Airdate: Changing Rooms
Nat Bass and four designers are ready for a splash of colour on 10.
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10 has confirmed Changing Rooms for Wednesday and Thursday nights following the season of I’m a Celebrity.
There are no less than 4 designers joining host Natalie Bassingthwaighte (centre) for the series:
Design & Renovation Expert Naomi Findlay (pictured far left), Interior Designer/ Stylists Jane Thomson (far right) & Chris Carroll (second from left), and Interior Designer Tim Leveson (second from right).
Each week over two episodes, two couples swap homes and are tasked with making over three rooms in five days with a $20,000 budget.
The participants – either family, neighbours or best friends – will give up the keys to their most prized possession, their home. The very place they call their own, where they have shared their most treasured memories and where they can escape the world and feel the most content and safe.
Halfway through the makeover, and after two room reveals, the couples will meet for dinner for an open and honest discussion, where they can bring to light any major issues or concerns for their final room reveal. The couples are then given a surprise $1000 gift to put all the lessons they have learned into action for one last standout design feature in the final room reveal.
7:30pm Wednesday, 13 February on 10.
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Plus from memory the original Changing Rooms was a 30 minute format paired with Our House ?
90 mins for ep 1 this time, and 2 in a week.
I think this is doomed running over 2 nights … Changing Rooms will be cannon fodder for the big reality shows.
Why not one action packed hour per week instead of two stretched out episodes where we will be literally watching paint dry ?
No way to keep up drama and interest in just 6 rooms over two nights and two hours…and the format changes sound weak.
Changing Rooms or Changing Channels ?
10 aren’t making it easy for themselves launching this and DWTS when 7 and 9s offerings have already been airing for a number of weeks
But they have to Launch something when celebrity ends. They can’t hold out for 4 months until MKR ends.
Plus with the amount of Home and Away episodes to catch up on MKR might not air Thursdays.
Agree with ekane… its going to be tough but they have to air something.. its a really tough ask to rate like mafs and MKRules/fails that format is getting tired.. but i hope this can do okay numbers for Ten because they deserve it.
I remember when Changing Rooms was shown during the ’90s with host Suzie Wilks on Nine Network. It was a fun spirited show and it was good to see the creativity in the selection of room decor. There were some awkward moments between friends when some of the participants did not like the decor after seeing the changes made to their rooms.
I think the idea of airing it over two consecutive nights is actually a good idea. But I suspect two hours will require a PVR and fast forwarding the “coming up next”, “what you missed” and adverts, to condense it into 60 minutes of viewing (hopefully) pleasure!
Should have added, wishing them the best with this to be a little different from the stripped formats! Personally 2 nights a week is an easier commitment!
I think this will go the way of Blind Date, because when it first aired it was new, different, unusual. But now our renovation palates have been refined by numerous interior design and reno shows, it’s all a bit old hat.
They’ve already messed with the format. When Nine had weekly 40 minute episodes it worked well, we don’t need 2×60+mins a week.
This will be a tough ask going against MAFS dinner parties on a Wednesday… will give it a go on 10play i think for me! 2 nights is good as well. Used to love this show as a kid.