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Upfronts 2024: what can we expect from Seven?

New reality shows, returning hits, leading News, Drama and awards shows are set to be unveiled.

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Seven will unveil its 2024 Upfront slate tomorrow afternoon at an industry event at ICC Darling Harbour, as part of SXSW.

Hit shows will return including The Voice, Farmer Wants a Wife, Dancing with the Stars and The Chase. There are returns from Australian Idol, Logie Awards, and First Dates is back on the network.

We should hear more about Dream Home, Stranded on Honeymoon Island and possibly travel contest Ultimate Escape which looks to have been pushed to 2024.

We didn’t get any of This Is Your Life this year, will it return in ’24? Someone is behind a Tough as Nails series -could it be Seven? And I can’t help but notice Carrie Bickmore is without a network, might it be time for a shift?

RFDS deserves a renewal so fingers crossed there, and the network is fond of the true crime miniseries.

Confirmed:
Stranded on Honeymoon Island
Australian Idol (Marcia Hines joins as judge)
The Voice
Farmer Wants a Wife
Logie Awards 2024
MKR
Dream Home
Dancing with the Stars (Chris Brown co-host)
First Dates
The Chase (David Poltorak joins as the Professor)
Seven News
Sunrise
The Morning Show
The Latest
AFL / AFLW
Cricket
Supercars

Rumoured:
Tough as Nails
Unnamed animal show for Chris Brown

Expected to be renewed:
The 1% Club
Home & Away
This is Your Life
Better Homes & Gardens
The Front Bar
7News Spotlight
Outback Truckers
Academy Awards
Super Bowl

Yet to air in 2023:
Ultimate Escape
Big Brother
Darradong Council
Telethon
Carols In The Domain
Fam Time

Future unknown:
RFDS
SAS Australia
Animals Aboard With Dr Harry
Code 1: Minute by Minute
Gold Coast Ocean Rescue

Unlikely to return:
Blow Up
Million Dollar Island
Kitchen Nightmares
We Interrupt this Broadcast

You can follow Live updates from the Upfront presentation after 5pm AEDT here.

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  1. Other than 1% Club, Big Brother (which would be made better as a live production, while maintaining the current game-focused format) and The Chase as my 5pm game show, nothing really strikes a cord with me on 7.

    I know they have to appeal to a wide audience, but I hope they surprise with something interesting today.

  2. Looks like Tough as Nails
    Is now confirmed on ch10. I agree it’s a shame there isn’t more comedy in the current line up. I did enjoy We Interrupt This Broadcast.

  4. So the only shows besides News & Sports the only shows that will be returning next year are all the reality crap.

    With so much reality shows across all the commercial FTA networks it’s no wonder we watch so little on 7, 9 & 10.

    Of all those shows listed above: we have watched and would watch again:

    We Interrupt this Broadcast
    Code 1: Minute by Minute
    The 1% Club
    RFDS
    Carols in The Domain
    Plus the occasional 7NEWS Spotlight and AFL/Cricket match (only if its not on Kayo for their reduced ads).

    This has been the case for 7, 9 & 10 for many, many years now and doesn’t look like changing anytime soon.

      1. David, I absolutely accept that your post is a “preview” post on what may or may not happen tomorrow.

        But I don’t think that I/we are that much wrong in saying that only News, Sports & Reality TV can be confirmed renewed ahead of whatever announcements are made tomorrow. We will have to await what is actually announced to see what else survives.

  5. Probably just me but I think it’s a shame We Interrupt This Broadcast wont be back. I thought it was a nice change from most of prime time free to air theses days, and it was finding a nice groove in later episodes where they branched out into things like gentle political satire.

  7. I thought Kitchen Nightmares AU with Fassnidge at the very end of last year was actually decent and did pretty well in total tv? Wasn’t there talk, at least from him, of it coming back this year?

  8. I really hope ultimate escape is not a copy of nines travel guide. Agree about RFDS. Season 2 at least as good as season one. Beautifully filmed. Quality production all round. Assume international sales would be decent. Logies….fingers crossed Sam is back.

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