The lack of diversity of shows covered on the Australian version really needs to be addressed - the continual coverage of same shows has become a factor in why I havent watched this season. The timing of the second season in each year is crap as well - move the show away from the shoulders of the ratings year towards the middle (even if that means you’ve got to shorten the seasons slightly)
The UK version shows how the show could be successful - it comes down to the right mix of “celebrities” (like the regular version needs the right families/groups) and picking the right shows. It’s certainly not a case of lifting the UK version and transplanting it here
One potential option is maybe to have a handful of celebrities as a rotating set of families through a normal season - rather than billing it as a “celebrity” version, have them as Gogglebox families that happen to be celebrities.
Oh well, I suppose all good things have to come to an end eventually…
Is Gogglebox really that expensive to produce? Especially compared to the likes of MAFS & MasterChef, I would’ve thought it’d be one of EndemolShine’s cheaper/lower cost formats!
Exactly. I’d probably expect half the cast of Celebrity Gogglebox to be cross promotional for other shows on Foxtel & Ten with the rest being the type who you’d expect to see on DWTS, IAC,GMOOH and other such programs.
Yeah, I definitely agree that the lack of diversity in the shows covered + the timing of the seasons are major issues which need to be addressed.
It’s probably also about time that most Goggleboxers who’ve been on the show since 2015/16 are moved on in favour of fresh talent. Or at the very least, mix things up a bit so you aren’t seeing Matt & Holly Dalton embarrass themselves every single week!
Agreed. Just because The Block is the highest rating show on TV doesn’t mean it has to be extensively reviewed each week. They should be airing some multichannel first run content, maybe even some streaming shows from Netflix Paramount+, Disney+, Stan etc. Maybe even a movie every now and then.
Same can be said earlier in the year when Married At First Sight is on, almost all episodes of the season which aired during the first half of this year included a MAFS review!
It’s bewildering that Fat Pizza: Back In Business on 7mate hasn’t received the Gogglebox treatment. You’d think the rather coarse humour of this show has the potential to make for some extremely interesting household reactions, especially from the likes of Mick & Di!
A few titles from the streaming services have been reviewed during more recent seasons of Gogglebox, but for obvious reasons you can’t really expect too many from a show airing on Foxtel/Ten.
There’s been reviews of “Classic Movies” on Gogglebox in the past, but probably not for a while now. I’d guess that the producers who liked those have since left.
I’d say a significant portion of the audience actually tunes in because they want to see the Daltons or Leigh and Kieth every week. The TV and the shows they review isn’t that important.
I don’t quite understand. So will there be a regular Gogglebox airing with a Celebrity Gogglebox? For example Tuesday 8:30 Celebrity Gogglebox Thursday 8:30 Gogglebox?
Or will there be celebrities on the regular season of Gogglebox?
That was just my understanding, it’s possible I could be wrong however and the use of concurrently has been misused or we’ve misunderstood what that means in this situation.
Brian Walsh just said it would be attached to the first season next year, that could just mean that it will follow on from the first season when that finishes it’s fun.
I think that would make the most sense and would’ve give both broadcasters more episodes sandwiched between the 2 regular versions.
Hopefully it does mean one after the other, otherwise it will be a Gogglebox overload. Then again, every other reality show seems to run 2 or more nights a week these days, I’d still watch.
I took it as they’d be running both versions in the same week which is disastrous. Guess we will see some really rubbish programs being viewed as they will now have to fill two shows a week.
They would be the logical thing. But by the sounds of it they think that would cost too much so want to run it concurrently (whatever they mean by that).