ABC iview – quick links
ABC iview: new in April
Melbourne International Comedy Festival All Stars Supershow – 1 April
Live, loud and packed full of laughs – get ready for the Opening Night Comedy Allstars Supershow! Hosted by Brett Lake and Bron Lewis, there’s no better place to kick off the Melbourne International Comedy Festival season.
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy – 3 April
Film (2004). Enter the world of 1970’s TV news, where Ron Burgundy and his loyal Channel 4 News Team are San Diego’s #1 rated news source. All is well in their male-dominated world of news until rising star reporter Veronica Corningstone turns it upside down.
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues – 3 April
Film (2013). After losing his job, Ron reassembles the news team and squares off against a new rival.
Caper Crew – 10 April
Amelia and Kai Delaney’s quiet lives are upended when their con-artist grandmother Queenie teaches them the art of the grift – sparking their hunt for the priceless Woodspring Nug.
Secrets At Red Rocks – 10 April
Twelve-year-old Jake is drawn into a world of mythical creatures and adventure when he finds a sealskin hidden on the rocky shores of his father’s seaside home in Wellington, New Zealand. Can he protect his family from the danger he’s unleashed?
Wild Isles With David Attenborough – 12 April
Series. David Attenborough explores Britain’s mountain, woodland, grassland, freshwater and ocean habitats to reveal globally important wildlife and places, as spectacular as any he has seen in the world.
Judgment: Cases That Changed Australia – 14 April
Series. Judgment takes viewers inside the High Court of Australia, where many of our toughest questions are asked and where ordinary citizens seeking justice challenge the laws that have shaped the nation.
Across four of the most high-stake cases – Gay Rights & Marriage, Equality, Mabo, Immigration Detention and the Right to Vote – Judgment charts the personal battles that have become constitutional turning points driving change in the course of history.
Through unrivalled access, rich archive and carefully crafted drama-documentary storytelling, Judgment reveals not only the legal reasoning behind these often-brilliant arguments and decisions, but the courage, strategy and conviction that drive them.
Grand Designs UK Season 23 – 16 April
Series. This new series of Grand Designs features a remarkable range of self-build projects, exploring cutting-edge aquatic design, the nerve shredding restoration of a building on the verge of collapse and an astonishingly bold and ambitious home for someone in their later years.
Franky Drake Mysteries Seasons 1-4 – 19 April
Series. Set in 1920s Toronto, the series follows the adventures of Frankie Drake (Lauren Lee Smith) and her partner Trudy Clarke (Chantel Riley) at Drake Private Detectives, the city’s only all-female detective agency, as they find themselves fighting crime in the age of flyboys, gangsters, rum-runners, and speakeasies.
Bergerac Season 2 – 26 April
Series. Bergerac returns for the most challenging case of his career – both professionally and personally. When the groom at a wedding reception on the island is found stabbed through the heart in his hotel room, one thing is certain … Someone at the wedding reception was a killer, and Bergerac is determined to bring them to justice.
Bad Company – 26 April
Series. This brand-new six-part comedy series is a riotous clash of egos, ambition and backstage drama . Starring two of Australia’s powerhouse comedians, Anne Edmonds and Kitty Flanagan, and created and written by Edmonds, Bad Company brings together a dream comedy pairing in a story about two fierce rivals who test each other to the limits.
At the centre of the chaos is Margie Argyle (Anne Edmonds), the Argyle Theatre’s wildly confident artistic director who is determined to stage her most experimental, critic-wowing masterpiece yet.
There’s just one small problem: Margie’s bold creative vision might also send the already fragile theatre hurtling towards financial ruin.
Standing between Margie and catastrophe is Julia McNamara (Kitty Flanagan), a corporate high-flyer with a flawless track record and the steely resolve to match.
The Assembly Season 3 – 26 April
Series. In its third season, The Assembly delves into deeper, more ambitious territory, with Autistic journalism students from previous seasons returning to question some of Australia’s most recognisable personalities for revealing, in-depth interviews that go beyond their public image.
Taking the next step in their media training under the continued mentorship of award-winning journalist Leigh Sales, the graduate students share their personal success stories from their first foray into the media.
For the first time, Sales takes the students on field trips, to sharpen their research and interviewing skills while uncovering the real stories behind the featured guests.
Urzila – 29 April
Series. Get ready to dive headfirst into the brilliantly chaotic mind of comedy powerhouse Urzila Carlson with her new sketch comedy series.
Urzila is gleefully outrageous, capturing Carlson’s fearless, no-filter approach to comedy in full flight. Each episode mashes up razor‑sharp stand‑up with cheeky, fast‑firing sketches, many of them plucked straight from the wildly funny stories she riffs on during her live shows.
It’s a TV series powered by two decades of stand-up comedy chaos: bold, boisterous, and unmistakably Urzila.
Joining her on this energetic ride is her handpicked ensemble of rising comedy talent: Bron Lewis, Carlo Ritchie, Andy Saunders and Anisa Nandaula.
Guy Montgomery’s Guy Mont Spelling Bee Season 3 – 29 April
Series. Guy Montgomery’s Guy Mont Spelling Bee returns for a triumphant third season, with Sam Campbell as the new Assistant.
Gruen Season 18 – 29 April
Australia’s favourite multi-award winning, multi-award losing, longest running (probably now that Neighbours has bitten the dust again), and most importantly, the only show about advertising is coming back for an 18th season.
But wait, there’s more. The show is new and improved. Zero calories. Full of protein. Contains collagen. Active ingredients. No artificial colours, flavour, or intelligence. And is guaranteed to be on free-to-air or your money back.
Host Wil Anderson says: ‘We were really hoping that the end of the world would stop advertisers, but it turns out that we live in hell, and they’re selling us snowballs.’
ABC iview: recent highlights
Frauds – 15 March
Series. Suranne Jones and Jodie Whittaker star as confident tricksters whose toxic yet darkly funny friendship is rekindled in order to pull off the art heist of the century.
Set against the epic rolling hills of southern Spain and the dark criminal underbelly that casts a shadow over the glistening coast, Frauds is a complex and addictive story of friendship, deception and survival.
Can You Keep a Secret? – 15 March
Series. Dawn French plays domineering granny Debbie Fendon, a woman who will stop at nothing to protect her family – it’s just the person they most need protecting from is her. And when her hermit-like husband, William (Mark Heap), unexpectedly dies, she makes an outlandish decision that will put the family under more pressure than ever before.
