Comments on: Colbert coming to ABC2

By: KFed

KFed — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:07:54 +0000

@kuttsywood Agreed. Even if they just repeated the good shows again, a la Go!

By: RichoTB

RichoTB — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:58:11 +0000

This is the best news I’ve heard in a long time. Someone should also grab Jon Stewart for an FTA showing. Right now.

By: Stan

Stan — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:36:02 +0000

Wow! I think I want to jump Mark Scott’s bones now. This makes up for all the kids programming during the day on all three ABC channels.

If we’re talkin’ late night programming here, ABC News Online streams live feeds of Australia Network’s NewsHour With Jim Middleton at 1am & 3:30am (AESDT) & I think that would work really well with The Colbert Report (& maybe The Daily Show) on ABC2… Just a thought.

By: chris

chris — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:27:57 +0000

Best news I’ve heard all day. Put it with the daily show and it will be the best tv news all year!!

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:37:14 +0000

Kuttsywood i totally agree abc2 24-7 is whats needed, come on abc.

By: Matt J

Matt J — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:36:06 +0000

Say What?

This is great!

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:08:31 +0000

Jay Leno, now Colbert, pretty soon people will be dropping foxtel! They need to do some serious fastracking of some of their staple series, like Dexter and True Blood. None of this 6 months behind crap…

By: Lazer

Lazer — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:04:58 +0000

@Daniel

Channel 10 only showed the Global Edition of The Daily Show once a week late at night on 11:30PM-12:00AM wasn’t really commitment by TEN to have it was just filler programming..

But with the ABC if they got both Colbert and Stuart it would do very well for ABC2 like other have said there getting better every year with there great programming

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:01:14 +0000

Daily Show and Colbert are unmissable as far as I’m concerned. I might even make the jump from watching on Comedy to ABC2, because those ads on Comedy are quite brutal, even in fast-forward.

By: Kuttsywood

Kuttsywood — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:39:59 +0000

A move to 24hr broadcasts could be a start.

By: mikeys

mikeys — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:18:25 +0000

This is great news for FTA viewers… They should try and get Daily Show whilst they’re at it…

By: chrissyboy

chrissyboy — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:10:03 +0000

The fifth night maybe the Global Edition that Comedy Channel also shows on Monday nights.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:07:30 +0000

5 nights a week is possible. The Comedy Channel airs this awesome program 5 nights a week. A few hours off the satellite Tuesday – Friday and the global edition on Mondays, which is a weekly highlights programme that usually airs in countries that don’t receive the main programme.

The Daily Show didn’t last on TEN so I wouldn’t have much hope for Colbert to last on ABC2.

By: Belinda

Belinda — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:50:10 +0000

Best programming news ever.

By: marc

marc — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:47:58 +0000

It would be amazing to have this run on ABC2 just before or just after the slot that lateline runs on ABC1. We could go str8 from one channel to the other in a “bloc of awesome newsiness” TM

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:03:37 +0000

I think a certain MS of the ABC is a Colbert fan (using the word he coined ‘truthiness’).

Slightly puzzling though, as Colbert only airs 4 nights a week in the US, unless he somehow got Colbert to do an extra episode a week.

Hopefully it comes out on iView as well, it can save me considerable quota i would estimate 30gigabytes this year went to The daily show and Colbert report. Hopefully they will have TDS as well.

After that we need our own TDS/TCR style show looking at australian matters.