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The Best TV Shows on National Indigenous Television

Every National Indigenous Television Show Ranked From Best To Worst

National Indigenous Television’s extensive portfolio includes more than 9 shows, spanning the years from 2016 to N/A. Shadow Trackers and Little J and Big Cuz represent the pinnacle of National Indigenous Television’s programming, launching in 2016 and 2017. Stay up-to-date with over 9 of National Indigenous Television’s elite series, with our list refreshed for November 2024.

  • The Marngrook Footy Show
    The Marngrook Footy Show (N/A)9.0

    The Marngrook Footy Show is a sport panel show broadcast in Australia. It is broadcast on NITV and was broadcast on ABC2 until ABCTV axed the program on 15 November 2012, citing low ratings compared with other ABC2 programs. It was simulcast on Channel 31. In its final year with ABCTV, the program was shown live but had its time-slot moved several times by ABCTV Management on Thursdays on ABC2. From 2013 the show will be produced by Toombak Indigenous Productions and broadcast on SBS . The show is produced at the Burwood campus of Deakin University in its professional-standard television studio. It is hosted by Grant Hansen, Gilbert McAdam, Ronnie Burns, Chris Johnson, Leila Gurruwiwi and Shelley Ware with Possum mascot Grooka. The show is the brainchild of Grant Hansen who was tired of the lack of indigenous football commentators and hosts on the radio and TV. It first aired in 1997 as a radio show in Melbourne and with popularity increasing it was soon beamed across the country via satellite the following year. The first radio show was hosted by Grant Hansen and Alan Thorpe with correspondents around the country including Derek Kickett, Michael McLean, Gilbert McAdam, Chris Johnson and Robert Ahmat. After 10 years on the radio it was then developed as a television show and was shown in 2007 on C31 Melbourne and NITV. It features interviews, weekly tips, AFL Gripes and live music performances, as well as including local stories from around the country featuring indigenous footballers talking about their backgrounds, origin clubs and towns, heritage and current affairs.

  • The Beach
    The Beach (2020)6.7

    Filmmaker Warwick Thornton's international success has come at a personal cost. He has reached a crossroad in his life and something has to change. He has chosen to try giving up life in the fast lane for a while, to go it alone, on an isolated beach in one of the most beautiful yet brutal environments in the world, to see if he can transform and heal his life.

  • The First Inventors
    The First Inventors (2023)6.0

    Rob Collins and a team of First Nations investigators delve into 65,000 years of Aboriginal Australian invention, looking at how landscapes were transformed, how events were recorded, the use of navigation tools, and how societies were organized.

  • Shadow Trackers
    Shadow Trackers (2016)N/A

    Shadow Trackers is a frightening and funny observational documentary series that follows two inquisitive Aboriginal men who hunt the lands where Legends and Myths lie and ask the questions we would never dare. Traveling across the country meeting with locals, storytellers, elders and even non-believers each episode will have you laughing one minute and scared the next.

  • Little J and Big Cuz
    Little J and Big Cuz (2017)N/A

    Little J, he's five and Big Cuz, she's nine. They're a couple of Indigenous Australian kids living with their Nanna and Old Dog.

  • Grace Beside Me
    Grace Beside Me (2018)N/A

    Fuzzy Mac just wants to be an ordinary teenager and have fun with her mates - but when the Ancestors have other plans and you keep seeing spirits, that's not so easy.

  • Thalu
    Thalu (2020)N/A

    A group of Indigenous children plan to combat the threat of a mysterious dust cloud before it destroys everything in its path by unlocking the power of the 'Thalu' to destroy it.

  • Rebel With a Cause
    Rebel With a Cause (2023)N/A

    A celebration of the personal journeys of four First Nations trailblazers from Queensland, who created amazing pathways for future generations. It celebrates four iconic and outstanding Queensland First Nations rebels - Senator Neville Bonner, poet Ooodgeroo Noonuccal, magistrate Pat O’Shane and media icon Tiga Bayles – who put everything on the line for change.

  • Eddie's Lil' Homies
    Eddie's Lil' Homies (N/A)N/A

    Kids animated series is inspired by the popular book series of the same name by former AFL star Eddie Betts.