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Bumped: Blow Up

Seven's balloon show moves to 7flix after just two episodes.

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Seven has responded to low numbers for Blow Up by moving the series to 7flix from next Monday night.

Instead a Farmer Wants a Wife Reunion will screen next Monday night.

Seven:
Sunday
7pm Farmer Wants a Wife Final
8:30pm 7News Spotlight

Monday
7:30pm Farmer Wants a Wife Reunion

Tuesday
7:30pm Highway Patrol dbl

7flix
7:30pm Mon / Tues Blow Up

The series drew 288,000 and 224,000 in Overnight numbers. While it grew to 508,000 in Monday VOZ numbers, Tuesday’s fell back to 392,000.

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  1. Perhaps one of the reasons this program didn’t entice viewers is because the contestants are all professional people, whereas Lego Masters & MasterChef have mostly amateur contestants that viewers can aspire to being. We can watch their creations & dream of one day emulating them. Not the same with the balloon artworks for the majority of viewers.

    Just my thoughts for my first ever post on here 🙂

    1. I mean copycat shows do work … My Kitchen Rules is petty pairs MasterChef with a dash of Come Dine With Me. House Rules is Block but their own houses get renovated. Love Island is Bachelor in Paradise + Ch10 era Big Brother. Ch7 Big Brother is Survivor in a house. Voice & X-Factor is Aus Idol with more focus on the ego driven judges (itself derivative of older talent contests). Hell even for a recent example Summit is Bridge on a mountain.

      They may not have outlived the original but they were all at least solid performers if not were as big or bigger than the inspiration. Hell I enjoyed many of the copycats for being a more of some thing I liked.

      As shameless as it is to say, sometimes copycats work and most everything is derivative.

  6. Here you go, 7… Brand new concept! “Breaking Wind in the Bath”. Based on an original Dutch format.and reinforces the motto: the family that bathes together, stays together.
    I can see them queueing up now!

  7. Maybe Seven can bring back Holey Moley ha – that was another dud, albeit it rated better than the balloon show, but the novelty of people getting knocked into a swimming pool playing some weird form of mini golf wore thin after a while.
    As for Blow Up, the attempt to replicate Lego Masters was so obvious – a comedian as host, quirky contestants, magical creations, a brightly coloured set etc.

  8. … I got around to watching the first two episodes last night and two things struck me – the first is that using actors as entertainment hosts doesn’t work, the second is that there were a few mildly smutty jokes and innuendos between the hosts and contestants which somewhat conflicted with the nature of the show and became particularly offensive when they introduced six-year-old kids into the second episode … what were they thinking?

    2. Plenty of actors shine as hosts – Hannah Waddingham the obvious recent example.

      As for smut and innuendo- just because it’s there doesn’t mean it isn’t kid safe. Throughout history shows that on the surface appeal to kids pack in the gags for the adults too, knowing that their innocence protects kids from them.

      What nobody can be protected from is a stinker of a format – yet another show where viewers could see it flopping the moment it was announced but execs commission it anyway.

  10. So what do 7 have on deck?

    Because surely they will plug the gap with something on deck – I can’t imagine 7 going to filler shows when FWAW finishes and loose momentum.

  11. An inevitable outcome – many of us here on TVT predicted it.
    Yes, Seven tried something new – but a similar show/concept to Lego Masters (which Seven passed on) and right after it finished screening??? Perhaps it would have been better at the end of the year in November after The Block has concluded but squeezing in before ratings finished. If it rates, great – another series next year; if it tanks, well the year is done now anyway – hello summer holidays.

    1. Agree on the inevitability of this. Also, the feel of the show (bright primary colours, appeal to child audiences) made it seem like a Summer show rather than something to screen at the very edge of Winter. It just felt like the wrong show at the wrong time and would have benefited from a re-think and distancing itself in both time and presentation style from the lego show.

    1. As has been much discussed, it wasn’t “something new” but a rehash of Lego with an even more narrow interest base from the same production company.

  16. Hardly a huge surprise, whatever possessed the Channel Seven programmers to commission such a program in the first place? Balloon making doesn’t make for great reality TV, no matter how creative the contestants obviously were.

  19. This is good. Usually we get bombarded by 7 with promos saying ‘Australia’s new sensation’ or something similar. When a show is tanking. (think We Interrupt This Broadcast). Let it play out on 7flix.

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