- Linton Besser to host Media Watch
- New drama The Household Subsequent Door. New comedy Optics.
- New: The Piano, Miriam Margolyes: Made in NZ, Portrait Artist Of The 12 months, The Position of a Lifetime
- Returning: Thriller Street: Origin, The Newsreader, Bay of Fires, Austin, Mom & Son.
- Returning: Man Montgomery’s Spelling Bee, Muster Canine, The Meeting, Gruen.
- Youngsters: Do Not Watch This Present, Knee-Excessive Spies, Bluey’s Huge Play.
ABC has unveiled its 2025 content material slate to media and companions this afternoon at its Ultimo headquarters.
The presentation confirms the announcement of Linton Besser, who received a Walkley Award this week, as the brand new Media Watch host.
There are many returning ABC reveals throughout Drama, Leisure, Factual, Information and Youngsters.
Amongst the brand new reveals are drama thriller The Household Subsequent Door; comedy sequence Optics; new leisure present The Piano with Amanda Keller, Harry Connick Jr and Andrea Lam; Rachel Griffiths presenting When the Warfare is Over; UK format Portrait Artist Of The 12 months; Dr Karl’s How Issues Work, Miriam Margolyes: Made in NZ and a recording of stay present Bluey’s Huge Play.
The ABC claims ABC iview was #1 BVOD alternative for on-demand programming in 2024 and ABC Information as Australia’s #1 digital information model in September.
Chief Content material Officer Chris Oliver-Taylor (pictured under): “As the biggest commissioner of Australian content material we’re thrilled to share our 2025 slate, together with 23 new titles throughout all genres. Audiences will see authentic premium homegrown drama, a comedy slate that delivers a few of our nation’s largest hits, kids’s content material that connects with children not solely in Australia however everywhere in the world, impactful factual programming and documentaries that resonate with Australians within the metropolis and nation. Our unrivalled arts protection consists of six primetime sequence in 2025 complementing stay music occasions, Mardi Gras and New 12 months’s Eve celebrations that convey Australians collectively. The ABC is the house of Australian content material in 2025.”
Not anticipated to return is Monday’s Consultants, whereas choices are but to be made on reveals corresponding to Query All the pieces with its season at present underway.
Beneath are 2025 highlights (consists of some titles nonetheless to display screen in 2024) with additional feedback from Oliver-Taylor.
Media Watch:
Investigative journalist Linton Besser would be the subsequent presenter of the ABC’s Media Watch program from 2025.
Besser is a former overseas correspondent who has reported from world wide for 4 Corners, Overseas Correspondent and 7.30. His work has additionally appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Bulletin.
Besser has received 4 Walkley Awards, two Kennedy Awards and a George Munster Award. His work has prompted public inquiries, together with a Royal Fee, corruption findings and prison prosecutions in opposition to enterprise figures, politicians and different public officers.
Linton Besser stated, “Tm thrilled and sobered to be given the chance to host this vital tv program and hope to proceed its nice custom. The media is huge enterprise and massively influential. Its mission could also be to carry others to account – but it surely too deserves the blowtorch. For years, members of the general public have described to me a elementary mistrust of the media. They lump us collectively, the nice and the unhealthy. Slightly than despairing at this uncomfortable actuality I’m going to attempt in my very own small strategy to do one thing about it. Media Watch stays Australia’s greatest public guardrail in opposition to unhealthy behaviour by the press.”
His first present as host is on Monday 3 February.
New:
The Household Subsequent Door
Primarily based on bestselling Australian writer Sally Hepworth’s novel of the identical identify, The Household Subsequent Door tells the story of enigmatic Isabelle (Teresa Palmer), who strikes right into a small seaside cul-de-sac the place her obsessive drive to unravel a thriller casts suspicion on 4 neighbouring households.
COT: “The Household Subsequent Door is a brand new compulsive thriller, Therese Palmer, shot in Victoria it’s going to be superb. I believe it’s simply a kind of reveals that ABC audiences will love. A very twisty, thrilling, dramatic story directed by the fantastic Emma Freeman, who additionally directs The Newsreader.”
Optics
Jenna Owen, Vic Zerbst and Charles Firth are the masters of spin in new six-part comedy sequence Optics which premieres Wednesday 29 January on ABC TV and ABC iview.
COT: “It’s set on the planet of PR and the disasters that may happen to many organisations, after which the way you cope with it. It’s very a lot within the within the vein of Utopia, a office comedy, however completely different.”
Recent Blood
ABC is proud to help rising voices via the Recent Blood initiative with Display screen Australia which is able to see three debut tasks hit screens in 2025- Going Beneath, Urvi Went to an All Ladies College and Westerners. Our joint initiative with Display screen Australia continues.
The Piano
Thrilling new sequence The Piano sees on a regular basis pianists tackle the chance of a lifetime, guided by famend professional musicians Harry Connick Jr and Andrea Lam.
COT: “The Piano is headlining the center of the yr. We’re going to do a celebration of The Piano over six weeks, which additionally consists of the Basic 100 countdown. The voting for that can run precisely the identical time as The Piano TV sequence, after which we’re going to culminate in two huge occasions…we’re additionally going to have The Piano live performance, so for nearly six weeks, the ABC goes to be, hopefully enthralled with classical music.”
The Position of a Lifetime
Groundbreaking sequence The Position of a Lifetime sees Amanda Keller and an ensemble of comedians discover parenting dilemmas alongside sketches that includes Kate Ritchie and Nazeem Hussain.
Dr Ann Secret Lives.
Dr Ann Jones will get up shut and private with among the most reclusive creatures on the planet in Dr Ann Secret Lives.
Orea: Australia’s Megapod / The Kimberley.
Discover Western Australia’s pure historical past in new documentaries Orca: Australia’s Megapod and The Kimberley.
Miriam Margolyes: Made in NZ.
Dr Karl’s How Issues Work.
Dr Karl steps behind manufacturing unit doorways to see how merchandise are made in Dr Karl’s How Issues Work.
Eat the Invaders
Curious minds will delight on Tuesday 7 January on ABC TV and ABC iview when Tony Armstrong explores a radical culinary answer to the invasive crops and animals attacking Australia’s distinctive biodiversity in Eat The Invaders.
Finish Sport
Tony Armstrong is on a mission to seek out world options to the rising tide of racism in Australian sport and encourage lasting change in Finish Sport.
Hear Me Out
And new ABC Indigenous authentic format, Hear Me Out will deal with the usually contentious dialogue surrounding Australia Day from a First Nations perspective.
When the Warfare is Over
Acclaimed artwork lover and actor Rachel Griffiths will return to the ABC with When the Warfare is Over to deep dive into how artwork has helped form our angle to wars.
COT: “What will we be taught from poetry, from footage, from artists, from music via the warfare from the battlefields direct. So Rachel goes to go away us on that journey in direction of the tip of subsequent yr.”
Portrait Artist Of The 12 months
In Portrait Artist Of The 12 months, artists from throughout Australia will compete in a battle of artistic ability, as they full portraits of well-known sitters.
COT: “We actually suppose that having Australians paint well-known Australians with an opportunity to win a fee to have your work endlessly hung in considered one of Australia’s nationwide galleries, I believe is, is a exceptional alternative…. we’ve not bought a solid but or host but, however working that via now.”
A (very) Musical Christmas
Spend a fascinating Christmas with Australia’s best musical theatre expertise as they grace the stage with the sounds of the festive season for A (very) Musical Christmas on Friday 20 December on ABC TV and ABC iview.
Returning:
Thriller Street: Origin
The critically acclaimed and multi-award-winning Thriller Street: Origin returns for a second season persevering with to delve into the early years of Detective Jay Swan (Mark Coles Smith).
Bay of Fires
The Newsreader
Austin
Mom & Son
Muster Canine
On Sunday 2 February on ABC TV and ABC iview, audiences will fall in love with a brand new litter of puppies as Muster Canine returns for season three. There will likely be a twist on the experiment to see who will likely be topped Champion. This time each Kelpies and Collies put to the check.
Spicks & Specks
Man Montgomery’s Spelling Bee
Exhausting Quiz
Gardening Australia
Offsiders
Gruen
The Weekly with Charlie Pickering
Melbourne Worldwide Comedy Competition
I Was Truly There
The Meeting
Grand Designs Australia
Restoration Australia
Again Roads
Landline
Compass
Inventive Sorts with Virginia Trioli
The Artwork Of with Namila Benson
Take 5 with Zan Rowe
Rage
Australian of the 12 months
Australia Day Dwell Live performance
ANZAC Day
New 12 months’s Eve
Sydney Homosexual and Lesbian Mardi Gras
NAIDOC
Basic 100 Live performance
Information:
Australia’s most trusted information organisation, ABC Information continues to convey viewers agenda setting journalism and evaluation, in-depth investigations, compelling storytelling and important info throughout our digital and broadcast platforms. Returning flagship TV applications in 2025 embody ABC Information Breakfast, Insiders, 7.30, Australian Story – subsequent yr with six extra episodes, 4 Corners, Q+A, Overseas Correspondent – in a brand new timeslot of 8.00pm Tuesday, Planet America and BTN.
Worldwide:
We are going to farewell hit crime drama Vera because the sequence concludes with two epic movies combining murderous intrigue with coronary heart and soul.
Titles Strolling with Dinosaurs, Bergerac, Douglas is Cancelled, Till I Kill you, The One That Acquired Away and Darby and Joan may even hit screens.
Youngsters:
Multi-talented Andy Lee brings his best-selling ebook sequence to life within the new animated sequence Do Not Watch This Present.
New preschool sequence, Knee Excessive Spies combines live-action and puppetry and prepare to see our trusted Heeler household such as you’ve by no means seen them earlier than, as they’re dropped at actual life in a recording of their stay present Bluey’s Huge Play.
Summer season vacation viewing kicks off with new Kangaroo Seashore splashing onto screens on Boxing Day and Gardening Australia Junior on New Years Day. Lovely and soothing animation Piki Lullaby with Christine Anu will likely be out there from 13 January on ABC Household and ABC iview.
Returning favourites embody Area Nova, Fizzy & Suds, Good Sport Spawn Level and Good Sport Spawn Squad, Exhausting Quiz Youngsters and Play College.
In Growth:
Return to Paradise S2
Shaun Micallef’s Eve of Destruction S2
A Chew To Eat With Alice S2
Teenage Boss: Subsequent Stage S2
And Annabel Crabb and the crew that introduced you Kitchen Cupboard and Ms Represented are in improvement, with a brand new sequence investigating the barely-believable true story of how Australia’s globally distinctive voting system got here to be.
Absent:
Monday Night time Consultants
Query All the pieces
Fisk
Girls in Black
Home of Gods
White Fever
Troppo
Complete Management
Maggie Beer’s Huge Mission,
Tony Armstrong’s Additional-Bizarre Issues,
Grand Designs Transformations
Stuff the British Stole,
Higher Date than By no means
This Is Going To Be Huge
Australia’s Open
That Pacific Sports activities Present
Planet Lulin
Tales from Outer Suburbia
Little J And Huge Cuz
Ginger And The Vegesaurs
After the Celebration
