ABC, Screen Australia, ITV Studios, and Screen Canberra are thrilled to announce that the much-loved eight-part narrative comedy series, Austin, has been commissioned for a second season.

The Exhibitionists – review ★★★★

The main problem with The Exhibitionists – the final in a suite of programs from the ABC in support of the National Gallery of Australia’s Know My Name initiative – is that it leaves you wanting more.

Love on the Spectrum has won a Gold medal in the Documentary (Human Concerns) category, at this year’s New York Festivals.

After The Wildfires has won Best Conservation Film at the 2021 Jackson Hole Media Awards. Nature film’s equivalent to the Oscars®, the Jackson Wild Media Awards™ celebrate excellence and innovation in nature, science and conservation storytelling.

Love on the Spectrum wins Best Relationship Show at the 2021 Critics Choice TV Awards.

There are dating shows. And then there’s Love on the Spectrum, a series (returning here for a second season) that completely rewrites the rulebook on the genre, and creates sensational television in the process.

Love on the Spectrum has been nominated in this year’s BANFF Rockie Awards, included with 142 nominees from 37 countries for the awards, which are held as part of the Banff World Media Festival. Australia is among the most represented countries in the field of international nominees for this year’s Rockie Awards, with titles up in six categories.

Love on the Spectrum has won Best Docu-Reality Series and an Award of Excellence for Reality at the 2021 Realscreen Awards.

Can you cover nature’s wonder as if it was a sporting grand final? The ABC believes so. Broadcast live from multiple sites on the Great Barrier Reef over two December nights, Reef Live is an unprecedented attempt to capture and put into context one of the planet’s most remarkable events: the annual mass coral spawning that literally changes the colour of the ocean as it replenishes the vast reef system.

Netflix’s latest reality effort follows the lives of people on the autism spectrum in detail, with warmth, insight and joy.

Love on the Spectrum is an affecting show that paints telling portraits of human connection that are so lovely, so moving, and so wholly satisfying, it's hard to imagine reality dating being done any other way. Sure, I still want the rose ceremonies, pseudo-social experiments, and chaotic in-fighting in other franchises. But Love on the Spectrum is perfect as is.

Netflix has acquired Northern Pictures’ Love on the Spectrum, the ABC-commissioned docuseries which follows seven young adults on the autism spectrum as they take their first steps into the world of dating. The format’s co-creator, Northern Pictures head of factual Karina Holden, explains how the deal came about, discusses how the company has coped with the COVID-19 disruption and laments the ABC’s cuts to commissioning factual and entertainment shows.

While most reality programs go for tears and tantrums, this ABC series – starring people on the autism spectrum – takes a different tack.

“Love on the Spectrum” is a notable moment for mainstream content, as individuals with special needs are rarely represented on TV, especially in the unscripted space, although A&E’s critically-acclaimed “Born This Way,” which followed a group of adults with Down syndrome, was praised for its realistic depiction, winning several Emmys and receiving a Television Academy Honor in 2016.

Northern Pictures’ ABC series Employable Me has won two gold medals at the New York Festivals International TV and Film Awards, which celebrate outstanding screen content from around the world.

Editorial by Tosca Looby. ‘We captured creatures no-one could identify’. Magical Land of Oz is the first blue-chip natural history series to be commissioned and broadcast by the ABC in almost two decades. It has been a huge project, spanning the breadth of Australia’s landmass and her three oceans, showcasing animals many Australians won’t realise exist on their continent, using camera technology that has allowed new access to wild animals.

EMPLOYABLE ME wins the AACTA Award for Best Documentary or Factual Program at the 2018 AACTAs.

Employable Me has won Best Reality TV at the Venice TV Awards and was the sole Aussie win.

“I’m glad you can make use of my weapons grade autism”, laughs Jonathon in the ABC TV series Employable Me. He has landed a competitive paid internship, channelling his passion for accountancy. As well as a love of numbers, he has a wicked sense of humour and a way with words. And his sentiment is in line with the theme of the series, which promotes harnessing the strengths of its participants, rather than focusing on what they cannot do.

At a time when so much commercial TV is bereft of diverse casts and stories, this ABC series about people with neuro conditions looking for work is all the more commendable.