###TV Slate List August – December
##COMEDY
Already commenced:
Soul Mates, The Katering Show
##DRAMA
##FACTUAL
###Man Up
One bloke’s mission to break the silence. In Australia, men are traditionally seen as strong, stoic and tough as nails. They’re the alpha males of the world. They laugh in the face of fear. They excel at everything. And when life gets them down, they drink a cup of concrete and harden the fuck up. Or so the saying goes. But hardening up doesn’t seem to be working out too well for our blokes. Research shows Aussie men are lonelier and more disconnected than ever. Common mental health problems like depression and anxiety go untreated. And suicide is the leading cause of death for men aged 15-44 years. So why are men killing themselves? And why isn’t anyone talking about it?
###Howard on Menzies: Building Modern Australia
Today, in a climate where Prime Ministers struggle to survive 18 months rather than 18 years, it’s hard to imagine one leader could survive at the top long enough to personally oversee the transformation of the country. Howard contends we will likely never see such leadership again. This is history told from the inside, from one master of the political game about another.
###Ice Wars
Australia has a problem with Crystal Methamphetamine. Street name: Ice. The program makers of this four-part series had unprecedented access to Police Anti-Ice operations in metropolitan as well as rural and remote communities. The programs reveal the scope of the challenges facing law enforcement, health workers, users and the community as they try to mitigate, if not eradicate, the effects of Ice use in Australia.
###New Jane Caro Compass Series (Title TBC)
Following the success of the series For Better For Worse social commentator Jane Caro is back in October with a new four part COMPASS documentary exploring family relationships. Jane is a mother of girls who openly admits to knowing nothing about boys, so when she learnt that her eldest daughter was expecting a son…yes…a boy…she was taken aback. Even her husband was a bit bewildered!
This got her thinking. What is different about mother/son and father/daughter relationships? How does parenting a child of the opposite sex change the way you see the world? While Jane awaits the birth of the first boy-child to be born into the Caro family in a generation; she explores these ideas with a group of fathers and daughters, mothers and sons, who invite her into their homes to share the journey of their relationships.
###Silvia’s Italian Table
Join Italian food writer, Silvia Colloca, as she invites Australia’s most interesting personalities into her kitchen to show them how to cook while sharing stories the Italian way – surrounded by good food and great friends.
###Back Roads Series 2
Award-winning ABC journalist, Heather Ewart returns with a second series of Back Roads, the program that transports audiences to some of the nation’s most remote and inspiring communities and highlights rural Australia’s trademark grit, generosity, humour and innovation.
##Entertainment
Already commenced:
Gruen, The Checkout, You Can’t Ask That
##Arts
###Streets of Your Town
Streets of Your Town is a two-part series focusing on the aesthetics of our suburbs. Tim Ross – comedian, broadcaster and Architecture enthusiast – is tour guide for this very personal journey exploring how and why our suburbs look the way they do. From the Modernist boom in the ‘50’s, ‘60’s and ‘70’s to the McMansions that came to dominate our suburban landscape from the ‘80’s, our design decisions say a lot about the times we live in.
Travelling the country and gaining unprecedented access to some of our most iconic homes and meeting their owners, peeling back their history and revelling in their beauty, Tim poses the question: from Modernism to McMansionism, how did we get here?
###Meet the Mavericks Series 2
In Series 2 of Meet the Mavericks, we meet filmmakers, theatre makers, musicians, performance artists, writers, actors and all round troublemakers. Each episode brings two creative talents together for an inspiring conversation about how they see the world, what drives them, what enrages them, and how they channel that passion into their work.
Whether from the same field or completely different areas of art and culture, these mavericks quiz each other and compare notes about their creative lives, giving the audience a deeper insight into the minds of the people who challenge and shape our cultural landscape.
##Exclusive to 
###Short Cuts To Glory: Matt Okine Vs Food
Short Cuts To Glory: Matt Okine Vs Food is a ‘how to’ guide for anyone who can’t cook. Hosted by comedian and triple j breakfast co-host, Matt Okine, each 5-10 minute interstitial provides an easy to follow, step-by-step guide for simple but crowd-pleasing recipes.
In each episode Matt visits one of Australia’s finest cooks or chefs who will teach him one dish at a time while also sharing plenty of their insider tips and tricks of the trade.
###When TV Was Awesome
When TV Was Awesome is a series of short vignettes especially selected from the rich resource that is the ABC archive. Pulled out, dusted off and creatively revoiced, some of our best archival gems get the comedy-mash-up make-over they deserve! Irreverent, funny, satirical, sharable, clickable and above all, When TV Was Awesome is an enjoyable reimagining of our television history.
##Younger Viewers
###Little Lunch specials: Halloween and Christmas
The hugely successful Australian children’s series, Little Lunch, will return with 2 x 30’ Halloween and Christmas specials.
Little Lunch is a series of funny and touching adventures during snack time in the school playground, based on the popular books, written by Danny Katz and illustrated by Mitch Vane.
###Kazoops
Vibrant original animation series Kazoops is aimed at 3-5 year old viewers and follows the adventures of Monty, an inquisitive six- year-old with a vivid imagination, and Jimmy Jones, his loyal best friend. In each episode Monty confronts a preconception about the world in which he lives, usually imposed by grownups, and sets out to challenge it by embarking on a wild imaginary adventure with Jimmy Jones that offers them a fresh perspective.