2005 in Australian television
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| 2005 in television |
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[edit] Events
- January 8 - Australia Unites: Reach Out To Asia raises $20 million for the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami relief effort. It is also the first time that Australia's three major commercial television stations have co-operated to broadcast such an event.
- February - Australia's Funniest Home Video Show returns and starts 2005 when AFHVS is renamed Australia's Funniest Home Videos with a major revamp, brand new theme ballad and a relocation from Melboune back to Sydney. This is the very first episode to be filmed at Nine's Sydney studios since 1999.
- May 25 - Graham Kennedy dies at age 71. The network on which most of his shows aired, the Nine Network, passes up the offer to broadcast his funeral & the Seven Network arrives, axes Nine's coverage and Seven picks it up and wins it. Nine does eventually show parts of the funeral live.
- June 26 - Douglas Wood is interviewed by Sandra Sully about his time as a captive after Network Ten pays a reported $400,000 for an exclusive interview.
- August 15: Big Brother: Greg Mathew, along with twin brother David Mathew, also known as "The Logan Twins" is announced the winner of the fifth series.
- November 20 - Madonna's Warner Bros. single "Hung Up" defeats Gold Digger by Kanye West and Jamie Foxx to be crowned the title of the ARIA single debuting at #1. This was the last Top 50 ARIA charts on ABC TV's Rage to be shown on the Seven Network. Only Seven Local TV and ABC TV will continue the Rage's Top 50 Charts until the end of July 2006, when it launches jtv.
- November 26 – The very last ever episode of The Price Is Right goes to air on the Nine Network after a 5 year run then a 2 year run. The show was axed due to the strong competition prize win of rival Seven Network game show Deal or No Deal.
- December 2: A Current Affair draws with a final goodbye with Ray Martin in the hot-seat. He is to be replaced by Tracy Grimshaw in 2006.
- December 16: Good Morning Australia finishes its 12 year run on Network Ten from the studios of ATV-10. Host Bert Newton leaves Ten and signs up and returns the Nine Network to host game show Bert's Family Feud.
[edit] Debuts
[edit] ABC
| Date | Program | |
|---|---|---|
| February 9 | Spicks and Specks | |
| June 12 | Outback House |
[edit] SBS
| Date | Program | |
|---|---|---|
| January 31 | RocKwiz | |
| 17 December | Lonely Planet Six Degrees |
[edit] Channel Seven
| Date | Program | |
|---|---|---|
| February | Medical Emergency | |
| June 6 | Last Man Standing | |
| November 15 | headLand | |
| ? | Eclipse Music TV |
[edit] Channel Nine
| Date | Program | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 March | Streetsmartz | |
| October 13 | 20 to 1 |
[edit] Channel Ten
| Date | Program | |
|---|---|---|
| February 9 | Aussie Queer Eye for the Straight Guy | |
| October 5 | Australian Princess |
[edit] Pay TV
| Date | Program | Channel |
|---|---|---|
| January 11 | Australia's Next Top Model | FOX8 |
[edit] New International Programming
[edit] ABC
| Date | Debut | Country |
|---|---|---|
| May 21 | Doctor Who |  United Kingdom |
[edit] SBS
| Date | Debut | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 3 January | MythBusters |  United States |
| February 7 | Shameless | United Kingdom |
| 23 April | So Frenchy, So Chic | |
| 2 June | Bronski and Bernstein |  Germany |
| 24 June | Sophie's World |  Norway /  Sweden |
[edit] Channel Seven
| Date | Debut | Country |
|---|---|---|
| January 31 | Desperate Housewives | United States |
| Unknown | Grey's Anatomy | United States |
| Unknown | Lost | United States |
[edit] Television shows
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[edit] 2000s
- 2001
- 2002
- 2003
- Australian Idol (2003-present)
- Deal or No Deal (2003-present)
- 2004
- Border Security: Australia's Front Line (2004-present)
- Dancing with the Stars (2004-present)
[edit] Ending / Resting this year
| Date | Show | Channel | Debut |
|---|---|---|---|
| unknown | Wheel of Fortune | Channel Seven | 1981 |
| 26 November | The Price is Right | Channel Nine | 1992-1998 (I), 2003 (II) |
| 4 December | 7 Days | ABC | 4 August 2001 |
| 16 December | GMA with Bert Newton | Channel Ten | 1991 |
[edit] TV movies
[edit] Miniseries
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