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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.
iView seems to be defaulting to a really low res for me, so I have to change to 574p, is this the same for others?
It’d be nice if there was a 720p option, and it defaulted to whatever the viewer’s bandwidth could comfortably handle.
iView will stream season 2 of Killing Eve from April 8, same time as US and UK.
Season 2 of Killing Eve win premiere on iView Saturday 6 April.
ABC COMEDY Binge
Binge from Friday 12 April on ABC iview
ABC will keep you entertained and laughing over Easter.
ABC will keep Australian audiences laughing throughout Easter with ABC COMEDY’s Binge on iview,
featuring Australian premieres of some of the best UK comedies as well as Australian favourites
that will keep you in stitches.
ABC COMEDY Binge includes:
This Time with Alan Partridge – Australian premiere
Marking the 25th Anniversary of his BBC debut, Steve Coogan returns with his beloved character Alan
Partridge.
A heady mix of consumer affairs, current affairs, and lightweight frothy drivel, Alan tries to keep
proceedings ticking along while everything around him crumbles. This kind of format can flip in the
blink of an eye from a moving piece on child soldiers in West Africa to a VT about a vegetable
growing competition in Yorkshire. With the sheer variety of topics covered, striking the right tone
would be dizzyingly hard even for a skilled presenter. So, for Alan, it will be pretty much
impossible.
Women on the Verge – Australian premiere
Created by and starring Sharon Horgan (Catastrophe), Women on the Verge is a six-part comedy drama
set in Dublin that follows the lives of three women in their 30s, played by Kerry Condon (Better
Call Saul), Nina Sosanya (Marcella) and Eileen Walsh (Patrick Melrose).
Whilst everyone else is settling down, married with kids, and increasingly in control of their
lives, Laura, Katie and Alison seem to be moving in the opposite direction.
Women on the Verge follows these flawed and complex friends as they navigate the challenges of
life, love and relationships.
Flowers series 1 and series 2 – Australian premiere
Starring Academy-Award-winner Olivia Colman, Flowers is an imaginative, cinematic show about an
eccentric and dysfunctional family struggling to hold themselves together; Maurice (Julian
Barratt), the author of illustrated childrens books The Grubbs, and music teacher wife Deborah
(Colman) are barely together, but yet to divorce. As Maurice fights inner demons and dark secrets,
Deborah tries to keep the family together at all costs and becomes increasingly suspicious that
Maurice is in a secret homosexual relationship with his Japanese illustrator Shun (played by show
creator Will Sharpe).
The Young Offenders – Australian premiere
Based on the film of the same name, and featuring the same cast, this series follows a couple of
young fun loving criminals. Conor’s mum reckons Jock’s a little scumbag. But Conor knows that’s a
load of crap. They pass their time winding up their principal Barry Walsh by hitting on his
daughters. And winding up policeman Sergeant Healy by stealing bikes. Life’s a breakneck
rollercoaster when you’re having as much fun as Conor and Jock. That’s okay, because they’d do
anything for each other. Anyone who has a best friend would understand that.
Finding Joy – Australian premiere
When News Today’s lifestyle vlogger is forced to take a break following an accident at the
beauticians, no one is more surprised than Joy when she is asked to replace her. It seems she was
caught on camera – newly single and inebriated – performing a hilarious dance- videorap at an
office party and her bosses think she’s got what it takes. Joy disagrees but heartbroken and
desperate to win back ex-boyfriend, Aidan, she steps up – and, despite lurching from disaster to
disaster, becomes a social media sensation. Suddenly Joy is at the cutting edge of the what, where
and how of health, relationships and mental well-being. So how does the woman who has all the
answers to everybody else’s lives, find the answer to her own? Her friends think she’s losing her
mind but she knows she’s FINDING JOY. Starring Amy Huberman and Aisling Bea.
The COMEDY Binge will also include The Melbourne Comedy Festival 2019 Gala and Melbourne Comedy
Festival 2019 Allstars Super Show. As well as favourites Superwog, Comedy Up Late (Series 5 and 6)
and Comedy Next Gen (Series 2).
The best thing on TV so far in 2019.
ABC Comedy Binge
From 30 August on ABC iview
From 30 August, iview will be serving up plenty of belly laughs with the ABC Comedy Binge! Viewers can choose from over a dozen box sets including; brand new British comedies Ghosts, Year Of The Rabbit and Dead Pixels, all episodes of ABC ensemble series Squinters, Irish coming-of-age sitcom The Young Offenders, back-to-back comedians in the Melbourne Comedy Festival Gala: The Series and Nick Hornby’s State Of The Union.
Ghosts – Australian Premiere
In this six-part series a cash-strapped young couple inherit a grand country house, only to find it is both falling apart and teeming with the ghosts of former inhabitants.
Year of the Rabbit – Australian Premiere
Set in the dark heart of Victorian London, Detective Inspector Rabbit – played by cult comic actor Matt Berry - is a hardened booze-hound who’s seen it all. Rabbit’s been chasing bad guys for as long as he can remember, but these days his heart keeps stopping at inopportune moments.
Dead Pixels – Australian Premiere
From the makers of Peep Show comes Dead Pixels about Meg, Nicky and Usman who are all obsessed with online fantasy game Kingdom Scrolls. Split equally between the characters’ tragicomic real lives and their computer-animated misadventures in Kingdom Scrolls. Feel free to enter their domain. Just don’t mention dragons. They’re not dragons, they’re wyverns.
Other comedy titles include Murder In Successville series 1,2,3, Dead Boss series 1, and Melbourne Comedy Festival Allstars Supershow: The Series.
ABC has made tonight’s Waltzing The Dragon With Benjamin Law available with simplified Chinese subtitles on iView.
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The Twist
Thursday 29 August at 7:00am avaiable now.
The award-winning animated series that brings to life some of Australia’s most intriguing crime stories. These were crimes of passion, old-fashioned gangland homicides and mysteries that captivated the entire nation.
The Twist is an award-winning animated short form documentary series consisting of 15 x 3-5 minute, fully animated digital-first series which brings to life some of Australia’s most intriguing true crime stories.
The narrator-led episodes are filled with red-herrings and unfolding narratives that build to a final unexpected twist - a turn of events that will stun audiences. Viewers are enticed into playing the role of armchair detective and are kept guessing to the very end. These are complex, real stories with real victims and real perpetrators.
Stories have been drawn from Australia’s crime history spanning the last 100+ years and go to the heart of Australian culture through the lens of our more recent history.
This is an innovative approach to the true crime genre and one of the only examples of its kind. The series is made for delivery on digital platforms with the intention of reaching new audiences and convey these historic crimes to new online.
The Twist is gaining global recognition having won the Best Animation Program at the Rockie Awards International Competition at the Banff World Media Festival and has been nominated and officially selected in a large number of international festivals including Melbourne Webfest, Berlin Webfest and the New Vision International Film Festival.
What happened to Iview going to HD ? I read about it a long time ago and it never happened.
Not sure. Seven also announced HD for 7plus and that never heard anything else.
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It’s odd how only 9 Now is the only catchup service in HD .
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I do remember an article that Seven were planning to offer HD but at a premium cost for 7plus. Guess money talks. But nothing eventuated.
Not sure what ABC’s excuse is, but I consider it crappy that they haven’t upgraded the service to HD or at least kept us informed.
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I think Federal Government’s funding cuts over the years means the ABC doesn’t have the money to upgrade iView to HD.
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iView to be available on Foxtel iQ4
Dark Place (ABC iview Binge)
Sunday 27 October
Taken from the full 75 minute anthology telemovie, exclusively to ABC iview from 31 October, Dark Place, is an entertaining collection of five Indigenous bite-sized horror stories. Featuring fanged water creatures, housing commission witches, bloody bush ghouls, a deadly insomniac and the brutal underbelly of sex slavery, Dark Place will keep viewers on the edge of their seats.
Foe
When Elena, a chronic insomniac, wakes up with blood on her dress and a bloody knife in her bed, she questions whether sleep might actually be a portal to something terrifying deep inside her.
Vale Light
In the public housing commission estate of Pendle Vale, a single mum and her daughter do it tough, until one day a witch decides to change their fortune.
Killer Native
Early settlers Tom and Sally head to the bush to stake a claim. Here they come face to face with a Blackfella, who warns them of a deadly ghoul roaming the area.
Scout
Kidnapped from her own home and forced into the murky world of sex slavery, Scout has finally had enough. She devises a plan to escape and take revenge against her captors.
The Shore
A young girl living an isolated life in the woods with her father, discovers that growing up alone isn’t just for her protection - it’s for ours.