But it won’t be High Definition, will it?
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Pretty sure that has been around for months. The reporter happened to have to just discovered it.
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Aussie Cinema Classics Coming to iview
Watch a curacted selection of Australian movie greats for free this winter
Celebrate Australian cinema with iview’s diverse selection of critically-acclaimed and treasured homegrown movies. From classics to comedy, musical dramas to chilling crime capers take your pick and watch for free on ABC iview.
Now – 27th June
- Muriel’s Wedding
Now – 28th June
- Romper Stomper
Now – 13th August
- Careful, He Might Hear You
- Devil’s Playground
- Little Fish
- Satellite Boy
- September
- Somersault
- South Solitary
- Strictly Ballroom
- Suburban Mayhem
- The Black Balloon
- The Boys Are Back In Town
- The Little Death
- The Mule
- Two Hands
Now – 20th June & 28th June – 4th July
- The Square
Now – 14th October
- Proof
- The Delinquents
- The Silver Brumby
18th June – 13th August
- Jedda
- The Square
19th June – 18th August
- Animal Kingdom
- Balibo
- Dogs In Space
- He Died With A Felafel In His Hand
- Kenny
- Lantana
- My Year Without Sex
- Noise
- Romulus, My Father
- Samson and Delilah
- Snowtown
- Spear
- The Bank
- The Boys
- The Hunter
- The Turning
- Three Dollars
- Wake in Fright
21st June – 4th July
- Mao’s Last Dancer
21st June – 5th July
- Paradise Road
26th June – 9th July
- The Cup
28th June – 11th July
- Bran Nue Dae
5th July – 19th July
- Beautiful Kate
12th July – 25th July
- December Boys
19th July – 1st August
- The Heartbreak Kid
1st August - 30th Sep
- Adoration
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The ABC’s new word of the day.
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The Spit Series 2 - Saturday 12 September 8.20pm on ABC
Update: All episodes of series 2 will be available on ABC iview following the broadcast of episode 1
ABC iview launches fully refreshed and rebuilt app experience for Smart TVs
From today, Australians across the country can access their favourite ABC content in more ways than ever before following the rollout of major updates to the ABC iview app on Smart TVs.
The ABC is excited to launch a fully rebuilt and redesigned ABC iview app for modern TVs and large screen devices. The updated app provides a cleaner and more accessible interface, with login to bring rich personalisation features and program previews to help audiences find the latest releases of their favourite ABC content and discover new and original programming.
Alongside multiple platform improvements, the updated app has adaptive video streaming. This means higher quality streams are more reliable over slower network connections, resulting in a better, more consistent viewing experience and offering audiences across Australia access to the ABC iview app via a variety of ways – whenever and however they want, and wherever they are.
The updated app is available on:
- Samsung Tizen (2016 and later)
- Hisense (2017 and later)
- LG WebOS (1.0 and above)
It will soon be coming to HbbTV/FreeviewPlus devices, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
In addition, 2020 Hisense Smart TV devices will now include a dedicated ABC iview remote control button, providing a fast and easy one-touch journey to the iview app.
Other key improvements include:
- High-definition streaming for selected programs
- Simplified program screens that make it easier to browse series and episodes as the ABC makes full programs available
- A handy navigation shortcut to ABC Kids for favourite children’s programs such as Bluey
- Access to all ABC TV live streams – ABC TV (including local state-based streams), ABC COMEDY, ABC Kids, ABC NEWS and ABC ME
What’s more, audiences can now link their TV to their ABC Account and have these features synchronised across multiple devices, including Smart TV, connected TV, desktops, smartphone and tablet devices.
ABC’s Chief Digital & Information Officer Helen Clifton said: “This is a fantastic piece of teamwork. We’re continuing to strengthen the foundations for ABC iview and enhance our audience’s experience. Out of this work has come a raft of exciting new functionality such as adaptive streaming, watchlists and login on any device so users can watch ABC content from where they left off – all made available to a large proportion of our ABC iview audience.
“It means another innovative step forward for the ABC and makes our outstanding and distinctive content even more accessible to audiences.”
Coming up, audiences can expect to see an improved search experience and personalised recommendations powered by ABC’s internally developed recommendations engine.
This update of the app brings ABC iview on Smart TVs in line with a fully updated experience on Android TVs and Apple TVs launched in 2019.
ABC Comedy Spring Binge
Friday 2 October
The ABC Comedy Spring Binge brings audiences over twenty series to stream this October,
including premieres of all new seasons of Brassic, In The Long Run, and The Young
Offenders.Premiering on iview on 2 October:
Brassic (Season 2)- Brassic is back for a second season with all the main cast
returning as the gang of hapless mates who thieve, bribe and joyride their way through
life. The comedy drama has earned rave reviews, building up a loyal fan base thanks to
its trademark mix of the hilarious, ridiculous and deeply poignant, with critics calling it the
“new Shameless”.In The Long Run (Season 3)- Created by and starring Idris Elba, In The Long Run is
loosely based on Elba’s own childhood growing up in 1980s London. Season 3 sees the welcome
arrival of Walter’s mum from Sierra Leone with Walter desperate to impress.The Young Offenders (Season 3) - They may be older with responsibilities, but it
doesn’t stop Conor and Jock from getting up to some serious laugh out loud
shenanigans.Additional titles available to stream this October include:
Staged (season 1), Back In Very Small Business (season 1), Black Comedy (seasons 3 & 4), Brassic
(season 1), Comedy Next Gen (season 2), Comedy Up Late (season 6), Diary Of An Uber Driver (season
1), Finding Joy (season 1), High Fidelity (season 1), Intelligence (season 1), Plebs (seasons 1-5),
Retrograde (season 1), Rosehaven (season 4), Superwog (season 1) and The Ex-Pm (season 2).
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Damn intrusive nonsense.
They should just stick to only needing a login so you can sync where you’re up to across devices, etc.
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ALL MY FRIENDS ARE RACIST
Being cancelled can only mean you’re hot for best-friends Casey and Belle. He’s an emerging narcissist, she’s an overachieving careerist. They are the hottest friendship in town and the party is always at theirs. Life couldn’t get sweeter for these two Indigenous first-generation rich-brats. But when their ‘burn book’ wall, where they’ve documented friends and colleagues as racists, is discovered, they are suddenly ousted from their social groups. The pair need to make a decision on who and what they are willing to lose to finally grow up.
5x15 episodes , ABC iview exclusive
PRODUCTION CREDITS
A Maximo Entertainment and Hoodlum Entertainment production for ABC iview. Principal production investment from Screen Australia in association with Screen Queensland. Creator and writer Enoch Mailangi. Writer and Co-Executive Producer Kodie Bedford, Directed by Bjorn Stewart. Executive Producer ABC Indigenous Margaret Ross. ABC Head of Indigenous Kelrick Martin. Executive Producers Liliana Muñoz Maximo Entertainment; Nathan Mayfield and Tracey Robertson Hoodlum Entertainment; Leah Purcell and Bain Stewart Oombarra Productions. Producers Liliana Muñoz and Deborah Glover.
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STRONG WOMEN
This ABC iview-first series follows four resilient women as they support and empower each other while rivalling to become Australia’s strongest woman. From across the country these daughters, mothers and wives share what led them to the sport and how their tenacity is helping them rebuild themselves inside and out.
The series tackles women’s health issues combined with the latest healing theories of sports science. Strong Women is about what your body can do, not how it looks. The competitive aspect of the sport drives the momentum of the story while following the women gain strength, sacrifice relationships, struggle with injuries and celebrate their achievements. This uplifting and inspiring series shatters stereotypes, celebrates diversity and offers unique female role-models.
3x22, ABC iview exclusive
PRODUCTION CREDITS
A Strong Women production for the ABC, with principal production investment from Screen Australia in association with Film Victoria. Directors: Corinne Innes & Alexandra Gaulupeau. Producers: Corinne Innes, Alexandra Gaulupeau & Ann Megalla. ABC Executive Producer: Rachel Robinson. ABC Manager, Screen: Jo Chichester. ABC Head of Screen, Sport and Events Kath Earle.
It looks like all of ABC’s live streams are in 720p HD now. Good time to get some quality caps of ABC Comedy before it goes for good!
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The Vicar of Dibley in Lockdown
Dawn French reprises her role as the Vicar of Dibley, delivering lockdown sermons to her parishioners via Zoom.
Three 10 minute episodes now available on iView. ABC TV will broadcast compilation episode on 1 January.
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Watched it, it was good I’m some points, however it definetly misses the Alice element though. RIP.
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I thought it was a bit flat until the Alice segment which was well done.
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I agree. Alice, Owen, and Frank have all passed away in real life. I think the actor who plays Jim, (no no no no yes no, lol) has retired.
The tribute to alice was great.
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I did enjoy the dig at the change in policy regarding masks.
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The six episodes are now available on iView from tonight (December 23), after the screening of the Christmas special on ABC TV in Sydney and Melbourne.
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