Follows digital partnership with Endemol Shine International
Network 10 and Endemol Shine International have announced a partnership that sees more than 1000 hours of free content added to 10’s streaming platform 10 Play.
Australians can now discover, or re-discover, old-school and international favorites on 10 Play including:
Police drama, RUSH .
Psychological thriller, Wake in Fright .
Political dramedy, Party Tricks .
Reality TV series, The Shire .
Serial drama, Out Of The Blue .
One Born Every Minute U.K …
And for the first time, Australians can now dive into the World of MasterChef with every season of MasterChef Australia plus seasons from international versions in the U.S. and U.K. including Junior, Professionals and Celebrity.
Network 10’s general manager, digital Liz Baldwin said: “We’re really excited to be bringing some of our most memorable series back for audiences to enjoy, and to also be hosting popular international series like MasterChef U.S. and One Born Every Minute U.K…
“The addition of these shows deepens our 10 Play library giving more reasons for audiences, particularly our under 50s, to explore and discover our content.”
Endemol Shine International’s sales director for Australia and New Zealand Lyle Bettson-Barker said: “ESI is delighted to be working with 10 Play to not only showcase some great Australian programming, but international versions of fan favourite MasterChef and award-wining documentary series One Born Every Minute U.K…”
It also seems that the first season of Five Bedrooms has also been re-uploaded for streaming.
I’ve never heard of this show before, but it doesn’t appear it’s made it’s way onto 10 play just yet - however Wikipedia tells me it has 130 episodes and was originally commissioned for the BBC in the UK as a replacement for Neighbours which they lost to Channel 5.
Probably, but I would say since Rush / Wake in Fright etc are tied up with Amazon Prime that only the BVOD rights may have been available rather than SVOD.
I was surprised that I had never heard of it, though it was sometime before I moved to Australia. One would think a series order of 130 eps for a new drama would be pretty unprecedented then and even today - though the 10:30pm weeknight timeslot on 10 and being shafted to weekends says it all really.
It’s great news I can re-live the first season of MasterChef Australia in full. Like many people, I joined the MasterChef bandwagon during the middle of the first season when the episodes were setting ratings records night after night. There are season one episodes on YouTube but they are incomplete and quality varies. I can’t wait to see the season on 10Play to see how it panned out.
Season one was proper, normal home cooks. Compare the steak and potatoes challenge in week 2 or 3 to what they do today, so much more relatable for viewers at home.
I wouldn’t complain if they went back to a simpler format and dumbed it down a bit next year.
I used to watch it a decade ago (2009) when 10 were moving it around timeslots after failing in the ratings in 2008.
It was at midday and then went to 5:30pm, both on Sundays (?), the latter of which 10 dropped Sports Tonight for a while in place of a 10min local cut-in (Melbourne had Ian Cohen) during the Weekend News. (I have a VHS of all this somewhere, including promo with then V/O (now 9Gem’s) “New Aussie drama Out of the Blue” is next".
I liked it ‘casually’, it also had the older curly grey haird bloke who went onto Home and Away prominently for years after, maybe still now?
Still never understood why 10 gave up on this show, same goes for Seven’s City Homicide. Both concluded in 2011 after 4 and 5 years respectively. The former show built a big following by S2 in 2009 when Jolene Anderson was added.
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Well, I do but didn’t find out until years later when reading about the government’s episode quota limit for drama funding, which was also said to have contributed to Offspring ending or originally going on hiatus.
Rush always struggled in the ratings but probably stayed on air longer because Ten needed to fulfil Aussie drama quotas and it was critically acclaimed.
It’s first season had poor promotion and a bad timeslot. By season 2 it was doing 1m+ on Thursdays (yes up/down) but was by no means a ‘flop’. It did drop a bit come season 4.
As in all of Seven’s multitude of movies across various channels and markets on say a Saturday night can be easily live streamed from anywhere?
If there is such clause in licencing negotiations that permits/restricts movies to be simulcast on live stream that are being broadcast on terrestrial TV I can’t imagine it’d cost that much more? I mean who is actually live streaming Seven and Nine’s broadcasted movies… Nobody.
I thought it was 10 just not bothering or being lazy, tbh? It’s not SVOD rights or even BVOD exclusive.
