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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