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Airdate: ABC2 Live Presents Bliss
From today ABC has the first in a series of looks at Bliss, the book by Peter Carey which has become both a film and an opera: following a four-minute death from a heart attack, Harry Joy returns to life finding the certainties of his former existence have entirely vanished.
Tonight at 10:05pm, Jennifer Byrne and a panel of experts explored the adaptation of Bliss the book to Bliss the film with Jennifer Byrne Presents: Books to Film on ABC1 (repeated on ABC2 on Sunday 14 March at 6.30pm).
At 8:30pm …
ABC: 2010 returning programs
Following on from the select highlights for ABC 2010, some readers have been asking about returning shows.
As we know The Einstein Factor, Sunday Arts and triple j with the doctor have all ended.
Here is the list of returning Australian-made shows not previously noted for ABC1 and ABC2:
Australian Story (ABC1, ABC2, iView),
News Breakfast (ABC2),
7pm News (ABC1),
The 7:30 Report (ABC1, iView),
Four Corners (ABC1, iView),
Foreign Correspondent (ABC1, iView),
Lateline (ABC1),
Landline (ABC1),
The Midday Report (ABC1),
Insiders (ABC1),
Inside Business (ABC1),
National Press Club (ABC1),
Offsiders (ABC1),
Stateline (ABC1),
Behind the News (ABC1)
Asia Pacific Focus (ABC1),
The Gruen Transfer (ABC1, repeated ABC2, iView),
Hungry …
Online to drive rebranded ABC Arts
ABC TV has revealed its overhaul of Arts programming with the announcement of a slew of new titles, a ‘digital Arts Gateway’ website and the rebranding of Sunday Arts to a half hour format to be known as Art Nation.
The move follows continued speculation the long-running Sunday afternoon show would indeed be trimmed with content shifted online.
The rebranded Art Nation will contain news, reviews, performance, features and interviews and showcase submitted work that has premiered on the Arts Gateway. At 30 minutes instead of its current one hour, the …
Artscape: The Sylvania Waters Project
If you remember 1992, you probably remember Noeline Donaher and Sylvania Waters -the landmark television docu-drama about a Sydney family that held the country -and the UK- spellbound.
Long before Big Brother, this series turned the viewer into a vouyer as we watched a dysfunctional family deal with babies, boats and booz.
Seventeen years on, the ABC’s Artscape series will look at an art installation in which some of Australia’s most innovative visual artists revisited the canals of the Sutherland Shire to respond to the phenomenon that was Sylvania Waters.
Artscape: The Sylvania Waters …
It’s just the vibe, Bud
Television networks are paying their respects to Charles ‘Bud’ Tingwell with late minute programming changes on Nine and the ABC.
Nine will screen The Castle on Saturday night at 7:30pm. Bert Newton will introduce the movie and pay a special homage to Bud.
Meanwhile the ABC1 as switches its Artscape special next Tuesday night to feature Bud Tingwell: A Tribute.
It airs at 10pm.
When Adam meets Virginia
Next Tuesday night on ABC’s Artscape, filmmker Adam Elliot will discuss his new animation, Mary and Max.
In 2004 Eliot when won an Oscar for his short film Harvey Krumpet.
Here he chats with Virginia Trioli discussing just what it took to make his $8 million ffeature over five years.
Mary and Max explores the pen pal friendship between an obese New York Jew with Aspergers syndrome and a plump young girl from the ‘burbs in Australia. It is also the first Australian feature ever to open the Sundance Film Festival.
The story is based …
Artscape: Anatomy
Most representations of gays and lesbians on TV lean to what is supposedly aesthetic: those who are younger, prettier, white, middle-class, successful, vibrant individuals. Whether as reality judges, flamboyant contestants, same-sex kissers on soap, celebrity gossipers or sitcom comic foils, most are easy on the eye. So many others in the rainbow remain invisible.
Anatomy, an anthology produced by Michael McMahon and Tony Ayres, comprises documentaries that shift the balance. We meet 3 subjects remarkable for their body, talent and spirit. This anthology also challenges conventions of gay lifestyles.
The first, and …