ABC, promoting itself as the destination for television dramas, is telecasting John Safran’s globe-trotting adventure “Race Relations”, The Chaser’s “War on Everything” and Andrew Denton’s “Project Next”. After spending 2008 out of the television spotlight, The Chaser has returned back to ABC TV with a story that is scripted for just 10 episodes with the tagline “George W. Bush waged a war on terror, but only The Chaser has had the vision and courage to wage a War on Everything.” Incidentally, in Race Relations, John Safran tries to get emos to fight in Iraq, and tests the claims of therapists who claim that they can cure people of racism. And Denton is busy in finding a bunch of original thinkers, mischief-makers and cage rattlers and enticing them into a room to create an irreverent program about serious things through Project Next.

ABC announces the 2009 TV lineup of programs that provide intense entertainment with the taste of originality and creativity. With a modest effort to pull in more younger, urban viewers; ABC TV has decided to host some series of Australia’s most veteran talents - John Safran, The Chaser and Andrew Denton.

At midseason, ABC will telecast “The Goode Family”, an animated series from Mike Judge, and a reality show from Ashton Kutcher and model Tyra Banks. It will also press ahead with development plans for more new shows that could be brought out midseason, when the network will bring back its hit “Lost.”

There are also second seasons of Bed of Roses, East of Everything and The Librarians plus a host of new dramas like Drugs, Death and Betrayal by veteran journalists John Silvester and Andrew Rule, The Cut, Dirt Game, Prison Sings, and natural history programs.  

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