Auction Room is an Australian reality television series, hosted by William McInnes and is produced by and airs on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The show premiered on Sunday 15 April 2012 at 6pm, and has been renewed for a second series. Gordon Brown will be the presenter,replacing McInnes for the 2nd series.The 2nd series will begin broadcast in October 2012.
Weekend Breakfast is an Australian news breakfast television program broadcast on ABC News 24 on weekends. It is broadcast live from the ABC News 24 studio in Sydney's ABC Ultimo Centre and first aired on 4 February 2012.
On Saturdays the program airs from 8am to 11.30 am. On Sundays it airs in two parts: first from 8 am to 9 am, at which point Insiders is broadcast for one hour. Weekend Breakfast then resumes at 10 am and continues until 11:30 am.
7.30 is an Australian nightly television current affairs programme ABC1 and ABC News 24 at 7.30pm, Monday to Friday. A national edition screens from Monday to Thursday, produced at the ABN studios in Ultimo, Sydney and hosted by Leigh Sales. A local edition with a focus on state affairs screens on Fridays. However, when a big state political event happens, the national program can be pre-empted by the local edition.
The program first screened on 7 March 2011, replacing both The 7.30 Report and Stateline.
Ripples is a CGI Italian animated television series created and produced by Animabit and Rai Fiction. The first serie of Ondino was broadcast on Italian RAI television on July 8, 2007. The series currently airs on RAI television, TV2, ABC Australia and Al Jazeera.
Five Minutes More is a children's television series co-produced between Australia and the United Kingdom. It was produced by Snow River Media and Buster Dandy Productions, and developed by The Jim Henson Company. The series premiered on ABC on 23 August 2006.
The Dingo Principle is an Australian satirical comedy series created by Patrick Cook and Phillip Scott which was produced and broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1987.
In addition to Cook and Scott, the show's cast included Jonathan Biggins, Drew Forsythe, Geoff Kelso, Antonia Murphy and Deni Gordon. Cook, Scott, and Kelso had also written and performed in an earlier satirical program, The Gillies Report, but Cook stressed that the only similarities between the shows was that they "were both about current affairs and were both on the ABC". The program was recorded in front of a live audience on Saturday nights, and broadcast on Monday nights.
Although only ten episodes were made and shown in a late night time-slot, the program is remembered for causing several diplomatic incidents. On 20 April 1987, the program performed a mock interview with the Ayatollah Khomeini, resulting in two Australian diplomats being expelled from Tehran and threats of trade sanctions from Iran. Two weeks later, when
Wandjina! was an Australian children's science fantasy television series produced by ABC Television and first aired in 1966. The story was inspired by Dreamtime mythology of the spirit ancestors of the Kimberly region of north-West Australia and is about three teenagers who become caught up in an adventure linked to local sacred Aboriginal cave paintings of the Wandjina — the "people from the sky" who visited long ago, in the Dreamtime.
Wandjina! was the first integrated film and videotape drama production ever undertaken by the ABC in Sydney.
In this six-part series Ron and Valerie Taylor travel in the underwater world showing the special relationship Valerie has developed with the creatures of the blue wilderness. Now she fights for the future of these creatures.
The Outcasts was a 1961 Australian television mini-series. A period drama, it was broadcast live, though with some film inserts. All episodes survive as kinescope recordings
Watch This Space was a short-lived Australian children's science fiction television series which ran on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from 7 April to 13 June 1982. The show starred Paul Chubb, in his first leading role on a television series, as a red skinned alien named Rufus who arrives on Earth and attempts to live as a human. The alien is helped by a local man, played by co-star Ron Blanchard, who attempts to help him fit in including helping disguise his spaceship as a normal home and later moved in with him as a roommate.
Being largely unaware of Earth culture, the alien would regularly become involved in comical social situations. This was most often as his human friend's expense who, while receiving weekly visitors, continually tries to explain away his odd behavior and the existence of his talking shipboard computer. Other actors who appeared on the series included local bands, performers and celebrity guest stars such as Steve Bisley, Liddy Clark, Jon English, Rebecca Gilling, Tracy Mann and Kr
Adventure Island is an Australian television series for children which screened on the ABC from 11 September 1967 to 22 December 1972. It was jointly created by Godfrey Philipp, who produced the series, and actor-writer John Michael Howson, who also co-starred in the show. It typically aired from Monday to Friday and each story would stretch across a full week, reaching a resolution on Friday.
Adventure Island was a joint production of Godfrey Philipp Productions and the Australian Broadcasting Commission, pre-recorded on videotape at the ABC's studios in Ripponlea, Melbourne. It is believed to be the first program made by the ABC in collaboration with an outside production company. Production was usually five weeks ahead of broadcast. It was a pantomime-style series set in the kingdom of Diddley-Dum-Diddley. The show was hosted by Nancy Cato from 1967 to 1968 and Sue Donovan from 1969 to 1972.
Demonstrations in Physics was an educational science series produced in Australia by ABC Television in 1969. The series was hosted by American scientist Julius Sumner Miller, who demonstrated experiments involving various disciplines in the world of physics.
The series was also released in the United States under the title Science Demonstrations.
This program was a series of 45 15 minute shows on various topics in physics, organized into 3 units: Mechanics, Heat and Temperature/Toys, and Waves and Sound/Electricity and Magnetism.
Live and Sweaty was an Australian sports television program, broadcast on the ABC from 1991 until 1995. Hosted by Andrew Denton and later, Elle McFeast, the show was part panel-based, part talk show and part comedy, and predated The Footy Show which has a similar format.
Soupe Opéra is a children's television programme. It was created in France in the early 1990s, and was aired globally as distant as Australia, originally on free-to-air, non-commercial channel ABC1, but is now shown more commonly on sister channel ABC2 on the ABC 4 Kids lineup.
The series follows the adventures of a brother and sister as they try to discover the whereabouts of their scientist father, whilst being pursued by an evil woman and her henchman.