Temptation is an Australian game show which premiered on the Nine Network on May 30, 2005. Hosted by Ed Phillips and Livinia Nixon, the show is a remake of Sale of the Century, which aired on Nine in the same timeslot for more than twenty years between 1980 and 2001. Temptation has the same general format of its predecessor, but with several new features and a de-emphasis on the "shopping" aspects of the endgame. Temptation's second season finished on 1 December, 2006 and season 3 began on January 29, 2007. It was originally announced that the third season would be the last season of Tempation, which ended on 30 November, 2007, however, a fourth season has been commissioned and will begin to air in early 2008.

A syndicated U.S. version of Temptation hosted by Rossi Morreale began airing in fall 2007. A version was also launched that year on Brazil's SBT network with Silvio Santos at the helm.

Temptation was an Australian telemovie which screened on Network Ten in 2003, starring Colin Friels as Roberto Francobelli. It was a co-production with subscription television and screened on the UKTV channel on Foxtel. It was produced by Penny Chapman and Sue Masters. The directors was Tony Tilse.

Temptation was about the passion of cooking and love. Chefs Ruth and Gabe are the top students of their graduating year and have fallen in love. Gabe starts working at his father Roberto's restaurant but their peaceful existence is shattered when they discover that Ruth is opening a restaurant across the road with Roberto's ex-partner Rita. It's love and war involving the staff of the two restaurants in the same street.

Temptation led to a spin-off television drama series that ran for one season on Network Ten in 2004 called The Cooks. Temptation was about the love and war in the kitchens and bedrooms of the chefs.

After five years in prison for insurance fraud the sailor Lanarsky (Jeff Fahey) is released. Together with his buddy Bone (David Keith) he gets a job as seamen onboard the yacht owned by the wife (Alison Doody) of his insurance fraud-partner Michael Reddick (Philip Casnoff). Lanarsky has a question to his former partner who he thinks tried to cheat him. But Michael Reddich himself has another insurance plan ready where he will kill everybody onboard the yacht, blow it up and then claim the life-insurance for his wife. But Lanarsky and the wife Lee escape and follow Michael to the nearby Cayman Island where the final showdown takes place. Written by Uffe Ring-Petersen

Brigid O'Connor became the show's first Grand Champion in episode #1.18 (22 June 2005) when she won A$663,738 in gold, cash and prizes.

John Russell has a perfect wife, job, car, files; virtually a perfect life. However, he longs to live on the edge. He dreams of being unconventional and living life on the edge. On his way to South Korea's Honeymoon Island for a architectural convention, he finally gets his wish. The story weaves into a tumultuous, sexually-charged murder mystery, laced with intrigue, passion and deception. And, when that fuse is lit, the tension grows to an incredible, explosive climax. Written by Anonymous

Many people have sold it to him... only one person will steal it from him...

Down and out in L.A.'s Valley, two longtime married, politically correct pornographers - played by Annette O'Toole and Lyn Vaus - are forced to confront the changes in their New Age values and marriage when they discover in their archives extremely salacious old footage of TV's currently #1 sitcom star. Written by Anonymous

Opera singer Renee Dupree is in love with struggling composer Julian who falls very seriously ill. She goes to impresario Mueller for the money Julian needs but is saved from sacrificing her virtue when a jealous lover kills Mueller. Written by Ed Stephan

Helen Ware (Ethel Moses), an artist's model, known as the Brown Venus is sad, discouraged and unhappy. When her men friends learn that she often poses nude, they try to become unduly "friendly" or just shun her, with the result that a beautiful girl with the figure of a Goddess finds herself without a lover. In desperation, she goes to a notorious night club and is later seen about to start on the downward trail. In New York's Harlem section, gangdom is running riot. Gangster Kid Cotton (Andrew S. Bishop) kills a man and runs away with the man's sweetheart, who is unaware of the crime until she reads about it in a newspaper at the "Mad Mullah" club in Chicago. Helen is near their table, overhears their discussion of the killing, and later finds herself involved in the case. Government undercover man Robert Fletcher (Lorenzo Tucker) trails Cotton to Chicago, and a peculiar twist of fate brings Helen to his hotel room, and a most intimate situation follows. Cotton sets up a numbers bank in Chicago in opposition the the policy gang, and a gang war breaks out. Gomez (Slick Chester) and his gang are rubbed out and Cotton becomes the king of the underworld. But the dragnet, thrown around him by Fletcher, begins to tighten. Written by Les Adams

In a flashback, late-Victorian beauty Ruby, a divorcee with a shady past, calculatingly marries rich Egyptologist Nigel, who installs her at his Cairo estate while he digs for mummies. Bored, Ruby undertakes to recover a friend's letters from Baroudi. But when she meets the blackmailer, mutual attraction leads to an affair. As Ruby gets in deeper, she finds Baroudi is even more unscrupulous than she dreamed. Written by Rod Crawford