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ABC jumps into summer

Adam Hills Live, the remake of Room with a View, Tracey Ullman, a new season of Hustle and the trial of Tony Blair. The ABC unwraps summer pressies for you.

The ABC has announced its summer programming highlights under the banner “FesTiVal of Entertainment.”

From November 16 until January 27, it has lined up a host of dramas, specials, documentaries, music events, movies and more. Culled from Australian and international broadcasting, most are first-run and there are some repeats of old favourites too.

Australian highlights include The Howard Years, Adam Hills Live, Humpbacks: From Fire to Ice, Destiny in the Alice, Ni**er Lovers, The Eternity Man, Hairtales, Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts the finals of The Einstein Factor and The New Inventors, special editions of First Tuesday Book Club, Kylie Kwong, At the Movies, and Spicks and Specks.

From the UK there is Robert Lindsay in The Trial of Tony Blair, a new season of Hustle, the comedy series The Thick of It, Helena Bonham Carter in the film Magnificent 7, the remake of A Room with a View, plus Party Animals, Wallace and Grommit: A Matter of Loaf and Death, Expedition Bhutan, Princes in the Tower, The Omid Djalili Show and the Edinburgh Military Tattoo.

From the US there is Tracey Ullman’s State of the Union, Capturing the Friedmans and 638 Ways to Kill Castro.

There are re-screenings of Bastard Boys, Rainshadow, Choir of Hard Knocks, Sounds of Aus, The Floating Brothel, Constructing Australia, Stepfather of the Bride, Trial and Retribution, Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple,, while films include Little Fish and Oyster Farmer.

ABC2 features Radio 1’s Big Weekend, Zoo Day, Modern Toss, Brideshead Revisited, Robin Hood, the Schools Spectacular, It’s Adam and Shelley, Victoria Up the Empire, and World Music Awards 2008.

For kids there is In the Night Garden, Degrassi High, Scorpion Island, Humf, Penelope, Mr Men and Yo Gabba Gabba.

16 Responses

  1. This show is complete and utter trash.
    I can’t believe that ABC child TV programmers could be so ignorant of the music guide lines recommended by reputable Child Music organisations such as Kodaly Music education, Carl Orff Schulwerk, Musik Garten etc- which would all be horrified at the targeting of the youngest listeners with this appallingly tasteless, loud, obnoxious and culturally degenerated rubbish.

    An interesting musical laboratory experiment was recently done: two groups of mice were assigned the same task of finding their way through a maze.
    The first group was subjected to simple classical music (10 hours a day over a week), the second to acid pop à la “Yo Gabba” (also 10 hours a day over a week).

    After a week, the “classical group” was 20 minutes faster. The “acid pop” group was not only 30 min slower than at the start, they had resorted to cannibalism before reaching the end of their task.
    “Yo Gabba Gabba” adds acid pop accompaniment to nursery songs. Need I say more? It promotes aggression ans is totally unsuitable for this most vulnerable age group.

  2. Some Excellent shows to look forwards to over summer, maybe the Commercial Channels could take a leaf out of the ABC’s book and do something similar also(very unlikely….).

  3. So no Doctor Who xMas special, so when July and then the other special to follow 6 months after they air?

    This is stupid they know there is no series, I wonder if they even have the rights to the show yet?

  4. Retro, ABC1 has had Yo Gabba Gabba on previously – quite some time after Foxtel started it. Good it’s coming back again – my four year old has been missing them!

    yay to the ABC – a feast for summer instead of a famine on the commercial networks!

  5. Has Yo Gabba Gabba been on free-to-air before? or just foxtel?
    If so, its quite good news for some.

    I’ve seen it on youtube and kinda wishin I had it to watch when I was quite a few years younger.

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