2005 in Australian television

2005 in television

Australia
Canada
United Kingdom
United States

Events

Whole Year - All the Channel Seven shows will defaintly be based in Melbourne.
January 8 - Australia Unites: Reach Out To Asia raises $20 million for the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami relief effort. It is also the first time that Australia's three major commercial television stations have co-operated to broadcast such an event.
May 25 - Graham Kennedy dies at age 71. The network on which most of his shows aired, the Nine Network, passes up the offer to broadcast his funeral & the Melbourne-based Seven Network arrives, axes Nine's coverage and Seven picks it up and wins it. Seven will eventually show parts of the funeral live on Seven News.
June 26 - Douglas Wood is interviewed by Sandra Sully about his time as a captive after Network Ten pays a reported $400,000 for an exclusive interview.
August 15: Big Brother: Greg Mathew, along with twin brother David Mathew, also known as "The Logan Twins" is announced the winner of the fifth series.
November 14: On Sunrise at 7.40am, Kochie & Mel the hosts of the Seven Network's number one breakfast program announced that Ray Martin will not be returning to A Current Affair from 2006 and beyond, from December 2. ACA is rested into Channel Nine's production to transform a major revamp of the program to be proposed. When Sunrise announced the new host for ACA on December 5, 2005, their rival Today show host Tracy Grimshaw will take over as ACA's new host.
November 20 - Madonna's Warner Bros. single "Hung Up" defeats Gold Digger by Kanye West and Jamie Foxx to be crowned the title of the ARIA single debuting at #1. This was the last Top 50 ARIA charts on ABC TV's Rage to be shown on the Seven Network. Only Seven Local TV and ABC TV will continue the Rage's Top 50 Charts until the end of July 2006, when it launches jtv.
December 16: Good Morning Australia finishes its 12 year run on Network Ten from the studios of ATV-10. Host Bert Newton leaves Ten and signs up and returns the Nine Network to host game show Bert's Family Feud.

Debuts

ABC

Date	Program
February 9	Spicks and Specks
June 12	Outback House

SBS

Date	Program
January 31	RocKwiz
17 December	Lonely Planet Six Degrees

Channel Seven

Date	Program
February	Medical Emergency (produced by HSV-7)
June 6	Last Man Standing (produced by HSV-7)
November 15	headLand (produced by HSV-7)

Channel Nine

Date	Program
October 13	20 to 1

Channel Ten

Date	Program
February 9	Aussie Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
October 5	Australian Princess

Pay TV

Date	Program	Channel
January 11	Australia's Next Top Model	FOX8

New International Programming

ABC

Date	Debut	Country
May 21	Doctor Who	United Kingdom

SBS

Date	Debut	Country
3 January	MythBusters	United States
February 7	Shameless	United Kingdom
23 April	So Frenchy, So Chic
2 June	Bronski and Bernstein	Germany
24 June	Sophie's World	Norway / Sweden