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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 …

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 …