moved to more appropriate thread
It’s good to see the ABC airing movies again, the only network to have aired zero for a long time now, around 2011 or 2012 (prior to they used to air lots). The oldest recording on my DVR is “Raging Bull” on ABC 2 with the old yellow logo from 2011.
The one’s they’re airing over successive Sundays “Muriel’s Wedding” (last week), “Mao’s Last Dancer” and “Bran Nue Dae” are all licenced by Roadshow, who Nine have had a very long relationship with.
Maybe ABC were able to get rights to some titles on the condition it was just one run and then revert to Nine, also being a public broadcaster might’ve helped. I think TVT reported it was due to coronavirus impacting programming.
As seen with 10 in recent years, got rights to some Roadshow movies, then after airing a few times they ended up back on Nine.
Nine still appear to have the first look / first run with them though.