The Cricket Show is an Australian cricket television show, screened during the lunch breaks of Test matches in Australia on the Nine Network.
Currently hosted by former Australian Test cricketer Michael Slater with support from his former international teammate fast bowler Brett Lee. It also features other members of Nine's commentary team, such as Mark Taylor, Ian Healy and Mark Nicholas. The show focuses on interviews with Australian domestic and international cricket, as well as reports and updates from cricket matches being played around the world.
Simon O'Donnell hosted the show from 1997 but left to join The AFL Footy Show. Michael Slater replaced him in the summer of 2011/2012.
My Kid's a Star is an Australian reality/talent show program based on the American series I Know My Kid's a Star. Hosted by Cameron Daddo, it started airing during prime time on the Nine Network from 9 April 2008 in a 60 minute format. Due to low ratings, it later moved to a weekend timeslot, where it aired in a 30 minute format.
The show follows 10 child performers and their parents on a six week talent boot camp that will see one of the performers leave with $50,000 and the title of "child star". The young performers will be judged by a three member panel which includes former The Partridge Family actor Danny Bonaduce, who also appeared in the original American version.
The show has raised some controversy for focusing on the antics of the stage parents rather than the young performers, and promos of the show prominently featured this aspect of the program. Some of the parents of the contestants have claimed that Nine misled them over the content of the show.
Going Places was an Australian television series broadcast by the Nine Network in late 2007. It consisted of 8 half-hour-long episodes.
Australian actor Sue McIntosh narrates the series, while her husband, John McIntosh, produces.
Pass the Buck was an Australian game show hosted by John Burgess based on the American game show of the same name, airing on the Nine Network from 11 February 2002. Burgess began hosting the show after five years of hosting Burgo's Catch Phrase. Before Pass the Buck went to air, Nine's Director of Programming at the time, John Stephens, was confident of Burgess as host, stating that he would "make the transition [from Burgo's Catch Phrase] to the new format without missing a beat".
The show, which was introduced with others on Nine, such as Fear Factor and Shafted, was short-lived.
New McDonald's Farm is an Australian children's television program broadcast on the Nine Network and Playhouse Disney, with episodes being produced from 2004 until at least 2008. This show and Australian hit Hi-5 used to swap the timeslot in order to film new seasons.
The show revolves around a farm in the country owned by Milly and Max and occupied by six farm animals: Henry the Horse, Daisy the cow, Dash the Duck, Percy the Pig, Shirley the Sheep, and Charlotte the Hen. The show is aimed at pre-schoolers, and is of a light-hearted nature. It includes short sequences related to the show's plot, and sequences of singing and dancing with Max, Milly and some other children. Max is a forgetful, funny and energetic farm worker, who often gets his foot stuck in a bucket. Milly, on the other hand, is an intelligent, helpful and caring farmhand, who often helps Max out of his sticky situations. Each episode is half an hour long.
The name of the show suggests that it was inspired by the classic children's song Old McDona
Y? was an educational children's science program shown on the Nine Network in Australia. It was produced by Southern Star Endemol between 1999 and 2002. Each episode ran for 22 minutes. A total of five seasons were recorded. Each season was 65 episodes long.
Season 1 was hosted by Joanne Nova with Alanna Edwards and seasons 2 to 5 were hosted by Tara Colegrave and 'science host' David Lampard. The show featured in-studio science experiments. In season 1 these were presented by Nova but in later seasons these were presented by Lampard. The program was interspersed with external segments where other presenters go to forests, factories, etc. and explain practical science phenomena, usually based upon questions sent in by viewers.
The presenters included Brad Hills, Kristy Mollica, Joseph May, Lisa Barry and Taryn Onafaro.
The show was in many ways similar to The Curiosity Show, which ran many years earlier. However, the hosts of Y? were charismatic younger adults, compared with the older academic Prof. Rob Morrison
Cash Bonanza is an Australian game show hosted by Larry Emdur, which was broadcast on the Nine Network in 2001. Associated with Warner Bros. Movie World on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia and the various lottery companies of the states and territories of Australia, the program featured contestants who were chosen from a draw of scratch-tickets sent in by the public.
The Graham Kennedy Show was an Australian talk show that debuted on 19 September 1972, on the Nine Network.
On 23 December 1969, host Graham Kennedy has quit as host of In Melbourne Tonight, exhausted, and rested for two years. In spite of his fame and fortune, he later described that period as "years of misery". After a special on 2 March 1972, he returned with this series.
Kennedy sparked controversy after a "crow-call", which sounded highly reminiscent of the word fuck, was broadcast in March 1975. Forced to pre-record from that point on, he abruptly departed following GTV-9 censorship of the 16 April 1975 edition.
Celebrity Overhaul is a reality television show on Australia's Nine Network in which celebrities undergo a rigorous exercise and diet regime aimed at improving their fitness and health. These are coordinated by two personal trainers and a medical doctor. Hosted by Deborah Hutton, there have been two seasons, one each in 2004 and 2005.
The celebrities were:
⁕Merv Hughes - cricketer
⁕Paulini Curuenavuli - singer
⁕Rowena Wallace - actress
⁕Kate Fischer - model/former actress
⁕Ita Buttrose - journalist/businesswoman
⁕Phil Burton - singer
⁕Fabio Lanzoni - model
⁕Trevor Butler - reality show contestant
⁕Melissa Bell - actress
⁕Nova Peris-Kneebone - athlete
⁕Peter Phelps - actor
⁕Dr John Tickell - television presenter/doctor
Channel Nine spun another show from Celebrity Overhaul, known as Overhaul which followed a similar format except with regular people from Australia.
Postcards Australia and Postcards are Australian holiday and travel television series. The shows are produced by WIN Television and Channel 9 Adelaide. Several versions of the show are broadcast throughout the country, with some versions localised for particular states.
StarStruck was an Australian talent show that was broadcast on the Nine Network between the years 2000 and 2002. The show was originally hosted by Jo Beth Taylor, who was replaced by Jay Laga'aia after the first series.
The show resembled other talent shows such as New Faces in that it featured a number of musical acts who were rated by a panel of judges.
StarStruck was a short-lived 2005 Australian television series, that screened on the Nine Network. It was hosted by Larry Emdur and Catriona Rowntree. It was based on the successful Stars in Their Eyes in the United Kingdom. Contestants were introduced and then whisked away to be transformed into the star of their choice. They would emerge for their performance, supported by dancers, a choir and an orchestra.
Contestants were judged on their performances by Doug Mulray and Vanessa Amorosi.
The program debuted strongly winning the 7.30pm timeslot with an average of 1.58 million viewers across Australia.
All the Way was an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for the Nine Network in 1988.
The series was set in the 1960s; first episode took place on the date of the John F. Kennedy assassination. The series examined the life of an Australian family during the decade of LBJ, the Vietnam War, civil rights activism, and The Beatles, linked by three sisters.
A young Dannii Minogue was featured in the cast. All the Way started out as a six-part mini-series before being extended to an ongoing series. It failed to catch on with audiences and was cancelled after 32 episodes.
The Mike Walsh Show is an Australian daytime television series. Hosted by Mike Walsh, the show ran from 1973 to 1984 for 90 minutes each weekday afternoon. The program was launched on the 0-10 Network and moved to the Nine Network in 1977. By the 1980s, The Mike Walsh Show was syndicated to regional television stations around Australia.
The Curiosity Show is an Australian educational children's television show produced from 1972 to 1990, and hosted by Professor Rob Morrison and Dr Deane Hutton. The show was produced by Banksia Productions in South Australia for the Nine Network. 500 episodes were produced.
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 Code: Crime and Justice was an Australian observational documentary series that first screened on the Nine Network on 5 February 2007.
The Code followed Victorian police cases that were handed over to the Magistrates Court. It was narrated by William McInnes.