2017 PROGRAMS VOLUME 1 ABC Content Sales Vol 3-Prepress.indd 1 21/03/2017 2:25 pm Welcome Contents ABC Commercial presents its fresh new slate of programs Presales 4 for 2017 featuring quality drama series, inspiring lifestyle entertainment, moving factual programs as well as music, New Programs 5 arts and outrageous comedy. Drama 13 In addition to our new program highlights, we present our extensive collection of premier programming across every Lifestyle and Entertainment 19 genre imaginable. This is the best of our best, showcasing Factual 27 ABC Commercial’s ongoing commitment to world-class programs that are bold, entertaining and innovative. Comedy 43 We work with the best producers in the business who create Children’s 47 engaging quality content with global appeal, for all platforms. Arts and Music 57 Our highly experienced team, who are based around the globe, and our premium systems, mean we can respond quickly and News and Current Affairs 63 deliver materials effi ciently and seamlessly. We look forward to working with you to deliver great programs for your audience! For more information read on and visit abccommercial.com/contentsales Presales Pulse 45 Serial Killers the Inspired by a true story of a transplant patient who became a doctor, Pulse is a high-stakes drama set World Wants to Forget in and around the transplant unit of a busy teaching hospital. When successful high-flier Frankie is brought This series looks deep into contemporary serial killers to crashing to earth by chronic kidney failure, she targets give amazing insight into why some people in society kill. an alternate future. Eight years on she is in her second It’s not a countdown to the worst killer on record, nor year as a practising doctor, and driven to use her does it glorify the actions of serial killers. This is an second chance to save others, she must confront an investigation into the minds and actions of these serial ailing health system and face her toughest challenge – killers as the series takes a journey through the eyes of learning to let go. those who met a serial killer, knew one at high school or Starring an outstanding international cast including worked with one. Claire van der Boom (Sisters of War), Andrea The forgotten voices of these minor characters, paired Demetriades (Janet King), Owen Teale (Game of with experts in criminology, medicine, and sociology will Thrones), Liam McIntyre (Spartacus: War of the reveal why the crimes happened and what effect they Damned), Susie Porter (Puberty Blues) and Pallavi had on those who knew a serial killer. Sharda (Lion), Pulse is produced by a powerhouse creative team with an exceptional pedigree in long-running drama series and feature film. HD 8 x 60’ | DRAMA HD 13 x 45’ | FACTUAL Clandestine TV and Beyond Entertainment Pty Ltd Blizzard Road Productions 4 PRESALES New Programs abccommercial.com/contentsales 5 Newton’s Law From the team behind the internationally successful drama series Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, comes a brand new series, Newton’s Law. Hailed as one of the best new shows of 2017, this acclaimed comedy-drama series centres on Josephine Newton, a suburban solicitor with an over-developed sense of responsibility who attempts to return to her briefly glorious career at the Bar. Sparkling with wit and pace, the series explores a variety of legal issues and challenges with warmth and heart as it focuses on a diverse ensemble cast of compelling characters. Newton’s Law stars an outstanding line-up of Australian talent including Claudia Karvan (Love My Way, Paperback Hero), Toby Schmitz (Black Sails), Brett Tucker (McLeod’s Daughters, Thor: The Dark World), and Miranda Tapsell (The Sapphires). HD 8 x 60’ | DRAMA Every Cloud Productions Pty Limited “Newton’s Law is an attractive and relaxing thing indeed: a 50-minute weekly holiday from the hurricane of reality” – THE GUARDIAN 6 Top Jobs for Dogs Discover what amazing and entertaining tasks dogs are capable of – and what traits to look for when finding the right dog for the job. Whether it’s speed, curiosity, reliability, affection ... we’ll explore what it takes to develop a cute puppy into a Top Dog. This program reveals which dog is the right fit and why – is it the science, the psychology, the determination? Along the way we meet the dogs on the job, their trainers and those they serve. A fascinating, surprising and fun exploration of the lives and characteristics of our canine friends. HD 12 x 30’ | FACTUAL Hula Hoop Pictures FORMAT AVAILABLE From cuddly pooch to rescue hero ... man’s best friend can also be man’s best helper. NEW PROGRAMS 7 Dream Gardens A stunning new eight-part series that sees unloved outdoor spaces reimagined as exceptional visions come to life. Hosted by one of Australia’s leading landscape designers, Michael McCoy, each episode follows the transformation of one garden from the first spade hitting the ground to the incredible end result. Dream Gardens captures some of the most imaginative and challenging garden designs coming to life as owners battle bad FORMat weather, absent workers, shifting design visions and budget blowouts. AVAILABLE This is a series that celebrates incredible garden design, the great HD 8 x 30’ | LIFESTYLE AND ENTERTAINMENT gardens of today and the role they play in inspiring and shaping lives. Australian Broadcasting Corporation You Can’t Ask That Returning for a second compelling series, You Can’t Ask That takes an intimate look at what happens when stereotyped minorities candidly answer anonymous and often embarrassing and taboo questions. The latest series confronts prejudice and discrimination in a highly entertaining format, offering genuine insight into society’s outsiders, the people who live with labels. Series two plunges into the lives of people with Down syndrome, facial difference, the blind, centenarians, refugees, the homeless and more. FORMat AVAILABLE HD 22 x 10–30’ (2 series) | FACTUAL Australian Broadcasting Corporation Ronny Chieng: International Student Meet Ronny Chieng. He’s a Malaysian student who’s come to Australia to study law. He’s smart, driven and competitive, which would make him the perfect law student, if he actually wanted to be a lawyer. As we follow Ronny from his first day on campus to the final exam of semester, he’ll face binge-drinking Australians, pompous private school kids, hyper competitive Asian students and a law professor who runs his class like a cage fight. Starring Ronny Chieng, stand-up comedian, actor and correspondent on the multi-Emmy award-winning US series “The Daily Show”. The series HD 7 x 27’ | COMEDY was co-created by Ronny Chieng and Declan Fay. Sticky Pictures Pty Limited 8 Brian Cox: Life of a Universe In this two-part special, Professor Brian Cox tackles the biggest story of them all – the beginning and end of everything. How did the Universe begin? What existed before the big bang? How will it all end? Is the end of the Universe really even the end? To help answer these questions and more, the program focuses on the work of eminent scientists and the unique clues that can only be revealed by exploring the Southern Sky. Featuring input from global cosmological luminaries such as Stephen Hawking, Brian Greene and Neil Degrasse Tyson. HD 2 x 27’ | FACTUAL Australian Broadcasting Corporation World rights excluding UK. On Country Kitchen A series with a delicious twist of Western Australian produce, characters and adventures with cultural man and comic Derek Nannup as tour guide, and one-of a-kind Indigenous Chef ‘The Black Olive’, Mark Olive turning fresh produce into mouth watering dishes. Join Derek on his adventure to discover local food producers around the beautiful South-West of Western Australia – home to some of the best produce in the world, and watch as Mark opens up his culinary world to his kitchen-hand and cook-in-training, Derek. Together they cook up wonderful recipes, with a bit of fun thrown in too. HD 6 x 30’ | LIFESTYLE AND ENTERTAINMENT MagoFilms A Helluva Ride: The Trump Revolution Begins (Four Corners) Donald J Trump’s first few weeks in office were as turbulent and controversial as he promised, so is this the beginning of an American revolution? An incisive exploration of how Trump will govern the United States, from Australia’s acclaimed current affairs program, Four Corners. Through interviews with key players in the Trump camp and the Republican Party, the program examines the political earthquake rippling across America. As Trump advisor Michael Caputo says, HD 1 x 45’ | NEWS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS Australian Broadcasting Corporation “we’re all in for a helluva ride. My best advice for everyone is to strap in”. NEW PROGRAMS 9 Cyberhate A revealing series that investigates the darkest corners of the web to uncover the cyber violence that’s impacting so many people today. Author, journalist and TV presenter Tara Moss shares first-hand stories of cyberhate from people who have been subject to vicious online attacks. Through scientific and social experiments, and interviews with experts, victims and self-confessed ‘trolls’, Moss lifts the cloak of anonymity and disinhibition. She guides us through the complexities of online ethics and digital democracy to investigate why fury and bullying is reshaping the online world, and what we can HD 6 x 10’ and 1 x 57’ | FACTUAL do about it. The Full Box Pty Ltd Connection to Country This is a compelling look at the world’s oldest continuous culture, a culture whose sacred sites are older than any of the world’s most famous monuments. Stonehenge, the Pyramids and the Great Wall of China are comparatively recent compared to the rock art sites of Australia’s Aborigines, yet Aboriginal people from Australia’s Pilbara region face a constant battle to preserve their unique heritage from the ravages of a booming mining industry.