Best Australian talk show series

Topical comedy-quiz show featuring five guests competing to see who can remember the most about events of the week. A fast-paced, funny look at international affairs, politics, sport and entertainment news, we test just how well our contestants have been paying attention.

Breaking down stereotypes and offering genuine insight into the lives of people who live with labels. The series gives an unmediated platform to some of the most misunderstood or marginalised people in our country: short statured, wheelchair users, transgender, Muslims, ex-prisoners, fat, Indigenous, sex workers, terminally ill, and people in polyamorous relationships.

Good Game is a show by gamers for gamers. Each week it will be jam-packed with the latest gaming news and events, top gaming tips, reviews and interviews with game developers and the people behind the scenes. Hosted by Bajo and Hex, Good Game is filmed in the Den of Gaming; a gamers' paradise fitted out with just about every gaming device ever invented and complemented by a huge plasma screen.

It’s a talk show like no other: one question, two guests and the man everyone agrees is this country’s least experienced interviewer. The question? If your house was about to be destroyed, what two things would you save?

Join host Wil Anderson, stalwarts Todd Sampson and Russel Howcroft and other advertising industry experts to unpick the ways we're all bought and sold.

News comedy show, tonight show and chat show all in one, allowing Charlie to return to his comedy roots while being a general nuisance to newsmakers, politicians and other charlatans.

Australia's most renowned interviewer, Leigh Sales, mentors Autistic journalism students as they learn their craft and interview well known Australian personalities.

You can learn a lot about someone from their mixtape. Icons in music and screen join Zan Rowe to delve deep into intimate moments in their lives, sharing songs that have made them who they are today.

In a world dominated by fake news and outright lies, Question Everything dissects the news to sort the real from the rumours, separate fact from fiction and flatten conspiracy theories back down to Earth.

Comedian Anh Do loves to paint portraits and loves getting to know people, this new series combines the two.

A dynamic new music show celebrating the movers and shakers of the Australian music scene. Each week hosts Jane Gazzo and Zan Rowe spotlight some of the country's best musicians with exclusive live performances and interviews.

Shaun Micallef set out to prove that variety isn't dead, with the return of a traditional Tonight Show moulded with his own brand of subtle humour and non-traditional celebrity guest interviews and musical acts. Lasting just 13 weeks on Australia's highest rated TV network, Micallef proved to a loyal group of fans that he is the king of late night wit and sarcasm, and picked up some new followers who will, no doubt, await eagerly his return to Australian entertainment in whatever form. The hilarious and almost parody show had a guest list featuring not only the cream of the Australian entertainment industry, but the yoghurt and the cheese as well, including Barry Humphries, Kath & Kim, Jamie Durie, Sigrid Thornton, Dannii Minogue, Gary Sweet, Bridie Carter, Shakaya, Gerard Depardieu, Shane Warne, Alison Whyte, David Campbell, Jose Feliciano, Jimeoin, Erik Thomson, Melissa George, Judith Lucy, Matt Welsh, Kerri-Anne Kenn

Leading AFL journalist Mike Sheahan hosts Open Mike, an insightful interview series featuring some of the greats of the game. Some of the most in-depth and illuminating footy discussions will again be delivered in season 2013.

Adam Hills In Gordon St Tonight has all the usual talk show trimmings – celebrity guests, great comedy and live music - with all the excitement and spontaneity you’d expect from one of the country’s best live comedians.

Q+A puts punters, pollies and pundits together in the studio to thrash out the hot issues of the week. It's about democracy in action - the audience gets to ask the questions.

Under Investigation will seek to solve crimes, uncover new evidence, hear from people who have never spoken publicly, while harnessing great knowledge and skill with exciting and innovative storytelling techniques.

Andrew Denton makes his long-awaited return. Australia's shortest (some would say greatest) interviewer will sit opposite a range of fascinating people and try to find out what makes them tick.

Join the Doctor Who after party where superfans Rove McManus, Tegan Higginbotham, Adam Richard & Steven O'Donnell discuss the latest episodes, answer your questions and basically geek out about Doctor Who.

Hey Hey It's Saturday was a long-running variety television program on Australian television. It initially ran for 27 years, debuting on the Nine Network on 9 October 1971 and broadcasting its last episode on 20 November 1999. Its host throughout its entire run was Daryl Somers, who would later become executive producer of the program. The original producer, Gavin Disney, left the program in the 1980s and Somers then jointly formed his own production company, Somers Carroll Productions, with on-screen partner Ernie Carroll, the performer of Somers' puppet sidekick Ossie Ostrich.

Steven Oliver hosts this unique game show testing celebrity contestants' knowledge of Indigenous Art, while delivering a fun mix of trivia, facts and laughs.

Join Sam Pang, Mick Molloy and Andy Maher as they share a laugh about the AFL world and catch up with stars of yesteryear and today.

SUNDAY NIGHT TAKEAWAY is an inclusive show that gets everybody in on the fun... audience members are randomly selected to participate in challenges and home-viewers will receive surprise live visits, all with a chance to win fantastic prizes. Celebrity guests will find themselves in hilarious situations, whether they are pranked or roped in to help hilarious co hosts DR CHRIS BROWN & JULIA MORRIS with an embarrassing task. With a dynamic mix of games, physical challenges and unexpected tricks, this live and heart-warming new series will entertain the whole family.

Margaret Pomeranz and Graeme Blundell review movies and TV shows in this Foxtel Arts programme.

Voters from 4chan's "/v/ - Video Games" board showcase the best and worst of video gaming for the year.

Host Wil Anderson is joined by regulars Todd Sampson and Russel Howcroft as well as Nation legends Dr John Hewson and Annabel Crabb for extra-length, extra-strength, election-oriented specials.

Rove McManus and the cream of Australian comedy are here to spend Saturday night with you. We don't know much but what we can promise is that Saturday nights are about to get a whole lot looser.

Friday Night Games was a spin-off from Big Brother Australia's Friday Night Live, hosted by Mike Goldman with Bree Amer and Ryan "Fitzy" Fitzgerald and was produced at Dreamworld, Gold Coast, Australia by Network Ten. Two teams, each composed of three celebrities and one chosen contestant, competed and tested their skills in a series of games and challenges. Each game had a different set of rules and difficulty rating. The "celeb-to-be" was chosen out of hundreds of applicants, most being eliminated through challenges until a final challenge on the Friday Night Games set. Challenges included holding onto a balloon whilst riding "Wipeout", or holding a piece of paper above their head whilst riding on the Tower Of Terror, a roller coaster at Dreamworld, without ripping it. During each Game there would be a referee which the crowd booed at. At the grand final the ref was booed off stage and The ref Gave the crowd The Finger. However this was edited out. Each episode was pre-recorded in front of a live audience at Dreamworld’s games arena and aired on Friday nights. The ultimate Friday Night Games Champion Team won a A$50,000 donation to the charity of their choice, courtesy of Supercheap Auto. A third season returns in 2007, again hosted by former housemates Bree Amer, Ryan Fitzgerald and Mike Goldman.

Confessional, illuminating, inappropriate, wrong! Welcome to Agony, an unblinking series where some of Australia's funniest and wisest celebrities -- including Tim Ross, John Elliott, Brett Tucker, Josh Lawson and Lawrence Mooney -- put their reputations on the line to tell you what it's really like to be single, cohabitate, marry, divorce and then be single again in the 21st century. Narrator Adam Zwar is the trusted confidant of Australia's Agony Aunts and Agony Uncles. During the series they share with him the do's and don'ts of picking-up, falling in love, getting your heart broken and losing a house. The Agony Aunts and Agony Uncles will guide you through the cycle of love and beyond, and reassure you that you're not alone in thinking and acting as you do.

Hosted by Tom Ballard, and drawing on the wisdom and wit of industry experts, this series dissects the week in Reality TV, and give us the down low on what really goes into making Reality TV.

Sweet and Sour was an Australian television series that screened on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1984. It was created by Tim Gooding and Johanna Pigott and was produced internally for the ABC by Jan Chapman. The main storyline of the series followed the efforts of a fictional band, The Takeaways, to break into the Sydney music scene. "The Takeaways have so far eluded commercial success. However, negotiations are presently underway for the band to sell their story to a prominent TV station, and really clean up."

A half-hour entertainment series that serves up a delectable combination of political discussion and good food. Each week one of Australia's most respected political commentators - Annabel Crabb - takes a plate and leads us into the homes and hearts of some of our most notable and engaging politicians.

The comedy panel show that gets ahead of itself by running out in front of the news cycle. As the world goes off script it is time for a show that takes a long, hard and hilarious look at “what happens next”.

Join Chris Taylor for a brand new show all about film, television and just about anything else you can watch on a screen. From the latest blockbusters to the hidden gems, we're here to help you work out what to watch next

Australian version of the comedy-variety show where children take to the stage to showcase their passion and blow you away with their talent.

Insiders analyses and discusses Australian politics with the use of a panel of political journalists and columnists and interviews with prominent politicians and commentators. Broadcast on ABC1 on Sunday mornings at 9 am, the show also features many regular commentators from various Australian media outlets and think tanks. The program is presented by veteran political journalist Barrie Cassidy as part of the ABC's Sunday morning line-up, commencing with Insiders, followed by Inside Business and then Offsiders, a sports program also hosted by Cassidy.

Filmed weekly from the C31 studios. Each week, a brand new host and a very different show. We're giving the late night studio keys to some of Australia's best up and coming comics to do with as they please. Who knows what will happen?

With a proven track record of driving the news cycle, Andrew Bolt steers discussion, encourages debate and offers his perspectives on national affairs.

Hosted by Rove McManus, this comedy panel game show features two teams captained by acclaimed actor Jane Harber and comedy star Joel Creasey who compete in a series of movie trivia rounds.

Welcome to Agony Aunts, where narrator/interviewer Adam Zwar heads further down the river in his hilarious search for answers on dating, cohabitation, marriage, divorce and dating again. Will he find the answers he seeks or will he return more confused than ever? That's if he returns at all.

Accomplished writer, performer, and television presenter Paul McDermott understands that sometimes the big picture is overrated and sweating over the small stuff cannot be helped. Each week in this new weekly series, well-known celebrities choose five pet hates – things that really wind them up in everyday life – in the hope that Paul will banish them into the Room 101 vault forever, never to trouble them again. But for these celebrities to banish their pet peeves for all eternity into the Room 101 vault (named after the place in George Orwell’s landmark novel 1984), they must first make a strong enough case for their expulsion to convince Paul.

When I Get A Minute is a review series for the very busy hosted by two of Australia's most time-poor media personalities Annabel Crabb & Leigh Sales. Join them as they talk about the best & worst.

One Plus One is ABC TV's weekly long-form interview program. Each week Jane Hutcheon sits down with personalities and storytellers from Australia and beyond to discuss their lives, their craft, and what drives them #OnePlusOneEpisode

Hosted by Jennifer Byrne, with regular panellists Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger, The Book Club is a monthly forum for literary debate and discussion. Each episode covers one new release book, and one enduring classic.

Australian version of Michael Parkinson's UK talk show. He interviews a broad range of famous Australians, and in later series, international stars.

Since 1993, A Fork in the Road has been the thinking-person’s travel show. The title refers to the divergent, off-the-beaten-track aspect of the series. It captures the natural ambience of a country and delves into particular aspects not generally known. It does this by featuring local people who express their thoughts and feelings about living in that part of the world. Representing a different and more reflective approach to travel, the series shows why people and not just places, make travel memories. With evocative vision and a script that conveys a little wit and irony, we attempt to rekindle the romance of travel.

As well as conducting extraordinary interviews with some of the world's most famous people — Bono, Bill Clinton, John Travolta, Mel Brooks, Cate Blanchett, Al Gore, Steven Spielberg — host Andrew Denton also talks with those not normally found on the talk show circuit: con men, Nobel Peace Prize winners, nurses, truckies, schizophrenics, mountaineers, homeless people and murderers. Using humour and original lines of questioning, Andrew manages to open up his guests in ways that surprise even them.

Voted the Most Outstanding Program at the Australian Football Media Awards in 2012 and 2013, AFL 360 takes a look at every angle of the day's biggest issues in AFL and is hosted by respected sports journalists Gerard Whateley and Mark Robinson.

The program sees controversial radio broadcaster, Stan Zemanek, matching wits with a panel of beauties including Belinda Green, Jeanne Little, Johanna Griggs, Julia Morris, Donna Gubbay, Lisa Wilkinson, Prue MacSween, Maureen Duval and Ita Buttrose. When they are not tearing strips off each other in the battle to have their opinion heard, Stan and his panel offer sound advice to viewers seeking answers to life's toughest questions. The opinions and the advice offered are as diverse as the guests, and no topic is taboo.

Geoffrey Robertson, QC, hosts and orchestrates a series of discussions on social issues, using a "hypothetical" format, cross-examining a selected panel of experts to discuss its ramifications, in front of a live studio audience. Subjects range from the historical dilemmas, political conundrums, health issues, and human rights.

A unique cooking and celebrity chat series presented by cook Silvia Colloca. Silvia grew up in Milan where daily life revolved around the kitchen table, and where cooking and conversation went hand in hand. Now she wants to share her heritage with Australia, inviting three interesting personalities into her kitchen to cook simple, mouthwatering Italian dishes while sharing stories about their lives and the things that matter most to them.

Sixteen well-loved Australian celebrities will battle it out for the winning title across five weeks, facing the pressure as they answer questions based on their speciality subjects. Hosted by journalist Jennifer Byrne, each episode of Celebrity Mastermind will see one celebrity advance to the Grand Final.

A comedy series that finds funny, strange and weird clips from the week's TV for the amusement and ridicule of our panel. With host Sam Mac, they discuss the good, the bad and the strange on telly.

Live and Sweaty was an Australian sports television program, broadcast on the ABC from 1991 until 1995. Hosted by Andrew Denton and later, Elle McFeast, the show was part panel-based, part talk show and part comedy, and predated The Footy Show which has a similar format.

Meet the Press is an Australian Sunday morning talk show focused on the national political agenda, as well as other news, sport, and lifestyle issues since its 2013 relaunch.

Welcome to Agony Aunts, where narrator/interviewer Adam Zwar heads further down the river in his hilarious search for answers on dating, cohabitation, marriage, divorce and dating again. Will he find the answers he seeks or will he return more confused than ever? That's if he returns at all.

The show that lifts the lid on advertising, spin and marketing. Join host Wil Anderson, stalwarts Todd Sampson and Russel Howcroft and other advertising industry experts as they unpick the ways we're all bought and sold.

The team that brought you The Gruen Transfer, Gruen Planet and Gruen Nation is proud to bring you Gruen Sweat. Host Wil Anderson and regulars Todd Sampson and Russel Howcroft will be joined by guest panellists as they commentate on the brandtathlon better known as London 2012, exposing the marketing machine that underpins, underwrites and over-exploits the Olympics.

Shelly Horton will be joined each week by special guests, to review the latest Married at First Sight episode and talk viewers through all the gossip.

Busting out of the comedy scene already wearing a suit and tie, John Conway is ready to be the tonight show host Australian TV never knew it needed - late night talk shows are back in Australia, baby!

Two well known cultural figures sit down for a free-ranging exchange of ideas, and to chat about their passions, inspirations, shared experiences, and creative processes.

He's one of Australia's most respected and trusted journalists. Now the founding host of Insiders Barrie Cassidy returns to ABC with a new series of interviews with fascinating people on the topic of leadership.

In association with triple j's Hack, Tom Tilley hosts this series of live studio discussions that unleash brutally honest conversations a range of topics that affect young Australians today.

Paralympian Kurt Fearnley interviews a range of well-known Australians, from sporting legends to leading figures in their fields, about the events that have challenged them and the people who have motivated and inspired them.

STUDIO at the MEMO is a live entertainment format that brings the best cabaret, burlesque, circus, dance and music performers together with a house band to back all the acts in an atmosphere that feels like Berlin between the wars, Rick's Café in Casablanca, and Las Vegas in the Rat Pack era. The host is Tim Rogers, a bona fide rock star who also performs a couple of songs with the house band and chats to some of the artists. A provocative mix of edgy, dangerous, and refreshing studio or location based arts and entertainment programming.

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