Maybe a chance for I’m a Celeb to keep its viewers? With people switching off the tennis so they don’t see the promos?
A lot of people are obsessed with the show so I can’t see there being a major switch off.
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Elizabeth Sobinoff will take part in two seasons of MAFS in a row.
Cyrell posted this apology on Christmas Eve:
Monday 3 February at 7.30pm
Australia’s No.1 series, the most talked about social experiment, Married at First Sight , returns for its seventh series, bringing another powerful combination of love and fireworks, starting Monday, February 3, at 7.30pm on Nine and 9Now.
Relationship experts John Aiken , Mel Schilling and neuropsychotherapist Dr Trisha Stratford will pair 20 brave singles from across Australia, using a mix of neuroscience and their relationship expertise with the goal of creating 10 perfect matches.
Each couple will meet for the first time as they walk down the aisle on their wedding day, and from the moment they say “I do” their relationship is under the microscope as they experience the highs and lows of marriage at full speed.
Ten brides and ten grooms from across Australia, each with their own exceptional stories, will face more obstacles and relationship hurdles than ever before.
Every couple will live together under the same roof, compare their experiences and ups and downs at dinner parties, and bare all to the group in the confronting commitment ceremonies.
Each bride and groom will face hardships in this pressure cooker environment, some will stumble, and others will thrive as they experience life as a married couple in the most challenging experiment of all.
While this promo made me really angry when I saw it, the benefit is it publically gives the game away that this iteration of MAFS isn’t interested in creating “perfect matches” like the above press release claims.
All it (including its complicit ‘experts’) are interested in is putting people together who are clearly and obviously incompatible for each other together in order to produce conflict and drama.
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One would really like to think that Australia has credible councelors and organisations who absolutely despise the depections of relationships on Married At First Sight and other dating, relationship and “reality” TV programs.
All it (including its complicit ‘experts’) are interested in is putting people together who are clearly and obviously incompatible for each other together in order to produce conflict and drama.
This is what makes MAFS such an interesting ‘social experiment’ and why so many people watch. People are actually very nosy about other people’s relationships but they’re too polite to ask. So here comes a show that marries two people with varying degrees of compatability while putting them under a microscope in a 24/7 high stress environment.
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The show can’t credibility call itself a ‘social experiment’ anymore when the so-called ‘experiment’ is manipulated to such a extent that it essentially set up the ‘couples’ to fail (and hence creating the drama, fights and viscousness they really want)
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I’m surprised Ryan isn’t exposing them in his jungle chats or maybe it’s being edited out? But if it was its direct competition it would be a good ploy.
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Here is the cast of season 7.
According to Who magazine website, Steve used to date Diana Chan (MasterChef Australia season 9 winner). Diana is now dating another guy named Tim.
It happened in tonight’s episode of I’m a Celebrity.
https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/reality-tv/im-a-celebrity/im-a-celeb-ryan-gallagher-opens-up-about-davina-rankin-cheating-on-him-on-mafs/news-story/63dfbcccb2eb787dd8da814edd4a8eff
But isn’t it funny how it mentioned Dean who is now on this years DWTS. Otherwise they wouldn’t talk about a huge hit rival show.
The new season is already embroiled in controversy, with participants warned by Nine and Endemol Shine that they would face serious consequences if they talked to the media.
“They’ve drilled it in that [contestants] can’t talk to the media. They’re dead serious. Who knows what they’re capable of,” one insider said.
The same source revealed there will be no shortage of drama on the new season after what appears to be yet another deliberate mismatching of couples in an attempt to boost ratings.
Sources say personality clashes made for awkward weddings and at least one “honeymoon from hell”, due to potentially exploitative casting.
Can’t wait for the moment the ratings crash and burn for both this and MKR.
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nah it wont people are still weird and crazy enough to watch it . this is the reason why i never watch free to air anymore . these reality shows are making people weird and very crazy . i could say more but i will leave it at that
Agreed, although I would personally extend that to The Bachelor/ette, Love Island and any other program among those lines from commercial TV.
But as much as I personally think they should be pulled off air, it’s sadly been proven that more TV viewers would prefer to watch manufactured dating, relationship or wedding-themed “reality” over content which vaguely resembles actual dating, relationship or wedding reality.
To prove my point, MAFS received nearly two million metro viewers for some of the final episodes last year. The Bachelor/ette got over a million metro viewers for their climaxes. Love On The Spectrum barely got over 500k for one or two episodes (and still couldn’t outrate the ACA “MAFS Wedding Special Event” in Week 1), while Love Me As I Am got less than 200k with more viewers likely seeing the cutdown review of events on Gogglebox than the full documentary as it was intended to be seen on SBS!
While I wouldn’t disagree with anyone who thinks so-called “reality” TV is possibly making things worse, there have always been weird and crazy people in this world we live in!
No surprises here.
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and this show just proves it lol
MAFS is not going to crash and burn this year. Last year was probably it’s peak and it might not match those numbers but I still imagine it will be a big hit. MKR I think will struggle moreso as it’s so tired and might lend some of it’s audience to Survivor.
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