Gruen on ABC 2015 show line up, amid ongoing speculation about funding cuts
The ABC has confirmed much of its 2015 programming line up with many popular franchises, including Gruen, The Checkout, Utopia, Please Like Me, Redfern Now and Redesign My Brain set to return in various guises.
The public broadcaster has forgone the usual Upfront presentation this year following funding cuts, with reports yesterday suggesting the ABC could see a further $200m-$300m cut over the next five years.
Despite the prospect of the cuts director of TV Richard Finlayson said it was “business as usual” from the content side announcing a new comedy show for Charlie Pickering, a two part documentary by reporter Sarah Ferguson, an eight part drama called Hiding, a new comedy for Shaun Micallef in which he plays a former prime minister struggling with being out of power and a potentially controversial documentary Lest We Forget, What? which examines the ANZAC myth, among a raft of new program initiatives.
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Two questions: one for Nic – what is a lightening rod for critics? Something critics can wave to make a heavy show lighter?
Second, I will ask again – why do the credits for ABC produced shows show so many more positions (three and four times as many) than commercially produced shows?
It’s almost like the fascinating witches who put the scintillating stitches in the britches of the boys who put the powder on the noses on the faces of the ladies of the harem of the court of King Catactacus have to get a guernsey (not to mention Uncle Tom Cobley and all)
The big story that everyone has missed is that apart from Good Game every Abc2 show announced has been shot already and no returning programs are listed. The channel will not last the year or will cease showing original content.
More leftie rubbish being made in 2015 for the ABC! Labor In Power ? really ? It never ends. Hurry up and merge SBS with the ABC, and get rid of News 24 which nobody watches and uses up a ton of ABC resources. Even the staff in news at the ABC agree it is rubbish. The funding cuts cannot come quick enough. They have a budget that is enormous yet keep churning out radio etc in 6 languages that 20 peoples listen too. SBS is worse.
go cry into your copy of the tele Jennifer