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Hot Seat “Heroes” week to tackle Million Dollar Minute

Nine will screen a special "themed" week of Hot Seat, to tackle Seven's Million Dollar Minute.

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Nine will screen a special “themed” week of Hot Seat episodes, strategically designed to tackle Seven’s Million Dollar Minute.

Hot Seat is giving something back to some of Australia’s most deserving citizens in Heroes Week, a week of heartfelt episodes starting Monday, September 23, on Channel Nine.

Unsung heroes from across the country will be given their chance at winning $1 million.

Over five big nights we will see charity workers, people who risk their lives to rescue others, professional heroes and extraordinary volunteers, all putting their minds to the test in the coveted Hot Seat.

Each episode will see the Hot Seat Heroes telling their inspirational stories while battling the tough questions from host Eddie McGuire.

The week starts on Monday, September 23, with Nicolette Powell, a palliative and oncology massage therapist from Melbourne who has changed lives through the art of gentle massage. She has also massaged rapper Snoop Dogg’s father.

On Tuesday, Rebecca Green flies into the Hot Seat, having spent the last two years volunteering for the Royal Flying Doctor Service in South Australia after experiencing the benefits of the service first-hand following a fall on a school trip and a subsequent airlift.

Wednesday sees Gary Hays from South Australia in the chair. As a Tasmanian police officer in 1996, he put his life on the line during the Port Arthur massacre, saving the lives of two fellow officers.

On Thursday night Nick Randles, a professional fire-fighter from South Australia, battles it out with Eddie. One of his most memorable days on the job was rescuing a pup flushed down the toilet by a curious child.

The feel-good week concludes with Blake Woodberry, 19, from Tasmania. He volunteered to work in Cambodia, building eight houses in just two days for victims of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime.

Will one of these selfless heroes make history by claiming the first $1 million jackpot in Hot Seat history?

Hot Seat is enjoying its best year yet, recording an impressive 10 per cent audience growth and attracting an average of 170,000 more viewers (5 City Metro) than Deal or No Deal each day.

Since it launched in 2009, Hot Seat has given away more than $21 million in prizemoney.

Starts Monday, September 23, at 5.30pm on Channel Nine.

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  1. To MM it is Seven who are the copy cat network…Gee Nine has a $Million game show show at 5.30…lets do it…Gee Ten has a cooking show at 7.30 lets do it…Gee Nine has a renovation show…lets do it…Gee Nine has Sixty Minutes…lets do it…Gee Nine has a mid afternoon show News Now…lets do it…
    Do I see a pattern?
    Think Home and away Today Tonight etc all started to copy a program on another channel.

  2. Thought that channel 9 would have to do something similar to 7 with a million dollars up for grabs, cant 9 ever think of doing something original for themselves, why are they always so petty, or take on other channels throw outs, don’t have time for their immature attitude anymore, get some people on board that have more initiative.

  6. If they want to up the ante against Million Dollar Minute, Hot Seat should also drop one of the lower dollar levels and put in a $500,000 one, so it goes $250,000, $500,000, 1 million, instead of the now jump from $250,000 to 1 million.

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