ABC Entertains

Australian television channel

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May 19 2025 Announcement made that ABC Entertains and ABC News channel would be converted to HD quality (MPEG 4), with switchover beginning on 11 June and concluding on 26 June.
2024 Gemma 'Gem' Driscoll concluded her presenting role.
2024 ABC continued 'GG: Spawn Squad' and ended 'The InBESTigators'
2024 ABC began airing multiple new adult programming series, including 'Absolutely Fabulous', 'Car SOS', 'The Cleaner', 'ER', 'George Clarke's Amazing Spaces', 'Live At The Apollo', 'My Family', 'MythBusters', 'Not Going Out', 'Penn & Teller: Fool Us', 'Portlandia', 'QI', 'Speechless', 'Wreck', and 'Would I Lie to You?'
2024 Behind the News (Newsbreak) program concludes its broadcast run
June 3 2024 The channel is rebranded again to ABC Entertains, expanding its programming to general entertainment content.
May 9 2024 ABC Me announced it would change its name to ABC Entertains on 3 June, shifting to general entertainment programming with youth content moving to ABC Family.
2023 ABC started 'GG: Spawn Squad', ending 'Good Game: Spawn Point'
2023 ABC began airing the new season of 'Total Drama Island'
2022 Kayne Tremills and Angharad 'Rad' Yeo ended their presenting roles.
2022 ABC added series such as 'Big Blue', 'Built to Survive', 'MaveriX', and 'The PM's Daughter'
2021 ABC premiered 'Born to Spy', 'Mikki vs The World', and added 'Big Blue'
2020 Grace Koh returned to the show, and Pip Rasmussen and Drew Parker concluded their presenting roles.
2020 ABC aired multiple new series including '100% Wolf: Legend of the Moonstone', 'First Day', 'Itch', and 'Thalu'
June 2020 Many ABC Me staff in Melbourne lost their jobs due to network redundancies.
2019 Kayne Tremills returned to the show, and new presenters Drew Parker, Jael Wena, Ava Madon, and William Yates joined.
2019 ABC introduced 'The InBESTigators' and 'Spongo, Fuzz and JalapeƱa'
2018 New presenters included Lawrence Gunatilaka, Dallas Reedman, Ilai Swindells, and Gemma 'Gem' Driscoll.
2018 ABC premiered 'The New Legends of Monkey' and ended the series 'News To Me'
2017 Angharad 'Rad' Yeo became a presenter.
2017 ABC introduced the series 'Create' and 'Mustangs FC'
2016 Pip Rasmussen joined the presenting lineup.
2016 ABC aired the series 'Cartoon It Up'
September 19 2016 ABC3 is rebranded to ABC ME, signaling a shift in the channel's programming focus.
2014 Grace Koh, Ivy Latimer, and Tim Matthews became presenters for ABC Entertains.
2014 rage program begins airing
2014 Behind the News Classroom version starts broadcasting
2012 Khaled Khalafalla joined the presenting team.
2011 New presenters joined the show, including Gus 'Goose' Ronald, James Elmer, Alfie Gledhill, and Olivia Phyland.

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