2008 in Australia - Television

Television

  • 5 January – Fox Sports commentator, Clinton Grybas, dies at 32 as a result of falling whilst sleepwalking.
  • 14 January – Nine Network revamps its logo and on-air graphics as a part of a new network re-launch, and after a two-year absence, returns the famous "Nine Balls" logo, except instead of balls, they use discs.
  • 7 February – Veteran television presenter Ray Martin quits the Nine Network after 30 years with the network.
  • 8 February – At 12:00 PM AEDT ABC TV officially became ABC1.
  • 8 February – Former The Great Outdoors host Shelley Craft quits Channel Seven and moves to Channel Nine to take over from Toni Pearen as host of Australia's Funniest Home Videos.
  • 12 February – The Supreme Court of Victoria places an injunction on the broadcast and exhibition of the Nine Network's drama series Underbelly in Victoria, following concerns that the series, which depicts Melbourne's gangland wars, could prejudice an ongoing murder trial.
  • 14 March – A Current Affair broadcasts its 5000th episode and celebrates its 20th anniversary.
  • 17 March – The Nine Network launches its high-definition television channel, Nine HD.
  • 3 April – Kate Ritchie (Sally Fletcher), one of the original cast members of Home and Away, leaves the series after 20 years.
  • 7 April – The Nine Network makes the first episodes of the new series Canal Road available for download over the Internet, ahead of its television broadcast on 16 April.
  • 27 April – Jack Chambers wins the first series of So You Think You Can Dance Australia.
  • 4 May – The 2008 Logie Awards are held. Kate Ritchie (formerly of Home and Away) wins the Gold Logie for the second year in a row.
  • 7 May – SBS TV reveals its new logo.
  • 26 May – Game show Million Dollar Wheel of Fortune, a revival of the Wheel of Fortune format, premieres on the Nine Network.
  • 2 June – The Seven Network apologises after airing an episode of the hospital drama All Saints in which it is suggested that a child born of an incestuous relationship is likely to result in the child having Down's syndrome.
  • 27 June – Million Dollar Wheel of Fortune is cancelled on the Nine Network after a month.
  • 7 July – Seven Network starts broadcasting its watermark on all news and current affairs programs.
  • 21 July – The final episode of Big Brother Australia, which was axed by Network Ten the week prior, goes to air. The winner of the final series is 52-year-old grandmother Terri Munro.
  • 25 July – The Nine Network's Nightline news program is broadcast for the last time after 16 years on air.
  • 26 July – Peter Cundall's last appearance on ABC1's Gardening Australia before retiring from Australian Landscapes.
  • 28 July – TV journalist, This Is Your Life host and also a former host of A Current Affair, Mike Munro announces he is leaving the Nine Network after 22 years, due to budget cuts.
  • 3 August – The Nine Network's Sunday program is broadcast for the last time after 27 years on air.
  • 28 August – Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos, an adult-oriented spin-off of Australia's Funniest Home Videos is revived on the Nine Network. The program made headlines in 1992 when then-CEO Kerry Packer ordered it to be take off-air in the middle of one episode.

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