ABC iView

Neither Insiders, Offsiders or ABC News Vic have been uploaded to iView today. Weird, any one have a thought as to why?

I have noticed a delay a few times earlier in the year as well. Strange.

A lot of white people there.

iview Australian Comedy Binge Now Showing

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LONG FORM
• A Moody Christmas
• Almost Midnight
• Comedy Up Late S4 & S5
• Fresh Blood: Fancy Boy
• Fresh Blood: Wham Bam Thankyou Ma’am
• Get Krack n S1
• Growing Up Gracefully
• The Katering Show S1 & S2
• Lost in Pronunciation
• Ronny Chieng: International Student
• Rosehaven S1 & S2
• The Edge of the Bush
• The Ex-PM S1 & S2
• The Letdown
• The Melbourne International Comedy Festival Debate
• The Melbourne International Comedy Festival Gala
• The Melbourne International Comedy Festival Superstars
• Upper Middle Bogan S1-3
• The Warriors

SHORT FORM
• Aussie Rangers
#CelesteChallengeAccepted
• DAFUQ
• All new Fresh Blood
• Goober
• Kiki and Kitty
• Other People’s Problems
• The Chinaboy Show
• Virgin Bush
• When TV Was Awesome S1 & S2

ABC LAUNCHES CHINESE COLLECTION IN CELEBRATION OF LUNAR NEW YEAR!

To celebrate Lunar New Year, ABC iview is providing a range of popular ABC programs with subtitles for Chinese audience members. This is part of ABC’s ongoing initiative to expand our content to be relevant to all Australians.

Last year, ABC iview provided preschool programs in Mandarin on ABC KIDS iview and these accumulated over 8.5 million plays. From Friday 16 February, ABC iview will expand the offering to include Chinese subtitles across much loved ABC series including:

  • Back Roads: The Complete Series 1 – 3;
  • Australian Story (select episodes);
  • Four Corners (select episodes);
  • Catalyst (select episodes);
  • You Can’t Ask That: The Complete Series 1 – 2.

Rebecca Heap, ABC Head of Programming and Digital said: “As the national broadcaster, the ABC is committed to serving all Australians. We appreciate how culturally and linguistically diverse Australia is with more than one-fifth of Australians speaking a language other than English at home. Our preschool Mandarin programs have been a big hit on ABC KIDS iview amongst both Mandarin speaking households and English-speaking households keen to broaden their language awareness. We are excited to be able to extend our offering with our selection of subtitled ABC programs to now cater for all age groups.”

ABC KIDS Special programming

The Housemate

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New online comedy series coming to ABC iview, Facebook and YouTube in 2018

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Heartbreak, heartache and extra rent; who will be…The Housemate?

ABC and Screen Australia and are excited to announce The Housemate, a new online comedy series from Chips and Gravy Films, premiering on ABC iview later this year.

Created, written by and starring talented new creative duo, Alexandra Keddie and Gemma Bird Matheson, The Housemate online pilot was an instant hit with Facebook fans in 2017, receiving widespread media attention and acclaim.

In this new full online series adaptation, definitely not based on The Bachelor, best mates Alex and Gemma get to know a host of potential housemates over several weeks, eliminating them from the competition one by one until they finally find the new housemate of their dreams.

Through heartbreak and heartache, Alex and Gemma learn who is ready to put themselves on the line for an affordable room in inner-east Melbourne, featuring good light and easy access to public transport and shops.

ABC Head of Comedy Rick Kalowski said, “The Housemate was one of our most joyful recent online comedy discoveries, and we’re delighted to be making a full digital series of it with the incredibly talented new creator-writer-performer team of Alex Keddie and Gemma Bird Matheson. Here’s hoping this is but their first collaboration with us at ABC and our partners at Screen Australia."

Dynamic duo, Alexandra and Gemma also said, “It’s been a pretty surreal experience to be able to create our own work; especially to have the opportunity to share our silly story with a wider audience. Our mums are really proud."

Rosie Lourde, Investment Manager of Online Production at Screen Australia said “Gemma and Alex successfully demonstrated their capacity to build an online audience for The Housemate when they racked up 264,000 views for the teaser trailer. This commission is an opportunity we’re very pleased to support.”

The Housemate is a Chips and Gravy production with principal production investment from the ABC and Screen Australia in association with Princess Pictures.

Not sure if it has been mentioned, ABC has bought the rights to British drama Killing Eve, made for BBC America and starring Sandra Oh (Grey’s Anatomy). It has been renewed for a second season.

> iview has changed,

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve just released a major refresh of the iview mobile apps and website

But no HD :thinking:

Ah yes, because the cost to upgrade the servers to HD will be easy, given that it’s currently raining cash at the ABC. :thinking:

I take your point but HD is nothing new and the ABC are generally quite progressive in many areas of technology including iView which is considered one of the better catch up / streaming services for usability etc. One would think HD rollout for the service is on the cards somewhere, hopefully sooner rather than later… their terrestrial TV channels and news production is another story.

True, and I feel that if the Govt hadn’t cut their funding in 2014 and again this year, the ABC would’ve done HD already. It would cost a lot to acquire licences for streaming codecs and tech.

They’d also still have state editions of 7.30 and hour-long editions of PM, had they kept being funded properly. This Govt can get fucked by a rake.

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Well Cleaver has been elected to the Senate.

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576p is HD according to ACMA’s definition…

ABC iview celebrates 10th birthday with major refresh to video-on-demand features

The ABC has marked the 10th birthday of ABC iview by releasing a major update of the free video-on-demand (VOD) service, delivering new features and improvements for audiences across Australia.

The nation’s leading free-to-air television VOD service reaches 3.3 million devices monthly by focusing on quality, distinctive programs for audiences, including acclaimed drama, comedy and factual series such as Mystery Road, You Can’t Ask That and F*!#ing Adelaide.

ABC iview has been a game-changer in meeting audience expectations for quality on-demand television, enabling viewers to access programs anywhere at any time. ABC iview offers immediate, on-demand viewing of engaging and innovative content from Australia and overseas, free to all Australians, highlighted by binge television viewing, exclusive digital-only programs, agenda-setting news and current affairs, and live streaming of ABC channels.

The major updates to ABC iview include:

  • A redesign of the entire look and feel of iview across mobile apps and the website, showcasing the depth of quality Australian and international programs available to watch on-demand.

  • The introduction of Show Pages that bring together all available series, episodes, video extras and cast and guest information in the one place.

  • A re-engineered Search tool that makes it simpler to search for a program and start watching sooner.

The update coincides with the ABC iview drama binge throughout June and July, featuring the Australian premieres of Killing Eve, City and the City, Apple Tree Yard and The Tunnel series three.

ABC iview Manager Sally O’Donoghue said: “The major refresh of the ABC iview experience makes it easier to find all of our great shows and our growing catalogue of complete series, including Mystery Road and Killing Eve. The new and improved ABC iview not only looks fresher and cleaner – it’s also much simpler to search for a program and to find everything from your favourite shows on the same page.

“The ABC is immensely proud of iview and its engagement with Australian audiences, built up over the past 10 years. Thank you to all our industry partners and the Australian public for their creative energy and support. We will continue to listen to audiences and innovate with iview and other ABC on-demand services to provide more of our distinctive and engaging content, free to all Australians.”

The ABC is a pioneer in delivering quality, distinctive Australian content across drama, comedy, children’s and the arts in the digital era:

Launched on 23 July 2008, ABC iview was Australia’s first internet television service – developed totally in-house and at low cost by the ABC.

  • In 2010, the ABC was the first Australian broadcaster to make its online streaming service available on tablet computers.

  • In 2012, the ABC was the first to make its service available on smartphones.

  • In 2014, ABC iview began bi-annual “Binge on the Best” Australian comedy and drama series.

  • In 2015, the ABC launched the ABC Arts channel, available exclusively on iview.

  • In 2015, the ABC launched the ABC KIDS iview app, for pre-school children.

  • In 2016, the ABC launched the ABC ME iview app, for school-age children.

  • In 2016, the ABC launched continuous live streaming of its broadcast channels.

  • In 2018, the ABC started live streaming separate state and territory feeds of its main channel, delivering relevant and valued local programming to viewers across Australia.

The major update of ABC iview will be rolled out to connected TVs at a later date.

Deadlock

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Friday 20 July

Deadlock, a 5 x 12-minute high-octane series, explores the incredible highs, lows, joys, heartbreak, camaraderie, laughs and bittersweet sorrow that makes up a teenager’s life.

A clandestine ‘tunnel party’ in the depths of the hinterland draws kids from all over the area with the usualfare of sex, drugs and thumpi ng music, but mostly with the Lure of a spectacular stunt - that then goes awesomely awry.

As fire spreads through the bush, cops descend, and teens flee onto the dark roads in panic, the crash that follows becomes the transformative event that drives the main characters and the mystery of the show. The crash is an end point for some and a catalyst for others, forging new alliances and triggering events that transform their Lives and the idyllic town.

Each of the five episodes explores a pivotal change for the Lead characters - Sadie’s (Luca Sardelis) tough decision to Leave her home town and her mother’s crazy antics in a bid for freedom in the city; Laila’s (Bijou Gracie Henry ) ridiculous plan to fabricate her best friend’s pregnancy in a prank that backfires horribly; Aero’s (Thomas Weatherall) elaborate cover-up of his involvement in the crash to preserve the ‘indigenous success story’ of his Life; Zai’s (Amit Pala) determination to protect his secret sexuality from a traditional family determined to invade his privacy on every Level;and Jed’s (Michael Philippou) absurd attempts at denial and his fitful metamorphosis into an individual.

As one character’sjourney weaves into the next, passing the baton on,the unfolding mystery of the crash is resolved.The night of the accident willbecome the touchstone for each episode - a vignette of experience that willintroduce us to our next ‘hero character’, reveal a new perspective and offer up another piece of the ongoing puzzle.

Starring YouTube sensations Michael Philippou and Danny Philippou (aka RackaRacka), Luca Sardelis (Nowhere Boys) and Darcy McGrath (My Place), Deadlock also features exciting young talent from across the Northern Rivers region - including Bijou Gracie Henry, Audrey Spence, Paddy Swaine, Theodore Bourgoin, Sophie Wright and Ned Sacks.

How do programs actually get on iView? Are they recorded from one of the ABC TV network feeds automatically, or are they actually fed into the system separately?

Tonight’s episode of Gruen seems to have been uploaded from a recording of . It has a promo for The Weekly with Charlie Pickering cut off at the beginning and the last part of the show near the credits has been clipped. So either ABC TV was running late and they didn’t bother to update the iView system, or the recording system’s time was out of whack.

ABC iView Twitter account is closing

The programs are encoded for iview as they are broadcast which is why mostly there is a delay from program broadcast to iview. There’s some instances where programs are directly uploaded to iview but that’s not common.