On a sultry summer night Murray Whelan is in the Botanic Gardens tasting Salina Fleet's apricot lips.
Meanwhile a dead artist is being fished from the ornamental moat outside the art gallery. Political minder and brushed-off lover Murray Whelan goes looking for the big picture and learns that when you dabble with death there is nothing abstract about a loaded gun.
Staines Down Drains is an Australia/New Zealand co-produced children's television series created by Jim Mora. The series was premiered on the Seven Network in October 2006 and broadcast in New Zealand on TV2 beginning on 28 February 2007. A second series of 13 episodes is being produced and due for completion at the end of 2010, each 11-minutes long.
AMV was a music video show broadcast by the Seven Network between 2000 and 2002. It aired between 7AM and 9AM every weekday morning, following the hour-long Sunrise news bulletin. It was canceled in February 2002 when Sunrise expanded into its current three-hour-long format.
AMV was similar to the long-running ABC1 music show rage in that it featured no host, and Network Ten's Video Hits in that it aired a combination of new and popular clips. However, due to the early morning timeslot, content was often censored; for example upon broadcasting the controversial video for Robbie Williams' "Rock DJ", the infamous gory ending was not shown.
Coxy's Big Break is a daily travel show airing 5:00 pm530pm on Seven Melbourne and Prime across Victoria. It has previously been screened nationally on Seven's HD channel and is sold overseas. It premiered in 2004.
Hosted by Geoff 'Coxy' Cox, the show visits locations across Australia and around the world. The local edition of the program keeps Victoria as its primary focus. Other destinations have included New Zealand, Hong Kong, Japan, Bali, Vanuatu, The Cook Islands, New Caledonia, China, Hawaii, Austria, Ireland, Thailand and Antarctica.
The Seven Network airs different travel shows in the weekend 5:30pm timeslots. Brisbane screen Queensland Weekender Saturdays and The Great South East Sundays. Sydney have Sydney Weekender on Saturdays. Adelaide show Discover on Saturdays.
The program has been produced in PAL 1080i 25PsF high-definition since the start of 2007.
Reporters for the show include:
⁕Melissa Hetherington
⁕Melanie-Jade Netherclift
⁕James Sherry
⁕Rhys Uhlich
Former repor
Today Tonight is an Australian "current affairs" television program produced by the Seven Network and shown on weeknights at 6.30 pm in direct competition with rival Nine Network program A Current Affair.
There are four different national editions of the program: Helen Kapalos presents the New South Wales & Victoria edition, Sharyn Ghidella presents the Queensland edition, Rosanna Mangiarelli presents the South Australian edition and Monika Kos presents the West Australian edition.
No Leave, No Life is an Australian lifestyle television series, hosted by Ernie Dingo from Season 1 then James Tobin from Season 2. The program features a celebrity guest presenter each week surprising ordinary Australians with a holiday, and the destination is then profiled. An Australian celebrity, often a comedian, then fills in for them at their work while they're away.
The program premiered during the summer non-ratings period on Saturday 5 December 2009 at 6:30pm. The slogan no leave, no life is currently an Australian tourism campaign slogan.
The program returned on 4 December 2010 with a new season hosted by James Tobin.
In June 2011, Seven were casting for seven people to feature in a third season of the program. It was also announced Tim Ross would become host for the seven episode run, beginning 3 December 2011 to its traditional Saturday 6:30pm timeslot.
11AM was a news magazine program that aired on the Seven Network from 11 am AEST to midday from 1982 to 1999.
The hour-long news program started in 1975 with Roger Climpson presenting, with a number of high-profile presenters since, including Clive Robertson, Vincent Smith, Paul Lyneham, Kerry O'Brien, Don Willesee, Helen Wellings, Richard Zachariah and Ann Sanders. Ross Symonds, Sunrise co-host Melissa Doyle and Today sports presenter Cameron Williams all featured as newsreaders throughout the shows life.
Its most famous presenter was comedian Graham Kennedy.
It last aired on 28 May 1999, presented by Anne Fulwood and Andrew Daddo. Fulwood went on to co-anchor Seven's 6pm news in Melbourne with David Johnston, and Daddo to present entertainment programs. 11AM was the forerunner to Seven Morning News bulletin.
Crash Investigation Unit is an Australian factual television series on the Seven Network hosted by Damian Walshe-Howling. The series premiered on 27 August 2008.
The series follows the Metropolitan Crash Investigation Unit to uncover the causes behind a car crash. The program is similar to New Zealand's SCU: Serious Crash Unit, which has previously aired on Seven to strong ratings.
So far the series has attracted an average of 1.3 million viewers.
On 22 September 2008, Channel Seven confirmed it had commissioned a second series of Crash Investigation Unit.
Toybox is an Australian children's television series first screened on the Seven Network on 14 October 2010. The series is created by Beyond, produced and directed by Ian Munro, with 245 half-hour episodes for pre-school children. You can see the bedroom where it takes place belongs to a possibly 8 year old boy, who leaves the room in the intro.
Spit It Out is an Australian children-oriented game show hosted by Elliot Spencer. The series premiered on 4 October 2010, in an afternoon time-slot, replacing It's Academic after its series 12 finale. Spit it out was originally invented by Alan Curtis as a board Game. This game was then further developed by Grant Rule and Alan Curtis into a Television game show.
Undercover Angels was a 2002 Australian television series produced by the Seven Network which imitated the American Charlie's Angels series. It featured multiple Olympic and World champion swimmer Ian Thorpe, who acted as the mentor to three women who performed good deeds for people in need. The show was first shown on 12 May, and was the fifth most watched television show in that week in Australia. Overall, it averaged 1.3 million viewers in its run of eleven episodes.
The three "angels" travelled in Alfa Romeos performing deeds such as decorating a nursery for a young couple with newborn children, and finding a replacement puppy for children whose dog had been stolen.
It was widely panned by media critics, with the Sydney Morning Herald television critic Ruth Ritchie declaring it "the worst show in the history of the world". Thorpe, however, did not mind the criticism, pointing to the fact that he was satisfied that the show was in the minority of reality shows in which good behaviour was rewarded.
World of Sport was an Australian sports program that was broadcast live by HSV 7 in Melbourne from 1959 to 1987 on Sundays between 11am and 2pm. By the end of its run, the show was claimed as the world's longest running sports program.
A unique combination of talk, banter, highly informed commentary, invented and real sports, the program held a unique place in the sports-obsessed culture of Melbourne and made stars out of a number of ex-sportsman, particularly Australian rules footballers.
The show premiered on Saturday 16 May 1959, less than three years after the debut of television in Australia.
Sponsored by Westinghouse it ran for two hours and was hosted by radio commentator Ron Casey. The sponsor turned down an opportunity to renew after a thirteen week run, but Casey saw the opportunity inherent in the concept and enlisted the help of another well known radio presenter, "Uncle Doug" Elliott.
The duo bought the concept, purchased air time on a Sunday and enlisted a new sponsor, Vealls, for 1960.
The show
Triple Zero Heroes is an Australian observational documentary series that airs on the Seven Network. It is an original production by FremantleMedia Australia.
Catch Kandy was an Australian children’s drama television series produced by Australian Film Productions. It was shot on film in colour on location in Sydney, Australia, premiering on the Seven Network in Australia on 12 May 1973 and ran for 13 episodes. The series was later shown in the United Kingdom.
Last Chance Learners is an Australian television program which was created by the Seven Network. The show gives ten learner drivers the chance to be trained by an experienced driving instructor and the opportunity to take their drivers licence test and win a brand new Hyundai Getz.
Last Chance Learners premiered on Wednesday 18 April 2007 at 7:30pm on Channel Seven and is hosted by former test cricketer and Who Dares Wins host Mike Whitney.
The series is currently being broadcast in the UK on Living2, as "Desperate Learners Driving School".
Midnight Zoo was an Australian late-night interactive game show broadcast in parts of Australia on the Seven Network. Midnight Zoo debuted on 31 July 2006 and was broadcast from Sydney. It was shown live throughout Victoria and in the capital cities of Sydney and Brisbane, and ran from 12:30 am to 2:00 am Weekday mornings. The final airing of the show was on 21 October 2006. The show was hosted by Steven O'Donnell, Angie Richards and Charlotte Connell.
Denton was an hour-long late night live interview program hosted by the eponymous Andrew Denton. It aired on the Seven Network in Australia between 1994 and 1995. Regular guests included Amanda Keller and Bobcat Goldthwaite. Andrew won the 'Most Popular Comedy Personality' Logie Award in 1996, for his role in Denton.
Million Dollar Minute is an Australian quiz show that airs on the Seven Network. It premiered on Monday, 16 September 2013.
The show is hosted by Grant Denyer and airs at 5:30pm on weeknights, replacing Deal or No Deal as the primary lead-in into Seven News.
Million Dollar Minute is filmed at Global Television Studios in Melbourne and occupies the same studio as Deal or No Deal.