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This is a list of Australian television-related events, debuts, finales, and cancellations that are scheduled to occur in 2023, the 68th year of continuous operation of television in Australia.

Overview of the events of 2023 in Australian television
List of years in Australian television
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Events

January

Date Event Source
1 The ABC's coverage of the annual midnight Sydney New Year's Eve fireworks is watched by 985,000 viewers.
16 Sarah Abo begins co-hosting the Nine Network's breakfast program Today, succeeding Allison Langdon.
28 Veteran Seven Network sports presenter Pat Welsh signs off after 47 years based at the network's Brisbane studio.
30 Allison Langdon begins her tenure as the host of Nine's A Current Affair, succeeding Tracy Grimshaw who departed at the end of 2022.
Sam Mac is announced as the new host of Sydney Weekender, replacing Matt Shirvington.

February

Date Event Source
28 New sketch show We Interrupt This Broadcast premieres on the Seven Network.

March

Date Event Source
19 Indira Naidoo begins hosting the long-running Compass program on ABC TV, succeeding Geraldine Doogue.
26 Royston Sagigi-Baira wins the eighth season of Australian Idol with Phoebe Stewart the runner-up.
27 Olympic pole vaulter Liz Parnov wins Australian Survivor: Heroes V Villains.

April

Date Event Source
12 Southern Cross Austereo-owned GTS/BKN cancels its long-running regional news service effectively immediately. It is believed that some staff were not informed that the program would be aired for the last time that night until after it went to air. It ends over 50 years of news operations for the Spencer Gulf and Broken Hill regions, and leaves viewers with no local television news service.
30 Former netballer Liz Ellis wins the ninth season of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! while boxer Harry Garside is runner-up. After flying back to Australia on 2 May, Garside is arrested by police at Sydney Airport and charged with assaulting his former partner on 1 March. The charges were withdrawn by police on 7 June.

May

Date Event Source
1 The premiere of the fifteenth series of MasterChef Australia is pulled from the schedule by Network 10 just hours before it is due to air due to the sudden death of judge Jock Zonfrillo. After consultation with Zonfrillo's family, the series commences on 7 May 2023.

June

Date Event Source
2 After losing his civil defamation trial, Ben Roberts-Smith resigns from Seven West Media. He had been the general manager of regional network Seven Queensland since July 2015 before also being appointed as general manager of Seven Brisbane in 2016.
9 After 21 years, David Koch co-hosts Seven Network breakfast program Sunrise for the final time. Koch is succeeded by Matt Shirvington.
17 The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's managing director David Anderson announces a major restructure of the organisation in the new financial year, resulting in the loss of 120 jobs, the Sunday evening state-based ABC News bulletins on ABC TV being replaced with a single national bulletin and the abolition of the ABC's arts team. Among those to lose their jobs was national political editor Andrew Probyn whose position is made redundant. The ABC is widely condemned for the decisions.
25 ABC TV's Sunday morning public affairs show Insiders signs off from the ABC's Melbourne studio for the final time, ahead of its relocation to the ABC's studio in Canberra.
Seven News Sydney signs off its final bulletin at Martin Place studios, wrapping 19 years and 6,873 days of broadcast. From the next day, its new broadcast home is at a purpose built studio at the Eveleigh headquarters. The new space is five-times larger than Martin Place, allows for permanent sets for all programs, with two complete control rooms and more than 40sq m of LED screens, while all newsroom operations will now be located on a second entire floor.

July

Date Event Source
10 The Seven Network announces they have signed a two-year deal with Hockey Australia to broadcast all internationally-sanctioned games played by the Kookaburras and Hockeyroos as well as all matches of the Hockey One league throughout 2023 and 2024.

Premieres

Domestic series

List of domestic television series premieres
Program Original airdate Network Source
Crazy Fun Park 1 January ABC Me
Black Snow Stan
Koala Man 9 January Disney+
Taskmaster Australia 2 February Network 10
We Interrupt This Broadcast 28 February Seven Network
Dawn of the Dolphins 6 March Stan
Alone Australia 29 March SBS
Wellmania Netflix
Asking For It 20 April SBS

Television channels

New channels/streaming services

Date Channel
15 January 7Bravo
1 July Gecko (in Southern Cross Austereo areas)

Programming changes

Changes to network affiliation

Criterion for inclusion in the following list is that Australian premiere episodes will air in Australia for the first time on a new channel. This includes when a program is moved from a free-to-air network's primary channel to a digital multi-channel, as well as when a program moves between subscription television channels – provided the preceding criterion is met. Ended television series which change networks for repeat broadcasts are not included in the list.

List of domestic television series which changed network affiliation
Program Date New network Previous network Source
List of international television programs which changed network affiliation
Program Date New network Previous network Country of origin Source
Doctor Who 2023 Disney+ ABC United Kingdom

Free-to-air premieres

This is a list of programs which made their premiere on Australian free-to-air television that had previously premiered on Australian subscription television. Programs may still air on the original subscription television network.

List of international television programs which premiered on free-to-air television for the first time
Program Date Free-to-air network Subscription network(s) Country of origin Source

Subscription premieres

This is a list of programs which made their debut on Australian subscription television, having previously premiered on Australian free-to-air television. Programs may still air (first or repeat) on the original free-to-air television network.

List of domestic television programs which premiered on subscription television for the first time
Program Date Free-to-air network Subscription network(s) Source

Returning programs

Australian produced programs which are returning with a new season after being absent from television from the previous calendar year.

Program Return date Previous run Type of return Previous channel New/same channel Source
Australian Idol 30 January 2003–2009 Revival Network 10 Seven Network
Location Location Location Australia TBA 2012–2014 Lifestyle Network 10
Shark Tank 2015–2018 Network 10 same

Endings

List of domestic television series endings
Program End date Network Start date Source

Deaths

This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (March 2023)
Name Date of death Age Broadcasting notability Reference
Brian Walsh 16 March aged 67 Media executive, known for his work with both Network Ten, Nine Network and Foxtel, was also an entertainment and sports publicist.
Terry Norris 20 March aged 92 Actor (theatre, radio, TV and film) Appeared in rural series Bellbird as Joe Turner and Cop Shop as Senior Sargeant Terry O'Reilly, Norris also had a ten-year stint in politics.
Doug Mulray 30 March aged 71 TV host, best known as "The Beast" in Network Ten and Foxtel talk show series Beauty and the Beast
Swami Saravati 2 April Age unknown (possibly late 70's) Indian-Australian, who was a noted pioneering Yoga teacher, and one of the first multicultural personalities on Australian television in the 1960s and 1970s, with her yoga programs
Maxine Klibingaitis 18 April aged 58 Known for her role in Prisoner as Bobbie Mitchell and Neighbours as Terry Inglis
Barry Humphries 22 April aged 89 Legendary comedian, (also worked in the United Kingdom) active in theatre, TV and film, known for characters Dame Edna Everage, Sir Les Patterson and Sandy Stone also created comic strip character Barry McKenzie.
Jock Zonfrillo 30 April aged 46 Chef and judge of MasterChef Australia
Mary Parker c. 13/14 May 2023 aged 92 Television presenter, started her career in her native England as an actress of stage and screen, who became notable as the first female presenter on Melbourne television in 1956.
Rolf Harris 10 May 2023 aged 93 Australian entertainer, comedian, musician, singer-songwriter and painter, worked also in the United Kingdom
Joy McKean 25, May 2023 aged 93 Singer-songwriter and wife and manager of Slim Dusty, mother of singer Anne Kirkpatrick, appeared in biopic TV movie documentaries.
Ray Wilkie 18 May 2023 aged 98 Australian meteorologist and television weather presenter.
Mac Gudgeon 30 May 2023 aged 74 Australian screenwriter.

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