Nine brings back hit reality show The Block
The Nine Network is bringing back its renovation reality TV series The Block, led by its original creators, executive producers Julian Cress and David Barbour.
The return of the show, which remains the highest-rating TV series in Australia of all time, follows the launch last year of the low-rating renovation show HomeMade, which was also produced by Cress and Barbour.
The Block first launched in 2003, with first series drawing a weekly average rating of 2,239,000 million viewers.
The following year the format went global, with more than a dozen countries producing the show including the UK, US, Russia, Israel, Norway, Romania, Sweden, Finland, Belgium and The Netherlands.
In Australia in 2004 The Block was Nine’s highest-rating series for the second year running.
This year the show will be hosted by Nine personality Scott Cam, with four couples given eight weeks to compete to create the best apartment. At the end of the final week the winning apartment will be decided by the buying public.
All four apartments will go to public auction and each couple will keep the profit made from the sale. The couple who top the auction will also win the grand prize of $100,000.
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How do they define what is a Channel 9 ‘Personality’? Just curious.
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i think it’s a typo mike. should read ‘banality’.
in saying that – i am don’t actually know who this scott cam is but i did used to love this show.
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I was reading this announcement, thinking ‘not a bad idea… used to rate pretty well… liked watching it myself… as long as they don’t introduce the ridiculous extended ‘suspense’ moments… and then I read it will be hosted by Scott Cam.
This show is dead in the water already! Why oh why must we see more of this bozo??!!! Just because Nine consider him a ‘personality’, does not mean we all agree, and nor does it mean we want to see more of him.
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Last time Scott Cam hosted a renovation show, it got axed after 1 episode. Does Channel 9 owe this guy a living?!?! I used to love the Block, but that’s because it was different, had a “hot” host, plenty of cat-fights and a good budget. Can we expect more of the same with a ‘duffa’ like Scott Cam?
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Thank god this is coming back on TV I was getting worried there wasn’t enough reality shows. Also glad Scott Cam is on it as he’s so under exposed, a bit like Eddie McGuire.
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I’m cringing as I’m reading this…why bring this pile of crap show back???
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At least it’s not that annoying Shelley Craft – another ‘personality’ they constantly rotate.
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Ooga …. Shelley (de Billinghurst) Craft is on Seven not Nine – probably why she’s not on The Block.
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Pretty sure she’s on Nine….
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Bloody hell Ooga / Zeff – what a monumental brain fade on my part. I must still be addled from the cold on my holidays – profoundest apologies!
My second guess … on Domestic Blitz last night I think they said she was ‘with child’ which may explain it.
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