Seven ramps up local content
Three new local shows in romance, reality and light entertainment, announced for 2017.
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Seven has announced three new local shows, including two formats it has developed internally.
They are Back with the Ex, Instant Hotel and Behave Yourself!
Instant Hotel: Tapping into the world-wide trend of home-owners renting out their properties as holiday accommodation, this new competition series will see home owners vie for the title of best Instant Hotel. Personal taste, precious belongings and price point are all open for judgement as teams travel the country and stay in newly created ‘hotels.’ Guided by a yet to be announced host, homeowners will be judged by a hospitality and interiors expert.
Back with the Ex: Every one of us remembers the very first time we fell in love – the one special person we have never forgotten. Back with the Ex reunites singles with an ‘ex’ they’ve never been able to forget. They are then given the chance to find out if they were ‘the one’ after all. Then comes the ultimate decision: do they walk into the sunset together, or do they walk away forever?
Behave Yourself! Rounding out Seven’s new entertainment productions is Behave Yourself!, a comedy panel program featuring Australia’s best-loved comedians and celebrities competing in fun physical games that reveal the hilarious, shocking and fascinating facts behind why we do the things we do.
Behave Yourself! is hosted by Darren McMullen, based on Irrational Behaviour by Dan Ariely, whose simple experiments uncover universal truths about human irrationality. It has been co-developed by Seven and Eureka Productions.
The new shows follow Head of Programming Angus Ross confirming The X Factor would not return in 2017. Together with Dancing with the Stars out of view, Seven was ready to reveal new local programming.
“The quality of the work coming out of our development team is exceptional,” he said. “The three commissions we are announcing today include two original formats. Australian audiences love Australian-produced content, making this investment in local shows very straightforward.”
Seven is yet to confirm if The Big Music Quiz, also hosted by Darren McMullen, will return in 2017.
25 Responses
Wow, love the positivity. I actually think 7 are trying new things that needs to be acknowledged by blog readers. The Instant Hotel, seems like a new idea and while reuniting with an Ex, may not be everyone’s type of dating show (I am not into that genre) and then an Aussie spin with Comedians on an International format, shows new ideas, I always think wait and see….
Cheap to make, and utterly boring. Why don’t they pool the money for those 3 shows and make a halfway decent drama?
This was asked below. What about the other hours?
I won’t be watching any of these. When I came to this thread I was expecting some new local drama or something not this reality crap. This stuff will get viewers though and the reason 7 do it is because it’s cheaper to produce.
Shows I will watch in 2017 on 7 are 800 words, wanted, and possibly the secret daughter (I haven’t caught up with season 1 yet so it depends on how I like it). Reality shows I will watch include border patrol, highway patrol, the force, and surveillance oz. I like the real-life observational reality, not this competition with bitchy drama fake stuff.
3 new shows for 2017 – pass.
Boring!! ? ch7 has completely lost it’s touch with good drama & entertainment, no wonder why I hardly watch ch7.
So ch7 gets rid of a beautiful piece of Australian Drama with a Place to Call Home but they put these sorts of shows on. Seriously Back with the ex. Can’t people work that out themselves without having to resort to tv to play it out.
David, you should run a TV tonight comp that gives all the comments on here a chance to pitch for a tv show idea, because clearly they all think they can do better than the 7/9/10 producers.
Sorry for wanting better content and having an opinion about it.
nore reality tv crap cant tv stations make shows
Behave Yourself sounds pretty interesting, sort of brain games like
Can’t see myself wanting to watch any of this stuff! Surely the can pool the costs of the three shows and make a decent new drama series that is aimed at both males and females.
But what would they air in the other hours? The test pattern? Agree these sound light, but we will have to wait and see.
if 9 announced these three shows you would call them desperate
Would I? Not sure what you are implying.
There’s sure to be enough content from the US that could air at a better time or get to see the day of light here.
Well some of those hours could be filled with that cannonball show which 7 still haven’t aired.
The test pattern would rate better than this garbage
LOL Probabily.
Instant Hotel would work, if it was given some spit/polish (MKR treatment, two rounds of “instant hotels” (not having one huge round), then final six are given B&B’s to update), instead of trying to be the master of two genres, majoring in none.
I reckon if “Instant Hotel” was given that spit/polish, I mentioned: it’d allow Seven to start MKR next year after the GC Comm Games, and have this format lead out of the tennis, not as a X-Factor replacement that will potentially get steamrolled.
Hmmm… they all sound sound like what you’d get if you glued together the scraps rejected from several other less successful reality or comedy formats.
Back with the Ex sounds like a cleaned up Disney version of MTV’s Ex on the Beach!
Scraping the bottom of the barrel here. Will be a disaster
Behave Yourself might be decent I might give it a try. However ther two shows look like they will be horrible but that is the quality of programming that I expect from 7.
These shows sound pathetic. Its the sort of shows you expect to see on multichannels around 2am in the morning.