Hopes for new ABC TV arts program

The ABC has not made a local weekly arts program for three years. Is that about to change?

31 Mar 2014

Richard Watts

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Image: Ash Keating & Antony Hamilton at the Festival of Live Art, Melbourne. Photo by Tony Owczarek via www.abc.net.au/arts

Two separate sources inside the ABC have told artsHub that a new dedicated arts program will feature as part of the ABC’s forthcoming television schedule.

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Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts