ABC1 to resume Monday line-up soon

ABC1 will resume its Monday line-up on February 6th.

Australian Story, Four Corners, Media Watch and Q & A are all back in their usual timeslots.

ABC1 Channel Controller has previously told TV Tonight, “Hopefully Australian Story, Four Corners, Media Watch, Q & A will run longer in 2012 than they have done previously. We’re mindful of the criticism we get over our Monday night line-up pulling up stumps after Melbourne Cup and coming back after Australia Day. Very mindful and we’re trying to do something about that.”

Foreign Correspondent returns the following night, Tuesday February 7th. This year it will run in 4 x 6 episode blocks as well as extended specials.

Mondays from February 6
8:00pm – Australian Story
Australian Story returns in 2012 with stories that are ‘narrated’ by the subjects themselves. The program aims to present a varied and contrasting picture of contemporary Australia and Australians from many different perspectives and to contribute to the wider spectrum of coverage of issues and individuals. It seeks to make Australians, in their diversity and individuality, more understandable to other Australians, and explores how Australians lead their lives through ordinary and extraordinary events. These stories may have greater interest or topicality when they are the stories often the hidden stories of celebrated or infamous individuals, but Australian Story will also give voice to the ordinary individuals who have lived through more than ordinary success or setback.

8:30pm – Four Corners
Four Corners is Australia’s premier television current affairs program. It has been part of the national story since August 1961, exposing scandals, triggering inquiries, firing debate, confronting taboos and interpreting fads, trends and sub cultures. Four Corners will repeat the following evening at approximately 11:30pm.

9:15pm – Media Watch
Media Watch, presented by Jonathan Holmes, is Australia’s leading forum for media analysis and comment. The program turns the spotlight onto those who literally ‘make the news’: the reporters, editors, sub-editors, producers, camera operators, sound recordists and photographers who claim to deliver the world to our doorsteps, radios, computers and living rooms. We also keep an eye on those who try to manipulate the media: the PR consultants, spin-doctors, lobbyists and ‘news makers’ who set the agenda. The program is repeated the following evening at approximately 12:15am.

9:35pm – Q&A
Hosted by one of the ABC’s most respected journalists, Tony Jones, Q&A puts punters, pollies and pundits together in the studio to thrash out the hot issues of the week. It’s about democracy in action – the audience gets to ask the questions. It doesn’t matter who you are, or where you’re from, everyone can have a go and take it up to our politicians and opinion makers. Q&A is live to air – it’s happening as viewers watch!

Tuesdays from February 7
8:00pm – Foreign Correspondent
Foreign Correspondent has been Australia’s leading international current affairs program since 1992. In 18 years reporters, producers, camera operators and sound recordists have travelled to more than 170 countries and produced more than 1,500 reports. The program draws on the ABC’s extensive network of international correspondents and a Sydney-based reporting and production team. Foreign Correspondent is designed to exploit the strengths of television – striking images and multi-track audio, a strong focus on storytelling, exotic locations and emotional appeal. Foreign Correspondent reports on major international issues but it also travels to places where reporters and camera operators are less welcome – investigating stories that governments don’t want told.