Big week of ABC premieres coming

ABC will unveil a host of profile local shows in the week commencing Sunday August 10.

They include new miniseries ANZAC Girls, new Working Dog comedy series Utopia, new local panel series Reality Check and the return of Please Like Me.

ABC ratings have not been the strongest in recent weeks, and there are some timeslots that are struggling or being propped up with filler content.

Numbers should improve with the arrival of these four shows in the same week.

More details on these shows will follow soon.

ABC:
ANZAC Girls: 8:30pm Sunday August 10
Cast: Caroline Craig, Georgia Flood, Anna McGahan
Our nurses arrive in Egypt and soon realise that war is not quite the ‘splendid adventure’ they initially thought as they deal with convey after convey of dead and dying men from the botched Gallipoli campaign.

Utopia: 8:30pm Wednesday August 13
Cast: Rob Sitch, Celia Pacquola, Kitty Flanagan.
A satire about the difficult process of taking grand, uncosted, inadequately planned, fundamentally flawed schemes – and passing them off as “Nation Building”.

Reality Check: 9pm Thursday August 13
Reality TV is TV right now. Everything else is just making up the numbers. And yet for all its cultural force, we barely discuss it. That’s all about to change. Hosted by comedian Tom Ballard, Reality Check is a weekly half-hour of sharp, cracking panel discussion in which no-one gets voted off at the end, no-one plays the pantomime villain and there’s nothing to be gained by crying for the camera. Having said that, if our guests want to cry, that’s up to them.

ABC2:
Please Like Me: 9:30pm Tuesday August 12
In season two, Josh tries to get through the day without upsetting anyone. There’s a new dog, a new rabbit and a new baby. There’s no big twist. It isn’t Lost.