May 2025 on ABC iview – highlights include Would I Lie To You, Australia Votes: Election Night Live, The Piano, Bergerac, Play School: When I Grow Up, Call the Midwife, The Kimberley, Gruen, Martin Clunes: Islands of the Atlantic, Grand Designs UK, Secrets of the Zoo, The One That Got Away, Picasso, Return to Belsen, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Across the Universe and Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

WOULD I LIE TO YOU S18
THURSDAY 1 MAY
Rob Brydon hosts the eighteenth series of the award-winning comedy panel show “Would I Lie To You?” with Lee Mack and David Mitchell returning as the lightning-quick team captains.

AUSTRALIA VOTES: ELECTION NIGHT LIVE
SATURDAY 3 MAY
Join the ABC’s unrivalled team of experts as they bring you the nation’s most authoritative coverage in a day of dedicated programming.

THE PIANO S1
SUNDAY 4 MAY
Host Amanda Keller welcomes amateur pianists from all walks of life take to the keys, not for fame but for the joy of playing. Unbeknown to our pianists, watching on from a secret storeroom nearby are two renowned expert musicians, Harry Connick, Jr. and Andrea Lam.

BERGERAC S1
SUNDAY 4 MAY
The iconic Jersey-set detective series returns. When a member of one of Jersey’s wealthiest families is murdered the police want their best detective on the case.

PLAY SCHOOL: WHEN I GROW UP
MONDAY 5 MAY
With special guests, Tim Minchin, Adam Goodes and Nate Byrne, Play School’s When I Grow Up explores some of the amazing jobs kids can do when they grow up.

CALL THE MIDWIFE S13
SATURDAY 10 MAY
More medical and personal dilemmas for the sisters and midwives from Nonnatus House.

THE KIMBERLEY S1
TUESDAY 13 MAY
Embark on an incredible journey with award-winning actor Mark Coles Smith as he explores one of Australia’s most remote and majestic landscapes.

GRUEN S17
WEDNESDAY 14 MAY
Advertising has changed for the worse. Gruen has changed for the better. Join Wil Anderson, Todd Sampson, Russel Howcroft and a panel of experts for a new and improved look at a world of advertising which isn’t new nor improved.

MARTIN CLUNES: ISLANDS OF THE ATLANTIC
THURSDAY 15 MAY
From the tropics to the Arctic, Martin Clunes explores island life in the Atlantic Ocean.

GRAND DESIGNS UK S22
THURSDAY 15 MAY
25 years of celebrating the optimism, jeopardy and ultimate joy of home building. Grand Designs UK returns with a special anniversary series hosted by the inimitable Kevin McCloud.

SECRETS OF THE ZOO S4
FRIDAY 23 MAY
Secrets of the Zoo gives unprecedented behind-the-scenes access to one of the nation’s largest and most popular zoos, The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.

THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY S1
FRIDAY 23 MAY
The hunt for a killer whose modus operandi echoes the historic ‘heart knot’ murders re-unites ex-lovers, DI Ffion Lloyd and DS Rick Sheldon.

PICASSO S1
MONDAY 26 MAY
When Pablo Picasso died in 1973, the world mourned a superstar – a revolutionary who turned the story of 20th century art on its head. This unprecedented three-part series opens the door on the paintings, places and people that he left behind.

RETURN TO BELSEN
SUNDAY 5 MAY
Seventy five years after its liberation by British troops, Jonathan Dimbleby returns to the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany – the place where his father Richard revealed for the first time the horrors of the Nazi regime in a radio report that shocked the world.

THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS
SATURDAY 18 MAY
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is a fantastical morality tale, set in the present-day. It tells the story of Dr. Parnassus and his extraordinary ‘Imaginarium’, a travelling show where members of the audience get an irresistible opportunity to choose between light and joy or darkness and gloom.

ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
WEDNESDAY 22 MAY
Across The Universe, an original musical film, is a love story set against the backdrop of the 1960s, amid the turbulent years of anti-war protest, the struggle for free speech and civil rights, mind exploration and rock ‘n roll.

BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA
WEDNESDAY 29 MAY
Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder and Anthony Hopkins star in director Francis Ford Coppola’s visually stunning, passionately seductive version of the classic Dracula legend. In Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Coppola returns to the original source of the Dracula myth, and from that gothic romance, he creates a modern masterpiece.
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