2007 in Australia - Television

Television

• 29 January – Former Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? host and CEO of the Nine Network, Eddie McGuire, returns to screens as the host of Nine's new game show 1 vs. 100. Also debuting on the same night, but at a different time, is the Seven Network's big money game show The Rich List.
• 9 February – The Australian Football League signs a five-year broadcasting contract with the Seven Network, Network Ten and pay TV provider Foxtel, in a controversial deal that will see half of the AFL matches played each week broadcast on Foxtel instead of free-to-air television.
• 12 February – Jodi Power, a family friend of convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby, made allegations in a paid interview on Channel Seven's Today Tonight that Corby's sister Mercedes had previously asked Power to transport drugs to Bali and that Mercedes had confessed to smuggling compressed cannabis concealed inside her body into Indonesia. Mercedes is interviewed by Channel Nine's rival program A Current Affair on 14 February.
• 1 April – When it was announced on Weekend Sunrise, The Seven Network pays $3 million for the broadcast rights to the fourth series of Kath & Kim, a popular sitcom which had previously aired until their final appearance on the ABC in 2005/06 as Da Kath & Kim Code.
• 16 April – Australia's Leader of the Opposition Kevin Rudd and Minister for Workplace Relations Joe Hockey discontinue their weekly appearances on Seven's breakfast news program Sunrise after four years. The decision follows possibly politically-damaging accusations that Sunrise had requested that Rudd appear at a dawn service for ANZAC Day in Long Tan, Vietnam, with the service held an hour early to accommodate the time difference for live television.
• 18 May – After a tumultuous 15-month reign, the CEO of the Nine Network, Eddie McGuire, resigns.
• 1 June – The very last ever episode of Bert's Family Feud goes to air on the Nine Network after a 18 month run. The show was axed due to the strong competition prize win of rival Seven Network game show Deal or No Deal.
• 22 June – Mornings with Kerri-Anne is axed by WIN. Only Nine or NBN will continue the show. Mornings with Kerri-Anne is replaced by Susie a talk show with Susie Elelman in Wollongong debuted on 25 June, just one week after Seven's The Morning Show introduced. The Morning Show will definitely be hosted by Larry Emdur and Kylie Gillies.
• 5 July – High-budget drama series Sea Patrol makes its debut on the Nine Network.
• 23 July – Top-rating soap opera Neighbours makes a super international revamp over to continue its long-run on the Network Ten.
• 30 July – Aleisha Cowcher wins Big Brother Australia 2007 becoming the second ever female winner.
• 19 August – Fourth series premiere of Kath & Kim at 7:30 pm, now on the Seven Network, attracts an audience of 2.521 million nationally, making it the most watched television programme so far in 2007 and the highest rating ever for a first episode in the history of Australian television.
• 6 September – Julian Morrow and Chas Licciardello from The Chaser's War on Everything along with nine other production crew members are arrested in Sydney during the APEC summit for entering a restricted area. Those arrested were travelling in a fake Canadian motorcade and Licciardello was dressed up as Osama bin Laden.
• 15 October – Seven HD is introduced, becoming the first HD-only channel operated by a Melbourne-based commercial television network.
• 21 October – The Nine Network includes the "worm" audience reaction graph in their broadcast of the election debate between John Howard and Kevin Rudd, despite agreements to the contrary. The National Press Club cut Nine's transmission feed, and the ABC cut their backup feed. Nine continued to transmit by adding the worm to the Sky News broadcast.
• 2 November – Network Ten's news anchorperson Charmaine Dragun is found dead near Sydney, apparently due to a suicide.
• 25 November – Natalie Gauci is based only on Sony BMG after taking out the title as Australian Idol.
• 30 November – Daryl Somers quits the-highest rating Seven's Saturday Night Fever styled-reality show Dancing with the Stars.
• 1 December – In Australia's Funniest Home Videos Toni Pearen Says Goodbye (But Not Summer Series) "I'm Toni Pearen Where Everyones a Movie Star Goodbye!"
• 16 December – Ten HD launches.