There were plans to bring back SOTC in 2002 with new hosts, but those plans were put on hold after Shafted was axed and replaced by repeats of Fraiser.
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Tuesday’s in Brisbane
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Obviously Frasier did very well, but was Sale doing poorly?
Big Brother really ate its ratings particularly in the demos
12 February 1979: Nine’s big-budget current affairs gamble 60 Minutes makes its Adelaide debut, a day after Sydney and Melbourne.
12 February 1987: John Wood, Catherine Wilkin, Simon Chilvers and Arky Michael star in Seven‘s new drama series Rafferty’s Rules.
12 February 1996: Midday With Kerri-Anne (Nine) marks the return of the traditional variety format to the Midday brand, with Kerri-Anne Kennerley taking over from last year’s co-hosts Tracy Grimshaw and David Reyne. Nine debuts police drama Water Rats with a two-hour episode, starring Colin Friels, Catherine McClements, Sophie Heathcote and Aaron Jeffery.
12 February 1999: Children’s science fiction series Thunderstone debuts on Ten.
12 February 2006: ABC debuts Sunday morning sports discussion program Offsiders, hosted by journalist Barrie Cassidy.
12 February 2007: ABC debuts Difference Of Opinion, a talk/debate series hosted by Jeff McMullen.
12 February 2008: The Nine Network debuts “reality/comedy” series Monster House, starring Glenn Butcher, Celia Ireland, Rebel Wilson, Travis Cotton, Julie Herbert and Jody Kennedy. The series was axed after two episodes.
12 February 2008: Seven HD launches late-night talk show The Nightcap, hosted by Matthew White, Jessica Rowe, Monique Wright, Paul Murray and former Big Brother contestant Zach Douglas.
12 February 2010: Cal Wilson hosts the debut of ABC‘s eight-part murder mystery Sleuth 101, with guest appearances by Dave O’Neil, John Wood, Nicola Parry, Robyn Butler, Dave Lawson and Denise Drysdale.
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I loved Thunderstone.
One of the people on that show got in trouble IIRC.
It was like a late night Sunrise or The Project but silly that it only screened on 7HD. Nobody understood 7HD was being run like a separate channel yet.
ETA: Was it nightly or weekly?
Zach Douglas, when he was discussing techniques for performing fellatio…
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It screened every Tuesday and Thursday night.
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Cheers for that. I found a story on TV Tonight where they took a three week break for Easter but then never came back.
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Which I assume ended his potential career in television.
Times have changed. These days if you talked about that you’d get a $200m contract to do breakfast radio
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It’s difficult to find photos online even though this show was only 17 years ago. Even the TV Tonight articles seem to have their photos deleted. When you google it there’s a thumbnail shown but when you go article there are no photos.
I found this promo on YouTube though:
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13 February 1967: ABC premieres afternoon series Something Else, set in a family-owned Sydney hotel called The George, starring Lois Ramsey, Benita Collings, Liza Goddard, Stanley Walsh, Barbara Joss and Jack Allan.
13 February 1989: Network Ten premieres three-part mini-series Tanamera: Lion Of Singapore, starring Christopher Bowen, Khym Lam, Lewis Fiander, Ed Devereaux, Penne Hackforth-Jones, Gary Sweet, Anne-Louise Lambert, Robert Coleby, Sinan Leong and Tushka Bergen.
13 February 1990: Kerry O’Brien presents ABC’s new late night current affairs program, Lateline.
YouTube: Trevor Trevalgen
13 February 1992: ABC presents the movie-length debut of its new police drama Phoenix, starring Paul Sonkkila, Simon Westaway, Nell Feeney, Sean Scully and Andy Anderson.
13 February 1994: The Fast Forward special 38 And A Bit Fabulous Years Of Australian Television (Seven) takes a comical look at Australia’s television history — featuring Magda Szubanski, Marg Downey, Gina Riley, Michael Veitch, Jane Turner, Geoff Brook, Steve Blackburn, Alan Pentland, Glenn Robbins and Peter Moon.
13 February 1996: Ex-pat Aussie Clive James makes a guest appearance in Neighbours (Ten), playing the part of a postman.
13 February 2004: The debut of ABC‘s weekly pop culture magazine Mondo Thingo, hosted by Amanda Keller.
13 February 2005: The premiere of reality show Celebrity Overhaul (Nine), hosted by Deborah Hutton and Dr John Tickell.
13 February 2006: Bert Newton marks his return to the Nine Network after 20 years with the premiere of Bert’s Family Feud. The debut of the first series of The Biggest Loser Australia (Ten) with host Ajay Rochester.
13 February 2008: The premiere of true crime drama Underbelly on Nine. The series, a dramatic re-enactment around Melbourne’s gangland killings between 1995 and 2004, aired in all states except in Victoria due to upcoming criminal trials of people depicted in the series.
13 February 2010: Nine begins coverage of the XXI Olympic Winter Games from Vancouver, Canada, with hosts Eddie McGuire, Leila McKinnon, Ken Sutcliffe, Alissa Camplin and Steve Bradbury.
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February 14 of 2000: Seven rebrands it’s news branding to just plain Seven News following the dropping of the Nightly name in which it has used only for State/Territory-based 6pm and National Late News Bulletins since January 18 of 1988. This featured minor modifications to the intro and logo but most of the presentations and themes remained the same as when it first officially launched during of May of 1999 and went on to last right up until August 29 of 2004.
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I remember seeing a clip of this in a special about HSV7. Shame it’s never been released on DVD.
Wasn’t it a clip show?
NFSA has it though.
https://www.collection.nfsa.gov.au/title/1586466
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i don’t really remember it but i thought it was a sketch show parodying old Australian TV.
14 February 1973: ABC’s Certain Women begins as a six-part mini-series before being renewed as an ongoing series to run for four years.
14 February 1994: Andrew L Urban hosts new SBS series Front Up, featuring spontaneous interviews with ordinary Australians.
14 February 1995: The Seven Network debuts new drama series Fire, starring Georgie Parker, Andy Anderson, Peter Phelps, Shane Connor, Deborra-lee Furness, Danny Adcock, Wayne Pygram, Tottie Goldsmith, Liddy Clark, Aaron Jeffery, Tayler Kane and Max Phipps.
14 February 2006: Comedian Magda Szubanski debuts her new sketch comedy series Magda’s Funny Bits on Nine.
14 February 2010: Fenella Kernebone hosts the new ABC series Art Nation, a weekly magazine reporting on arts and culture.
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