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Idol Backstage was a companion show to Australian Idol distributed by Australia's largest telecommunications company, Telstra, and promoted in clips on the main show. It followed the pranks, gags and interviews of host Josh Zepps as he roamed behind the scenes of the Australian Idol set as the show went to air. It was produced by Idol's production company, FremantleMedia, in the form of one commercial half-hour per week over four clips. There were 54 episodes in total, with additional content available online and on mobile phones. It premiered on 28 August 2006.

Surprise Surprise Gotcha is an Australian hidden camera practical joke television series. Hosted by radio personalities Matt Tilley and Jackie O, the series commenced on the Nine Network on 18 September 2007.

The Big Breakfast is a Canadian morning news and entertainment program, that aired on the A-Channel stations and CKX from 1997 to 2005. It has no relation to the UK show of the same name. Each A-Channel station produced and broadcast its own Big Breakfast. CKX aired CHMI's Winnipeg edition. The anchors were Jon Ljungberg and Jimmy Mac in Winnipeg, Mark Scholz and Steve Antle in Edmonton and Dave Kelly and Tara McCool in Calgary On December 1, 2004, CHUM Limited officially took over ownership of the A-Channel system, and the stations were re-launched as Citytv on August 2, 2005. The Big Breakfast was also relaunched as Breakfast Television, the name Citytv uses for its similar morning shows, on the same day the stations were rebranded. The A-Channel brand was subsequently transferred to CHUM's former NewNet stations, whose own morning programs were retitled A-Channel Morning.

Love travelling this beautiful country of ours in an RV? Well you won’t want to miss this series, where we follow a caravanner, a 4WDer, and a motorhome owner as they put their knowledge to the test. With the expert guidance of John Eggenhuizen and Michael ‘Borgy’ Borg, these adventurers will face real-life RV safety challenges that test their skills and nerve. Who’s truly prepared for the open road? The journey starts now—don’t miss a moment of the action!

Ridgey Didge was a popular Network Ten magazine television programme for children in Australia. The name is an Australian slang term meaning honest, true or the real thing.

Dirty Jobs was a reality/factual program on the Nine Network, based on the American version of the same name, in which hosts Jo Beth Taylor and Ben Dark are shown performing difficult, strange, and/or messy occupational duties alongside professional workers. The show premiered following the premiere of the Australian version of The Singing Bee on 7 October 2007. The show managed lacklustre ratings and was removed after five episodes and replaced with Commercial Breakdown.

Sharky's Friends is an Australian children's television gameshow hosted by Miranda Deakin and featuring a quick-witted puppet shark who is named Sharky. The 30-minute show is produced by Ambience Entertainment is aimed at 8-14 year olds. Sharky competes against children contestants, who are addressed as 'friends', in word games. In each episode, there are two or three friends that separately compete against Sharky to win prizes. If Sharky wins, the contestant receives a "consolation" prize. The show began in a weekday afternoon timeslot but after two weeks after its debut, was moved to Saturday and Sunday morning timeslots. There have been themed episodes including; a tropical themed episode, a pirate themed episode, a spooky themed episode,yellow themed episode, and numbers and dates themed episode.

The Dog Down Under calls on Australians to enter their dog, or a dog they know, into one or more of five competition categories: Most Talented, Sportiest, Heroic , Oldest, and the Hardest Working pooches for the chance to win the Top Dog prize in each category. More than just a competition, The Dog Down Under is a 5-part TV series hosted by Lara Shannon sharing the entertaining and heart-warming stories of the Finalists and Winners .

Outback 8 is a show that aired on Network Ten in Australia and BBC in the UK in 2008. The show consisted of 4 children from the UK and 4 children from Australia. The show is set at the Agricultural Training College in Longreach, Queensland. The show is made up of 13 episodes and commenced on 22 September 2008 and ran every Monday for 13 weeks

Cash Flow is a television business news program aired every weekday at 10:00am Singapore/Hong Kong/Taiwan time on CNBC Asia. It is broadcast live from CNBC Asia's studio in Sydney and presented by Oriel Morrison and at Hong Kong's studio presented by Bernard Lo for the first hour. It was originally presented by Maura Fogarty for the first hour and Amanda Drury for the second hour and was broadcast live from Singapore. It is produced by CNBC Asia from Singapore by a team of journalists. Cash Flow is also seen in the United States on the CNBC World channel every Sunday through Thursday at 10:00pm Eastern Time. It is also shown on CNBC Europe at 3:00 GMT

Say It with Music was an early Australian television series. It aired on Sydney station TCN-9 from 21 February 1957 to 15 April 1958. Hosted by pianist Frank Lawrence, the series was a variety show. The half-hour series featured entertainers such as singers, dancers, instrumentalists, and jugglers and was intended for "late evening relaxation". It is not known if any of the episodes are still extant as kinescope recordings.

Lovely to Look At was an early Australian television series. Broadcast on Melbourne station GTV-9, it was a fashion show. The series ran from March 1957 to November 1957. Episodes were 15-minutes in duration, broadcast live, originally aired at 10:15PM on Sundays though towards the end of the run the episodes were broadcast at 10:30PM. It typically was preceded on the schedule by a newscast followed by Epilogue and station sign-off. It is notable as representing an early effort by GTV-9 at locally-produced content. It was compered by Maxwell Gibb. According to an article in the 12 September 1957 edition of The Age, the series was directed by Rod Kinnear, who had previously been a press photographer. The 1 November 1957 edition of The Age provides additional information on the series, listing Ian Holmes as technical director, and George Havrillay as set designer, and noting that each episode went through three rehearsals before broadcast. It also listed Arlene Andrewartha, Elaine Grayden, Rae Crawley as among the models used by the series. It is not known if any of the episodes were kinescoped, and it is possible that the series is lost.

An exploration of the revolutionary period of prehistory that began when humans abandoned the nomadic hunting and gathering existence they had known for millennia to take up a completely new way of life – the decisive move to farming and herding the ration of permanent settlements and the discovery of metals setting the stage for the arrival of the world’s first civilisation. Explains why and how humans abandoned the nomadic hunting and gathering and take up a completely new way of life - the decisive move to farming.

Nightline was a late-night news bulletin produced by Nine News. Introduced in 1992, it was axed in 2008 then brought back in 2009 and it was axed again in July 2010. It aired at around 11.30 pm weeknights, but was not shown in Perth or Adelaide. Nightline was previously presented by Kellie Connolly. Its main competitors were Ten Late News and ABC News's Lateline - which both air prior to Nightline at 10:30pm The series was patterned after the version that airs on ABC, but that one is different from the Australian counterpart even though at one point both versions used the same opening graphics, which both no longer use.

Legally Brown is an Australian comedy television series screening on SBS from 23 September 2013. The ten-part series is hosted and co-written by comedian Nazeem Hussain and produced by Johnny Lowry. It features stand-up in front of a live studio audience, interspersed with pre-recorded scripted comedy sketches as well as character and hidden camera stunts.

Anything can happen in Added Time - the Australian lens on the greatest football in the world.

Catch Us If You Can was an Australian game show television series, modeled after Candid Camera, produced in 1981. The host was Bryan Davies, assisted by Deborah Gray and Edith Bliss.

The Real Seachange is an Australian reality television series on the Seven Network, narrated by actor John Howard. The series follows families, couples and singles who leave the big cities behind in search of a better life. This phenomenon is known as a seachange. The title also references Howard's former role on the popular drama series SeaChange. The first season aired in late 2006. A second season aired in 2008. There is no news on whether Seven have any plans for a third season in the future.

MTV Full Tank is a music, culture and travel show that was developed in Australia by MTV producers Gavin Jarratt and Tim Thatcher with Ean Thorley. Casing the many events and lifestyles of states around Australia. The show has so far travelled around all of Australia.

The Sunday Roast is an Australian sports talk show that deals with the issues in the National Rugby League. It airs on the Nine Network, and first aired in 2005, beginning at 11:00 am and leading into The Sunday Footy Show. In 2006, with the axing of Boots N' All, The Sunday Footy Show moved to 11:00 am, with The Sunday Roast moving to midday. Since 2012, the show has been incorporated into The Sunday Footy Show as a segment rather than a show.

The Late Show is an Australian television variety series which aired from 1957 to 1959 on Melbourne station HSV-7. Aired on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays and competing in the time-slot with GTV-9's popular In Melbourne Tonight, the series included a mix of music and comedy. People who hosted the series during its run included John D'Arcy, Bert Newton and original host Noel Ferrier. The 22 August 1957 edition of The Age newspaper said of Bert Newton's debut on the series: "Bert Newton, not yet 20 years of age, made a promising debut in the Late Show on Tuesday night. He has a friendly manner, and plays the role of compere much "straighter" than Graham Kennedy, of GTV-9's In Melbourne Tonight" Although kinescope recording and later video-tape existed during the run of the series, the archival status of the show is unknown, although the Noel Ferrier episodes are reported to be lost, and it is possible the other episodes were also wiped, given the highly erratic survival rate of Australian television of the era. The Late Show was replaced on HSV-7's schedule by Club Seven.

Jimmy Shu's Taste of the Territory is an eight-part series that takes you on a culinary journey to the multicultural melting pot of Australia’s Northern Territory. Host and celebrated chef, Jimmy Shu, explores the diverse food scene of tropical Darwin through the sights, smells, breathtaking landscapes and stories of the Top End’s most celebrated and hidden food communities. Join Jimmy as he lifts the lid on the family recipes of Darwin’s home cooks, tastes the street food and local produce of the famous Darwin markets and delves into the amazing flavours of Indigenous bush foods.

The Spearman Experiment was an Australian television series, hosted by Magda Szubanski that counts down Australian pop culture's most defining people and topics based on a public poll commented on by various Australian 'celebrities'. The series began development in May 2009, and was officially announced in early August 2009. The show is named for Charles Spearman, who developed Spearman's rank correlation coefficient, the statistical technique used to survey the public to produce the show's rankings.

William & Sparkles' Magical Tales is an Australian children's television series first screened on the Nine Network on 5 March 2010. The series is created by Omnilab Media and Ambience Entertainment, with 45 X 30 half-hour episodes for pre-school aged children. William & Sparkles' Magical Tales follows the adventures of Sparkles the Fairy and William the Wizard, in the Enchanted Forest. Their friends include Nooshy & Pozo, Awesome Guy, Queen of the Fairies and many other guests. Starring: Laura Murphy as Sparkles the Fairy James Buckingham as William the Wizard Chris Lane as Pozo Matthew McCoy as Nooshy Blake Young and Andrew Fritz as Awesome Guy Chelsea Plumley as Queen of the Fairies Jay James-Moody as the Magic Doctor of the Enchanted Forest Magical Tales Theme Song It's magic, Magical Tales Sparkles the Fairy William the Wizard They travelled fast and far in a magical star To be with us today so what do you say? With Nooshy & Pozo, you'll be sure to laugh As we tumble along on a magical path It's magic, Magical Tales Full of surprises there's so much to see It's magic, Magical Tales Lots of tricky spells for you and me Sparkles and William are ready to play So come and join us on this magical day! Hi I'm William The Wizard Hi I'm Sparkles The Fairy Hi We're Nooshy & Pozo

Yes Chef is an Australian Saturday cooking series debuted on Network Ten on 15 September 2012.

Adventure Island is an Australian television series for children which screened on the ABC from 11 September 1967 to 22 December 1972. It was jointly created by Godfrey Philipp, who produced the series, and actor-writer John Michael Howson, who also co-starred in the show. It typically aired from Monday to Friday and each story would stretch across a full week, reaching a resolution on Friday. Adventure Island was a joint production of Godfrey Philipp Productions and the Australian Broadcasting Commission, pre-recorded on videotape at the ABC's studios in Ripponlea, Melbourne. It is believed to be the first program made by the ABC in collaboration with an outside production company. Production was usually five weeks ahead of broadcast. It was a pantomime-style series set in the kingdom of Diddley-Dum-Diddley. The show was hosted by Nancy Cato from 1967 to 1968 and Sue Donovan from 1969 to 1972.

Face to Face was a Sunday morning political talk program on the Seven Network. It ran from 19 November 1995 and in 1999 became a segment of Sunday Sunrise. Face to Face started in November 1995 as a small-budget national political interview show, which featured an interview with a guest about the week's most important national issue. It aired late Sunday night and was originally hosted by Neil Mercer. In October 1996, the show moved to Sunday mornings and began screening live at 8.30 am, up against Network Ten's Meet the Press and the second half of Nine Network's Business Sunday. Guests were interviewed live in the studio, instead of pre-recording. In 1997, Stan Grant became the host until mid year when Chris Bath took over. In 1998, Bath moved to Witness and Glenn Milne took over. In 1999 it became a segment of Sunday Sunrise and ceased to be a stand-alone programme. During that year the segments changed from being live with Glenn Milne to being a Friday night pre-record by Stan Grant.

Class Of... is an Australian factual program all about schools that aired on Network Ten on 15 August 2012; originally in 2011.

The Final Siren is an Australian Football League report show aired on One on 27 March 2011 until 8 May 2011.

Popstars Live was an Australian talent quest television program similar to Australian Idol that aired on the Seven Network in early 2004. It also spawned a spin-off single and album that made the ARIA charts in April that year. The show itself was an evolution of the original Popstars series which aired between 2000 and 2002 on Seven. Popstars Live premiered on the Seven Network in February 2004. It was scheduled to run for 16 weeks and was originally slated to air on Sunday and Wednesday nights. During its short run Popstars Live had a troubled history, with two key personnel, Christine Anu and John Paul Young, leaving the program in April 2004 while others have publicly expressed their own concerns about the show. The show was also a ratings failure.

Luke Nguyen celebrates the Australia-Vietnam relationship, travelling through Vietnam and meeting Australians who represent the spirit of the relationship, cooking with Australian produce, and enjoying regional Vietnamese dishes.

Hal Lashwood's Alabama Jubilee was an Australian television variety series which aired from 1958 to 1961 on ABC. It was essentially a minstrel show, with some of the performers appearing in blackface makeup. In 1960, it was retitled Hal Lashwood's Minstrels. It aired fortnightly, alternating with Cafe Continental, a variety series featuring acts of diverse ethnic backgrounds.

Italian Food Safari celebrates the incredible breadth and hard work of the Italians who settled in Australia over a generation ago and who have kept their food traditions intact. Food explorer Maeve O'Meara and legendary Melbourne chef Guy Grossi spend time with Australia's top Italian chefs and producers celebrating Italian culinary masterpieces alongside beautiful rustic family favorites.

In Melbourne Tonight, also known as "IMT", was a highly popular nightly variety television show produced at GTV-9 Melbourne from 6 May 1957 to 1970.

Pick a Box was one of first game shows to be broadcast on Australian television. Hosted by the husband and wife team Bob and Dolly Dyer, the program aired from 1957 to 1971.