Airdate: The Weakest Link
Rebooted game show is coming to Tuesdays on Nine.
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Magda Szubanski will debut as host of The Weakest Link on Nine on Tuesday May 4th.
The show will debut at 8:50pm following Lego Masters.
Filming began this week at Docklands Studios in Melbourne, on a huge set, produced by BBC Studios Australia.
The reboot, as first revealed by TV Tonight, follows from a successful return of the format in the US with Jane Lynch.
Nine plans to screen the series weekly, although it isn’t clear for how many weeks as yet.
BBC Studio’s ANZ Director of Production Kylie Washington, said: “We are delighted to reintroduce Australians to this fast, fun and addictive show which is a pop cultural phenomenon. In Magda Szubanski we have found the perfect host who will preside over the contestants with her acerbic wit as they do battle to avoid being voted Weakest Link.”
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Was this originally meant to start at 7.30PM on a Wednesday or was it Tuesday after Lego Masters all along ,it is an odd choice I admit and doesn’t inspire confidence.
No Travel Guides has that slot.
Yeah I know I meant to say a Tuesday and LM may have moved to 2 nights ,only a few weeks left for that now ,I’ll watch to see it thanks DK
I auditioned for the show when the late Cornelia Frances was host. I never got chosen though .
Will be interesting how this goes..
I applied to audition, hope I get chosen..
Terrible time slot, should be 7:30pm. I really don’t see Magda working as the host, she’s know for her soft approach and as a comedian. Where as Cornelia was known for her hard no nonsense characters from previous dramas. I’d never want to cross paths with Morag Bellingham in the 80s and 90s.
Are they trying to bury this show already after her twitter comments?
Hopefully!
Can’t see this time slot attracting many viewers for a snarky style of show.
Will be nice if they pay tribute or dedicate the first episode to Cornelia Francis.
Was the 3:12am Saturday timeslot taken?
Yes it is , that’s usually reserved for Manifest or some such 😀
Bizarre time slot
Really? I also thought this would be 7:30 timeslot, screening like The Cube on 10…
Gretel should be host of this and Big Brother. When on 7 presented by Cornelia it always aired at 7.30pm following Home & Away.
Yeah but Cornelia’s version was a different era where stripped reality TV didn’t rule the bandwidth.
Nice to see Nine ramping up its local post reality tentpole shows this year, with this, the new Liz Hayes show and some dramas.
Wrong Host
Wrong Time
Starting time of 8:50pm? So it’ll be 9:08pm. This’ll fail, should be a 7:30pm show. What a strange programming decision.
9pm for a family quiz show? Is this some sort of tax write-off for 9?
will not be watching after the way she spoke about the prime minister wife and also the way she spoke about Christians
@Leo : Both good reasons in my book. She had good points. This is however an odd time for the show. They should wait until Lego Masters is done, then run a weekly 7.30pm show.