Quick question: does it really matter who wins? It is all about watching and enjoying the scenarios to me.
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of course it doesn’t. It’s inconsequential. But that doesn’t mean we can’t discuss who does/doesn’t or who should/shouldn’t.
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Exactly! IMO most of the so called judges get it wrong anyway.
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It’s just interesting that the viewers have disagreed with the judge’s choice a few times this season.
I think the judges are picking someone who has 1 good line that can be used on a promo, even though the rest of their performance was pretty flat
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Not sure if it has been mentioned, but every season of the show is now streaming on 10 Play.
(The current season is also available ad free on Paramount+)
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TGYH will premiere on ThreeNow and Three in New Zealand in January 2025, date and season to be confirmed.
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The show premieres on Three on Friday, January 24 at 8pm, with one new episode weekly. It will start from the 2023 season with guests Aaron Chen, Julia Zemiro, Urzila Carlson and Mark Bonanno.
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HGYH hasn’t actually been confirmed as returning this year yet. A shame if it doesn’t 
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Good news for The Amazing Race Australia and Taskmaster. Bad news for Hunted, Dessert Masters and possibly Thank God You’re Here.
They need a better title for The List. Call it Travel List or It’s on the List. Anything would be better than the generic title.
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Returning according SMH article on Working Dog.
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Very interesting, I think maybe David at TVT maybe oversold that the show wasn’t returning, rather than saying it hasn’t yet been confirmed whether it will - especially since his article also stated:
We’re just working through it now,” Monaghan explains.
“It’s about getting the production company and us aligned to the right timing.”
I wouldn’t call that a lock in. It’s just a journalist talking about working dog. To me it still sounds like working dog and 10 are working out when they are going to film it.
The show is definitely not returning this year.
What an absolute shame.
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Really hate the show but definitely though 10 would bring it back especially considering it rates well and is probably a lot cheaper than most of their other shows in Primetime.
What is baffling is why Taskmaster is back again. Even moving it to a new day still couldn’t raise its numbers and it rated worse than Thank God and is probably more expensive to make too.
10 already felt incredibly light on programming in the back of 2024 so I wonder what they have in store? Primetime Lingo, extra Norton, expanded Project or maybe a real treat and another season of Jamie Oliver.
I guess 10 really is shuffling the deckchairs on the Titanic on what certainly feels like its dying hours.
Back end of 2025 will have Big Brother. That will consume around 10 hours of prime time a week.
The decision on thank god you’re here is odd. I just wondered if Celia was pregnant and they couldn’t make the scheduling work.
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Yeah but they’ve already axed Hunted, Masked Singer, Bachelor and now Thank God. I doubt Shark Tank will be back and Dessert Masters wasn’t renewed. Axing a variety of shows and formats and just having Big Brother plugging the schedule is beyond risky. Presumambly Amazing Race and Survivor Aus V World starts after Masterchef.
Big Brother is going to blow up in their faces so badly. 10 hours a week is just overkill unless its dumped on a multichannel with lower expectations, which sort of defeats the purpose of the show. It was a time capsule and with Socials and Tik Tok, Big Brother has already been replaced.
I’m A Celeb is on for just under 9 hours a week and it’s struggling. It’s also only on for a month.
CBS is getting sued by Trump and Paramount/CBS have been axing staff and shows to cut costs and reduce overhead for the best part of the year due to the merger with Skydance. It’s nothing to to with Celia being pregnant. Like you said earlier 10 probably think Big Brother will cover its slot and they can’t axe Taskmaster now as it’s already filmed.
Masked and Bachelor didn’t air last year, so no gap to fill with those shows. They also didn’t axe TGYH, sounds like they couldn’t make it work this year and not unusual for Working Dog to take a break with shows.
Undoubtedly they have some gaps to fill if they’re not returning or resting Dessert Masters, Hunted & Shark Tank (unknown) - but they also announced more new shows at their upfronts than any other commerical network and there is likely still some more announcements to come since they wouldn’t have expected TGYH to not return as it was originally announced as returning, and wouldn’t have made a decision on Dessert, Hunted etc as they were still on-air.
As far as new shows for 2025, we’ve got Pangs new show, the second season of Survivor, Talkin’ About Your Gen, The List, Airport 24/7, House Hunters Australia, Ghosts Australia, Todd Sampson’s Why?, Staycation etc. which is a decent start but they also run slightly short every year - nothing new there.
Big Brother at the back half of the year will presumably fix a big scheduling hole for 4-6~ weeks they’ve had there for a while, given how much it’ll cost them I doubt they’d dump it if it does mediocre as it couldn’t be worse than the filler they’ve aired in Q4 the last few years.
Up on 2022 season and way up for the timeslot YOY, but sure.
Lol what? Why would they even do this.
They only axed hunted and dessert masters and replaced them with a second Masterchef season, Big Brother and a second survivor season. I think they will be more stacked than last year.
There is only one season of MasterChef this year.
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I thought there was a back to win season as well?