Seven in 2020: Big Brother, Mega Mini Golf, Gary Mehigan and Matt Preston, and a rebrand for 7Flix
Big Brother, Farmer Wants A Wife and Wife Swap will all be returning to Australian screens in 2020 on Seven, alongside former Masterchef judges Gary Mehigan and Matt Preston.
Mega Mini Golf, SAS: Who Dares Wins and the Rebel Wilson fronted Pooch Perfect are also all new to the slate, joining a returning Australia’s Got Talent, My Kitchen Rules, House Rules and The All New Monty – all of which have been reimagined for 2020.
Seven West Media managing director and CEO James Warburton said the injection of fresh programming is set to drive the growth of Seven in 2020.
“I’ve been clear from day one that we’re executing a content-led growth strategy. To that end, we’re investing 30% more in our tentpole programs and franchises,” said Warburton.
My Kitchen Rules is back with a new format for 2020
Australia’s Got Talent will return with The Champions, The All New Monty will see both male and females take part for a Guys and Gals season, and My Kitchen Rules will pit chefs and fans against each other in The Rivals, mentored by Manu Feildel and Colin Fassnidge, while Pete Evans serves as judge. House Rules is being given the High Stakes treatment, with the teams taking on a penthouse on the Gold Coast, and Kyly Clarke, Saul Myers and Abbey Gelmi joining the judging and presenting team.
Plate of Origin will combine MKR’s Feildel with Preston and Mehigan for an international cooking competition, championed as the ‘Olympics of cooking’.
Big Brother is back for 2020, 20 years after it first landed on screens, and in a new format to be announced soon. Mega Mini Golf is based on an ABC Network production from the US which sees mini-golf lovers take part in ‘the most epic course ever devised’.
Mehigan and Preston have joined the Seven ship, but there’s no sign of Calombaris
Aussie celebrities will be pitted against each other in the SAS selection process in SAS: Who Dares Wins, based on a UK format, and led by chief instructor Ant Middleton, who hosts the UK version of the program. Farmer Wants A Wife is also back, with a new crop of single farmers looking for love.
Seven also announced Mates On A Mission, starring Shane Jacobson, Todd McKenney, Kris Smith and Brian ‘BT’ Taylor who travel the world together for an ‘inspirational comedy series’. Justine Clarke, Rob Collins and Stephen Peacocke will front a new action-drama, RFDS, Packed to the Rafters creator Bevan Lee has a new drama, Between Two Worlds, and Falconio: An Outback Murder will add some true crime to Seven’s lineup.
Better Homes and Gardens, Wife Swap, BBC thriller Gold Digger, Reckoning, One Lane Bridge, Filthy Rich, 9-1-1: Lone Star, Miss Scarlet and the Duke, Billy Connolly’s Great American Trail, Regular Old Bogan and Desert Collectors season two were also all announced for Seven in 2020, with Fat Pizza: Back In Business, Zumbo’s Just Desserts and season three of The Good Doctor still to come in 2019.
After much speculation, Seven has confirmed it’s bringing Big Brother back to Australian screens
Championing the new lineup as Seven’s Sunday-Thursday 7:30pm strategy, the upfronts also saw Seven promote its news offering – which regularly tops the most-watched programs lineup – Sunrise, Home and Away, and its sporting offering for 2020.
With just an hour separating Australia and Tokyo, Seven’s ability to air the Olympics in much the same timezone as they are being played has led to the network promoting a reach of 21m Australians in broadcast and 5m digital. The coverage, which will run on Seven and 7Two as well as 35 live streams, joins Seven’s other sport offerings, including its 2020 AFL coverage and its second summer of cricket coverage.
For the 2019-20 season, Seven says a condensed Big Bash League season will deliver a better experience for viewers, with more prime-time finals and a strategic time-out. The sports coverage will continue with The Front Bar, hosted by Sam Pang, Mick Molloy and Andy Maher, returning for another year, and social sports show Armchair Experts expanding to cover the NFL as well as the AFL.
Lewis Martin, Seven’s head of sport, said: “2020 will deliver more engaged audiences and more of the sport fans want. Our clear focus is to grow sport on Seven and to bring our partners along for the ride.
“Dynamic scheduling of AFL matches, the condensed and engaging BBL schedule plus the new strategic time out, more Cricket in November, and of course the unparalleled reach of Tokyo 2020 with our Australia-first multilingual captioning offering will deliver unmatched results for our partners in 2020.”
Sport is a big focus for Seven in 2020, with a second summer of cricket joining the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics
The other big content announcement from Seven was multi-channel 7Mate going HD in 2020. The number one multi-channel is aimed at the male 16-54 demographic and will mean more sporting coverage in HD.
Seven is also rebranding its 7Flix multi-channel, with very little revealed prior to publishing, other than it would be aimed at a “younger female demographic”.
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7flix
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Australia's Got Talent
Big Brother
Farmer Wants A Wife
Gary Mehigan
house rules
James Warburton
Manu Feildel
Mates on a Mission
Matt Preston
Mega Mini Golf
My Kitchen Rules
Pete Evans
Pooch Perfect
Rebel Wilson
SAS: Who Dares Wins
Seven
The All New Monty
upfronts
Reality format
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Is this really all Aussie TV is about?
Oh no wait.
Sporting event.
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All reality, all garbage.
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Chanel 7 can do what ever they want with the BBL but if they carry on televising it in SD I do not know anyone who will watch it
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what about Front Bar?
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“For the 2019-20 season……….The sports coverage will continue with The Front Bar, hosted by Sam Pang, Mick Molloy and Andy Maher, returning for another year, and social sports show Armchair Experts expanding to cover the NFL as well as the AFL.”
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Warburton describes the programming lineup prior to his arrival as weak, tired and featuring a string of failures. And this is what he offers as an alternative? Er, Pot. Kettle. Black.
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“James Warburton said the injection of fresh programming is set to drive the growth of Seven in 2020”
Is this what we’ve come to when remakes of past shows (Big Brother, Farmer Wants a Wife) constitutes fresh programming. Creativity and risk taking in TV is dead unfortunately.
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What a load of poor quality programming Channel 7 has picked up for 2020. You have added that terrible show Big Brother to the stable along with MKR and House Rules two shows that were great to watch in the beginning but over the past few years are an insult to all viewers, people were turning off both shows because of the fighting between the contestants people don’t watch a program to see adults sling mud at each other, as for BIG Brother what a load of crap that show is. Well it looks like I for one will be looking at the ABC for my television or one of the other channels because some of the shows on Seven in 2020 will be a waste of airtime and the new boss wants to stay on Top what a laugh
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Plate of origin… channel nine name with 10 talent. Way to ride on the coat tails. Great to see all the creativity coming out of seven.
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… sounds desperate to me
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Everything old is old again.
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The good thing about most of those alleged new shows and supposed experts is i will readilly press OFF BUTTON MANY TIMES
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Why do they always do the same thing and recycle the same people into different shows? Can’t they find new talent?
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7flix desperately needs rebranding. For a number of years they have been repeating the same old movies every single month during the night along with Time Served for some unknown reason. I can’t believe the future of Australian tv is going to be reality tv though. Thank goodness for my DVD collection.
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What about the resident , 911 original series and grey’s anatomy? When are they retuning?
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There is a chicken and egg situation at work when it comes to tv ratings. If a tv channel does not show a particular program then it will not get any rating. Therefore if a tv channel just plays it “safe” with reality drivel then their ratings will probably end up in a downward spiral. Guess what is happening.
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