Don’t think it’s been mentioned.
It was nice to see a network hold their upfronts event, somewhere other than Sydney for a change.
Melbourne has just as many headquarters / advertisers / media.
And looks like lots made the flight from Sydney or elsewhere.
Stunner day for it too ☉ Where was it held? Surely not BCM.
I don’t know about that to be honest. The Block is far too established.
What’s is off the list for 7 in 2018:
I know that Summer of tennis is at the start of the year, but has Fast4 Tennis been canned in 2018?
As long as it does enough damage to one of them to get axed, I will be happy. I hate the Renovation Genre and I have no idea why we have two programs that are basically the same show. Let’s get rid of one.
Indoors.
If they did, the upfronts would be held there every year.
Well if you looked at the premise of the two shows you would see that they are actually very different to each other, if you would care to notice. Just because they’re the same genre of show does NOT mean they are exactly the same. House Rules is renovating the contestant’s own homes; their most prized possession essentially, while The Block is renovating some rundown set of houses/unit block etc that Nine have acquired.
But the two shows are also very similar in many ways. The basis is couples (with quirky nick names) renovating as part of a contest. Both are based around improving home living spaces, visits to the hardware store, dealing with contractors, interacting with other teams, picking paint colours, tiles, curtains, furniture and working to a difficult to meet deadlines. Throw in a host and some judges to score things and the similarities are remarkable.
I mentioned yesterday that the upfronts were held at The Glasshouse on Olympic Boulevard/Swan Street, opposite Melbourne Park. The Glasshouse is now the home of Collingwood Football Club.
Obviosuly.
Melb actually has more HQs than Sydney, but save for another thread.
It’s just the media is heavily Sydney focussed, with all networks HQs there.
Ah, okay. Looked fancy.
@TV.Cynic pretty much said what I would have said (and explained it better than I would have).
Block uses abandoned wearhouse and buildings in an area ripe for gentrification while HR uses the contestant’s own house but other than, than is the same show.
Your invite got lost in the post?
What about the format of the show? In House Rules there is an elimination process and it gets drawn down to the final two teams for a grand final. In The Block, all teams are in it right until the auction day finale since they all work on their own apartments/houses room by room each week until each gets sold off to new owners and it’s the team with the highest profit that wins. In House Rules, it effectively comes down to the judges now since this year as to who wins so still very different in my eyes.
Same, same but different.
Only the renovating of houses part as far as I can see, which is what you need to make a renovation reality genre isn’t it? The premises are slightly different so you have two different shows on two rival networks. Same scenario with MKR and Masterchef, right?
Yes. Seven ripped off both concepts to some extent. 
As I said. Same, same but different.
Well if you are saying they tried to create another reality show of the same genre as Ten’s Masterchef & Nine’s The Block then you are right but other than that, it is not a rip off of any concept; Seven put their own spin into the format of the shows as you can probably see…
You say they “put a spin on the concept”. Others say they ripped off thd concept but made it different enough so they wouldn’t get sued.
It was the same when Nine then tried to rip off MKR with The Hotplate but made it too similar, were sued and had to stop making it.