ITVX in the UK will stream Round the Twist from September 17.
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A staple of many a rainy day at primary school…
Fantastic show, criminally underrated. We need a new series of Life Support.
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i did like Life Support. Some of the things they did wouldn’t get past a censor these days!
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Tell me about it. A lot of it were points very well made.
We need a reboot of it. With no holds barred.
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I’d even be happy with a repeat run of Life Support (and Going Home) on SBS2, à la Front Up and The Movie Show.
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No we need a modern reboot of Life Support. No ifs or buts. 
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28 August 1967: ABC premieres serial drama Bellbird. Set in a fictional country town of the same name, Bellbird went on for ten years, becoming a popular evening viewing habit particularly in country areas.
28 August 1968: New TV Station — GSW9, Albany, Western Australia
28 August 1990: Beyond 2000 presents a 90-minute special edition, 20th Century Syndrome, looking at some aspects of our modern-day lifestyles and whether they are actually killing us.
28 August 2002: SBS debuts weekly drama series Twentyfourseven, based around the editorial offices of a magazine of the same name. Each episode was scripted and produced within the same week and allowed viewer interaction in determining the future of storylines. The concept was largely adapted from the previous SBS series Going Home, which operated to a similar production model but on a weeknightly basis. Twentyfourseven included cast Jenny Apostolou, John Atkinson, David Callan, Hayley McElhinney, Josh Lawson, Rockell Williamson and Caroline Brazier.
28 August 2008: As the 16th anniversary of the infamous special Australia’s Naughtiest Home Videos was approaching, Nine had Bert Newton host a largely uncensored screening of the show that Nine chairman Kerry Packer abruptly ordered to be pulled off air midway during its original airing in 1992.
28 August 2009: VH1 presents the special ARIA Hall Of Fame, inducting John Paul Young, Kev Carmody, Mental As Anything and The Dingoes. The presentation is replayed the following day on the Nine Network.
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29 August 1981: ATV10’s annual Deafness Appeal Telethon raises funds for the Nerve Deafness Foundation. Featuring throughout the day are Network Ten personalities including stars of Prisoner, Holiday Island, The Restless Years, Good Morning Australia, Young Talent Time, Search For A Star, Fat Cat And Friends, Simon Townsend’s Wonder World and Eyewitness News.
29 August 1994: Network Ten premieres children’s series Ocean Girl, starring Kerry Armstrong and Marzena Godecki. The series ran for three years and sold well overseas.
29 August 1996: The special If You Have A Heart (Nine) looks at the work of Sydney’s St Vincent’s Heart Transplant Unit and follows two patients waiting for heart donors.
29 August 2015: The Seven Network launches new channel Racing.com
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August 30 of 2004 Seven undergoes a major relaunch in its news presentation and theme across National and State-based bulletins, the first since Mid-1999. Earlier that morning, the first ever episode of Sunrise is produced from Seven’s new Martin Place Studios at Sydney City in NSW immediately following the closing Ceremony of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games.
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30 August 1980: ATN7’s telethon for the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children in Sydney features guest appearances by personalities from all three commercial networks — including stars from Skyways, Cop Shop, Kingswood Country, Shirl’s Neighbourhood, The Sullivans, The Young Doctors, The Restless Years, Sale Of The Century, Eyewitness News and Simon Townsend’s Wonder World.
30 August 1993: Network Ten premieres late night sports round-up Sports Tonight.
30 August 1997: Network Ten premieres lifestyle shows What On Earth, a series about shopping and bargain hunting, hosted by Gaynor Wheatley, Simon Fenner and Steve Williams; and Australian Good Taste, featuring Lenore Smith with Craig Bennett, Darryl Anderson, Lyndey Milan and Tania Lacy.
30 August 2004: SBS premieres eight-part documentary series John Safran Versus God.
30 August 2005: ABC premieres four-part documentary series Real Life Water Rats.
30 August 2010: The Seven Network revives reality music franchise The X Factor, following a single season on Ten in 2005. The new series was hosted by Luke Jacobz with judge/mentors Kyle Sandilands, Guy Sebastian, Natalie Imbruglia and Ronan Keating.
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Altian Childs Under the Watchful Eye of Ronan Keating would Go On to beat Sally Chatfield Under the Watchful Eye of Natalie Imbruglia and be the Very First Winner of the Recording Contract from Sony Music and the Title of the X Factor Australia Winner for 2010.
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This docu-series lifted the curse of the Socceroos witch doctor which prevented Australia from qualifying for a World Cup since 1974
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31 August 1979: Melbourne’s ATV0 presents its annual telethon for the Deafness Foundation of Victoria. Newsreader Bruce Mansfield introduces the telethon at 7.30pm Friday, with Annette Allison in the phone room. The telethon continues overnight, with movies filling the hours between 2.00am and 8.00am Saturday morning. The telethon continues through until midnight Saturday night.
31 August 1998: The Seven Network premieres sketch comedy series Something Stupid, starring, written and produced by former Fast Forward stars Marg Downey, Magda Szubanski, Jane Turner and Gina Riley. Like Big Girl’s Blouse before it, Something Stupid featured a series of sketches centred on suburban characters Kath and Kim, that would later evolve into a top-rating stand alone series.
31 August 2008: Nine screens the telemovie Scorched, set in the year 2012 and depicting Sydney as being in the grip of an extended drought, a water supply crisis and multiple bushfires threatening thousands of residents. Scorched stars Cameron Daddo, Anita Hegh, Georgie Parker, Libby Tanner, Bob Morley, Rachael Carpani and Vince Colosimo. On the same night, Seven premieres lifestyle series The Outdoor Room with Jamie Durie.
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August 31 of 1997 Diana, Princess of Wales dies aged 36, ABC had Indira Naidoo anchor National Rolling coverage during the afternoon (AEST) whereas Seven had Peter Mitchell announcing the news in Victoria and Nine opted for Today presenter Tracy Grimshaw anchoring from New South Wales. Later that evening, ABC had a special 7:00 PM bulletin from London presented by Chris Clark and Nine ran a 60 Minutes Special episode as well as an extended Late-Night News update from Victoria presented by Peter Hitchener.
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1 September 1974: The Paul Hogan Show special airs on Seven in Sydney and Melbourne, featuring guest stars Kate Fitzpatrick and Bert Newton and performances by Leea Vlahos, William Shakespeare and The Executives.
1 September 1990: The Seven Network starts its celebrity-led assault on the top-rating Hey Hey It’s Saturday with two new shows, Celebrity Family Feud and Celebrity Wheel Of Fortune
1 September 1994: ABC premieres legal drama Janus, a spin-off from the former crime drama Phoenix. Janus followed the notorious criminal family, the Hennesseys, after four members are acquitted of the shooting of two young policemen in a bungled bank heist, triggering widespread shock in the community.
1 September 1997: ABC premieres six-part comedy series The Adventures Of Lano And Woodley.
1 September 2004: Former Blue Heelers star Lisa McCune hosts a new documentary series, Forensic Investigators. Each episode unfolds the drama minute-by-minute showing viewers the tireless work of detectives, and the scientific procedures required to solve crimes.
1 September 2008: Network Ten premieres dating show Taken Out.
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First of all…no.
Secondly, the only good thing this show ever did was inspire the Chinese to create If You Are The One. Which was amazing until the CCP stuck their fingers in it.
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1 September 2002 at 6PM, Nine launched its 7 colours for 7 days package which was the last on-air presentation and package for the original Nine Network lasting until 30 January 2006
The colours for each day were:
Red - Sunday
Blue - Monday
Purple - Tuesday
Orange - Wednesday
Aqua - Thursday
Green - Friday
Gold - Saturday
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2 September 2000: The AFL Grand Final, Essendon versus Melbourne, is telecast live on Seven.
2 September 2004: The Nine Network premieres Body Work, hosted by Suzie Wilks, featuring a range of plastic surgery procedures, from medical reconstruction to the pursuit of perfection.
2 September 2008: Network Ten premieres police drama Rush, starring Callan Mulvey, Rodger Corser, Catherine McClements, Samuel Johnson, Josef Ber, Nicole da Silva, Claire van der Boom and Ashley Zukerman.
2 September 2010: The Nine Network premieres police drama Cops LAC, starring former Home And Away star Kate Ritchie with Gary Sweet, Martin Dingle-Wall, Denise Roberts, Damien de Montemas and Roy Billing.
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2/9/2024 After nearly four years, Network 10 revives a standalone edition of its Queensland 5:00pm news bulletin, presented by Sharyn Ghidella. A hybrid Sydney/Brisbane bulletin had aired in the preceding four years after 10 centralized its news production in 2020.
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September 3 of 2006 An AFL Premiership Match is broadcast on Nine for the last time to date, with Collingwood vs North Melbourne being played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Richmond, Victoria. Commentators include Garry Lyon, Brian Taylor and James Brayshaw. Since then, Nine has retained AFL related programming including Footy Classified and AFL Sunday Footy Show as well as Footy Furnace.
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