2013 in Australian television

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. After 6 years off free-to-air, the program returns to Nine along with The Young and the Restless airing from 2 September on 9Gem
• 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]
• 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.

• 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]

• 2013 in Australia
• List of Australian films of 2013

• ^a The Last Leg was originally scheduled to air on 17 February 2013[393] before being rescheduled to premiere on 6 February 2013 instead.[152]
• ^b Arrow was originally scheduled to air on 16 April 2013[394] before being rescheduled to premiere on 1 May 2013 instead.[174]
• ^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.[395]
• ^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.[180]
• ^e Low Winter Sun was originally scheduled to air on 13 August before being rescheduled to premiere on 27 August instead.[209]
• ^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.[366]