This article confirms that they only filmed for four weeks and the show was “yanked after four outings”.
What happened to the bride from TV’s Yasmin’s Getting Married?
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No. The Christchurch station was FreedomTV, which later became Shine. It wasnt part of any network. Sorry for the late reply, am just casually catching up on this thread
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2 August 1964: The second day’s broadcast of ATV0, Melbourne, includes a repeat of the previous night’s program preview, Seven Wonderful Nights, and the channel’s first news bulletin, read by Brian Wright.
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(Seven Wonderful Nights appears to be a direct adaptation of a similar program from America’s CBS in 1962: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGJ-0V1WCHM)
2 August 1976: ABC premieres late-afternoon teen/pop culture show Flashez, hosted by Ray Burgess.
2 August 1993: John Mangos and Sharon Dale host the premiere of Seven‘s new mid-morning magazine program At Home.
2 August 1998: The LifeStyle Channel premieres interview series Life Changes, hosted by Richard Zachariah. The show’s first guest is publisher, editor and writer Ita Buttrose.
2 August 2009: The Nine Network premieres drama series Rescue: Special Ops, starring Libby Tanner, Peter Phelps, Les Hill, Daniel Amalm, Gigi Edgley, Katherine Hicks and Andrew Lees.
2 August 2010: SBS launches its new game show Letters And Numbers, an Australian adaptation of the French show Des chiffres et des lettres and the long-running UK series, Countdown. Hosted by former ABC newsreader Richard Morecroft with writer David Astle and mathematician Lily Serna.
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3 August 1964: First weekday transmission for Melbourne’s new channel, ATV0. Nancy Cato, Alec Finlay and Michael Boddy host the debut of the station’s afternoon program, The Children’s Show. The show becomes a predecessor to The Magic Circle Club, which debuts in 1965 and screens nationally.
3 August 1976: The 0-10 Network presents the 6th annual Australian Popular Song Festival from Dallas Brooks Hall, Melbourne, to decide which song will represent Australia at the World Popular Song Festival in Japan. Includes performances by Denis Walter, Robin Jolley, Dove, Marty Rhone, Debbie Byrne, The Moir Sisters, Matt Flinders and Ronnie Burns.
3 August 1979: One-Day Miller, the comedy spin-off from the Tickled Pink series, debuts on ABC, starring Tony Llewellyn-Jones, Penne Hackforth-Jones, Lucky Grills and Willie Fennell.
3 August 1996: Network Ten premieres animated series The Silver Brumby, including the voices of John Higginson and Rebecca Gibney.
3 August 2002: Cover date for the first TV Week to be published by ACP Magazines, and the debut for Pacific Publications’ What’s On Weekly.
3 August 2003: Network Ten presents For Holly: The Comedy Concert Of 2003, a charity event held in July in memory of Holly Robinson, the daughter of the former ABC executive Ted Robinson and casting director Ann Robinson. Diagnosed with cancer in 2000, it was Holly’s plan to organise a fund raising event for cancer research. She died in April 2003, aged 27. The concert included performances by Wil Anderson, Andrew Denton, Gareth Gates, Richard Fidler, Tim Ferguson, Flacco and Sandman, Tim Freedman, Corinne Grant, Wendy Harmer, Dave Hughes, Marcia Hines, Jean Kittson, Jeannie Lewis, Paul McDermott, Julie McCrossin, Indira Naidoo and The Wiggles.
3 August 2008: After 27 years, the final edition of Nine’s morning current affairs show Sunday.
3 August 2012: The final edition of Network Ten’s mid-morning program The Circle
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RIP What’s on Weekly - gone by the end of the year.
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Should be noted that Paul McDermott, Tim Ferguson and Richard Fidler were introduced as The Doug Anthony All Stars - they had reunited for the concert.
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5 August 1979: Jovan — The John Sullivan Story, the telemovie spin-off from The Sullivans, airs on Nine. Starring Andrew McFarlane in the title role of John Sullivan, with Frank Gallacher, Olivia Hamnett, Carol Burns and newcomer Vera Plevnik.
5 August 1996: It has taken two years, but Friends is finally making its Australian debut on the Seven Network. The hit US sitcom has taken two years to get to Australian screens, largely due to a prolonged battle between Seven and Nine for rights to the show.
5 August 2001: Network Ten premieres mockumentary series All Aussie Adventures, following accident prone outback adventurer Russell Coight (Glenn Robbins) as he tackles Australia’s rugged outback and wildlife.
5 August 2003: The Nine Network premieres DIY Rescue, a home renovation series hosted by Leah McLeod.
5 August 2006: The Seven Network premieres A Pub Too Far. Red Symons and Wilbur Wilde go on a journey to search for the perfect watering hole, starting in Bali and then to Indonesia’s Spice Islands (Moluccas).
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Yes, just arfter the Atlanta Olympics IIRC…
And what happened with that? It didn’t rate on 7 in '96 and then 9 picked it afterall and it rated well?
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I think it rated well for Seven. But from memory, the eventual deal was that Seven would have series 1 and Nine would get any subsequent series. So Seven burned it off at two episodes a week, because what’s the point in investing time in a series if it’s only going to the opposition. But apparently there was a clause that Nine couldn’t start series 2 until Seven had aired all eps of series 1, so Seven then deliberately held off showing the last episode. But they did air it eventually, or possibly Nine just didn’t wait!?
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Yes Seven aired the final episode of season 1 “The One With the Birth” but buried it in an unannounced late Saturday night slot in January 1997 as part of Coca-Cola Interactive Evening (or something like that) where you could vote on which show will be aired. Friends won, this was followed by the pilot of Home and Away.
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Video shows the closing of Friends and start of H and A.
Promo for Friends first night on Seven
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Another one for this day
5 August 1991: The Oprah Winfrey Show begins on Ten in a late-night (11pm) timeslot. From memory it only screened on Mondays initially.
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Do you know when the show moved to the afternoon slot on Ten around 2pm from memory?
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From what I can gather, though may be corrected, it moved to daytime on 20 January 1992, the same day that they launched a new line-up of The Morning Show with Bert Newton (8.30am), Sally Jessy Raphael (11am), then Oprah at 2.30pm, and later the first 5pm Ten Eyewitness News and premiere of Hinch at 6pm.
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7 August 1983: The Seven Network begins daily coverage of the first World Athletic Championships from Helsinki, Finland. Seven presents late-night highlights packages of each day of competition, culminating in live prime-time coverage of the marathon on the final day. Australia was represented in the marathon by Commonwealth Games gold medallist Rob de Castella, who won Australia’s only gold medal at the championships.
7 August 1991: ABC screens the telemovie The Last Crop, starring Kerry Walker and Noah Taylor.
7 August 1992: ABC premieres Blue Wilderness, a five-part documentary series featuring Ron and Valerie Taylor as they explore various underwater creatures. The first episode looks at sharks, and helping a group of shark-wary people, including two shark attack victims, come to terms with their fears.
7 August 1996: ABC screens the documentary Nobody’s Children: Seven Years On. David Goldie tracks down the street kids he spoke to seven years ago and finds out what has happened in their lives since then.
7 August 1997: The Seven Network presents the two-hour special Comic Relief, a combination of stand-up local comedy and international sketches as a fund raiser for Community Aid Abroad. Featuring Magda Szubanski, Libby Gore, Rob Sitch, Jimeoin, Marg Downey, John Clarke, Brian Dawe, Judith Lucy, Glenn Robbins, Glynn Nicholas, Russell Gilbert, Whoopi Goldberg, Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Joanna Lumley, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders.
7 August 2007: ABC premieres the six-part documentary series South Side Story, about the takeover of NRL team the South Sydney Rabbitohs by actor Russell Crowe and businessman Peter Holmes à Court.
7 August 2009: The Seven Network premieres children’s series Kid Detectives, hosted by Stephen Multari and Shae Brewster.
7 August 2010: The Nine Network premieres Home Cooked! With Julie Goodwin, featuring the inaugural MasterChef Australia winner and celebrity guests demonstrating easy-to-make home cooked meals.
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Aired during the season in which the Rabbitohs ended an 18-year finals drought (16 if you exclude the two seasons they didn’t participate in - 2000/01).
2007 was a good season for the Bunnies, finishing seventh and losing to Manly in a qualifying final.
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What ever came of this after 1997? I recall there was a 1996 version of Nine with several of their personalities at the time.
I believe has been quite big in the UK over the decades.
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Seven had another go in the mid-2000s.
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8 August 1964: ATV0’s first full week of transmission ends with the debut of Goal To Goal, presenting highlights and discussion of the day’s VFL matches, and The Ray Taylor Show, a late night variety show with a mix of satire and commentary.
8 August 1982: ABC screens Henry V, part of the BBC’s series of television adaptations of all 37 plays by William Shakespeare.
8 August 1985: The final episode of The Mike Walsh Show, ending a 12-year run.
8 August 1990: Michele Fawdon stars in an ABC docu-drama, This Time Next Time, as a crusading journalist assigned to write a feature article on the dangers of alcohol-related brain damage.
8 August 1996: Network Ten premieres sexuality and lifestyle series Sex/Life, the revival of the former Nine Network program Sex. Hosting the new series is Tottie Goldsmith.
8 August 1997: The Seven Network premieres Bush Telegraph. Bridget Adams, Neil Kearney and John Williamson present heart-warming stories of people from all over the world.
8 August 1999: ABC presents the telemovie Time And Tide, starring June Salter, Ron Graham, Dinah Shearing and John Bluthal. Commissioned by ABC as part of the International Year of the Older Person.
8 August 2001: ABC debuts the six-part documentary series Long Way To The Top, covering the history of Australian rock music from the 1950s to the present day. The Nine Network premieres McLeod’s Daughters, the series spin-off from the 1996 telemovie.
8 August 2008: The Opening Ceremony of The Games Of The XXIX Olympiad is telecast live from Beijing on the Seven Network. Daily coverage from the Games was primarily on Seven with some events covered by SBS.
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That show had the lot for the perv at home. The topics being discussed. Tottie Goldsmith. Potential for exposed body parts.
And no, I did not watch, I was only 11 years old. 
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