Tonight at the Museum

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SYNOPSIS

Tonight at the Museum is a hilarious original entertainment format filmed on-location in a museum in front of a live audience. Hosted by Alex Lee, season one will be filmed at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. In each episode Alex guides four celebrity contestants through games based around priceless objects from the museum’s collection. In these games the players might be quizzed on the reproductive habits of handfish by the museum’s expert zoologist, play museum guide as they improvise their way through explaining objects they’ve never seen before, or recreate historical portraits using household items. The players aren’t just competing for bragging rights — the winning player will have an item of their own put on display in an exhibition for all to see.

PRODUCTION CREDITS

Commissioned by the ABC. An i8 Studio and ABC co-production. Executive Producers: Josh Martin and Adam Liaw. ABC Executive Producer: Mark Sutton. ABC Head of Entertainment: Rachel Millar.

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This will be filmed at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery from next Tuesday, November 25.

Interesting that Adam Liaw (The Cook Up) is an executive producer.

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Lights out. Gloves off.

Comedians let loose after dark in Tonight At The Museum this March

TATM_Host Alex Lee with guests Tegan Higginbotham, Alan Davies, Zoe Coombs Marr, Brett Blake_image courtesy of i8 Studio
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L to R: Alan Davies, Tegan Higginbotham, host Alex Lee, Brett Blake and Zoë Coombs Marr.

Get ready to explore the wild, the weird and the wonderfully unexpected when the ABC’s brand-new entertainment show Tonight At The Museum premieres on Wednesday 4 March at 8.00pm on ABC TV and ABC iview.

Filmed on location at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, the eight-episode season is hosted by comedian Alex Lee and features four celebrity guests per episode competing in a series of games exploring real objects from the museum’s diverse collection.

The impressive line-up of players includes British comedy favourite Alan Davies, alongside a long list of beloved Australian stars including Adam Briggs, Alexei Toliopoulos, Becky Lucas, Brett Blake, Bjorn Stewart, Claire Hooper, Colin Lane, Danielle Walker, Emma Holland, Lizzy Hoo, Luke McGregor, Mark Humphries, Merrick Watts, Nazeem Hussain, Peter Helliar, Sashi Perera, Steph Tisdell, Susie Youssef, Takashi Wakasugi, and Zoë Coombs Marr.

From decoding the reproductive rituals of the Tasmanian handfish with help from the museum’s zoologist, to bluffing their way through improvised “guided tours” of artefacts they’ve never laid eyes on, to recreating historical portraits using whatever household items they can wrangle, no challenge is too bizarre, as they see the funny side of our history.

And it’s not just bragging rights the players are competing for: the winner will have an item of their own put on display in the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery for all to see.

Production credit: Commissioned by the ABC. Tonight At The Museum is an i8 Studio and ABC co-production. Executive Producers: Josh Martin and Adam Liaw. ABC Executive Producer: Mark Sutton. ABC Head of Entertainment: Rachel Millar.

Hard Quiz
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EPISODE 1

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WEDNESDAY 4 MARCH 8.00PM

A comedy quiz like no other: Alex Lee guides Alan Davies, Zoë Coombs Marr, Tegan Higginbotham, and Brett Blake through after-dark museum mayhem.

The museum is closed, the artefacts are out, and Alex Lee welcomes Alan Davies, Zoë Coombs Marr, Tegan Higginbotham, and Brett Blake for an after-dark battle of comedy and curiosity inside the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.

Priceless objects become punchlines in Put A Label On It, as guests spin wildly confident exhibit stories, while the galleries themselves turn into a playground in Treasure Hunt, sending comedians hunting for the perfect absurd museum match. A Nerd Alert expert drops astonishing natural-world knowledge into the chaos, before the night crescendos into Who Wants to Be a Millipede, a rapid-fire quiz where history, science and sheer guesswork collide. All for the ultimate prize: a personal treasure immortalised on display.

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EPISODE 2

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WEDNESDAY 11 MARCH 8.00PM

After hours at the museum, Alex Lee is joined by Luke McGregor, Geraldine Hickey, Sashi Pereira and
Bjorn Stewart for a night where history gets weird and comedy comes fast.

With strange objects, surprising facts and museum visitors caught in the chaos, the guests compete
for the ultimate prize: a personal item exhibited forever in the collection.

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EPISODE 3

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WEDNESDAY 18 MARCH 8.00PM

Alex Lee welcomes Susie Youssef, Mark Humphries, Nikki Britton and Cameron James into the museum after dark, where artefacts come with outrageous stories and convict slang becomes a battleground.

Packed with laughs, curiosity and unexpected knowledge, the episode builds to one guest earning the show’s greatest honour: having their own treasure displayed at the museum.

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EPISODE 4

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WEDNESDAY 25 MARCH 8.00 PM

The museum comes alive at night as Alex Lee hosts Merrick Watts, Steph Tisdell, Chris Parker and Emma Holland in a hilarious clash of culture and comedy.

From bizarre treasures to expert surprises, the guests roam the galleries chasing laughs and museum glory, all competing for the chance to have their personal item placed on display at the museum.

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The canned laughter and applause are making this difficult to watch.

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Canned laughter? Wasn’t there a live audience?

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Well, obviously it wasn’t very funny so the audience didn’t laugh enough and they had to add canned laughter and applause. Plus, they really didn’t need applause between every question asked in the fast round. It just sounded odd.

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EPISODE 5

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WEDNESDAY 1 APRIL 8.00PM

It’s an after-dark adventure inside the museum as Alex Lee is joined by Alexei Toliopoulos, Claire Hooper, Nazeem Hussain and Genevieve Morris.

With priceless artefacts, wild animal trivia and shocking medical history, the guests battle through museum mayhem for the ultimate honour: a personal treasure exhibited forever.

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EPISODE 6

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WEDNESDAY 8 APRIL 8.00 PM

Alex Lee unleashes Becky Lucas, Takashi Wakasugi, Bron Lewis and Dilruk Jayasinha into the museum after dark, where priceless artefacts meet ridiculous creativity.

With expert facts, portrait recreations and prehistoric surprises, the guests compete for bragging rights and the ultimate honour: a personal treasure placed on display at the museum.