Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has compared the feuding within the Coalition to Married at First Sight, while Liberal Senator Andrew Bragg likened it to Days of Our Lives.

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More from Canberra's revised TV programming schedule:

5pm. Home and Away: Long-running soap opera depicting the double lives of MPs as they charge taxpayers to fund a home in their electorate and another in Canberra. Warning: contains deceptive language, explicit scenes of expenses rorting and lengthy journeys on the legendary Gravy Train that may offend naive viewers.

6pm: Movie Premiere. The Hunger Games: First-home buyers compete in a brutal contest against property investors, beneficiaries of intergenerational wealth, underquoting agents, an uncaring Reserve Bank and aficionados of negative gearing. Warning: includes graphic depictions of broken dreams, bitter betrayals and acts of outright banking bastardry.

7.30pm. Stranger Things: Sci-fi drama based on long-held conspiracy theories. Stars Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce. After discovering a wormhole in the fabric of the universe that lures disenchanted voters into a mysterious underworld realm resembling 1980s Australia, Pauline and Barnaby stumble upon a secretive government program encouraging hordes of terrifying aliens to occupy suburbs and steal the jobs of hard-working Australians.

8.30pm. Lost: Acclaimed drama series following everyday Australians battling to survive in rural and regional areas with patchy and non-existent mobile phone signals. This week Bill and Trevor find themselves hours from home without Google Maps and are forced to rely on advice from a local publican to "take a few lefts and a right just after the dry dam south of the last paddock to your north".

9pm. The Bold and the Beautiful: Exhaustively researched documentary examining every original, innovative and daring policy proposed by the main political parties this century.

9.02pm. The Young and the Restless: Disillusioned voters aged 18-34 flee the traditional parties, only to find themselves welcomed into the arms of a permanently outraged but ultimately ineffective cult dubbed "The Greens".

10pm. The Last of Us: Apocalyptic drama series. After a series of defections and bitter internal disputes, David Littleproud wakes from a self-induced coma to discover he is the sole remaining member of the National Party. Devastated by his breakup with long-time partner Sussan and forced to navigate a hostile Canberra landscape alone, David adopts a stray kelpie for companionship, only to learn it is plotting a leadership challenge against him.

11pm. NDIS: Crime Scene: Investigators uncover further rorts in the labyrinthine world of the $48 billion National Disability Insurance Scheme. Meanwhile, a frustrated team of NASA physicists and mathematicians turn to a supercomputer to unravel the complex and almost........

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