The Opening Ceremony of The Games Of The XXIX Olympiad are telecast live from Beijing on the Seven Network. Daily coverage from the Games was primarily on the Seven Network with some events covered by SBS.
(This listing excludes community Channel 31 and digital-only channel SBS World News Channel which are not listed in TV Week)
Source: TV Week, 2 August 2008
| ABC1 | SEVEN | NINE | TEN | SBS | |
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| 6AM | 6am Zoey 101 6.25 Girl Stuff, Boy Stuff 6.35 Growing Up Creepie |
6am Sunrise | 6am Today | 6am Ten Early News | (5.55am) Worldwatch: 5.55 Hong Kong News, 6.15 Chinese News, 6.45 Filipino News, 7.15 Weatherwatch, Music, 7.25 Italian News, 8am German News, 8.30 Spanish News, 9.20 French News, 10am Russian News, 10.30 Greek News, 11.30 Arabic News, 12pm Indonesian News, 12.30 Turkish News, 12.55 Market Update |
| 7AM | 7am King Arthur’s Disasters 7.25 Bounty Hamster 7.35 Dr Dog 7.50 Lazy Lucy |
7am Toasted TV. Includes Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Pokémon. Bakugan | |||
| 8AM | 8am Lazy Town 8.25 Wiggle And Learn 8.35 Yo Gabba Gabba |
8.30 Puzzle Play | |||
| 9AM | 9am Maisy 9.05 In The Night Garden 9.30 Play School |
9am The Morning Show | 9am Mornings With Kerri-Anne. Kerri-Anne Kennerley | 9am 9AM With David And Kim | |
| 10AM | 10am Count Us In 10.15 Behind The News 10.30 Atoms Alive 10.45 Food For Thought |
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| 11AM | 11.05 The Lion Man 11.25 Aussie Animal Rescue |
11am Raggs 11.30 Seven News |
11am Nine News 11.30 Fresh Cooking With The Australian Women’s Weekly. Lyndey Milan, Pete Evans |
11am Ten News | |
| 12PM | 12pm Midday Report 12.30 The Shark Net |
12pm Movie: Chariots Of Fire. 1981 [IMDB] | 12pm Supernanny | 12pm Dr Phil | |
| 1PM | 1.30 Spicks And Specks | 1pm ER | 1pm The Oprah Winfrey Show | 1pm Special: The Maori Merchant Of Venice | |
| 2PM | 2pm Around The World In 80 Treasures | 2pm Days Of Our Lives | 2pm Ready Steady Cook | ||
| 3PM | 3pm Bananas In Pyjamas 3.05 Play School 3.35 Roary The Racing Car 3.45 Harry And His Bucket Full Of Dinosaurs 3.55 SamSam |
3pm Keeping Up Appearances 3.40 The Benny Hill Show |
3pm Entertainment Tonight 3.30 Hi-5 |
3pm Judge Judy 3.30 Huey’s Cooking Adventures |
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| 4PM | 4pm The Mr Men Show 4.10 Farm Kids 4.25 Eliot Kid 4.35 Frankenstein’s Cat 4.50 Rollercoaster. Includes Growing Up Creepie; Girl Stuff, Boy Stuff; Zoey 101 |
4pm Go Go Stop 4.30 Seven News |
4pm The Shak 4.30 Nine News |
4pm Animalia 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful |
4pm Business Report 4.30 The Journal |
| 5PM | 5.55 BTN Daily | 5pm MASH 5.30 Deal Or No Deal |
5pm Antiques Roadshow | 5pm Ten News | 5pm Newshour With Jim Lehrer (PBS) 5.55 Market Update |
| 6PM | 6pm Message Stick 6.30 Can We Help? |
6pm Seven News 6.30 Today Tonight. Anna Coren |
6pm Nine News 6.30 A Current Affair |
6pm Friends 6.30 Neighbours |
6pm Thalassa 6.30 World News Australia |
| 7PM | 7pm ABC News 7.30 Stateline |
7pm Football: AFL. Melbourne v Geelong. Live from the Melbourne Cricket Ground | 7pm Two And A Half Men 7.30 Motorway Patrol |
7pm Bondi Rescue 7.30 So You Think You Can Dance? |
7.30 When Colin Met Joyce |
| 8PM | 8pm Collectors 8.30 Agatha Christie’s Poirot |
8pm Police Ten 7 8.30 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation |
8.35 As It Happened: The Body Hunters | ||
| 9PM | 9.50 The Games Of The XXIX Olympiad: Beijing 2008 — Opening Ceremony. Matthew White, Bruce McAvaney, Sandy Roberts, Sonia Kruger, Ric Birch | 9.30 Cold Case | 9.30 World News Australia | ||
| 10PM | 10.05 We Can He Heroes: Finding The Australian Of The Year 10.35 Lateline |
10.30 Close To Home | 10pm Movie: Star Wars: Episode 1 — The Phantom Menace. 1999 [IMDB] | 10pm Market Update 10.05 Movie: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. 2000 (Hong Kong) [IMDB] |
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| 11PM | 11.20 Triple J TV 11.50 Rage (Continues to 9am) |
11.30 Nightline | |||
| 12AM | 12am Rugby League: NRL. Manly Sea Eagles v Melbourne Storm | 12.50am Sports Tonight | 12.10am Movie: Chinese Odyssey 2002. 2002 (Hong Kong) [IMDB] | ||
| 1AM | 1am Movie: Touching The Void. 2003 [IMDB] | 1.20 The Late Show With David Letterman | 1.45 28 Acts In 28 Minutes | ||
| 2AM | 2am Rugby League: NRL. St George Illawarra Dragons v Wests Tigers | 2.20 Video Hits 2.30 Home Shopping |
2.20 Weatherwatch Overnight | ||
| 3AM | 3am Destination New Zealand 3.30 Room For Improvement |
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| 4AM | 4am Today (NBC) (Continues to 6am) |
4am Entertainment Tonight 4.30 Good Morning America (Continues to 6am) |
4am Queer Eye For The Straight Guy | ||
| 5AM | 5am This Is Your Day With Benny Hinn 5.30 Christian City TV (Continues to 6am) |
5.20 Worldwatch: 5.20 Japanese News, 5.55 Hong Kong News (Continues to 6.15am) |
| DIGITAL MULTI CHANNELS | |||
| ABC2 (SD) | SEVEN HD | NINE HD | TEN HD |
| 7am Morning Programs 10am Children’s Programs 1.15pm Poko 1.40 Inuk 1.55 Bananas In Pyjamas 2pm Play School 2.25 Pop Pups 2.26 Yo Gabba Gabba! 2.50 Bernard 2.55 Creature Features 3.25 King 3.45 Old Tom 4pm Jane And The Dragon 4.25 World Ahoy 4.30 The New Inventors 5pm 7.30 Select 5.35 Catalyst 6pm Compass 6.35 Scrapheap Challenge 7.30 Something In The Air 8pm The IT Crowd 8.30 Moving Wallpaper 8.50 Echo Beach 9.15 A Little Later 9.30 The Graham Norton Show 10pm Spaced 10.25 Pixies: Gouge 11.15 Close |
High Definition Simulcast of Seven except for:
12pm Heartbeat |
High Definition Simulcast of Nine | High Definition Simulcast of Ten except for:
3pm Sport Science 12.50am Movie: Amber Frey: Witness For The Prosecution. 2005 [IMDB] |