T minus 20
The year is 2005... Anakin turns to the dark side, YouTube makes its debut and we’re all couch-jumping for Maria, McDreamy and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo…
T minus 20, rewind to this week in history 20 years ago with Joe and Mel.
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- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 84 minutes
- Episodes
- 213
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Brian quits Westlife - Britney’s ‘Toxic’ exposed!
Great news in Iraq…
The Passion of The Christ makes shocking debut
Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of The Christ” makes its debut this time 20 years ago and the overwhelming response was that people were overwhelmed!
And that is just one story in what was a …
Putin dismisses parliament - Let's fly Jetstar!
In what is one of many unexpected moves, Russian President Vladimir Putin interrupted the afternoon programmes on the telly to inform his countrymen that he had just sacked the entire R…
The Redfern riots
This week in the news residents the Sydney suburb of Redfern clashed with police over the death of Aboriginal teenager TJ Hickey. TJ was allegedly clipped by a police car while being pu…
Gay marriage in San Francisco? Usher says “Yeah”!
In response to a very conservative State of The Union address, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome gives the directive to issue same sex marriage licenses. This would be seen by many as t…
Nipplegate - the Superbowl scandal from all angles
It's the biggest story of 2004 so far, the moment when the world was seemingly more shocked by Justin Timberlake exposing Janet Jackson's nipple at the Superbowl Halftime Show than anyt…
Exploding whales, water on Mars and the MyDoom virus
It really is a mixed bag this week, Spirit's twin probe Opportunity touches down on Mars and instantly goes to work proving that there was once water on the red planet.
In Taiwan a mass…
The Darkness steal the show!
It's a sad and shocking start to the week this week with the death of cricket legend David Hookes as the result of an altercation with a bouncer at a nightclub.
In scientific news NASA …
Britney Spears gets married and divorced in Vegas!
It's the wedding of the year already, Britney Spears goes on a bender in Vegas, get's married and divorced all in the same weekend! It really is the perfect start to 2004!
Over in the M…
Summer Programming - Part 3
It's our final week of best bits before we kick off a new season. We're going through the archives and pulling out the best bits from the past year including:
- 50 Cent and Lil' Kim's coll…
Summer Programming - Part 2
We're going through the archives and pulling out the best bits from the past year including:
- The No War protest on the Sydney Opera House - while the perpetrators were maligned by the me…
Summer Programming - Part 1
We're going through the archives and pulling out the best bits from the past year including:
- The Antwerp Diamond heist - dubbed the "heist of the century", it was the largest ever diamon…
The best (and worst) of 2003
It's a 2003 extravaganza for our last episode before summer programming kicks in.
The best and worst in Google search, the Time person of the year, billboard, iTunes and the ARIA charts…
US forces capture Saddam Hussien
It almost took until the end of the year for what was possibly one of the biggest news stories of 2003 to break but Saddam Hussein is found hiding in a spider hole in Tikrit and capture…
Shannon Noll was robbed on Australian Idol
This week its Guy Sebastian vs Shannon Noll in a showdown for the title of Australian Idol. And knowing what we know about both contestants now, we have to say Nollsy was robbed!
We’ve g…
A surprise Bush for Thanksgiving!
George W Bush on board Air Force One touched down in Bagdad this time 20 years ago to surprise the troops with a message from home and stayed for Thanksgiving dinner.
From one muppet t…
Britney Spears has the best week!
A new album, a number one single in the Aussie charts and the youngest singer ever to get a star on the Hollywood walk of fame… What did you get up to when you were 21? Because all of t…
Paris Hilton, victim of revenge porn?
A sex tape starts spreading across the internet this tiem 20 years ago, featuring a young Paris Hilton and her ex-boyfriend Rick Salmon. The tape would later be packaged and marketed by…
Average Joe, Arrested Development and Massive Coronal Ejections
One of the most powerful solar flares ever was recorded thie week 20 years ago which saw ghostly auroras appear as far south from the North Pole as Florida. We think it's has a profound…
Bethany Hamilton survives shark attack
It's a real life horror story this week when 13 year old Bethany Hamilton goes for a morning surf and has her arm bitten off by a tiger shark. While it's a horrible story, Bethany is a …