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Returning: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

ABC2 will add The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to its nightly screening of The Colbert Report.

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From next Tuesday, ABC2 begins screening The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

The often outrageous political show will air Tuesday – Fridays from 7:15pm with The Daily Show Global Edition to air on Mondays beginning March 15th. It had previously aired some years ago on SBS.

It will be followed by The Colbert Report at 7:35pm weeknights.

That makes 45 minutes of biting US satire every night for those who are looking for alternatives.

Expect trouble.

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  2. Great news! Both SBS1 & TEN only aired the ‘Global Edition’ on weekends after midnight, so prime-time is a big move by ABC2.

    No word yet, but it should be good for iView watchers too.

  8. @Reubot yeah it was on 10 for a while last year, I wonder what happened there?

    It’s a shame it’s on at such a silly time. It’s going to overlap the primetime shows that kick in at 7:30pm, which means I’m going to miss it, or parts of it, on a regular basis. Why couldn’t they have had it starting at 7:00pm? It’s not like there’s anything else on any channel at that time.

  10. @ Grant – I think that is the reasoning behind these new digital channels and Freeview basically to stop people paying for tv and to give it to them the shows off pay tv for free on these new channels. I think ABC was given a massive increase in funding as well.

    Eg 7 Two – Having Essence of Emeril and Martha Stewart off pay now on free (though they are 2 years behind) but food doesn’t date.

    GO! showing stuff to make it more like a pay channel, such as new movies , shows like Weeds, Curb etc .

    Will be interesting to see what Channel Ten’s 3rd channel looks like .

  11. Free TV is getting so much better, I think with more channels coming this year and next I will not want Foxtel ever !

    ABC 2 seems to show a lot of stuff off pay tv, so now I don’t even need to get Pay tv as it is on free to air just as quick !

  14. Nice!

    While this is probably the most watched couple of shows on my foxtel over the last how ever many years, i have been finding myself more and more watching colbert at least on abc2 now because it’s a better quality image and in widescreen. I’m sure i’ll continue that with daily show and will only watch on foxtel when the recordings clash with the abc2 ones.

    Foxtel needs to lift it’s game on image quality and widescreen conversions of channels.

  19. Good to see FTA giving this show a chance. I’ve been watching both these shows every day for years on the comedy channel and if abc2 has it in widescreen and they improve their picture quality then i may watch it instead of the comedy channel.

    By the way, how old is that photo? The set hasn’t looked like that in years.

  22. Nice. ABC2 is getting a little bit more awesome every week.

    Gavin and Stacey, Peep Show and now the Daily Show.

    It’s officially my favourite channel.

  23. Oh joy, oh rapture, oh happy days! Watching this show on the net was the only way I survived the long dark global nightmare that was the Bush years. SBS never gave it a chance, hopefully ABC2 will do better. The Daily Show and the Colbert Report, together as nature intended.

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