Airdate: Farmer Wants a Wife
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Nine’s new reality show Farmer Wants a Wife will air later this month, replacing McLeod’s Daughters.
It will premiere at 7:30pm on Wednesday October 24.
In the series 6 farmers will feature, each looking for a prospective partner. The host is Natalie Gruzlewski.
‘Farmer Brad’ (pictured) is 30 years old and lives at Swan Hill. “I work with machinery, my hands and in the office also. At the end of the day my creativity is expressed through the crops we grow,” he says. But Brad is still single despite having “studied alternate therapies, been to ashrams, enjoy bush festivals, read extensively on spirituality and personal development.”
“I’m looking for a fun, down to earth and open minded woman. Someone who is comfortable with who she is and with a natural radiance. A woman with an open heart and a beautiful radiant soul!” he says.
SBS has also played matchmaker with a similar concept, Desperately Seeking Sheila, introducing Aussie men to British women.
The Australian bush is unforgiving territory and the men who live here are the soul of the country, but even they need someone to help them love the land.
It has been almost impossible for farmers to meet the woman of their dreams – until now. The Farmer Wants A Wife, which premieres at 7.30pm Wednesday, October 24 on Nine, offers six of Australia’s most eligible farmers a solution to their love problem. This is not a competition, there is no prize money, and the only winner in the end is … love.
The farmers are all prime husband material. Following hundreds of applications from women across Australia, we will follow the farmers’ road to romance over six weeks and it’s going to be a bumpy ride.
To begin the search our farmers posted their profiles online and women applied to meet them. From the applications each farmer selected 10 women, and that’s where we join them on their quest for love.
Series host Natalie Gruzlewski said: “I’ve had an absolute blast getting to know this great group of guys – I can’t believe they’re single!
“I’ve loved being a part of this journey with them and watching the changes in each of them as they pursue the chance to discover the girl of their dreams.”
In episode one, six farmers and 60 excited city girls all head to a country estate where the farmers snatch five minutes with each of their 10 women. After the speed dating there’s a chance for the ladies to mingle while the farmers have a potentially life-changing decision to make: which five girls do they want to see again?
The farmers cull their list to five women and over the coming weeks they take their top five on a group date – ranging from ice skating to a harbour cruise and a Spanish dancing class. For some the chemistry is obvious.
At the end of the group date each farmer faces another enormous decision: he has to invite two women to spend 10 days on his farm – together – to see if love will blossom, and make a final choice between the two.
Can the women eventually chosen give up city life? Will tension flare in the household? Rural work will be hard and dirty and for some women just too much. And the prize of a lifetime up for grabs? The chance that love will finally bloom in the outback … and the farmer will indeed find a wife.
The Farmer Wants A Wife is a FremantleMedia Australia production for the Nine Network. To meet the farmers visit ninemsn.com.au/farmerwantsawife.
7 Responses
I think the farmer wants a wife is a good show. before people start putting their two cents in against the show maybe they need to find out what really goes on in the country. Im from the city and moved to the country a year ago, and its nothing like i expected, they work so hard and are very committed to the land.
I dont think the show was long enough.
Good on ya channel 9 for making this series
So much for the new age farmer, Brad dropping the bomb shell he has already found love, why did he bother applying and committing to the series?
All of which is being admirably depicted in the ABC’s Rain Shadow.
Don’t knock it until you watch it…
Farmers are having a very tough time with the drought – growing suicide rates – they need all the cheering up they can get! And if a tv show helps out – great stuff.
So… hold your comments until you’ve seen it I say.
Jack, did you even bother to read the title of the show? lol 😉
On topic though, I think Nine are starting to give Yasmin Dale and David Tench a run for their money.
I love these kind of shows … but are any of the farmers Gay???? I hope so!
But I agree with Neon Kitten … the end is very near for Nine!
Jack!
Oh, Nine. Oh, dear.
The end can’t be far away by now, surely? 🙂