ENTERTAINMENT
Next year, the screens of Seven will be home to 25 local entertainment shows, including hit tentpole shows that won more audiences this year on TV, digital or both – Farmer Wants A Wife, Australian Idol, My Kitchen Rules, The Voice, Dancing With The Stars and the most successful new entertainment show in recent years, The 1% Club.
As it heads into its 37th season in 2025, Home and Away reigns as Australia’s most watched drama series and the biggest show on 7plus. Seven’s drama slate next year also includes the highly anticipated third season of the award-winning and high-rating drama RFDS .
Newcomers to Seven’s local line up in 2025 will include Stranded On Honeymoon Island , Once In A Lifetime , Jim Jefferies And Friends, all-new First Dates and the special events Working Class Man (the story of Jimmy Barnes), Live It Up: The Mental As Anything Story and Cold Chisel Live: 50th Anniversary Tour.
Stranded on Honeymoon Island
A unique social experiment, Stranded on Honeymoon Island puts adventure, survival and, above all, isolation at the heart of this quest for love. But will the experience lead to love or loathing? The couples are matched by experts following a speed dating event, but they don’t know which partner has been chosen for them until they see them at the intimate commitment ceremony. Immediately after committing themselves to each other, they are dramatically abandoned on their own deserted tropical islands for the adventure of a lifetime.
Once In A Lifetime
In Once In A Lifetime, beloved vet Dr Chris Brown, embarks on global wildlife journeys, joined by entertaining Australian personalities (including Mick Molloy, Amanda Keller, Kate Ritchie and Matt Preston) as his untrained and unqualified veterinary assistants. Together, they help iconic animals while navigating unpredictable and often humorous situations. From saving endangered species to facing wild dangers, these duos experience the raw beauty of nature.
Jim Jefferies And Friends
In 2025, the host of Seven’s smash hit The 1% Club steps into his own stand-up show, Jim Jefferies And Friends . Featuring comedy legends Dave Hughes, Jimeoin, Arj Barker, Tommy Little, Nikki Osborne, Mel Buttle, Felicity Ward and many more, this strictly adults- only affair will see Jim in rip-snorting form as master of ceremonies.
Working Class Man
Aussie music will take centre stage on Seven next year with the legendary Cold Chisel’s 50th anniversary tour; Working Class Man, a documentary based on Jimmy Barnes’ best- selling book and featuring the legendary singer telling his story with his trademark honesty and insight.
Live It Up: The Mental As Anything Story
Live It Up: The Mental As Anything Story, a hilarious and moving documentary about one of Australia’s most-loved bands that travels from the sticky carpets of Sydney pubs to the shiny stage of Top of the Pops.
Returning
After celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, Australia’s #1 lifestyle show – Better Homes and Gardens – returns, while TV WEEK Gold Logie winner Larry Emdur and the Chasers are back for a new season of The Chase Australia.
Also coming in 2025 are new seasons of the iconic Border Security: Australia’s Front Line and Highway Patrol, plus The Hunters, The Rise And Fall Of Kings Cross, The Great Outdoors and Off The Grid with Manu Feildel and Colin Fassnidge.
Special Events
The biggest night in Australian TV – the TV WEEK Logie Awards – will sparkle on Seven and 7plus again in 2025, along with other special events including Melbourne’s Good Friday Appeal, Sydney’s Carols In The Domain and the Channel 7 Telethon in Perth, which raised a record $83.3 million last month.
Seven Chief Content Officer, Brook Hall, said: “From our content ‘spine’ of Sunrise, The Morning Show, The Chase Australia, 7NEWS, Home and Away and Better Homes and Gardens, to increasingly popular tentpoles such as Farmer Wants A Wife, Australian Idol, The Voice, My Kitchen Rules, The 1% Club and Dancing With The Stars, Seven has a powerful year-long schedule that will keep Australians connected and entertained.
“Our new tentpoles including Stranded On Honeymoon Island and Once In A Lifetime will further strengthen our 7.30pm line up. While other networks’ line ups go through peaks and troughs, we consistently deliver audiences year-round across Seven and 7plus.”
Overseas acquisitions - 7plus First
In 2025 Seven is taking a “7plus first” approach to all of its new overseas programming including Suits: LA, Doc, The Hunting Party, Grosse Pointe Garden Society, St Denis Medical, Ludwig and The Americas.
Mr Hall said: “We plan to drop one, premium new series on 7plus every single month during 2025, shows like Suits: LA, The Americas and much more.”
From NBC comes Suits: LA, in which Ted Black, a former federal prosecutor from New York, reinvents himself representing the most powerful clients in Los Angeles; Grosse Pointe Garden Society, which centres on four members of a suburban garden club, all from different walks of life, who get caught up in murder and mischief; and The Hunting Party, a high-concept crime procedural about a small team of investigators who are assembled to track down and capture most dangerous killers who have just escaped from a top-secret prison that’s not supposed to exist.
From BBC Studios Natural History Unit, the creators of the critically acclaimed and multi- Emmy Award-winning Planet Earth and Blue Planet, in association with Universal Television Alternative Studio, The Americas is an epic 11-part tentpole event series, narrated by Tom Hanks.
