ABC to launch new comedy show Tomorrow Tonight with Annabel Crabb and Charlie Pickering
ABC will launch a new weekly panel show, Tomorrow Tonight, later this year.
The new show will be hosted by ABC’s Charlie Pickering and Annabel Crabb, and produced by Thinkative Television and ABC TV.
Tomorrow Tonight will air on the ABC later this year
Tomorrow Tonight will see Pickering describe a hypothetical event that hasn’t yet occurred to Crabb, a panel of experts and comedians. It will seek to bring viewers ‘tomorrow’s news today’.
ABC’s announcement follows the axing of comedy show Tonightly, which concluded last week. ABC’s executive producer, Nick Hayden, who worked on Tonightly, has been appointed ABC EP for the show. He will be joined by executive producers Chris Walker and Kevin Whyte.
“I’m excited to take a break from making fun of the news to have a go at making up some news of our own, which could all turn out to be true any day now,” Pickering said.
Crabb added: “The escalating lunacy of domestic and global events in recent years is a sombre reminder to us all that we should be prepared for things to get even weirder. Tomorrow Tonight is – under these circumstances – a cornerstone obligation of the ABC Charter. Jokes included at no additional public expense.”
Josie Mason-Campbell, ABC’s head of factual and entertainment, said the show will inform and entertain viewers about the world around them.
“We are thrilled to work with Charlie Pickering and Annabel Crabb and the team at Thinkative Television on this original production. Tomorrow Tonight will unpack some of the most burning issues of our time and ask: ‘What if?’” Mason-Campbell said.
SHOOT ME! FFS
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another waste of public money, u CANNOT make a comedy, and as for putting that extreme leftie pickering in charge will be another reason not to watch. wake up ABC and save your money for shows like jack irish, bloody brilliant
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Expect plenty of jokes about anyone who isn’t from Melbourne
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It will be that kind of twee, “in-the-know” humour, for smug Friends of the ABC types who populate writers festivals and no-platform all new and interesting ideas. They’ll be watching from their safe-spaces in case they’re triggered by “white privilege”.
Maybe if Annabel can dial-back Pickering’s angry-Lefty bitterness – which is so predictably boring – it will be watchable, but I doubt it.
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Annabel is very serious and factual, the other guy is an oxygen thief. Why ABC would you subject us to good cop, bad cop television that will be full of left swipes at the installed government.
Truly the ABC does not learn, this will perform worse than Tom Ballard… and that’s saying something!
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I am sure that I saw Crabb interviewed in a most serious fashion by Sales or someone on the issues of Liberal leadership. I took that to suggest she was a journalist specialising in politics. Yet it seems they were joking.
Is 730 now a comedy? WTF??
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Last time I checked, Annabel was not a guy but did have a sense of humour.
Try it sometime.
You can’t blame anyone for swiping left on the stalled government.
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What’s your address?
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He is a waste of oxygen because he is a left wing comedian? I have voted Liberal for many years but I find the new breed of militant conservatives disturbingly unfunny and I am glad the ABC offers different perspectives to the Murdoch press.
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Oh wise ABC-basher, please tell me what your ideal ABC program looks like? If not political satire – a genre that will ideally help its viewers think critically about politics and the media – then what? What programming do you want the ABC to produce that you think better fits the phrase ‘in the public interest?’ Do you want an ABC Bachelor spin-off? Back to back one-man opinion shows like the Bolt report? Bold and the Beautiful re-runs? Perhaps they could try to flog crappy jewellery to the elderly like TVSN? What is it you want?
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Don’t worry about the ABC taking the piss out of the government.
They’ll only get one season before the election robs them of that opportunity.
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Bet it’s ALL leftists grooming regime media
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PS… I am not left wing, and obviously I’m not right wing. I am centrist. So don’t tell me I’m an angry lefty.
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I turned in late and thought it was real but then I got it.
Very stimulating.
Could we have a programme prior to yours called SWAP which switches gender graphically to the news etc…..
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In regards to the sugar limit card, does anyone who is diabetic or hypoglycaemic get exemptions? It seems like a detrimental infringement to abate just a portion of the gutenous population.
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