October 2025 on ABC iview

October 2025 on ABC iview – highlights include The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies, Beyond Paradise, Hard Quiz Kids, I Was Actually There, The Stand Up Sketch Show, Sharon & Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home, Maddie + Triggs, Grand Designs Australia and End Game with Tony Armstrong.

THE FOLLOWING EVENTS ARE BASED ON A PACK OF LIES

ALL EPISODES AVAILABLE TO STREAM FRIDAY 3 OCTOBER

Alice invested thousands in Robbie’s dodgy property scam before he disappeared. When she sees him again for the first time in 15 years, she’s determined to get to the truth.

A deliciously dark tale of two very different women, Alice and Cheryl, and conman Rob Chance. Three strangers with nothing in common… except dupes, deceptions, and delusions.

BEYOND PARADISE S2

ALL EPISODES AVAILABLE TO STREAM SATURDAY 4 OCTOBER

Shipton Abbott continues to keep DI Humphrey Goodman and his team busy, with a baffling crime each week – from a death on a steam train to a missing teacher.

Meanwhile, Humphrey and Martha’s journey to find their own version of a family continues as they explore the possibility of fostering.

HARD QUIZ KIDS S2

SATURDAY 4 OCTOBER

Gold Logie Award-winning comedian Tom Gleeson is back to host the popular Hard Quiz spin-off, with a new group of 10 to 12-year-old trivia titans taking the stage with their expert subjects.

With his trademark grumpiness and wicked humour, Tom will grill the junior experts as they go head-to-head for the coveted Big Brass Mug.

I WAS ACTUALLY THERE S2

ALL EPISODES AVAILABLE TO STREAM

TUESDAY 7 OCTOBER

Along with carefully chosen archive footage, much of it unseen or previously overlooked, I Was Actually There weaves conversational fragments into cohesive narratives, bringing intense moments back to life.

Each episode reveals new ways of seeing the past, challenging what we think we know.

THE STAND UP SKETCH SHOW S6

ALL EPISODES AVAILABLE TO STREAM

SATURDAY 11 OCTOBER

A new season of the breakneck comedy show packed with standup routines from top comics, brought to life in sketch form.

Strap in for a cast of social media stars, celebrity cameos, and the nation’s best loved comedians.

Welcome to the show that turns stand-up into sketch.

SHARON AND OZZY OSBOURNE: COMING HOME

SUNDAY 12 OCTOBER

Anthony Burke in Venice for Foreign Correspondent

This intimate documentary follows the final 3 years of Ozzy’s life as he and Sharon plan a return home after 25 years in LA, and prepare for the ultimate farewell gig.

This film is a candid and moving portrait of Birmingham’s favourite son and the family that adore and support him through his final performance and the final chapter of his life.

MADDIE + TRIGGS

MONDAY 13 OCTOBER

A little girl and her doggy best friend find music and adventure in the sounds of the everyday by really listening to the world around them.

Maddie is a 7-year-old girl who loves music and adventure, and just so happens to have a vision impairment. Triggs is her doggy best friend who loves doggy biscuits and mischief!

GRAND DESIGNS AUSTRALIA S12

ALL EPISODES AVAILABLE TO STREAM

THURSDAY 16 OCTOBER

Hosted by Architecture Professor Anthony Burke, a new season of Grand Designs Australia.

From an ingenious low cost Earthship in Tasmania, to a family “cave” on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula; a $10 million dollar plus concrete compound in Queensland, to an underground bunker house in country NSW for a couple trying to escape bushfires – the projects are as intriguing as they are stressful.

END GAME WITH TONY ARMSTRONG

ALL EPISODES AVAILABLE TO STREAM

TUESDAY 21 OCTOBER

Enough is enough. Fed up with excuses and failed campaigns, Tony Armstrong is on a mission to tackle racism in Australian sport.

In End Game with Tony Armstrong, the former AFL player turned award-winning broadcaster embarks on a global search for solutions he hopes can be brought back and applied to Australia’s major sporting codes.

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