27 August 1977: Brian Bury (National Nine News, Melbourne)
27 August 1977: Mark Holden (The Young Doctors)
27 August 1980: Paula Duncan (Cop Shop)
27 August 1994: Laura Vazquez and Daniel Amalm (Home And Away)
27 August 2005: Dancing With The Stars
27 August 1985: The first of the three fleet of Aussat satellites are deployed via NASA’s Space Shuttle Discovery, launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida — Aussat: Dawn of TV’s satellite age [2015]
27 August 1997: ABC premieres Close Ups, a six-part series of monologues with each episode featuring on a different character. The first episode features Ben Mendelsohn as Biz, a security guard who reveals his experiences at the hand of the Family Court and the hidden world of domestic violence.
27 August 2001: SBS premieres comedy series Life Support, presenting a satirical, sometimes dark look at Australian life through the guise of a mock lifestyle show.
27 August 2007: Seven debuts its new crime procedural drama City Homicide, starring Shane Bourne, Noni Hazlehurst, Daniel MacPherson, Aaron Pederson, Nadine Garner and Damien Richardson. On the same night, Nine screens the free-to-air debut of telemovie The King, a dramatisation of the life of entertainer Graham Kennedy, starring Stephen Curry (pictured below) as Kennedy. The King was broadcast earlier in the year on Foxtel.
