It was pulled by the ABC at the last minute and replaced with a program on homelessness.
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Schedule Updates
TWITTER: BREAKING THE BIRD
MONDAY 15 DECEMBER 9:30 PM (Brought forward from 22 December)
In 2006, a group of tech entrepreneurs created the revolutionary social media platform, Twitter. In just a few years it transformed the way the world communicated.
Using first-hand accounts from its founders and early employees, this is the inside story of how Twitter was invented, how it spread across the world through explosive growth and how difficult it became to control the volume of hate speech and misinformation posted on the platform.
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SONGS INSIDE
Rescheduled after being removed from schedule at last minute.
MONDAY 22 DECEMBER 8.00PM
A group of incarcerated women sign up to learn an instrument and write their own songs as part of a music program in an Australian prison, led by Barkindji singer-songwriter Nancy Bates.
The women, who come to the program low in confidence and self-worth, are quickly thrown into a world of creativity and blossoming self-determination.
But the process also opens up deep scars around trauma and addiction, threatening a once-in-a-lifetime prison performance alongside the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.
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DEATH IN PARADISE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL 2024
SUNDAY 28 DECEMBER 7.30 PM
Londoner Mervin Wilson ruffles some feathers as he clashes with the island’s way of life. But he quickly sinks his teeth into one of the team’s most puzzling murder cases yet: three men, all unconnected apart from the fact that they’re dressed as Santa Claus, are shot with the exact same gun at the exact same time.
As Mervin wrangles this impossible murder, his colleagues struggle with their new boss’s unusual working methods. And Dwayne’s Christmas with his father doesn’t exactly go to plan…
FRANKLIN
MONDAY 29 DECEMBER 9.20 PM
Franklin recounts the epic seven-year campaign to save Tasmania’s World Heritage-listed Franklin River from being drowned by the construction of a hydroelectric project in the early 1980s.
The ‘Franklin Campaign’ remains the most significant environmental protest in Australian history, a definitive example of the power of non-violent direct action, and is considered ground zero for ‘Green’ politics worldwide.
The story is told through the eyes of 8th generation Tasmanian, Oliver Cassidy, as he follows in his activist father’s footsteps and embarks on a solo rafting pilgrimage down the Franklin.
LONG LOST FAMILY: SHIPPED TO AUSTRALIA
TUESDAY 30 DECEMBER 7.30PM
The children were sent on the promise of a better life, but instead found themselves in badly run institutions suffering poor education, neglect and often physical and sexual abuse, whilst all ties were severed from their families and their country back home.
This special episode follows the search of one of those children wondering where he came from and who his family were.
And we meet a man, whose younger brothers were sent to Tasmania as late as 1970 .
THE SCARECROWS’ WEDDING
THURSDAY 1 JANUARY 6.10PM
The Scarecrows’ Wedding is an enchanting story about two devoted scarecrows, Betty O’Barley and Harry O’Hay, who are planning a wedding to remember.
When Harry insists on leaving the farm to collect one last thing for their big day, a smooth-talking scarecrow named Reginald Rake swoops in with plans of his own.
Chaos follows, and soon Betty’s in danger and everything’s at risk. Can Harry get back in time and save the day?
BUT ALSO JOHN CLARKE
THURSDAY 1 JANUARY 7.30PM
John Clarke, the defining satirical voice of Australia and New Zealand, revealed little about his private life—except at home.
Through recorded conversations with his daughter, writer/director Lorin Clarke, this film explores his resistance to authority, his bold move from New Zealand to Australia in 1977, and his four decades in entertainment.
Blending personal stories, archival footage, insights from comedy greats, and treasures from 200 boxes of his work, it’s a daughter’s tribute to her father.
ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL Season 5 Episode 2
FRIDAY 2 JANUARY 7.30 PM
Helen realises that James’ needs to get the hang of life with a baby and James ends up taking Jimmy out on his rounds.
James and Carmody help a farmer with a stubborn calf and Helen is surprised to find Jenny with a new best friend.
Mrs Hall starts her job as an ARP Warden and tries to keep the peace between Siegfried and the overly officious Mr Bosworth when tragedy strikes.
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The animated special premieres on the BBC on Christmas Day.
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Week commencing 21 December 2025
Sunday 21 December
7:30pm Spicks And Specks Season Final
8:00pm Portrait Artist Of The Year Season Final
8:50pm Return To Paradise: Til Death Do Us Part Rpt
9:50pm When The War Is Over: Australian Wars Rpt
10:20pm War Stories: Stitch in Time Rpt
10:30pm Anh’s Brush With Fame: Samuel Johnson Rpt
11:00pm Nigella’s Cook, Eat, Repeat Christmas Special Rpt
12:00am rage
Monday 22 December
7:30pm Back Roads Rpt
8:00pm Songs Inside Premiere
9:30pm Girls Can’t Surf Rpt
11:15pm Creative Types With Virginia Trioli: Tony Albert Rpt
11:45pm Grand Designs New Zealand: Waitaki Valley Rpt
12:30am Long Lost Family Rpt
Tuesday 23 December
7:30pm The Yearly With Charlie Pickering 2025 Premiere
8:35pm The Piano UK: The Incredibly Talented Lucy Rpt
9:30pm The Assembly: Ray Martin Rpt
10:20pm The Assembly: Julia Morris Rpt
11:00pm Escaping Utopia Rpt
12:00pm A Country Road: The Nationals Rpt
Wednesday 24 December
7:30pm Shaun Micallef’s Eve of Destruction: Christmas SpecialPremiere
8:10pm Guy Montgomery’s Guy Mont Spelling Bee: Christmas Special Premiere
9:00pm QI: Variety
9:30pm Would I Lie To You?: At Christmas Rpt
10:00pm Spicks And Specks Rpt
10:35pm Utopia: Lights, Camera, Inaction Rpt
11:00pm Utopia: Story Time Rpt
11:25pm You Can’t Ask That: Amputees Rpt
12:00am You Can’t Ask That: Families of Missing Persons Rpt
Thursday 25 December 
6:00am rage
9:00am ABC News Mornings
9:30am The Pope’s Christmas Mass
11:30am QI Rpt
12:00pm ABC News At Noon
12:30pm Guy Montgomery’s Guy Mont Spelling Bee Rpt
1:20pm Shaun Micallef’s Eve of Destruction Rpt
1:55pm Death In Paradise Rpt
2:55pm Would I Lie To You? Rpt
3:25pm HM The King’s Christmas Message 2025
3:40pm Bluey Christmas Swim
3:45pm Classic Choir: The Christmas Card
3:50pm Movie: A Boy Called Christmas Rpt
5:30pm Classic Choir: All Is Love Rpt
5:35pm Royal Carols: Together at Christmas (2025)
6:25pm Hard Quiz Kids: Australian Politics, Elephants, Toy Story and Stray Kids Rpt
7:00pm ABC News
7:30pm HM The King’s Christmas Message 2025 Rpt
7:40pm The Royal Variety Performance 2025 Premiere
9:45pm Portrait Artist Of The Year Rpt
10:25pm A (Very) Musical Christmas 2025 Rpt
12:00am The Art Of…: Memory Rpt
12:30am Nigella Bites Rpt
Friday 26 December
7:30pm All Creatures Great And Small Season 5 Premiere
8:20pm Movie: Top End Wedding
09:55pm Spicks And Specks Rpt
10:30pm Silent Witness Rpt
12:15am rage New Music
Saturday 27 December
7:30pm Call The Midwife: Christmas Special (2024): Part One Premiere
8:30pm Call The Midwife: Christmas Special (2024): Part Two
9:30pm Vera: Salt & Vinegar Rpt
11:00pm rage Guest Programmer
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Update - the ABC will now premiere the King’s Christmas message in the afternoon.
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Update:
2025 series on Acorn - FTA Premiere
Friday 2 January 8:20 PM
Art-loving DI Mick Palmer (Stephen Moyer) and straight-talking DC Shazia Malik (Nina Singh) lead the Heritage Crime Unit, solving murders linked to art and antiques—from forged paintings to Viking gold —in this gripping new crime series.
Episode 1:
DI Mick Palmer, sole member of the Heritage Crime Unit, is dispatched to the imposing Astleigh House in Yorkshire, where art historian Francis Crozier has been brutally murdered.
Lord Astleigh, the 13th Earl of Halesby is desperate for his new gallery to open as scheduled. But as Mick investigates, aided by local officer, PC Shazia Malik, he unearths family secrets and cover ups.
Could Crozier’s murder be linked to a recent attack by vandals, in which a portrait was shot with a paintball? And what’s the meaning of Crozier’s mysterious note ‘Triumph Equals Desire’?
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New time:
Wednesday 17 December 9:05 PM
New time
Monday 29 December 7:30 PM
Both documentaries were pre-emted for the Bondi massacre coverage.
Start time is now 9:00 PM
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Wednesday 17 December
7:30pm 7.30
8:10pm Hard Quiz Battle of the Networks Premiere
8:40pm Spicks And Specks S12 E13 Rpt
9:15pm Twitter: Breaking The Bird Premiere
10:30pm You Can’t Ask That: Ex-Football Players Rpt
11:00pm You Can’t Ask That: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Rpt
11:30pm Grand Designs New Zealand: Pohuehue Rpt
12:15am Long Lost Family: What Happened Next Rpt
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THE JETTY EPISODE 1 OF 4
SUNDAY 4 JANUARY 9.20 PM
A year on from her husband’s death, new detective Ember Manning is called to an arson. The investigation that follows brings Ember into contact with an underaged pregnant girl, who Ember suspects has been seeing an older man.
When a true crime podcaster, in town to investigate a cold missing persons case, tells Ember that the older man is actually a serial predator, Ember finds herself reflecting upon the age difference between her and her late husband.
JUDI DENCH: SHAKESPEARE, MY FAMILY AND ME
MONDAY 5 JANUARY 9.00 PM
Oscar-winner, 90-year-old Dame Judi Dench is passionate about the world’s greatest playwright, William Shakespeare.
Now, she is on a quest to discover whether her ancestor met Shakespeare in 1606, the year he writes three of his greatest plays, plague returns to England and Londoners reel from the Gunpowder Plot.
She travels from Denmark’s legendary Elsinore castle – home to Shakespeare’s Hamlet - to some of England’s finest palaces to edge ever closer to her hero.
In a dramatic finale, will Judi discover that her ancestor actually met Shakespeare?
HUMAN EPISODE 1 OF 5
TUESDAY 6 JANUARY 9.00 PM
In this new series, paleoanthropologist, Ella Al-Shamahi, reveals …our incredible story across 300,000 years of human evolution and how – thanks to new discoveries – we’re learning that the story is stranger and more surprising than we ever imagined.
Episode 1 – The First of Us
This opening episode tells the extraordinary story of how our species, Homo sapiens, first emerged into a world inhabited by at least 6 other human species; and how recent discoveries are revolutionising our understanding of our origin story.
In Morocco we find out that Homo sapiens are 100,000 years older than previously thought; we discover how we were nearly wiped out by violent climate change but clung on against the odds; and in a cave in Botswana evidence of complex rituals reveal how our culture was beginning to flourish – in ways that still shape us today.
AMANDA & ALAN’S ITALIAN JOB EPISODE 1 OF 8
THURSDAY 8 JANUARY 9.00 PM
In a bid to breathe new life into forgotten towns, Italy are selling empty homes for one euro. Fulfilling a long-held ambition, Amanda Holden purchases two dilapidated apartments in picture perfect Salemi and convinces best friend Alan Carr to spend a summer renovating them, with the aim to create an Italian dream home.
Arriving at the crumbling property for the first time, seeing the piles of rubbish and abandoned junk, it dawns on them that this is no holiday.
ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL Season 5 Episode 3
FRIDAY 9 JANUARY 7.30 PM
It’s Jimmy’s Christening day and everyone is determined to make it special.
Helen and Mrs Hall busily prepare to host James’s parents and Siegfried is writing his godparenting speech.
James’ parents are thrilled to see baby Jimmy, but Helen isn’t sure how to take some of Hannah Herriot’s comments.
ART DETECTIVES Episode 2
FRIDAY 9 JANUARY 8.20PM
Mick and Shazia investigate the discovery of a gold hoard and realise it’s been stolen from a prehistoric burial chamber. As they dig deeper, they uncover a faked suicide, professional betrayal and a thousand year old cover up.
Mick suspects that the hoard was stolen during an archaeological dig carried out ten months previously.
When the site is reopened, an ancient burial chamber, it reveals the body of the university professor who oversaw the excavation - David Abbot. Mick and Shazia are now investigating a murder.
CALL THE MIDWIFE Season 14 Episode 2
SATURDAY 10 JANUARY 7.30PM
It’s April 1970 and TRIXIE oversees the care of Arlene, an unmarried mother who is heavily pregnant and recently diagnosed with depression and mania. When she struggles with her new psychiatric drug regime TRIXIE must draw on all her medical and emotional skills to avert disaster.
Meanwhile, CYRIL and ROSALIND volunteer together at the homeless shelter. ROSALIND befriends homeless man TED and hopes to involve him in the upcoming Flower Festival at St Oswald’s Church. When TED suddenly leaves, ROSALIND realises she can’t help everyone.
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Week commencing 28 December 2025
Sunday 28 December
7:30pm Death in Paradise: Christmas Special (2024) Premiere
9:00pm Movie: The Imitation Game
10:55pm rage Vault: 1988 Pop Mix
Monday 29 December
7:30pm Whatever It Takes: Inside The eBay Scandal Premiere
9:00pm Franklin Premiere
10:05pm Creative Types With Virginia Trioli: Richard Tognetti Rpt
11:00pm Grand Designs New Zealand: Waikanae Rammed Earth Rpt
11:50pm Long Lost Family: What Happened Next Rpt
Tuesday 30 December
7:30pm Long Lost Family: Shipped To Australia Premiere
8:15pm Embrace Rpt
9:45pm The Assembly: Steve Waugh Rpt
10:30pm The Assembly: Maggie Beer Rpt
11:15 pm Escaping Utopia Rpt
12:20pm Grand Designs New Zealand: Lake Tahoe Rpt
Wednesday 31 December
7:30pm The Yearly With Charlie Pickering 2025 Rpt
8:35pm Bluey Whale Watching Rpt
8:40pm New Year’s Eve 2025: Welcome to NYE
8:55pm New Year’s Eve 2025: Calling Country Fireworks
9:05pm New Year’s Eve 2025: Live Concert from the Sydney Opera House
11:45pm New Year’s Eve 2025: Countdown to Midnight
12:00am New Year’s Eve 2025: Midnight Fireworks
12:10am New Year’s Eve 2025: Auld Lang Syne
12:15am rage NYE Special
Thursday 1 January
7:30pm But Also John Clarke Premiere
9:15pm Movie: Murder By Numbers
11:10pm The Art Of…: Home Rpt
11:45pm Grand Designs New Zealand: Tennis Court Rpt
12:30am Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace Rpt
Friday 2 January
7:30pm All Creatures Great And Small
8:20pm Art Detectives Premiere
9:10pm Lion Rpt
11:00pm Silent Witness Rpt
12:45am rage: Best of Features and Wild Ones
Saturday 3 January
7:30pm Call The Midwife Season Premiere
8:30pm Vera, Farewell Pet Rpt
9:20pm Movie: Strangerland
11:10pm rage Vault Guest Programmer: Nile Rodgers (2014)
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The Yearly has come in 10 minutes shorter than the original schedule so ABC has add an episode of Bluey to the line up and the Welcome to NYE will start 5 minutes earlier.
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Surprised there isn’t a Bluey NYE episode after all this time
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Disease X: Hunting the Next Pandemic
Monday 5 January 8:00 pm
Dr Chris van Tulleken investigates a mysterious virus that could cause the next pandemic, one scientists think will be deadlier than Covid-19. This is a global hunt to uncover ‘Disease X’.
Changing Ends Season 3
Wednesday 7 January 9:25pm double episode
Due to coverage of the Bondi Memorial Service running until 8:30pm, there are schedule changes
NSW, ACT, VIC, TAS:
8:30pm Spicks And Specks Season Final
9:00pm Portrait Artist Of The Year Season Final
9:50pm Return To Paradise: Til Death Do Us Part Rpt
11pm Nigella’s Cook, Eat, Repeat Christmas Special Rpt
SA:
8pm Spicks And Specks Season Final
8:30pm Portrait Artist Of The Year Season Final
9:20pm Return To Paradise: Til Death Do Us Part Rpt
10:20pm When The War Is Over: Australian Wars Rpt
11pm Nigella’s Cook, Eat, Repeat Christmas Special Rpt
QLD, WA, and NT will get the originally planned schedule due to the time difference.
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Looks like all of this will air one hour later owing to coverage’s extended runtime.
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THE JETTY EPISODE 2
SUNDAY 11 JANUARY 9.15 PM
Still reeling from her shocking discovery, Ember is desperate to find out what Riz knows about the Amy Knightly case.
They begin to share information and Ember tells Riz her suspicions about the identity of Miranda’s abuser. Ember is horrified when she’s told that the lake is to be searched for Amy’s remains.
When Riz stops returning Ember’s calls, Ember suspects that it’s because she has uncovered the terrible truth about what happened to Amy.
SIMON SCHAMA: THE ROAD TO AUSCHWITZ
MONDAY 12 JANUARY 9.00PM
In his most unflinching film to date, Simon Schama confronts the enormity of the Holocaust and the catastrophe experienced by its victims.
In a journey which ends with his first visit to Auschwitz, he travels across Europe to explore how the Holocaust was far more than a Nazi obsession, but a continent-wide crime of complicity.
As an interview with a survivor shows, the story of how ‘evil comes step-by-step’ is deeply relevant today.
HUMAN EPISODE 2
TUESDAY 13 JANUARY 8.30PM
In this episode, we follow our ancestors as they step out of Africa and venture into the wider world. Recent DNA discoveries reveal that every human alive today whose origins are from outside Africa are descendants of a small group that migrated into the Middle East around 60,000 years ago.
In Sri Lanka we discover how we became the only human species to adapt to rainforests; on the Indonesian Island of Flores, we meet another human species – the tiny Homo floresiensis; and find out how we became the first human species to make the ocean crossing to Australia around 45,000 thousand years ago.
AMANDA & ALAN’S ITALIAN JOB EPISODE 2
THURSDAY 15 JANUARY 9.00 PM
Kicking off the demolition in 36-degree heat proves to be a trial for Alan, and he soon realises that taking on a build in a medieval hilltop town comes with its own unique challenges.
With the help of Project Manager Scott, Amanda barters with the locals at a nearby marble factory as she bags a bargain for their feature island and brushes up on her culinary skills in Marsala.
ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL Season 5 Episode 4
FRIDAY 16 JANUARY 7.30 PM
Tristan’s first meeting with Carmody doesn’t go quite to plan. They are despatched to find an unexpected animal on the loose in Pumphrey Manor in the hope that they’ll be able to put their differences aside.
James struggles to fix a sick cow and unresolved feelings about the war re-surface when he least expects it.
ART DETECTIVES Episode 3
FRIDAY 16 JANUARY 8.20PM
Mick and Shazia travel to Towan Recording Studios in Cornwall, where producer Charlie Filton has been found battered to death with a microphone stand. Part of his priceless collection of rock memorabilia has been stolen. CCTV suggests the killer must be one of the residents.
Among them is musician Nathan Frayne, returning to the studios for the first time in seven years, following the accidental drowning of his brother Matty in a nearby river.
Mick believes that Charlie’s murder is connected to Matty’s death. Maybe the drowning wasn’t accidental after all?
CALL THE MIDWIFE Season 14 Episode 3
SATURDAY 17 JANUARY 7.30PM
ROSALIND oversees the care of first-time mum, NORMA LASLEY and her husband DON. They see themselves as the ultimate modern couple - all their plans are falling nicely into place until ROSALIND delivers their baby daughter, and immediately realises that all is not right.
Elsewhere, SISTER JULIENNE calls on TRIXIE’s managerial skills when she is summoned to a meeting to discuss the renewal of their contract with the council.
TRIXIE and SISTER JULIENNE meticulously prepare for the meeting, hoping to successfully convince him to renew the Nonnatus House contract for the foreseeable future.
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