The Einstein Factor is not the only ABC series departing our screens today.
It is also the last edition of Sunday Arts. The show, hosted by Michael Veitch with Virginia Trioli and Fenella Kernebone, is to be replaced by Art Nation next year.
The rebranded show will contain news, reviews, performance, features and interviews and showcase submitted work from its Arts Gateway website and run just 30 minutes instead of its current one hour. It will be interesting to see if it has crews who will go to events and interview visiting celebrities in the way it has so far.
Today’s final episode abandons the normal format to feature highlights of the 2009 ABC Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year Grand Final.
It features the three finalists as they performed at the Adelaide Festival Theatre: Sydney-based violinist Ji Won Kim will perform the Sibelius Violin Concert, while Western Australian Bo An Lu plays Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.1, and David Papp from New South Wales performing Martinu’s Oboe Concerto.
It airs at 5pm today and is repeated at 7:30pm on ABC2.
I shall miss Michael Veitch doing his regular Peter Ross impersonation – talk about becoming the man you once lampooned on Fast Forward!
Anyway, here’s to some more arty flair next year.
Sad about the Einstein Factor going though – had a few more years left in that one methinks.