Had the same producers as Home and Away and was heralded as the next big thing but it ended up being a flop.
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“Herdland” as it was referred to here on MS at the time
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Although Headland was short-lived, Rachael Taylor was nominated for Most Popular New Female Talent in the 2006 TV Week Logie Awards. Then she was cast in Michael Bay’s first Transformers movie and her acting career lifted off.
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19/11/1999 In the United States, John Carpenter becomes the first contestant in Millionaire history to win the top prize of $1 MILLION. He famously used his phone-a-friend lifetime to tell his father of his impending win.
19/11/2003 Guy Sebastian becomes the first winner of Australian Idol.
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19 November 1956: New TV Station — ABV2, Melbourne.
19 November 1982: ABC premieres drama series MPSIB (Missing Persons Special Investigation Branch), starring Barry Quin, Peta Toppano and Mike Preston.
19 November 1994: The final episode of A Country Practice, ending a year’s run on Network Ten after 12 years on Seven.
19 November 1996: ABV2 presents the special 40 Years In The Making — ABC TV Melbourne, narrated by Alan Hopgood.
19 November 1999: The Seven Network presents the People’s Choice Awards, hosted by Andrew Daddo and Belinda Emmett from the Capitol Theatre, Sydney.
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I don’t think anyone was still watching by that point.
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22 November 1956: The Opening Ceremony of The Games Of The XVI Olympiad, broadcast live from the Melbourne Cricket Ground through Melbourne channels ABV2, HSV7 and GTV9.
22 November 1971: The Nine Network premieres A Current Affair, hosted by Mike Willesee.
22 November 1976: The Seven Network premieres Willesee At Seven with Mike Willesee, strategically scheduled to go up against his former program, A Current Affair.
22 November 1993: A Country Practice airs on the Seven Network for the final time, ending a 12-year run. It returns on Network Ten the following year.
22 November 1998: Nine‘s 60 Minutes presents a 2-hour special for its 20th anniversary.
22 November 1999: ABC premieres four-part documentary series Barry Humphries’ Flashbacks, with each episode covering a decade between the 1950s and the 1980s. Featuring Barry Humphries and some of his alter egos, including Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson.
22 November 2004: The Seven Network presents the one-hour special The Ultimate Kylie. Ian ‘Molly’ Meldrum interviews Kylie Minogue in London.
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Didn’t Seven Air The Universal Pictures Films Casper And Babe On The Same Night As Nine Aired The 60 Minutes 20th Anniversary Special In 1998?
23 November 1963: In the UK on BBC 1 was the premiere of a new Sci Fi series called Doctor Who. Was posponed by a day for obvious reasons
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26 November 1966: All four networks present coverage of the 1966 Federal Election. ABC presents From London By Satellite, a short ten-minute presentation billed as the first live television connection between the United Kingdom and Australia — allowing a conversation between family members split between London and in Carnarvon, Western Australia. The program took place on the Friday afternoon, Western Australian time. Because no direct TV link existed between the east and west coasts of Australia — until 1970 — eastern states viewers only saw the telecast from videotape the next day.
26 November 1976: New TV Station — RTS5A, Loxton, South Australia.
25 November 1990: Major cost-cutting measures at Network Ten, including the sacking of around 300 staff, sees Ten Evening News in Melbourne trimmed from one-hour to a 30-minute bulletin and the axing of local current affairs programs Sydney With Mike Gibson and Brisbane With Anna McMahon.
26 November 1993: The final episode of Seven‘s Tonight Live With Steve Vizard, ending a four-year run.
26 November 1997: The Nine Network presents coverage of the opening of Sydney’s Star City casino, hosted by Kerri-Anne Kennerley and featuring performances by Tom Jones, Diana Ross and Michael Crawford. The Seven Network presents a commercial-free screening of the 1993 movie Schindler’s List, based on the novel Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally.
26 November 2005: The Nine Network presents the 47th annual AFI Awards from the Waterfront City Pavilion, Melbourne. Hosted by Russell Crowe.
26 November 2009: The Nine Network presents the 23rd annual ARIA Awards from Acer Arena, Sydney. Includes performances by Robbie Williams, Jessica Mauboy and Keith Urban.
26 November 2015: The Nine Network launches lifestyle channel 9Life and commenced high definition of its main channel as 9HD
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November 27 1998: A sad day across the Nine Network with the late Brian Naylor presenting his final ever National Nine News Victoria Bulletin. Thirty Minutes later, after 5 seasons, Ray Martin also presents his final episode of A Current Affair before returning to the program a little over four years later.
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27 November 1965: New TV Station — STV8, Mildura, Victoria.
27 November 1998: The final episode of Midday, ending a three-year run with host Kerri-Anne Kennerley. The Seven Network presents the People’s Choice Awards from the State Theatre, Sydney.
27 November 1993: Network Ten presents the third annual Australian Music Awards from Dreamworld on the Gold Coast. International guest performers include Jeremy Jordan, Kim Wilde and Terence Trent D’Arby.
27 November 1999: Network Ten presents The Great Australian Dog Of The Year, hosted by Alan Fletcher (Neighbours).
27 November 2005: ABC presents the Kath And Kim telemovie, Da Kath And Kim Code, featuring guest appearances by Barry Humphries, Michael Bublé, Rove McManus, The Wiggles, Rhonda Burchmore, Glenn Butcher, Judith Lucy and Peta Brady.
27 November 2010: Hey Hey It’s Saturday presents the last of its 2010 reunion series, followed by the special Lights Camera Party! Television City Celebrates, commemorating Nine’s exit from its heritage studios at 22 Bendigo Street, Richmond. The station had been housed at the historic premises since its inception in 1957.
27 November 2012: Shutdown of analogue television services: Northern NSW
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28 November 1977: The Seven Network premieres Cop Shop, combining police drama with soap opera. The criminal goings on in the fictional suburb of Riverside were mixed with a look at the lives of people around the local police station. The series would go on to run for 582 episodes, through to 1984.
28 November 1992: Network Ten presents the Coca-Cola Australian Music Awards from Dreamworld on the Gold Coast. Hosted by Mike Hammond.
28 November 1993: The Nine Network presents a two-hour prime-time special, Sports Sunday 10th Anniversary, hosted by Ken Sutcliffe.
28 November 1997: The Nine Network presents the special 40 Years Of Logies, taking a look at the history, favourite moments and blunders from the TV Week Logie Awards. Hosted by Denise Drysdale.
28 November 2004: The Seven Network premieres Australia’s Brainiest Kid with Anna Coren.
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29/11/2002 Brian Henderson presents his final Nine News Sydney bulletin, following nearly four decades as their weeknight news presenter (and several years on weekends before that).
29/11/2023 The final “new” episode of Hot Seat goes to air before it makes way for Tipping Point Australia which would premiere in January 2024 (following a soft launch on December 24, 2023).
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Facebook has (bizarrely) reminded me today marks 12 years since the little-watched Channel 10 show “Breakfast” was axed. I was the Melbourne correspondent. For the final ep, we figured no-one was watching so did every single hit from my apartment. Complete with a camera jib. pic.twitter.com/hxxdABZRXg
— Ben Lewis (@benlewismedia) November 29, 2024
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1 Dec 1989 (NZ): Letter to Blanchy, a fresh sitcom from AK Grant and McPhail & Gadsby, premieres on TV3 (now Three). As director Ian Mune described, it showcased a comedy of errors in which characters find themselves in dire situations due to their arrogance, foolishness, desperation to impress others or opportunistic behaviour. Although the hour-long pilot (“Jet Boat”) screened during TV3’s inaugural week, the series was intended to continue in 1990; regrettably, financial issues prevented any further episodes from being produced.
1 Dec 1989 (NZ): The final episode of That’s Fairly Interesting, a magazine series showcasing quirky people and events, screens on Channel 2 (now TVNZ 2).
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2 December 1956: New TV Station — ATN7, Sydney.
2 December 1972: All four networks provide coverage of the Federal Election. The election went on to see the Australian Labor Party end 23 years of conservative rule.
2 December 1977: Kerry Packer’s rebel cricket code World Series Cricket makes its TV debut on his Nine Network with Match One, featuring Australia versus West Indies, from VFL Park in Melbourne.
2 December 1993: Science and technology series Beyond 2000, formerly of the Seven Network, makes its first appearance on Network Ten.
2 December 1996: Network Ten presents the special Crowded House In Concert, a farewell concert for Crowded House from the steps of the Sydney Opera House.
2 December 2006: ABC presents the concert special Countdown Spectacular, a tribute to the long-running pop music show Countdown that ran from 1974 to 1987. Recorded at the Melbourne Concert Hall with Ian ‘Molly’ Meldrum and performances by Sherbet, Hush, The Models, Eurogliders, John Paul Young, Leo Sayer, Renée Geyer, Frankie J Holden, Joe Camilleri, Brian Mannix and Wendy Stapleton.
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4 December 1995: The Nine Network premieres dating game show Simply Irresistible, hosted by Paul Holmes. The Seven Network launches its new late-night edition of Seven Nightly News, fronted by former Ten newsreader Anne Fulwood.
4 December 2004: The Seven Network premieres children’s game show Go Go Stop.
4 December 2008: ABC premieres Outback Upfront, a seven-part series of panel discussions around short films produced by emerging WA-based film-makers. The Nine Network premieres medical series The Waiting Room, hosted by Dr Andrew Rochford.
4 December 2009: Prime Minister Kevin Rudd officially opens ABC‘s new children’s channel, ABC3.
4 December 2017: ABC2 is relaunched as ABC Comedy
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I miss those old summer schedule game shows. Very tacky but fun to watch.
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5 December 1957: Cover date for the first issue of TV (-Radio) Week
5 December 1977: TCN9, Sydney, presents the documentary Uranium: Time For The Verdict, with reporter Gerald Stone. The program appears on GTV9, Melbourne, three days later.
5 December 1992: The Nine Network presents the special Nescafe Big Break, awards presented in recognition of talent, ambition and determination by young Australians striving to achieve their goals. Hosted by Richard Wilkins. Network Ten premieres sitcom Bingles, starring Tammy MacIntosh, Shane Bourne and Russell Gilbert.
5 December 1994: The Seven Network premieres drama series Over The Hill, starring Georgie Parker, Nicholas Eadie and Roy Billing.
5 December 2004: ABC presents the special My Favourite Book, hosted by Jennifer Byrne. Counting down the ten favourite books as voted by the public and including celebrity interviews.
5 December 2016: Ten Perth begins production from its new studios in Subiaco
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