ABC Comedy - Programs and Schedules

###Week commencing 7 May


Sunday 7 May
7:30pm River Monsters
8:20pm TBA
8:30pm Whovians
9:00pm John Conway Tonight
10:00pm Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends: Head For The Hills
10:50pm Forbidden Love: My Husband’s Gay

Monday 8 May
7:30pm Doctor Who Rpt
8:15pm TBA
8:30pm Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends
9:20pm Life And Death Row
10:15pm The Office
10:45pm John Conway Tonight Rpt

Tuesday 9 May
7:30pm Dirty Jobs
8:20pm TBA
8:50pm An Idiot Abroad
9:35pm Banged Up Abroad
10:25pm Archer

Wednesday 10 May
7:30pm Dirty Jobs
8:20pm Bodyshockers
9:10pm The Aliens
9:55pm The Office
10:30pm Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central
11:00pm Banged Up Abroad

Thursday 11 May
7:30pm Dirty Jobs
8:20pm The Weekly With Charlie Pickering
8:50pm The Inbetweeners
9:15pm Comedy Up Late
9:50pm Broad City
10:10pm The Office
10:45pm Bad Education:
11:20pm Comedy Next Gen

Friday 12 May
7:30pm Dirty Jobs
8:20pm Catfish
9:05pm Forbidden Love
9:50pm The Office
10:25pm Penn And Teller: Fool Us
11:05pm Bodyshockers
11:55pm That '70s Show

Saturday 13 May
7:30pm Penn And Teller: Fool Us
8:10pm Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central
8:45pm Live at the Apollo: Russell Kane
9:30pm Comedy Up Late
10:00pm Comedy Next Gen
11:00pm Archer
11:25pm The Inbetweeners

###Week commencing 14 May


Sunday 14 May
7:30pm River Monsters
8:20pm TBA
8:30pm Whovians
9:00pm John Conway Tonight
10:00pm Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends
10:50pm Forbidden Love

Monday 15 May
7:30pm Doctor Who Rpt
8:15pm TBA
8:30pm Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends
9:20pm Life And Death Row
10:15pm The Office
10:45pm John Conway Tonight Rpt

Tuesday 16 May
7:30pm Dirty Jobs
8:20pm The Checkout
8:50pm An Idiot Abroad
9:40pm Banged Up Abroad
10:25pm Archer

Wednesday 17 May
7:30pm Dirty Jobs
8:20pm Bodyshockers
9:10pm The Aliens
9:55pm Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central
10:20pm The Office Specials
11:05pm Catfish
11:50pm Banged Up Abroad

Thursday 18 May
7:30pm Dirty Jobs
8:20pm The Weekly With Charlie Pickering
8:50pm The Inbetweeners
9:15pm Comedy Up Late
9:50pm Broad City
10:10pm The Office
11:05pm Bad Education:
11:35pm Comedy Next Gen

Friday 19 May
7:30pm Dirty Jobs
8:20pm Catfish
9:05pm Ladyboys
9:50pm The Aliens Rpt
10:35pm Adam Hills: The Last Leg
11:15pm Penn And Teller: Fool Us

Saturday 20 May
7:30pm Penn And Teller: Fool Us
8:10pm Would I Lie To You?
8:40pm Live at the Apollo
9:30pm Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central
9:50pm Comedy Up Late
10:20pm Comedy Next Gen
11:20pm Archer

###Sammy J’s Democratic Party

From Monday 29 May 8.20pm

Note - program moved to ABC’s main channel.

###Week commencing 21 May


Sunday 21 May
7:30pm River Monsters
8:20pm Gruen Pitch Rewind
8:30pm Whovians
9:00pm John Conway Tonight
10:00pm Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends
10:50pm Ladyboys: The Band

Monday 22 May
7:30pm Doctor Who Rpt
8:15pm Gruen Pitch Rewind
8:30pm Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends
9:20pm Life And Death Row
10:15pm Little Britain
10:45pm John Conway Tonight Rpt

Tuesday 23 May
7:30pm Dirty Jobs
8:20pm The Checkout
8:50pm An Idiot Abroad
9:40pm Banged Up Abroad
10:25pm Archer

Wednesday 24 May
7:30pm Dirty Jobs
8:20pm War On Waste Rpt
9:20pm The Aliens
10:05pm Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central
10:30pm Little Britain
11:00pm Catfish
11:40pm Banged Up Abroad

Thursday 25 May
7:30pm Dirty Jobs
8:20pm The Weekly With Charlie Pickering
8:50pm The Warriors
9:15pm Comedy Up Late
9:50pm Broad City
10:10pm The Inbetweeners
10:35pm Little Britain
11:05pm Bad Education
11:40pm Comedy Next Gen

Friday 26 May
7:30pm Dirty Jobs
8:20pm Catfish
9:05pm Ladyboys
9:50pm The Aliens Rpt
10:35pm Little Britain
11:05pm Penn And Teller: Fool Us

Saturday 27 May
7:30pm Penn And Teller: Fool Us
8:10pm Would I Lie To You?
8:45pm Live at the Apollo
9:30pm Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central
9:55pm Comedy Up Late
10:25pm Comedy Next Gen
11:25pm Archer

###Week commencing 28 May


Sunday 28 May
7:30pm River Monsters
8:20pm Gruen Pitch Rewind
8:30pm Whovians
9:00pm John Conway Tonight
10:00pm Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends
10:45pm Ladyboys: The Band

Monday 29 May
7:30pm Doctor Who Rpt
8:15pm Gruen Pitch Rewind
8:30pm Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends
9:20pm Life And Death Row
10:15pm Little Britain
10:45pm John Conway Tonight Rpt

Tuesday 30 May
7:30pm Dirty Jobs
8:20pm The Checkout
8:50pm An Idiot Abroad
9:35pm Banged Up Abroad
10:20pm Archer

Wednesday 31 May
7:30pm Dirty Jobs
8:20pm War On Waste Rpt
9:20pm The Aliens
10:05pm Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central
10:40pm Little Britain
11:05pm Catfish
11:50pm Banged Up Abroad

Thursday 1 June
7:30pm Dirty Jobs
8:20pm The Weekly With Charlie Pickering
8:50pm The Warriors
9:15pm Comedy Up Late
9:50pm Broad City
10:10pm The Inbetweeners
10:35pm Sammy J’s Democratic Party New Series
10:50pm Little Britain
11:20pm Bad Education
11:50pm Comedy Next Gen

Friday 2 June
7:30pm Dirty Jobs
8:20pm Catfish
9:00pm Ladyboys
9:50pm The Aliens Rpt
10:35pm Little Britain
11:05pm Penn And Teller: Fool Us

Saturday 3 June
7:30pm Penn And Teller: Fool Us
8:15pm Would I Lie To You?
8:45pm Live at the Apollo
9:30pm Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central
9:55pm Comedy Up Late
10:25pm Comedy Next Gen
11:20pm Archer

###Week commencing 4 June


Sunday 4 June
7:30pm River Monsters
8:20pm TBA
8:30pm Whovians
9:00pm John Conway Tonight
9:55pm Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends
10:45pm TBA
11:15pm Ladyboys: The Band

Monday 5 June
7:30pm Doctor Who Rpt
8:15pm Sammy J’s Democratic Party
8:30pm Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends
9:20pm The Murder Detectives
10:20pm Little Britain
10:50pm John Conway Tonight Rpt

Tuesday 6 June
7:30pm Dirty Jobs
8:20pm The Checkout
8:50pm An Idiot Abroad
9:40pm Banged Up Abroad
10:25pm Archer

Wednesday 7 June
7:30pm Dirty Jobs
8:20pm Bodyshockers
9:10pm The Aliens Final
9:55pm Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central
10:25pm Little Britain
10:55pm Catfish
11:40pm Banged Up Abroad

Thursday 8 June
7:30pm Dirty Jobs
8:20pm The Weekly With Charlie Pickering
8:50pm The Inbetweeners
9:20pm Comedy Up Late
9:50pm Broad City
10:15pm Little Britain
10:45pm Sammy J’s Democratic Party
10:55pm Bad Education
11:25pm Comedy Next Gen

Friday 9 June
7:30pm Dirty Jobs
8:20pm Catfish
9:05pm Ladyboys
9:50pm The Aliens Rpt
10:35pm Little Britain
11:05pm Penn And Teller: Fool Us

Saturday 10 June
7:30pm Penn And Teller: Fool Us
8:15pm Would I Lie To You?
8:45pm Live at the Apollo
9:30pm Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central
9:55pm Comedy Up Late
10:25pm Comedy Next Gen
11:25pm The Inbetweeners

ABC2 will show the Sydney FC v Liverpool soccer match live across Australia from 7.30pm AEST, so these programs may not air in some states.

###Frat Boys: Inside America’s Fraternities

Wednesday 21 June at 10:10pm

They’re a thing of urban myth, immortalized in Hollywood films like Animal House, Road Trip, and Revenge of the Nerds. Fraternities, or Frat Houses, are among America’s oldest institutions, responsible for producing 18 Presidents, 80 percent of U.S. Supreme Court justices and 85 percent of Fortune 500 executives since 1900.

But these mostly white, male social groups also have a long dark history of debauchery, violence and even death among their own members. In April 2016, after repeatedly making national headlines, 133 chapters at 55 U.S. colleges were shut down or suspended, after alleged offenses including, excessive drinking, racism and sexual assault.

But thousands of American men count their fraternal experience - and the friendships within it - as the most valuable in their lives.

During one term at the University of Central Florida, the BBC’s award winning This World programme gained unprecedented access inside a fraternity where they followed ‘The Gazoni Family’ Frat boys through the year culminating in Spring Break - the ultimate party for College Students across the United States.

I see no problems here, seems like a normal weekend for me and every uni club in Aus lmao

###Week commencing 11 June


Sunday 11 June
7:30pm River Monsters
8:20pm TBA
8:30pm Whovians
9:00pm John Conway Tonight
9:55pm Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends
10:40pm Adam Hills: The Last Leg
11:10pm Ladyboys: The Band

Monday 12 June
7:30pm Doctor Who Rpt
8:15pm Sammy J’s Democratic Party
8:30pm Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends
9:20pm The Murder Detectives
10:20pm Little Britain
10:50pm John Conway Tonight Rpt

Tuesday 13 June
7:30pm Dirty Jobs
8:20pm The Checkout
8:50pm An Idiot Abroad
9:50pm Banged Up Abroad
10:40pm Archer

Wednesday 14 June
7:30pm Dirty Jobs
8:20pm Bodyshockers
9:10pm The Aliens Final
9:55pm Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central
10:25pm Little Britain
10:55pm Catfish
11:40pm Banged Up Abroad

Thursday 15 June
7:30pm Dirty Jobs
8:20pm The Weekly With Charlie Pickering Final
8:50pm The Inbetweeners
9:20pm Comedy Up Late
9:50pm Broad City
10:15pm Little Britain
10:45pm Sammy J’s Democratic Party
10:55pm Bad Education
11:25pm Comedy Next Gen

Friday 16 June
7:30pm Dirty Jobs
8:20pm Catfish
9:05pm The McCanns & the Conman
9:50pm Penn And Teller: Fool Us
10:35pm Bodyshockers
11:25pm That '70s Show

Saturday 17 June
7:30pm Penn And Teller: Fool Us
8:10pm Would I Lie To You?
8:45pm Live at the Apollo
9:30pm Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central
10:00pm Comedy Up Late
10:30pm Comedy Next Gen
11:30pm The Inbetweeners

Not sure why ABC keeps putting John Conway Tonight in the schedule. AFAIK the show hasn’t been seen for a few weeks.

Note - program moved to ABC’s main channel.

###Hack Live: Is Male Privilege Bullsh!t?

Tuesday 20 June at 9.30pm

Has feminism swung the pendulum too far towards women? An increasingly vocal group of young men say male privilege no longer exists. They point to lower university enrolments and higher suicide and incarceration rates as evidence of discrimination and diminishing rights.

In the next instalment of Hack Live, Tom Tilley brings Men’s Rights Activists and Feminists together to find out what is it that we just can’t agree on? Debate is guaranteed to be heated, passionate and to split the audience - not necessarily always along gender lines.

###Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown

From Tuesday 27 June at 8:50pm

Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown follows host Anthony Bourdain, world-renowned chef, bestselling author and multipleEmmy winning television personality as he travels across the globe to uncover little-known areas of the world and celebrate diverse cultures by exploring food and dining rituals.

His first stop during series five is Scotland. Tony first meets up with retired detective John Carnochan over some curry at the Indian restaurant Mother India. Detective John Carnochan has seen it all. But after decades of dealing with generation after generation of violence, he took and unusual and controversial new tactic. He created a special division within the Strathclyde Police called the Violence Reduction Unit and focused their efforts on the social problems that he felt led directly to violent crime.

Tony then meets up with Janey Godley over seafood at the art deco ode to classic seafood restaurants Café Rogano. Janey grew up in the East End of Glasgow, married into an organized crime family, worked as a bartender, and eventually became a famous playwright, author, and stand-up comedian.

Glasgow has had a history of gang violence, and from that, knives, and blades as the weapons of choice. Tony meets up with Mark Davies at an abandoned shipyard to discuss the finer points of knife defence.

For a change of pace, Tony takes a detour from the deeper issues to eat a UK classic – fish and chips. He chooses The University Café, a place he has been on prior trips to Glasgow. This cafe was established by the Verrecchia family in 1918, and is now operated by the fourth generation of the family. Carlo runs the front of the house, and his twin brother Enrico runs the kitchen.

Leaving Glasgow, Tony heads north and into the Scottish Highlands and eventually ends up at a place accessible only by boat across the dark waters of Loch Maree and contained in what is known as the last great wilderness in Scotland – Letterewe Estate.

It is here that he meets up with AA Gill, an outspoken journalist, food critic and author has been coming to Letterewe for over 20 years. Adrian - as he is known to his friends - has promised Tony a go at a true Scottish tradition, stalking a Red Stag in the mountains above the estate. But before the stalking begins, AA’s personal chef Fiona prepares a meal of freshly shot grouse and bread sauce.

###Week commencing 18 June


Sunday 18 June
7:30pm River Monsters
8:20pm TBA
8:30pm Whovians
9:00pm John Conway Tonight
9:50pm Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends
10:40pm The McCanns & the Conman
11:30pm An Idiot Abroad

Monday 19 June
7:30pm Doctor Who Rpt
8:15pm Sammy J’s Democratic Party
8:30pm Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends
9:20pm The Murder Detectives
10:10pm Wham Bam Thank You Ma’am
10:35pm John Conway Tonight Rpt

Tuesday 20 June
7:30pm Dirty Jobs
8:20pm TBA
8:45pm An Idiot Abroad
9:30pm Hack Live: Is Male Privilege Bullsh!t? Premiere Special
10:30pm Wham Bam Thank You Ma’am
10:55pm The Checkout

Wednesday 21 June
7:30pm Dirty Jobs
8:20pm TBA
8:30pm Bodyshockers
10:10pm TBA
11:05pm Hack Live: Is Male Privilege Bullsh!t?

Thursday 22 June
7:30pm Dirty Jobs
8:20pm Shaun Micallef’s MAD AS HELL
8:50pm The Inbetweeners
9:20pm Comedy Up Late
9:50pm Live at the Apollo
10:35pm Sammy J’s Democratic Party
10:45pm Wham Bam Thank You Ma’am
11:15pm Broad City

Friday 23 June
7:30pm Dirty Jobs
8:20pm Catfish
9:00pm Sugar Sisters Premiere
9:45pm Wham Bam Thank You Ma’am
10:15pm Penn And Teller: Fool Us
11:00pm That '70s Show: Beast Of Burden

Saturday 24 June
7:30pm Penn And Teller: Fool Us
8:10pm Would I Lie To You?
8:45pm Live at the Apollo
9:30pm Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central
10:05pm Comedy Up Late
10:35pm Wham Bam Thank You Ma’am
11:05pm The Inbetweeners

###A Girl and A Gun

Monday 26 June at 9:25pm

A Girl and A Gun shows the female perspective on an object whose history is deeply bound to men and masculinity. The classic Hollywood portrayals of pistol packin’ mamas, tomboy sharp shooters, sexually twisted femme fatales, and high-heeled, cold-blooded assassins are caricatures.

In truth, the typical woman who hangs out at rifle ranges and keeps ammo in her purse is the girl-next-door, the single mom, a hard-working sister or aunt. Maybe she’s a realist or has learned tough lessons from life; either way, she cares about her personal safety and may even find salvation, comfort or something satisfying in possessing a gun.

Breaking through the caricatures, A Girl and A Gun reveals America’s diverse and far-ranging female gun community. It depicts how this community is portrayed by the media and targeted by the gun industry; and shows, through personal stories, how guns change women’s lives.

###Copwatchers

Wednesday 28 June at 9:05pm

Copwatchers: The activists using cameras to fight back against police brutality in the US.

Their mission is simple. To protect their people from the police. These are the Copwatchers, citizen activists policing the police, battling against corruption, profiling and increased militarization of the police; and ultimately, the illegal killings in their communities across the USA. Copwatchers want to make serving officers accountable for their actions and push for indictments where possible. These real world “nightcrawlers” scan police radio frequencies, driving across the state and patrolling neighbourhoods. However, the explosive movement is seeing conflicts spiralling between citizens and law enforcement. Police are beginning to lose tolerance with Copwatch, receive anti Copwatch training and use counter intelligence tactics against them. At this critical time in America’s civil rights history, will Copwatch ever be truly successful in its fight for policing reform?

###NEW TIME | NEW SERIES

From Monday 3 July at 9:30am

The 47th series debuts at the new time of 9.30am weekdays

Join Big Bird, Oscar, Elmo, Bert, Cookie Monster, the Count, and many other characters during this new series of Sesame Street to learn the alphabet and to count with Count von Count, but most of all just have a good time. The 47th serries sees a reimagined Elmo’s World segment and a kindness curriculum relevant to today’s pre-schoolers.

Everyone’s favourite red monster starts in an updated, fun, and fresh version of “Elmo’s World”. In 25 five-minute instalments, lessons are taught through preschool relevant topics, live action films, and interacting thinking games such as matching, sorting and counting.

The introduction of the kindness curriculum aims to foster behaviours that can have significant outcomes throughout a child’s life. The kindness curriculum is woven throughout the new season, including a new “kindness cam” segment where kids, shown clips from the episode and live actions films depicting real children doing similar acts of kindness, point out the kindness moment, thus reinforcing learning moments through repetition.

As always, Sesame Street features a dazzling array of celebrities, including multiple Grammy nominated > singer/songwriter Sia, R&B superstar Jason Derulo, Tony Award-winning host of The Late Late Show James Corden, Grammy nominated pop star Tori Kelly, action star of the Avengers series Anthony Mackie, and Grammy Awardwinning country music band Little Big Town.

###Louis Theroux: A Different Brain

Monday 3 July at 8:30pm

This powerful film follows the recovery of people who have suffered a traumatic brain injury. With access to a specialist brain injury rehabilitation unit, Louis looks at the impact on individuals and their families. With an estimated one million people in the UK living with the long-term effects of a brain injury, Louis explores the issues that some of them have to deal with.

Often called a ‘hidden disability’ because those affected can show little physical signs of change, individuals with Acquired Brain Injury face enormous cognitive, behavioural and personality challenges.

Those affected are left to reconstruct who they are - from relearning the basics of walking, talking and eating, to redeveloping complex personality and behavioural traits, often in the shadow of who they once were.

Louis spends time with staff and service users at the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust, one of the UK’s largest providers of neuro-behavioural rehabilitation, to try and understand how people come to terms with it.

And the impact goes beyond the person directly affected. Family members are often caught between grieving for the loved one they’ve lost and learning to love the person they are now.

Meeting parents, partners, and children of those with brain injuries, Louis looks at how they keep loving and supporting a person who has changed so drastically.

###Destination Arnold

Monday 3 July at 9:30pm

Destination Arnold tells the story of two Indigenous women who share a big dream – to make it to the Arnolds – an invitation only bodybuilding competition being held in Australia for the first time.