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Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You
From Tuesday 2 February at 8:30pm
This three-part series from the BBC, Michael Mosley tells the story of how we are made. With privileged access to the first beats of a human heart, this series uses groundbreaking imagery to capture all the drama of human development.
100 trillion cells. 280 days. One human life. The person you are was decided before you were even born. The way you smile, the environments you thrive in, the colour of your eyes – from the moment you’re conceived to the moment you’re born, each critical event in the womb can change your life forever.
In episode one, Michael Mosley tells the story of our first eight weeks – the most perilous time in the womb.
Episode two, Against the Odds, tells the story of our middle weeks in the womb – when we become an individual.
In the last part of the series, Episode three – The Final Push charts the final months of life in the womb.
A BBC production with PBS.
###ABC celebrates David Bowie
ABC will pay tribute to the amazing life and career of David Bowie with a week of special programming, across multiple platforms.
ABC iview
From today, the Arts Channel on ABC iview will host classic Bowie interviews and footage sourced from the vast ABC archives. Visit iview.abc.net.au
Double J
Double J presents A Tribute to David Bowie
Tuesday, January 12 on Double J
After playing 14 hours of non-stop Bowie, Double J will continue to commemorate the life of one of music’s most creative forces. From 11am Myf Warhurst celebrates the music of Bowie. Expect three hours of the best of Bowie playlist with archives, special live chats and listener’s Bowie stories. Then, from 2pm (and again at 2pm Wednesday) Double J will play Bowie’s brand new album Blackstar in full. Listen at abc.net.au/doublej
ABC2
David Bowie: Five Years In The Making Of An Icon
Screens Wednesday, January 13 at 9.15pm on ABC2
This documentary provides unprecedented access to David Bowie’s personal archive, including previously unseen footage. This is the definitive portrait of one of rock’s most influential stars.
Extras: David Bowie
Screens Thursday, January 14 at 9pm on ABC2
David Bowie guest stars in the hit Ricky Gervais comedy, Extras. Andy (Ricky Gervais) has realised that fame is not all it is cracked up to be, when his sitcom receives terrible reviews. The public, however, give him encouragement. He’s recognised by a homeless man and his “biggest fan” in a pub. But when Andy and his friends head to a classy bar, he discovers that even David Bowie wants to mock him, in the form of a song - “the little fat man who sold his soul”.
ABC
Rage
Screens Friday, January 15 from 10.55pm to 5am on ABC
With over four decades of music, through his iconic music videos Rage celebrates the sights and sounds of what made David Bowie great. Visit abc.net.au/rage
Catalyst - New Series
2016 series return Tuesday 2 February at 8:00pm
Episode 1 - Battery powered homes
There’s a power revolution heading for our homes – a device that allows you to take power into your own hands. Its batteries, home batteries, and they’ve been called the holy grail of renewables – the key to the transition away from fossil fuels. Within five years, over a million Australian homes are expected to have one. So what do you need to know about this disruptive technology – a technology that offers every home the potential for 24 hour renewable power? In this Catalyst special, Dr Jonica Newby gives us the A to Z of home batteries – how they work, why you will want one, how they will change the way we consume electricity, and what they mean for the future of the nation’s and the world’s power generation. Australia is at the vanguard of this revolution - we will be one of the first countries in the world to experience the transition to the battery powered home
###Week commencing 24 January 2016
Sunday 24 January 2016
7:40pm Grand Designs: South London
8:30pm Series 2 Starts Vera: Ghost Position
10:00pm The Outlaw Michael Howe
Monday 25 January
7:30pm Special Event Australian Of The Year 2016
ABC TV will broadcast a special Australian of the Year Awards event live from Parliament House Canberra, featuring red carpet arrivals, stories about inspiring Australians and performances from leading Australian artists
9:00pm The Broken Shore
Tuesday 26 January
8:00pm Kangaroo Dundee
8:30pm Restoration Man: Airfield Tower (HMS Owl) Final
9:20pm Inside Men Final
Wednesday 27 January
8:00pm Would I Lie To You?
8:30pm Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: Death Do Us Part Final
9:25pm The Musketeers: Musketeers Don’t Die Easily Final
Thursday 28 January
8:00pm QI: Immortal Bard Rpt
8:30pm Sherlock: The Sign Of Three
10:00pm The Agony Of Secrets
Friday 29 January
8:00pm A Taste Of Landline Final
8:30pm Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple Final
Saturday 30 January
7:30pm Our Zoo
8:30pm Foyle’s War: Trespass
10:00pm We’ll Take Manhattan
###No Offence
From Thursday 11 February at 9:30pm
No Offence centres on a group of police officers working in a chaotic Manchester community. An original take on the world of the police procedural, it will shock, move and invite audiences to laugh themselves silly.
Set in a crumbling cop shop on the wrong side of Manchester, crime drama No Offence follows a group of police on the front line, wondering what they did to end up here, in this force, on this side of town.
Drug labs, arsonists, neo-Nazis and notorious murderers are all in a day’s work for this close-knit team, led by the dizzyingly capable but unquestionably unhinged DI Vivienne Deering. But when a particularly twisted serial killer emerges it leaves even the most hardened of these seasoned coppers reeling.
Flanked by her right-hand women – the compassionate but impulsive DC Dinah Kowalska and the recently (surprisingly) promoted DS Joy Freers – Deering and her team must crack this case by whatever unconventional means possible. Because amidst all the assorted low life; the pimps, the petty thieves, and downright nasty bastards they’ve dealt with, this will be their most disturbing case yet, one that will touch their lives in ways they could never expect.
###Cuffs
Starts Saturday 13 February at 8.30pm
8-part drama from BBC, a “fresh, authentic and contemporary cop show”, Cuffs shines a spotlight on a team of frontline police officers as they strive to protect the vulnerable, keep the streets safe and solve crimes in the vibrant seaside city of Brighton.
Full of humour and humanity, this fast-paced drama portrays the everyday rollercoaster of being a police officer in the UK.
And it’s a job where work-based pressures don’t end at the station door…
In the first episode, rookie cop Jake Vickers is partnered up with formidable tutor constable PC Ryan Draper. From assisting a suicidal mental health patient to arresting an outrageous shoplifter, Jake’s first shift is certainly challenging.
But being the Chief Super’s son, Jake’s biggest challenge might just be earning the respect of his new colleagues. Elsewhere, a ram-raid by a dangerous gang instigates a high-speed car chase through the city. And when a notorious criminal is released from prison he leaves a devastating trail in his wake.
###Week commencing 31 January 2016
Sunday 31 January
7:40pm Grand Designs: East Devon Final
8:30pm Vera: Sandancers
10:00pm An Accidental Soldier
Monday 1 February
8:00pm Return Australian Story
8:30pm Return Four Corners
9:20pm Return Media Watch
9:35pm Return Q&A
10:40pm Return Lateline
Tuesday 2 February
8:00pm Return Catalyst
8:30pm Series Premiere Countdown To Life: The Extraordinary Making Of You
9:30pm Countdown: Do Yourself A Favour Rpt
Wednesday 3 February
8:00pm New Series Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery: Kerry O’Brien
8:30pm New Series The Weekly With Charlie Pickering
9:00pm New Series Black Comedy
9:30pm Series Premiere Adam Hills: The Last Leg Down Under
Thursday 4 February
8:00pm QI: Intelligence Final
8:30pm Sherlock: His Last Vow Final
10:00pm The Agony Of Ageing Final
Friday 5 February
8:00pm Series Premiere Griff’s Great Britain
8:30pm New Series The Doctor Blake Mysteries: The Open Road
9:30pm Silent Witness: Change: Part 1
Saturday 6 February
7:30pm Our Zoo Final
8:30pm Foyle’s War: Elise Final
10:00pm Adam Hills: The Last Leg Down Under
10:45pm Black Comedy Rpt
###Doc Martin - Season 7
Returns Sunday 7 February 7 7:40pm
Dr. Martin Ellingham, the GP with a brusque bedside manner and a phobia of blood, returns in a new eight-part series set in the idyllic, sleepy hamlet of Portwenn in Cornwall.
Martin Clunes reprises his role as Dr. Martin Ellingham, the GP with a brusque bedside manner and a phobia of blood, in eight new episodes of the drama set in the idyllic, sleepy hamlet of Portwenn in Cornwall.
###Fake or Fortune - Season 4
From Tuesday 16 February at 9:30pm
Art detectives Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould return, starting with an investigation into three small pictures by one of Britain’s best-loved modern artists – LS Lowry.
###Week commencing 7 February 2016
Sunday 7 February
7:40pm Doc Martin New series
8:30pm Vera: Silent Voices
Monday 8 February
8:00pm Australian Story
8:30pm Four Corners
9:20pm Media Watch
9:35pm Q&A
10:40pm Lateline
11:10pm The Business
11:25pm Golf: PGA TOUR Highlights: Scottsdale
Tuesday 9 February
8:00pm Catalyst
8:30pm Countdown To Life: The Extraordinary Making Of You
9:30pm Countdown: Do Yourself A Favour Repeat
Wednesday 10 February
8:00pm Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery: Rebel Wilson
8:30pm The Weekly With Charlie Pickering
9:00pm Black Comedy
9:30pm Adam Hills: The Last Leg Down Under
Thursday 11 February
8:00pm Hatch, Match And Dispatch Series premiere
8:30pm Jack Irish New series
9:30pm No Offence Series premiere
Friday 12 February
8:00pm Griff’s Great Britain
8:30pm The Doctor Blake Mysteries
9:30pm Silent Witness
Saturday 13 February
7:30pm Death In Paradise New series
8:30pm Cuffs Series premiere
9:30pm Jack Irish Rpt
###Call the Midwife Christmas Special
Sunday 21 February at 8:30pm
The nurses and midwives ready themselves for Christmas 1959. An unexpected surprise for a grieving mother helps bring some Christmas cheer, while Nonnatus House is rocked to the core when one of its own goes missing.
###Afghanistan: Inside Australia’s War
From Tuesday 23 February at 8.30pm
Never before have Australia’s fighting women and men talked so candidly to the nation about war so soon after the shooting stopped. Afghanistan: Inside Australia’s War draws on the raw experiences of our longest war – from private soldiers to Prime Ministers. In their own words and through their own extraordinary helmet-cam battle footage (much of it never seen before) Australian ground war warriors lay bare their hearts in a searing, profound 3 x 1 hour epic – not just how they fought, but why and to what end.
The contributors to the series are all members of the Australian Defence Force who served in the 12 year war, the politicians who sent them to fight or Afghans with sharp insights into Australians’ contribution to the war.
Their accounts are complemented by Dan Wyllie’s spare, down-to-earth narration and elegantly cut archival footage. Afghanistan would become Australia’s first self-shot war and from the ADF archives of professionally and personally gathered footage come images that are poignant, dramatic and fresh. The series takes viewers inside the experiences of Australian soldiers in action, on patrol and at base.
The series puts Australia’s war in Afghanistan in the context of a global war on terror. The events of 9/11, Bali, Madrid, London and Iraq – plus candid reflections of former Prime Ministers John Howard and Julia Gillard – sit up against the experiences of Australian soldiers who constantly examine the reasons why they fight. Afghan commentators like Senator Hila Achekzai and former Warlord Pacha Khan Zadran reveal the complexities of that country, the moral as well as military maze in which our soldiers fought.
As much as a war story, Afghanistan: Inside Australia’s War is a portrait of a generation. What Australia’s fighting men and women did on our behalf is chilling, fascinating and often inspiring.
The way they did it – the search for solid moral foundations from which to fight this confusing war – is perhaps their most lasting legacy.
Great to see The Bill back on our screens from the very first episode. The pilot ‘Woodentop’ which first aired in 1983 was aired at 3.20pm today and more episodes are to follow.
I agree that it’s great that The Bill repeats are back on its rightful home, rather than being on 7TWO, in which they were rerunning 1999-2002 eps from 2011 to 2014, often at around Midnight. Interestingly, The Bill repeats are not even on Foxtel’s BBC UKTV these days.
Right after The Bill reruns, the ABC is now also rerunning Murder, She Wrote from the beginning at 4:10pm weekdays, which has been aired on all three commercial networks in the past, most notably on Nine & later Ten.
That programming makes no sense at all. They shifted the kids and teen programs off the main channel to the other channels with less viewers for this sort of shit?
Very odd match for the ABC but it must be going very cheap
Surely they could source some Aussie content from the 80s, 90s, 00s for the same price.
TV Tonight has an interview with ABC Director of Programming Brendan Dahill about the future of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries.