The Seven Network launches two new weekly comedy shows — The Big News, a sketch comedy series featuring former Fast Forward stars Marg Downey, Michael Veitch and Peter Moon with Matt Tilley; and The Late Report, a current affairs spoof with Richard Stubbs, John Safran, Emma Tom and Sandy George.
Nine competed in the same timeslot with the debut of four-part comedy series Super Debate. The first episode featured the topic “The Aussie Bloke Is A Hopeless Bloke”, hosted by Paul Lyneham and featuring HG Nelson (Greig Pickhaver), Wendy Harmer, Judith Lucy, Jean Kitson, Natasha Stott-Despoja, Peter FitzSimons, Paul Clitheroe, Sam Newman, Graham Richardson and Nova Peris-Kneebone.
Seven’s new comedy double struggled and after a few weeks The Big News was cancelled as a standalone show and segments became incorporated into an extended The Late Report, before it too was axed shortly after.
(This listing excludes community Channel 31 which is not listed in TV Week)
Source: TV Week, 13 February 1999
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| 6AM | 6am Open Learning: Australian Environmental Studies, A Sense Of Place, Time To Grow | 6am Sunrise (News) | 6am National Nine Early News | 6am Aerobics Oz Style 6.30 Sports Tonight (Rpt) |
6am Worldwatch: 6am Cantonese News, 6.20 Mandarin News, 6.55 Telegiornale, 7.30 Das Journal, 8am Ta Nea Ton Ennea, 9am Le Journal, 9.30 Sevodnia, 10.15 Telediario, 11am Siaran Berita, 11.30 The Journal, 12pm Business Report |
| 7AM | 7.30 Mixy 7.35 Teletubbies |
7am Sailor Moon 7.30 Shnookums And Meat Funny Cartoon Show |
7am Today. Tracy Grimshaw, Steve Liebmann | 7am Cheez TV | |
| 8AM | 8am Johnson And Friends 8.10 Small Stories 8.15 Noddy 8.30 Sesame Street |
8am The Adventures Of Mickey And Donald 8.30 The Book Place |
8.30 In The Box | ||
| 9AM | 9.30 Play School | 9am A Country Practice | 9am Here’s Humphrey 9.30 Hardcastle And McCormick |
9am Good Morning Australia. Bert Newton | |
| 10AM | 10am More Than Words 10.15 Numbers Count 10.30 Picture This 10.45 Behind The News |
10am The Village 10.30 Acropolis Now |
10.30 News | ||
| 11AM | 11am Ancient Civilisations 11.30 Behind The News |
11am Eleven AM | 11am Remington Steele | 11.30 Ten News | |
| 12PM | 12pm World At Noon 12.30 Australian Story (Rpt) |
12pm Movie: The Hand That Rocks The Cradle. 1992 [IMDB] | 12pm Days Of Our Lives | 12pm The Roseanne Show | 12.30pm Movie: The Lighthouse. 1996 (Netherlands) [IMDB] |
| 1PM | 1pm Four Corners (Rpt) 1.45 Art Attack |
1pm The Young And The Restless | 1pm Judge Joe Brown 1.30 Beauty And The Beast |
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| 2PM | 2pm Parliament Question Time: House Of Representatives | 2.30 Ricki Lake | 2pm Movie: A Private Matter. 1992 [IMDB] | 2.30 Oprah Winfrey | 2.15 Weatherwatch, Music |
| 3PM | 3pm Sesame Street 3.25 Pingu 3.30 Play School |
3.30 Disney Adventures | 3.30 Breakers (Rpt) | 3pm TV Ed 3.30 World Sports (Rpt) |
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| 4PM | 4pm Arthur 4.25 Thomas The Tank Engine 4.30 Neverending Story 4.55 The Trap Door |
4pm Wipeout 4.30 I Dream Of Jeannie |
4pm Spellbinder 4.30 What’s Up Doc? |
4pm Totally Wild 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful |
4pm Sportswoman 4.30 Nancy Lam |
| 5PM | 5pm The Secret World Of Alex Mack 5.25 Feral TV 5.30 Daria 5.55 Gogs |
5pm Bewitched (B&W) 5.30 Wheel Of Fortune |
5pm Full House 5.30 Catch Phrase |
5pm Ten News | 5pm Newshour (PBS) |
| 6PM | 6pm Hetty Wainthropp Investigates 6.50 Consuming Passions |
6pm Seven Nightly News 6.30 Today Tonight |
6pm National Nine News 6.30 A Current Affair. Mike Munro |
6pm Happy Days 6.30 Neighbours |
6pm Global Village 6.30 World News |
| 7PM | 7pm ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report. Kerry O’Brien |
7pm Home And Away 7.30 Better Homes And Gardens |
7pm Sale Of The Century. Includes Keno 7.30 Australia’s Funniest Home Video Show. Kim Kilbey |
7pm Judge Judy 7.30 Party Of Five |
7pm World Sports 7.30 Front Up |
| 8PM | 8pm The Bill 8.30 Inside Story |
8pm The Great Outdoors. Includes OzLotto 8.30 All Saints |
8pm The Drew Carey Show 8.30 Water Rats |
8.30 Dawson’s Creek | 8pm The Cutting Edge |
| 9PM | 9.30 Foreign Correspondent | 9.30 The Big News. Marg Downey, Michael Veitch, Peter Moon, Matt Tilley PREMIERE | 9.30 The Super Debate PREMIERE | 9.30 Melrose Place | 9pm World News At Nine 9.30 Movie: Clando. 1996 (Cameroon) [IMDB] |
| 10PM | 10.30 Lateline. Tony Jones | 10pm The Late Report. Richard Stubbs, John Safran, Tony Wilson, Emma Tom, Sandy George PREMIERE 10.30 Buffy |
10.30 Nightline. Jim Waley | 10.30 Ten News. Sandra Sully | |
| 11PM | 11.05 People’s Century | 11.30 Seven Nightly News | 11pm Star Trek Voyager | 11pm Sports Tonight 11.30 Breakers |
11.20 Fine Cut |
| 12AM | 12am Parliament Question Time: The Senate | 12am Today (NBC) | 12am The Late Show With David Letterman | 12am Sunset Beach | 12.15am Movie: Caruga. 1991 (Croatia) [IMDB] |
| 1AM | 1am Australia Television News 1.30 Movie: It’s Hard To Be Good. 1948 (B&W) [IMDB] |
1am Movie: Listen Up: The Lives Of Quincy Jones. 1990 [IMDB] | |||
| 2AM | 2am Telemall Shopping | 2am Telemall Shopping | 2.05 Close | ||
| 3AM | 3am Open Learning: Marketing, Dragon’s Tongue, French In Action, Aboriginal Studies, English Have A Go Destinos (Continues to 6am) |
3am Movie: Father. 1990 [IMDB] | 3.10 Celebrity Home Shopping | 3am Home Shopping | |
| 4AM | 4.10 Catholic TV 4.35 Court TV |
4am Life In The Word 4.30 Kenneth Copeland |
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| 5AM | 5.10 Promised Land (Continues to 6am) |
5am 20/20 (Continues to 6am) |
5am Marilyn Hickey 5.30 Benny Hinn (Continues to 6am) |
5am Weatherwatch, Music 5.30 Worldwatch: Japanese News (Continues to 6am) |
