Apparently the ABC has teamed up with a New York Times journalist, for a look at race-relations in Australia “through American eyes”, and is being promoted for broadcast next week.
Can anyone please explain why we need an American to analyse race in this country superficially, through the prism of their nation’s horrible history of slavery and segregation, which have not been major themes of race relations in this country?
As belligerent as the miniscule Welsh and Scottish minorities have become, regarding Welsh and Gaelic languages, and their imposition on public life in Wales and Scotland; Indigenous languages play no role in “cultural identity” in 2017. Stop trying to make it a thing.
Edit: A case in point below from the Bureau of Meteorology.
As part of the Bureau’s Reconciliation Action Plan, the Kaurna Warra Karrpanthi Language Committee has granted permission to use ‘ngayirdapira’ for Adelaide’s official weather station. The word, ‘ngayirdapira’ translates to ‘concerning the sky’. The official name of the weather station will be Adelaide (West Terrace / ngayirdapira).
http://www.bom.gov.au/weather-services/announcements/sa/kent-town-site-move.shtml
Why on earth an English language phrase, relating to a city street which didn’t even exist prior to European settlement, needs to be presented as translated to a meaningless phrase in this context (the name of the weather station is a distinct identifier, as opposed to just referring to “the sky”), is just lunacy. It’s almost a wind-back of scientific method of collecting, storing and presenting data - very concerning.
###Week commencing 23 July
Sunday 23 July
7:40pm Grand Designs New Zealand
8:30pm Poldark
9:30pm Death In Paradise Rpt
10:30pm Cleverman Rpt
11:20pm Adam Hills: The Last Leg Down Under
Monday 24 July
8:00pm Australian Story
8:30pm Four Corners
9:20pm Media Watch
9:35pm Q&A
10:40pm Lateline
Tuesday 25 July
8:00pm Ask The Doctor
8:30pm Joanna Lumley’s India Series Premiere
9:20pm Foreign Correspondent
9:50pm TBA
Wednesday 26 July
8:00pm QI Rpt
8:30pm Shaun Micallef’s MAD AS HELL
9:00pm Utopia
9:30pm Growing Up Gracefully
10:00pm Luke Warm Sex Rpt
Thursday 27 July
8:00pm The Checkout: Best Before Final
8:30pm Pulse
9:30pm Cleverman
Friday 28 July
8:00pm Mary Berry’s Absolute Favourites
8:30pm Prime Suspect 1973
9:20pm Line Of Duty Final
Saturday 29 July
7:30pm Father Brown
8:15pm The Good Karma Hospital Final
9:05pm Agatha Raisin Rpt
9:50pm Pulse Rpt
10:50pm rage at Splendour In The Grass
Rage brings you all the excitement from Splendour in the Grass 2017. Packed with live performances and guests, Rage’s coverage is your free pass to one of the premier events on the music calendar.
My PVR Picked up that The Bill is back in the early morning schedule from today. They’ve gone right back to series 1 ep 1, showing the “Woodentop” pilot today.
###Short Cuts to Glory: Matt Okine vs Food
From Thursday 3 August at 8:00pm
In this new 10 x 30 min series, comedian Matt Okine visits the home kitchens of Australia’s top chefs and food experts including Neil Perry, Jill Dupleix, Dan Hong, Christine Manfield, Colin Fassnidge, Katherine Sabbath and Stefano Manfredi. All of Matt’s expert guests teach him world class cooking techniques to trusted favourite recipes, along the way they reveal their tricks of the trade and share top tips that viewers can keep for life.
Short Cuts To Glory: Matt Okine vs Food is about bringing the café to your kitchen when you are too lazy to venture out, or impressing that special someone on a date night. It comes to the rescue when you don’t know what to feed the hungry mouths in your family or when you have gone a bit too hyper on the dinner party invites. Plus, if you feel like treating yourself to something quick, simple and tasty when you are home alone or at the end of a massive day at work then this is the show for you. Starting with ‘the basics’ each episode has a broad theme, others include ‘fit ‘n healthy’, ‘cheap as’, ‘family dinner’, ‘date night’ and ‘comfort food’. The recipes are intimidation free, and the easy to follow on screen instructions mean that no matter what your skills are in the kitchen you will learn quickly from the best in the business.
Joining Matt in each episode is food educator and author, Alice Zaslavsky who’ll be sharing her expert knowledge on everything from what to stock in your cupboards, how to slice and dice, what meat cuts should be used for what and how to keep fruit and veg fresh for as long as possible. Matt also heads out shopping to get advice on the best pans, knifes, pots, trays and a whole lot more.
As a young comedian cutting his teeth on the stand up circuit, Matt has done time on the breadline but now thanks to a few ‘proper’ jobs he’s splashing the cash on all things food. If he’s not checking out the latest restaurant, he’s at home trying to cook up a storm.
###Week commencing 30 July
Sunday 30 July
7:40pm Grand Designs New Zealand
8:30pm Poldark
9:30pm The Helpmann Awards
Enjoy spectacular performances from Australia’s most distinguished live performers at the 2017 Helpmann Awards. Aladdin, Kinky Boots, My Fair Lady and The Book of Mormon are nominated in the Best Musical category.
Monday 31 July
8:00pm Australian Story
8:30pm Four Corners
9:20pm Media Watch
9:35pm Q&A
10:40pm Lateline
Tuesday 1 August
8:00pm Ask The Doctor
8:30pm Joanna Lumley’s India Final
9:20pm Foreign Correspondent Final
9:50pm TBA
Wednesday 2 August
8:00pm Hard Quiz New Season
8:30pm Shaun Micallef’s MAD AS HELL
9:00pm Utopia
9:30pm Growing Up Gracefully
10:00pm Adam Hills: The Last Leg
Thursday 3 August
8:00pm Short Cuts To Glory: Matt Okine vs Food New Series
8:30pm Pulse
9:30pm Cleverman
Friday 4 August
8:00pm Mary Berry’s Absolute Favourites
8:30pm Prime Suspect 1973
9:20pm Happy Valley New Season
Saturday 5 August
7:30pm Father Brown
8:15pm Last Tango In Halifax New Season
9:15pm Agatha Raisin Rpt
10:00pm Pulse Rpt
11:00pm Adam Hills: The Last Leg
###Week commencing 6 August
Sunday 6 August
7:40pm Grand Designs New Zealand
8:30pm Poldark
9:30pm Death In Paradise Rpt
10:30pm Cleverman Rpt
Monday 7 August
8:00pm Australian Story
8:30pm Four Corners
9:20pm Media Watch
9:35pm Q&A
10:40pm Lateline
Tuesday 8 August
8:00pm The House With Annabel Crabb New Season
8:30pm The AI Race
9:30pm The Farthest Series Premiere
In August 1977 NASA’s Voyager mission set off a journey to visit Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. With its iconic golden record on board, humanity’s greatest achievement runs using less computing power than a mobile phone.
Wednesday 9 August
8:00pm Hard Quiz
8:30pm Shaun Micallef’s MAD AS HELL
9:00pm Utopia
9:30pm Growing Up Gracefully
10:00pm Adam Hills: The Last Leg
Thursday 10 August
8:00pm Short Cuts To Glory: Matt Okine vs Food
8:30pm Pulse
9:30pm TBA
Friday 11 August
8:00pm Mary Berry’s Absolute Favourites
8:30pm Prime Suspect 1973
9:20pm Happy Valley
Saturday 12 August
7:30pm Father Brown
8:15pm Last Tango In Halifax
9:15pm Agatha Raisin Rpt
10:00pm Pulse Rpt
11:00pm Adam Hills: The Last Leg
Is this the first time the awards air on FTA? Foxtel Arts will show them live from Sydney’s Capitol Theatre on Monday, July 24.
Yes. The first three years weren’t broadcast and then from 2004 they were on various Foxtel channels.
##ABC celebrates Science
The ABC is celebrating Science and Science Week (12-20 August) with a range of dedicated programming and audience engagement initiatives that highlight its commitment to the genre. The ABC broadcasts more Science content than any other free-to-air Australian broadcaster and is proud to present this range of new offerings for audiences of all ages, across TV, radio, digital and online.
The ABC will be kicking off Australia’s Biggest Smartphone Survey, working with researchers and audiences across multiple platforms and programs, to explore Australians’ relationship with their smartphones – for better or worse.
Meanwhile, ABC Splash, the home of digital educational content, is calling on Australian school children to get involved with the War on Waste competition. Following on from ABC’s hugely successful series and campaign of the same name, this competition asks children to identify a waste problem and a solution.
ABC TV’s flagship science program Catalyst is back for a new series to inspire Australian audiences. And on ABC RN, season two of the new podcast and program Science Friction delves into artificial intelligence, medicine and bias.
Michelle Guthrie, ABC’s Managing Director said: “At a time when other media organisations are abandoning key genres like Science, the ABC is stepping up its commitment to providing distinctive, quality local programming. The ABC is committed to Science broadcasting and we look forward to delivering on that commitment to our audiences across all our platforms.”
###ONLINE
Education – ABC Splash
ABC Splash is running a competition asking students to use their STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and maths) skills to create solutions to Australia’s waste problems. Students need to research one waste problem identified in ABC’s War on Waste television series and come up with a 90-second pitch for a solution that has been designed using STEAM thinking. For more information visit: http://splash.abc.net.au/home#!/competition/2576886/war-on-waste-competition
###ABC Science: Australia’s Biggest Smartphone Survey
This Science Week, the ABC wants to know about one of the key relationships in your life – the one between you and your smartphone. These deceptively simple pieces of technology have transformed our lives. And we want to know how it’s affected you – the good, the bad and the ugly! How has it changed your life for the better? Or for worse? How much time do you spend on it? What would you like to know about smartphones and smartphone use?
We’ll use all this information to build a picture of the relationship Australians have with their smartphone. And we’re doing this in the pursuit of science – your responses will help researchers paint a picture of smartphone use in Australia.
##TELEVISION
###Catalyst – Series returns Tuesday, 15 August at 8.30pm on ABC TV and iview
We’re living through a golden age of scientific discovery and Catalyst returns to take you to the heart of the biggest Science stories from Australia and around the world. The series is made up of hour long programmes, each one looking at the latest Science on single subjects from human health and medical breakthroughs to astronomy and technology. We’re aiming to capture the wonder and excitement at the heart of these stories and meet the scientists and researchers working at the forefront of these fields.
Many of the films are hosted by presenters chosen for their expertise and ability to communicate the discoveries in their fields. We dive into the hunt for alien life beyond our solar system, investigate whether seaweed can help save the world, witness some of the extraordinary techniques used in operations to heal the human heart, and undertake a world-first experiment to understand how changing what’s in your gut can radically alter your life. We’re also working with international co-producers to bring some of the best filmmaking from around the world. It’s a series that will surprise, delight and inform in equal measure.
###The Farthest – 9.30pm Tues 8th August (Part 1) and Tues 15th August (Part 2) on ABC and iview
The Farthest tells the captivating stories of the people and events behind one of humanity’s greatest achievements in exploration: NASA’s Voyager mission, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this August. Still going strong four decades after launch, the twin spacecraft carries an iconic golden record with greetings, music and images from Earth – a gift for any aliens that might one day find it. It left our solar system and ushered humanity into the interstellar age in 2012, and is the farthest-flung object humans have ever created. A billion years from now, when our sun has flamed out and burned Earth to a cinder, the Voyagers and their golden records will still be sailing on – perhaps the only remaining evidence that humanity ever existed.
###The A.I. Race – Tuesday 8th August at 8.30pm on ABC TV and iview
In a one-hour special we explore how humans are taking on the robots designed to replace us. Artificial intelligence is coming and the disruption will impact workers and our society far into the future. Get ready for The A.I. Race.
###ABC ME
Throughout Science Week, ABC ME is celebrating by airing science themed programs to encourage an interest in science amongst Australian children.
ABC Education (10am-12pm) will be treating viewers to Physics House, Ecomaths, Full Proof, Nature’s Microworlds, Take on Technology, an encore screening of Stargazing for Beginners and more.
From 2pm, ABC ME continues the science theme with Absolute Genius with Dick and Dom, selected episodes of Horrible Science, Annedroids, Brain Freeze, Backyard Science, Science Max: Experiments at Large, and premiere episodes of METV’s Science Time.
##iview
###Sciencey – coming soon to iview
Can you control your dreams? Why do we sound Australian? Can you 3D print another you? Why are things cute? Why do headphones get tangled? When will we go off grid? Sciencey is a new social series from ABC that delivers illuminating answers to some of the strangest questions in the universe. In the process of answering the seemingly unanswerable, the series showcases the latest in Australian Science and offers a platform for the best young minds and thinkers in the nation.
During Science Week, iview will also feature a curated collection of Science-themed programming, including Todd Sampson’s Life on the Line, Stargazing Live, Brian Cox: Life of a Universe and Nano.
During National Science Week, and all year round, the ABC is home to fascinating stories and extraordinary achievements. Join the conversation: #ScienceWeek
##RADIO
###Radio National (RN)
All In The Mind
In a Science Week special on Sunday August 13, All In The Mind on ABC RN – one of the ABC’s most popular podcasts, presented by Lynne Malcolm – delves into the relationship between your brain and your smartphone: is this technology genuinely addictive, and if so why?
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/allinthemind/
Life Matters
ABC RN’s daily program dedicated to living a better life will also explore how we use our smartphones. Life Matters will interview scientists and hear from its audience, learning all about the good and the bad of living such a highly connected existence.
In addition, Life Matters will expand on Australia’s Biggest Smartphone survey by following a number of people as they experiment with a targeted ‘digital detox’, exploring the good and bad effects it has on their lives.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/lifematters/
Science Friction
ABC RN’s Science Friction, hosted by Natasha Mitchell, is launching its second season in National Science Week. Season 2 dives into intriguing, surprising, sometimes chilling stories — from the bone wars to the drone wars, a body organ heist and real-life luddites. But we’re kicking off with a special on sex, science and technology, over two episodes for National Science Week on August 12 and August 19. Does AI have a white guy problem? Is your digital life discriminating against you? And, from lab rats and beyond, has science turned a blind eye to female bodies?
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/sciencefriction/
###triple j
Dr Karl will continue to grapple with life’s scientific mysteries during his Science Week chat with Zan Rowe on triple j and his Great Moments in Science podcast.
More wonders of Science will be explored on ABC Local and Regional Radio, and Radio Australia with more details to be announced soon.
Sunday 13 August
7:40pm Grand Designs New Zealand
8:30pm Poldark Season Final
9:30pm Death In Paradise Rpt
10:30pm Parer’s War
Monday 14 August
8:00pm Australian Story
8:30pm Four Corners
9:20pm Media Watch
9:35pm Q&A
10:40pm Lateline
Tuesday 15 August
8:00pm The House With Annabel Crabb
8:30pm Catalyst Series Premiere
9:30pm The Farthest
Wednesday 16 August
8:00pm Hard Quiz
8:30pm Shaun Micallef’s MAD AS HELL
9:00pm Utopia
9:30pm Growing Up Gracefully
10:00pm Adam Hills: The Last Leg
Thursday 17 August
8:00pm Short Cuts To Glory: Matt Okine vs Food
8:30pm Pulse
9:30pm TBA
Friday 18 August
8:00pm Mary Berry’s Absolute Favourites
8:30pm Prime Suspect 1973
9:20pm Happy Valley
Saturday 19 August
7:30pm Father Brown
8:15pm TBA
9:15pm Agatha Raisin Rpt
10:00pm Pulse Rpt
11:00pm Adam Hills: The Last Leg
From Saturday 12 August at 6pm
Five days a week, 40 weeks a year, nearly 4 million young Australians go to school. For six hours a day, teachers not only teach our sons and daughters, they also cajole, comfort, and celebrate the students in their care.
In this three-part documentary series, three high schools give Compass unfettered access to their classrooms and staffrooms to find out what makes teachers tick. Presented by Jane Caro, well known for her interest in education, The Staffroom goes behind the scenes, into the teachers “sacred spaces” and reveals a reality far more complex than the media headlines suggest.
Focussing on the experience of six teachers, Jane explores what drives them, what defeats them and what inspires them. We observe them as they teach, wrestle with student demands, and cope with the constant deluge of marking and admin!
Along the way Jane busts some myths about life as a teacher –that they work short hours, that teaching is a ‘plan-b’ career, and that they get 12 weeks of holidays a year. Instead, Jane uncovers that teachers truly are the lifeblood of our schools.
Jane Caro is an author, novelist, journalist, broadcaster, columnist, advertising writer and social commentator. She has published several books, including “The Stupid Country: How Australia is Dismantling Public Education” and “What Makes a Good School?”, both coauthored with Chris Bonnor. She appears in the media regularly including Q&A, The Drum and Sunrise.
From Friday 1 September at 8:30pm
Blinking into sunlight, 26-year-old Ivy Moxam (Jodie Comer) stumbles out into the street, away from the cellar that’s been her prison for the last 13 years. But escape is not the end of Ivy’s story. It’s just the beginning.
As she returns home, Ivy’s parents try to hide their bitter separation from her, and are desperate to recreate the idyllic life she was wrenched from. She has a mother (Natasha Little) who can’t confront the truth of those missing years; a father (Stuart Graham) torn between two versions of his life; and a sister (Katherine Rose Morley) who still feels hidden in Ivy’s shadow. As hard as they try to be normal, it’s obvious nothing is.
When Ivy is reunited with her first boyfriend, the intensity of adolescent love comes rushing back. She’s picking up the threads of a life half-lived, but they’re about to be pulled apart again.
But Ivy’s captor is on the run, and she isn’t safe. Assigned to the case are DI Elliott Carne (Richard Rankin) and DI Lisa Merchant (Valene Kane). Their relationship is more than professional, but it begins to break down as Carne is drawn closer to Ivy.
Then cracks start to appear in Ivy’s account of her ordeal, and the police begin to doubt her motives. Beneath her childlike façade, she’s become a strong-willed woman. What happened to Ivy in that cellar? How has it changed her? And can she be trusted?
https://twitter.com/couriermail/status/891629723725565952
A NEW reality television series that promises to fix people’s relationship hang-ups by researching their ex-partners will be filmed in Brisbane.
Casting is under way for the program, called The Ex Files, expected to air on ABC early-2018.
Brisbane-based production companies WildBear Entertainment and KP Production will look to cast 10 people, mostly Queenslanders, with repetitive relationship issues to take part.
Bad enough that the commercial networks are doing these relationship “reality” shows…but now ABC as well??
Terrible hosts and presenters with feeble jokes, terrible voice over, terrible sound, terrible camera placement and direction, and even the consummate performer Jimmy Barnes was off as he blended into the mediocrity surrounding him. I sincerely hope the ABC didn’t pay Foxtel for this atrocity.
And hardly any of the award recipients turned up. I get that many of them are no doubt working on other gigs, such is the nature of the theatre, but it’s just a joke to have an awards night and have nobody show up.
Next time just run a live blog and play the pre-recorded absentee acceptance speeches.
Sunday 20 August
7:40pm Grand Designs New Zealand
8:30pm Midsomer Murders New episodes
10:00pm TBA
11:05pm Top Of The Lake
Monday 21 August
8:00pm Australian Story
8:30pm Four Corners
9:20pm Media Watch
9:35pm Q&A
10:40pm Lateline
Tuesday 22 August
8:00pm The House With Annabel Crabb
8:30pm Catalyst
9:30pm TBA
Wednesday 23 August
8:00pm Hard Quiz
8:30pm Shaun Micallef’s MAD AS HELL
9:00pm Utopia
9:30pm Growing Up Gracefully Final
10:00pm TBA
Thursday 24 August
8:00pm Short Cuts To Glory: Matt Okine vs Food
8:30pm Pulse
9:30pm TBA
Friday 25 August
8:00pm Mary Berry’s Foolproof Cooking New series
8:30pm Prime Suspect 1973
9:15pm Happy Valley
Saturday 26 August
7:30pm Father Brown
8:15pm TBA
9:15pm TBA
10:00pm Pulse Rpt
11:00pm TBA
Tuesday 8 August at 8.30pm
In a one-hour prime-time special, The AI Race shows Australian workers taking on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and discovering for the first time how much of their jobs could be automated.
New figures to be released on the program show that every Australian job will change in the coming years as AI automates not just physical tasks, but thinking ones too.
The special on ABC will coincide with the release of an online interactive tool on the ABC NEWS website so everyone can check how much of their job could be done by AI.
From veteran truckie Frank Black to a young final year law student and paralegal, Christine Maibom, AI is about to hit all jobs and professions.
We talk to international leaders in the field including Google’s Research Director Peter Norvig, an icon among AI researchers, who say the pace of change could be “a shock to the system” that will be “hard to recover from.”
One of Australia’s leading AI scientists, Professor Toby Walsh is calling for a national discussion about whether we need boundaries around how AI is developed and used in our lives.
“The rate of (AI) learning is going to be exponential, something that we humans aren’t used to seeing. We learn things painfully and slowly and individually, the computers will learn on a planet wide scale,” Professor Toby Walsh.
Economist Andrew Charlton says, “Hundreds of thousands of jobs we do today will be replaced by machines…I don’t think everyone needs to become a coder. If AI is any good, machines will be better at writing code than humans. People need to be able to work with the output of those machines and turn it into valuable services.”
We bring the workers face to face with AI experts to quiz them about what the future might look like and how they can prepare.
Presented by Margot O’Neill and produced by Fanou Filali, The AI Race is part of a week of AI coverage on Lateline and ABC NEWS online.
Lateline interviews will include US-based Australian data scientist Jeremy Howard, who brilliantly describes the wonderful and terrifying implications of AI; Cathy O’Neil, the US author of ‘Weapons of Math Destruction’ who believes AI could be used to undermine democracy; and a panel of Australian politicians responding to the challenges and opportunities presented by AI.
Across the week Lateline and ABC NEWS online will explore many of the big questions about AI including what the jobs of the future will look like, how far AI can go, are Big Tech companies like Google and Facebook too big, is Australian industry ready for this next technological leap and should algorithms decide whether we get insurance or a jail term.
To help make sense of it all, there’ll be digital features with explainers and opinion pieces.
The week of special programming leads into the coverage of National Science Week from August 12-20, across all ABC platforms.
Sunday 27 August
7:40pm Grand Designs New Zealand
8:30pm Midsomer Murders Final
10:00pm TBA
11:05pm Top Of The Lake
Monday 28 August
8:00pm Australian Story
8:30pm Four Corners
9:20pm Media Watch
9:35pm Q&A
10:40pm Lateline
Tuesday 29 August
8:00pm The House With Annabel Crabb
8:30pm Catalyst
9:30pm TBA
Wednesday 30 August
8:00pm Hard Quiz
8:30pm Shaun Micallef’s MAD AS HELL
9:00pm Utopia
9:30pm Get Krack!n Series Premiere
9:55pm Adam Hills: The Last Leg
Thursday 31 August
8:00pm Short Cuts To Glory: Matt Okine vs Food
8:30pm Pulse
9:30pm TBA
Friday 1 September
8:00pm Mary Berry’s Foolproof Cooking
8:30pm Thirteen Series Premiere
9:30pm Happy Valley
Saturday 2 September
7:30pm Father Brown
8:15pm TBA
9:15pm Doc Martin
10:00pm Pulse Rpt
11:05pm Adam Hills: The Last Leg
