to be (and neither are their married team of counsellors). But is making a change enough to save their marriage, or should they walk away?
Production credit: A SEE-SAW FILMS production. Starring Brendan Gleeson, Patricia Clarkson and Esco Jouley. Produced by Sophie Reynolds. Created & Written by Nick Hornby. Directed by Stephen Frears. Executive Produced by Jamie Laurenson, Hakan Kousetta, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Dtephen Frears,
Nick Hornby.
Concert for Ukraine + ABC Gives Ukraine Appeal
Wednesday, 30 March 8.30pm
The ABC will this Wednesday broadcast the star-studded Concert for Ukraine, a two-hour event bringing together leading names from the music world raising money for victims of the humanitarian disaster.
Ed Sheeran, Camila Cabello, Nile Rodgers & Chic, Snow Patrol, Becky Hill, The Kingdom Choir, Manic Street Preachers and Tom Odell will be among the performers taking to the stage in Birmingham, England, in a concert organised by British free-to-air TV network ITV.
Screening on ABC TV Plus this Wednesday, March 30 at 8.30pm (AEST) the unique event will spread a message of hope and support while raising funds for the ABC Gives Ukraine Appeal to provide food, water, shelter and medical assistance to refugees in Ukraine and neighbouring countries.
All proceeds will go to the Emergency Action Alliance (EAA) Ukraine Appeal, which enables 15 of Australia’s leading aid charities including Caritas, Plan International Australia, Save the Children and Australia for UNHCR to deliver life-saving aid.
ABC Managing Director, David Anderson said: “We’ve witnessed the generosity of ABC audiences with our bushfire, floods and end-of-year appeals.
“As the crisis in Ukraine intensifies, this event will be an important opportunity for our audience to come together through the power of music, show our whole-hearted support for Ukraine, and help make a difference to those affected through ABC Gives to fund important the work of EAA charities.”
Hosted by UK radio presenters Roman Kemp, Marvin Humes and Emma Bunton, the broadcast will combine music performances with interviews, backstage moments and short films recognising the ongoing relief efforts and the plight faced by people affected by the conflict in Ukraine.
Viewers will be able to donate money to the cause throughout the evening online through ABC Gives and via phone on 1300 939 000.
Viewers will also be able to catch up on the concert on ABC iview for 30 days after the broadcast and continue to donate via ABC Gives after the event has finished.
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Days Like These With Diesel
World Premiere
Australian music legend, Mark Lizotte, aka ‘Diesel’, revisits the country’s most seminal concerts. In exclusive interviews with the people who were there, discover why each concert is such an unforgettable moment in Australian music history.
Australian music legend, Mark Lizotte, aka ‘Diesel’, revisits some of Australia’s most seminal concerts and the intriguing stories behind them.
In the 12-part series, each episode explores a truly unforgettable concert and the exceptional circumstances that made it so special.
With exclusive access to the people who were there, get ready to be transported on a journey of musical discovery.
Alongside Diesel, band members, tour managers, record company executives and even musicians from other bands, delve into their personal recollections of what made the concert so special.
Re-experience these iconic musical moments through their fascinating behind-the-scenes anecdotes and insights all delivered with a healthy dose of curiosity, irreverence and wit.
Episode 1: Tonight’s episode is the story of Jet playing at the Forum in Melbourne on April 30, 2004.
The hometown gig followed the Melbourne bands super-successful tour of the US. Their songs were blasting up the charts and they seemed to be killing it. But if anything, all the overseas success only piled on the pressure to deliver an amazing show on home turf. The years they had quietly spent honing their song-writing skills in Melbourne, coupled with their tour of North America and Europe where they perfected their live act, culminated in a show for the ages.
Production credit: Produced by Beyond Entertainment In association with Bloodlines Music. For Beyond Entrainment, Executive Producers Mikael Borglund and Martin Fabinyi. Directed & Produced By Frank Chidiac. For Bloodline Music (Part of the Mushroom Group), Creator & Executive Producer Warren Costello. Executive Producer Dean McLachlan.
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It will be shown in two instalments. The first seven episodes will be shown in May and June:
Episode 1: Jet – The Forum (2004) - Wednesday 4 May
Episode 2: Baby Animals – 25th Anniversary (2016)
Episode 3: Hunters & Collectors – Selina’s (1998)
Episode 4: The Angels – Narara (1983)
Episode 5: Diesel – The Metro (2004)
Episode 6: Rose Tattoo – Boggo Road Jail (1993)
Episode 7: Jimmy Barnes – The Opera House (2009)
The last five episodes are scheduled to air from September:
Episode 8: Eurogliders – The Hordern (1984)
Episode 9: Archie Roach – Into The Bloodstream (2012)
Episode 10: Icehouse – Melbourne (1988)
Episode 11: Troy Cassar-Daley – Seymour Centre (2010)
Episode 12: Cold Chisel – Ringside Horden Pavillion (2003)
Ginger & the Vegesaurs
Meet the mighty Vegesaurs! Ginger and the Vegesaurs premiering in May on ABC Kids, ABC iview and the ABC Kids app
From Monday 23 May at 8.25AM
ABC Kids are pleased to announce that the new short-form animated series, Ginger & the Vegesaurs premieres Monday, 23 May at 8.25am, and is simultaneously available for streaming on ABC iview and the ABC Kids app.
Get ready to explore the late crunchiest period, where the world was dominated by the juiciest and freshest creatures ever to rule the planet.
Created by Gary Eck and Nick O’Sullivan, and developed and produced by the team at Cheeky Little - the makers of the popular animated series Kangaroo Beach, the 20 x 5 minute episodes will uncover a whole new world that is just waiting to be explored.
Follow along as Ginger, a young Tricarrotops and her baby Pea-Rex buddies Minty, Wasabi and Split explore the wonders Vegesaur Valley has to offer.
The incredible creatures, sights and sounds of the valley will transport pre-schoolers into the mists of time to a rich and colourful prehistory you never knew existed.
Anchored by the charming wit and delicious sense of humour of the all-knowing narrator, Ginger & the Vegesaurs is packed with action, comedy and heart.
With fun at its core, the series will also explore themes like mealtimes, sharing, friendship, nurturing and play through the hilariously wild adventures of the Vegesaur gang.
Commencing Monday 23 May, a new episode will roll out 7 days a week at 8.25am on ABC Kids and ABC iview. With an additional 5 episodes available on ABC iview following the premiere, enabling the audience to explore a little more of the wonders inside Vegesaur Valley.
Production Credits:
A Cheeky Little production for the ABC. Production funding from Screen Australia, Developed and Produced in Association with ABC. Developed and Financed with the Assistance of Screen NSW. Produced and Distributed in Association with Studio100. Executive Producers: Patrick Egerton, David Webster, Gary Eck and Nick O’Sullivan. ABC Executive Producers Libbie Doherty and Jan Stradling.
Lucy Worsley Investigates
From Sunday 5 June 8.30pm
Historian Lucy Worsley reinvestigates some of the most dramatic and brutal chapters in British history. In tonight’s episode, she looks at what started Britain’s century of bloody witch hunts.
In this fascinating new series, historian Lucy Worsley is reinvestigating some of the most dramatic and brutal chapters in British history. Witch trials. Murdered princes. The Black Death. The series sets out to uncover the shocking truths behind history’s most infamous mysteries and find out what they say about our changing society.
These are the stories we think we know. But looking at them now reveals new victims, new victors and complex societal issues that speak to us today.
Worsley tracks down lost records, re-examines crime scenes and calls on experts to reframe each case and reveal how attitudes towards society’s most vulnerable have shaped the way we see our past. It’s time to shed new light on history’s most notorious moments.
In tonight’s episode, she looks at what started Britain’s century of bloody witch hunts, uncovering the story of one supposed witch, whose case lit the fuse for the state-sanctioned killing of thousands.
Production credit: A BBC Studios production for BBC and PBS