China Tonight

I don’t think it will. Most would prefer a news bulletin instead.

Most? And there’s a news channel for news bulletins.

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Season 2 returns Monday 7 March 9:35pm

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It’s back!

Last night, new set - could we see this as a shared set with planet America on the other side of studio 24?








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China Tonight - Series 4

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From Monday 25 July 9.30pm; 8 episodes

Stan Grant and Yvonne Yong are back to bring you a fresh look at news and current affairs from inside China.

China Tonight returns for a fourth season to dive beneath the China headlines bringing more depth and complexity to the stories making it big in the world’s most populous country.

In season four we’ll explore issues relating to China’s ageing population, the rising popularity of motor racing, dealing with death, and sex education.

Stan Grant returns with co-host Yvonne Yong, and reporters Annie Louey, Samuel Yang, Jinghua Qian, Brendan Wan and more.

Production credit: Executive Producer: Annie White

Monday 18 July-
New season starting tonight.

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Monday 8 August

US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan ramps up the rift between China and the US but will it be Taiwan that pays the price? Stan Grant and Yvonne Yong examine the view from Beijing and Taipei. Plus why the game of Mahjong was once banned.

One of the reporters read the News in Mandarin on China Tonight yesterday. First time I’d seen that on TV… last show of the season too.

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Special Tonight: ABC News Channel

08:00PM China Tonight: CCP Congress Special A special looking at the Communist Party National Congress: who are the likely winners and losers? Plus President Xi to secure a record third term, what is it that drives China’s most powerful leader since Mao?

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Stan’s Monday show bumped for Stan’s Thursday show…

with q and a moving back to mondays in 2023 it isnt clear where it leaves other programming inluding china tonight ( abriged version of the same aricle to fit this post )

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Series Return Friday 17 February 8.00pm

China Tonight is back to bring you a fresh look at news and current affairs from inside China.

This season, host Stan Grant is joined by Sam Yang with the news headlines while comedian Annie Louey covers what’s trending on Weibo and other cultural content. Regular contributors from both here in Australia, and China, will go beyond the headlines of trade and politics to examine the country’s challenges and triumphs, making sense of the people, the history and the ambition.

As China experiences a Covid surge as it opens its borders, and with the country’s relations with the world rarely out of the news, there’s always plenty of interest in the world’s most populous nation.

Discover what’s happening beyond those headlines and understand China from a fresh perspective.

China Tonight returns on Friday nights at 9:30pm on ABC NEWS channel (and repeated on Mondays after Q+A)

Production credit: An ABC NEWS production. Executive Producer Annie White

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Seems like an odd timeslot and something of a demotion to Friday nights.

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I’d think the ABC is trying to capitalise on the lead-out (Gardening Australia) and lead-ins (UK dramas).

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Update: Returns Friday 24 Feb


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Although i haven’t been in this topic before, but it appears that from the above screenshots, that the show has new hosts. Now confirmed in the below article:

No more Stan Grant. Now, Samuel Lang is the host, and will be joined by Annie Luey.

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Interesting choice to move it from Mondays on ABC1 to make room for Stan’s other show… and then put it on Fridays on their News Channel and get rid of him

Returns

Friday, 9 June 8:00 PM

It’s the superpower that dominates global news, but it’s also home to 1.4 billion stories. The China Tonight team are here to share them with you. Hear from the people who make this extraordinary nation what it is today.

Encores on Mondays on main channel.

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