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A selection of the new shows and returning TV series coming soon to free-to-air digital TV in the coming weeks and months that we think you should know about. For IceTV members, there's no need to wait. You can already set them to automatically record at home when they arrive. Learn more...
21st Century Railway
This three-part series follows the creation, decline and rebirth of Ireland's railways. Railways in Ireland have been around for almost 180 years, and when they first arrived they brought Ireland to the forefront of technological change. Having once enjoyed a golden age, railways were to enter a long period of decline - but today their revival is being championed once again, bringing them into line with 21st century expectations.
Series, Documentary
Schedule New Recording
All The Right Moves
Choreographer Travis Wall's career is going great guns. Now. But there was a time when it was all a bit of a struggle. Along with his three besties, Teddy Forance, Nick Lazzarini and Kyle Robinson, Wall founded the SHAPING SOUND Dance Company. All four can now safely be said to have arrived. This documentary follows their progress as they dance their way to the top.
Travis Wall, Teddy Forance, Nick Lazzarini, Kyle Robinson.
Series, Real Life
Schedule New Recording
American Stuffers
In the whimsically named town of Romance, Arkansas, is a company which some may also regard as whimsical - if your tastes run to living with preserved animals. The taxidermist's art is an ancient one and one that Daniel Ross, the owner of Xtreme Taxidermy is well versed in. Along with his wife LaDawn and his three boys, Daniel makes it possible for you never to have to say goodbye to your beloved pet.
Series, Real Life
Schedule New Recording
Bang Goes the Theory
In this new 10-part series, Dallas Campbell, Liz Bonnin, Jem Stansfield and Dr Yan Wong explain how science shapes the world around us and put scientific theories to the test with a range of imaginative experiments.
Series, Entertainment
Schedule New Recording
Beauty And The Beast
The night the Beast saved Catherine Chandler's life is also the night someone murdered her Mother. Nine years later, Catherine, now a detective discovers that Vincent Keller, a soldier long thought dead, is still alive, and he is somehow related to her Mother's death. The more she discovers about her Mother's murder, the more she discovers about Vincent. And the more she grows to love him.
Kristin Kreuk, Jay Ryan, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Max Brown, Austin Bassis, Nina Lisandrello, Brian White.
Series, Romance, Sci-Fi
Schedule New Recording
Britain's Best Drives
Actor Richard Wilson takes a journey into the past, following routes raved about in motoring guides of 50 years ago.
Series, Documentary
Schedule New Recording
Celebrity Rehab With Dr Drew
Follow the experiences of celebrity patients undergoing detoxification and treatment at the Pasadena Recovery Center with Dr. Drew Pinsky. This series features Jeremy London, Rachel Uchitel, Janice Dickinson and more.
Series, Documentary
Schedule New Recording
Combat Pawn
This is the macho end of the pawn industry. Forget bringing Grandma's prized casserole dish here - if it isn't a Kalashnikov or an AK 41 or any combat-ready weapon from WMDs to a pistol, these blokes aren't interested. On the other hand Guns Plus in Fort Bragg, can't get enough of anything that smacks of the military.
Series, Real Life
Schedule New Recording
Croc College
Six Australians embark on Australia's most dangerous training course - saltwater crocodile-wrangling, led by croc legend John Lever.
Series, Documentary, Nature
Schedule New Recording
Dallas
When the Ewings originally kept us royally entertained, they ushered in a new type of soap opera and a special type of villain. The question of who killed JR still trembles on our lips. Thirty four years later, the next generation of the Ewings family has taken over the business, but they're not smarter or better behaved than their forebears. And they're just as entertaining.
Jesse Metcalfe, Josh Henderson, Jordana Brewster, Julie Gonzalo, Brenda Strong, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Larry Hagman
Series, Soap Opera
Schedule New Recording
Fantasy Homes By The Sea
Follow 10 families create their own sea change, guided by Jenni Falconer. Each episode takes a family through the four potential homes that Jenni thinks meets their needs and budget. Sometimes their decision will surprise you. Sometimes you'll wish you'd thought of it first. Sometimes you'll wonder what they were thinking.
Series, Lifestyle, Renovation
Schedule New Recording
FIFA World Cup 2014 Qualifier
FIFA World Cup 2014 Qualifier
Series, Soccer, Sport
Schedule New Recording
Football Freestyler
World champion football freestyler Dan Magness travels the globe to search out the best football tricks and skills.
Series, Documentary, Soccer
Schedule New Recording
Heart And Soul
This toe-tapping series follows the Sweethearts, a thirty-piece school band from Geelong, as they brave tensions, line-up changes and heartbreak as they head to Europe's top music festivals.
Series, Children
Schedule New Recording
Housos
Housos follows the riotously funny, day-to-day adventures of the residents of a fictional housing commission block – Sunnyvale. They battle the cops, they scam Centrelink, they even have the odd threesome, but once down with the crew in the hood then it is “Sunnyvale for life".
Paul Fenech, Tahir Bilgic, Rob Shehadie, Jason Davis, Amanda Keller, Ian Turpie, Angry Anderson, Melissa Tkautz
Series, Comedy
Schedule New Recording
Inside Solitary Confinement
What really happens to people in isolation? Enter Colorado State Penitentiary to witness prisoners on the edge and the guards who watch over them.
Series, Documentary, Real Life
Schedule New Recording
James May's Man Lab
James May thinks modern man needs saving. Thirty years ago men were a resourceful, practical and dependable band of brothers but today they are a pale imitation of the men of yesteryear. From his Man Lab HQ, James and his team set out on a series of action-packed challenges that will help modern man relearn some of the vital skills, such as diffusing a World War One bomb, constructing flat pack furniture in under an hour, and serenading a potential date.
Series, Documentary
Schedule New Recording
Kirstie's Vintage Home
What do you do when your house is more shabby than chic and you'd rather throw out than make-do and-mend?
In her six-part series Kirstie's Vintage Home, the queen of crafts, Kirstie Allsopp, invites hopeless households to her own vintage cafe to teach them new skills to inject a bit of style into their homes.
Series, Arts & Culture, Documentary, Entertainment
Schedule New Recording
Love and Marriage: A 20th Century Romance
This three-part series follows the ups and downs of marriage in Britain from the 1900s to the present day.
Series, Documentary, Society & Culture
Schedule New Recording
Major Crimes
With the departure of an almost-but-not-quite-disgraced Brenda Leigh Johnson to the more rarified climes of the ADA's office, the incredibly efficient, if idiosyncratic team at LA's Major Crimes is down one tough lady leader. Luckily there's one waiting in the wings. Captain Sharon Raydor is every bit as gritty as Brenda, but without, perhaps, the sweet tooth. Ah, but will she and Provenza manage to make peace?
Mary McDonnell, G.W. Bailey, Graham Patrick Martin, Tony Denison, Michael Paul Chan, Raymond Cruz, Robert Gossett
Series, Crime, Drama
Schedule New Recording
Mr Selfridge
When Harry Gordon Selfridge took himself to London and opened his little store, he brought American retailing know-how to the old country and launched a shop which became an institution.
Jeremy Piven, Frances O'Connor, Amanda Abbington, Goodman-Hill, Will Payne, Katherine Kelly
Series, Drama
Schedule New Recording
New Girl
After catching her boyfriend cheating on her, bubbly young woman Jess Day needs to find herself new digs. She lands smack dab in the middle of an odd mix of single men: Nick, a bartender who is healing from a break-up of his own; Schmidt, an attorney and a legend in his own mind with the ladies; and Coach, a personal trainer who needs to rein in his anger issues. Rounding off the dysfunctional bunch is Jess' street savvy model friend, Cece.
Zooey Deschanel, Jake Johnson, Lamorne Morris, Max Greenfield
Series, Comedy, Sitcom
Schedule New Recording
Offspring
Nina Proudman is better at ushering the offspring of other people into the world than creating an ordered existence for her own family.
Asher Keddie, Kat Stewart, Deborah Mailman, John Waters, Eddie Perfect, Linda Cropper
Series, Drama
Schedule New Recording
Paper Giants: Magazine Wars
It's 1987. Hair is big. Shoulder pads are wide. The Royals are still a family. Flamboyant deputy editor Nene King storms out of New Idea to become editor of Woman's Day, determined to overthrow the immaculate queen of women's magazines, Dulcie Boling. The 'new' journalism was a potent mix of celebrities, gossip, clairvoyants, paparazzi and gave rise to cheque book journalism in Australia.
Rachel Griffiths, Mandy McElhinney, Rob Carlton, Tosh Greenslade
Series, Drama
Schedule New Recording
Reef Doctors
Sam Stewart isn't your typical doctor. For a start, her practice is on the very out of the way Hope Island. And then there's her passion for venom. When they're not practising medicine, Sam and her colleagues are on the trail of the kind of poison that can be converted into a cure for all sorts of ailments and conditions. But they say that life is what happens when you're not looking, and it turns out that even on a place as remote as Hope Island, Sam may still encounter love.
Lisa McCune, Matt Day, Rohan Nichol, Richard Brancatisano, Tasneem Roc, Rod Mullinar, Chris Piechocki
Series, Drama
Schedule New Recording
RocKwiz
Hosted by well-known actress, comedienne and theatre-sports performer Julia Zemiro, it features two musical celebrities and four contestants selected from a live audience. The all-star three-piece RocKwiz band will play tunes contestants need to name, back special guests in performance and provide musical hints for contestants when the going gets tough.
Series, Game Show, Music
Schedule New Recording
Skins
A group of teenagers with attitude and humour make up the broad range of characters in this cutting-edge youth drama.
Series, Drama
Schedule New Recording
Soccer: Coppa Italia
Coppa Italia
Series, Football, Soccer, Sport
Schedule New Recording
Soccer: German Pokal Cup
German Pokal Cup
Series, Football, Soccer, Sport
Schedule New Recording
Spectacular Spider-Man
A young Peter Parker struggles to keep his identity as Spider-Man a secret while facing the daily challenges of high school life.
Series, Animation, Children
Schedule New Recording
Spontaneous Saturday
This is a topical improv comedy and variety show that aims to provoke and incite good old fashioned belly laughs and fun. With a crack team of Australia's best-loved improv comedy performers, celebrity guests, breakout musical artists and Australia's most awesome comedy band, the show is steeped in popular culture and current affairs where nothing and no-one is safe from being lampooned.
Series, Comedy, Entertainment
Schedule New Recording
The Americans
It's 1981 and Elizabeth and Philip Jennings are two KGB agents who have embedded themselves as the typical American family in a Washington suburb. Their mission is clear - espionage, from deep inside the American culture.
Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, Noah Emmerich, Maximiliano Hernandez, Holly Taylor, Keidrich Sellati, Susan Misner, Annet Mahendru, Alison Wright.
Series, Drama
Schedule New Recording
The Audience
People with life-changing decisions to make are followed around by 50 strangers for a week. These strangers must then agree on a decision and deliver their verdict on the path to take.
, 2012, Documentary, Real Life
Schedule New Recording
The Bachelor Australia
With the latest season of the American Bachelor franchise hitting over ten million viewers for a single episode, the search for Miss Right, it seems, has a universal appeal. So it's time to come up with a local version. Australia's most marriage-worthy man is in the market for a spouse, and there is no shortage of candidates for his hand in televisually blessed holy matrimony.
Series, Entertainment, Real Life, Romance
Schedule New Recording
The Farm Fixer
Businessman Nick Hewer continues his mission to help small farms diversify.
Series, Documentary
Schedule New Recording
The Feed
Join Marc Fennell, Patrick Abboud, Jeannette Francis and Andy Park as they as they combine news of the day, topical commentary, pop culture and in-depth features, adding a fresh perspective on the latest local and international headlines.
Series, Current Affairs
Schedule New Recording
The Life and Times of Tim
Tim is an ordinary young guy who just can't seem to catch a break in life. He always tries to do the right thing, but for some reason the world conspires against him.
Series, Animation, Comedy
Schedule New Recording
The Little Paris Kitchen
In this new six-part series, food writer and cook Rachel Khoo demonstrates her imaginative flair for the cuisine of Paris. From her tiny Parisian kitchen, Rachel proves that simple cooking can produce sensational results
Series, Documentary, Food/Wine
Schedule New Recording
The Mole
There's a turncoat trying to put a spanner in the works. Ten contestants accept knock-out challenges to win money. One by one they will be eliminated... unless they can uncover the traitor in their midst. Which one of them is the saboteur, the double crosser, the mole?
Series, Game Show
Schedule New Recording
The Time Of Our Lives
A 13-part drama series that delves into the lives of three generations of a modern Australian family. What really makes us happy? Why do some relationships work and why do some fail? Do you have to have kids to be happy? Does everyone need a career and how much is enough?
Claudia Karvan, Justine Clarke, Shane Jacobson, William McInnes, Stephen Curry, Michelle Vergara Moore, Tony Barry, Sue Jones, Anita Hegh
Series, Drama
Schedule New Recording
The Truth Is?
Award winning investigative journalist Hamish MacDonald routinely puts his mouth where his money is. He doesn't just report on the story, he's in the thick of it. Regularly embedding himself in war zones and covering issues as diverse as people smuggling, refugee crises and natural disasters, he's always in the centre of the action, where the truth is at its most acute.
Hamish MacDonald
Series
Schedule New Recording
The Witch Doctor Will See You Now
Presenter Piers Gibbon sets about uncovering the science and secrets of non-Western health treatments. He's joined by two volunteer patients as they experience a range of unusual treatments. Their goal: to find a cure to their medical ailments that Western medicine has been unable to provide.
Series, Documentary, Medical
Schedule New Recording
Touch
Martin Bohm is a regular guy doing his best to cope after the tragic loss of his wife during the September 11th terrorist attacks. As a single father, he struggles to form an emotional connection with his son, Jake, an introverted boy who has never spoken a word in his entire life. When Martin discovers that Jake possesses a very special gift, it changes the course of their lives forever.
Kiefer Sutherland, Danny Glover, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, David Mazouz, Karen David
Series, Drama
Schedule New Recording
Under The Dome
When the world changes irretrievably for the denizens of Chester Mills, each individual responds according to their essential nature. A transparent, but impenetrable dome, has descended over the town and doesn't look as if it's going anywhere. Unable to leave, the townsfolk variously panic, attempt to dominate, become aggressive or try to exercise leadership. But with the dome looking increasingly permanent, there seems to be only one certainty - things will never be the same again.
Mike Vogel, Rachel Lefevre, Colin Ford, Natalie Martinez, Alexander Koch, Britt Robertson, Nicholas Strong.
Series, Adventure, Horror, Mini Series
Schedule New Recording
Underbelly: Squizzy
In the early C20th Sydney was not Australia's only crime-ridden city, Melbourne had its full complement of crooks, swindlers, conmen and all-round bad guys as well. Chief among them was the notorious Squizzy Taylor who, over a period of twelve years, held the good citizens of Melbourne to ransom.
Jared Daperis, Susie Porter, Luke Ford, Matt Boesenberg, Dan Wyllie, Camille Keenan, Gracie Gilbert.
Series, Crime, Drama
Schedule New Recording
World B-Boy Championships
This six-part series follows the progress of the top breakin' crews from around the globe as they battle it out to try and reach the world finals in London.
Series, Entertainment, Music
Schedule New Recording
Would You Rather?
Graham Norton plumbs the depths of celebro-psyches asking 'would you rather questions' with an evil glint in his eye. Because the questions pose a real conundrum.
Graham Norton
Series, Entertainment, Game Show, Talk Show
Schedule New Recording