2013 in Australian television

This is a list of Australian television events and premieres which occurred, or were scheduled to occur, in 2013, the 58th year of continuous operation of television in Australia.

Events

Asher Keddie, winner of the Gold Logie Award at the 2013 Logie Awards.

• 17 January – The Seven Network's longest running soap opera Home and Away celebrates its 25th anniversary.
• 18 January – The Nine Network's nightly current affairs programme A Current Affair turns 25.
• 22 February – Network Ten's CEO, James Warburton, is stood down after 14 months in the role, following a string of network ratings failures.
• 21 March – Phil Rankine and Amity Dry win an All-Stars edition of The Block.^[1]
• 1 April – SBS revamps SBS 2 with an aim on a youth-oriented audience.
• 7 April – Asher Keddie wins the Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television at the 2013 Logie Awards.^[2]
• 17 April – The court bans Mel B from appearing on Channel Nine's Australia's Got Talent. Instead she will continue with Channel Seven for an indefinite long run.
• 26 April – Days of Our Lives the US soap opera finishes its long 45-year run on the Nine Network, ending a 4-decade tradition of Daytime Soap operas in Australian Free-to-air Television.
• 28 April – Dan and Steph Mulheron win the fourth season of My Kitchen Rules.^[3]
• 16 May – Cricketer Andrew Symonds wins the first series of Celebrity Splash!.^[4]
• 29 May – Robyn and Katie Dyke win the eighth season of The Biggest Loser.^[5]
• 17 June – Harrison Craig wins the second season of The Voice.^[6]
• 1 July – Carly Schulz and Leighton Brow win the first season of House Rules.^[7]
• 28 July – Alisa and Lysandra Fraser win the seventh season of The Block.^[8]
• 27 August – Nancy Ho wins the first series of The Great Australian Bake Off.^[9]
• 24 September – Melissa Juratowitch wins the eighth cycle of Australia's Next Top Model.^[10]
• 16 October – Hillal Kara-Ali wins the sixth and final season of The Mole, taking home $180,000 in prize money. Erin Dooley is revealed as the Mole, and Aisha Jefcoate is the runner-up.^[11]
• 28 October – Dami Im wins the fifth season of The X Factor.^[12]
• 31 October – Due to breakfast and morning show, Network Ten's primary channels broadcasts P & C classified children's programmes and whole children's blocks for the very last time, before handing the television rights over to ELEVEN. TEN has to focus on even more older-oriented entertainment programming as well as more news programmes.
• 2 November – Channel Seven again bans Mel B from appearing on Channel Ten's The Project in the last minute before it goes to air.
• 6 November – Tim Dormer wins the tenth season of Big Brother.^[13]
• 10 November – Music trio Uncle Jed win the seventh season of Australia's Got Talent.^[14]
• 26 November – Illusionist Cosentino and his partner Jessica Raffa win the thirteenth season of Dancing with the Stars.
• 10 December – The final analogue signals are turned off in Melbourne and Surrounds as well as Remote Central and Eastern Australia, bringing an end to 57 years of analogue broadcasting in Australia.

Deaths

• 13 January – Bille Brown, AM (aged 61), playwright and actor who appeared in numerous television series.^[15]
• 26 January – Patricia Lovell, AM, MBE (aged 83), Australian film producer, best known to a generation as star of children's television series Mr. Squiggle as Miss Pat in the 1960s and 1970s.^[16]
• 2 March – Peter Harvey (aged 68), journalist with the Nine Network for 38 years.^[17]
• 27 June – Maureen Duval (aged 80), host of Good Morning Sydney from 1978 to 1989, and later a panellist on Beauty and the Beast.^[18]
• 15 September – Joyce Jacobs (aged 91), English-born Australian actress who appeared in A Country Practice from 1981 to 1994.^[19]
• 10 December – Alan Coleman (aged 76), English-Australian director, producer, and screenwriter

OTHERS

• Johnny Lockwood (92), British Australia actor, star of Number 96^[20]
• Brian Moll, (aged 88) British Australian actor The Young Doctors and A Country Practice
• Binny Lum, (1915-2013), (aged 97), Pioneering radio and television personality^[21]

Channels

Digital television transition

Premieres

Programming changes

See also

• 2013 in Australia
• List of Australian films of 2013

Notes

• ^a The Last Leg was originally scheduled to air on 17 February 2013^[400] before being rescheduled to premiere on 6 February 2013 instead.^[151]
• ^b Arrow was originally scheduled to air on 16 April 2013^[401] before being rescheduled to premiere on 1 May 2013 instead.^[173]
• ^c After being removed from the Nine Network's schedule due to poor ratings, Major Crimes began airing on Nine's digital multichannel GEM from 24 June instead.^[402]
• ^d The pilot episode of Beauty and the Beast originally screened on Network Ten, however—due to poor ratings—subsequent episodes aired on Ten's digital multichannel Eleven instead.^[179]
• ^e Low Winter Sun was originally scheduled to air on 13 August before being rescheduled to premiere on 27 August instead.^[208]
• ^f Hostages was originally scheduled to air on 2 October before being rescheduled to premiere on 9 October instead.^[240]
• ^g Although the Kids' WB block had aired on GO! since the channel's launch in 2009, it had also continued airing episodes on the Nine Network until 31 December 2012. Starting 1 January, the entire children's programming along with Kids' WB began to air solely on GO! due to new fines in the Nine Network Code of Practice.^[373]

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