Tonight at the Museum

Television ABC
1

image
image1920×2431 546 KB

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.

2

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.

ABC 2026
3

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
TATM_Host Alex Lee with guests Tegan Higginbotham, Alan Davies, Zoe Coombs Marr, Brett Blake_image courtesy of i8 Studio1920×1280 580 KB

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