LEGO® Masters Australia returns to Nine for its fourth season with eight new teams putting their imaginations and building skills to the test.
In each episode the teams will compete in special challenges devised and judged by Ryan “Brickman” McNaught, with the added importance of impressing host Hamish Blake. Contestants will have to pull out all the stops if they want to dodge elimination and make it to the finale and the chance to win the $100,000 prize and be crowned LEGO® Masters for 2022.
This year the new Titanium Brick of Triumph will wield unprecedented power, changing hands during the competition as the contestants play for it with every build.
The eight teams are made up of a diverse and exciting cast of contestants, each with different skill sets and abilities. Amongst them a father and son team, a team of LEGO®-loving brothers, best mates, and two husbands. LEGO® Masters Australia will push their imaginations and creativity to the limit as they go into each challenge with one common goal: to impress Brickman and make it to the final three.
In the Grand Final episode, the three surviving teams will be given 28 hours to create their last epic build, a gruelling task, after which a room full of LEGO® fans will choose their favourite build to crown the 2022 LEGO® Masters.
In a program first, Hamish, Brickman and the teams will be heading out of the studio and into the world as their builds come face to face with the unpredictable Australian weather. In two more new challenges, the teams must come up with gravity-defying builds that survive soaring heights and nailbiting lows.
In a season that promises more amazement than ever, the challenges will excite and surprise. From The Car of the Future to The Stuntman – which will see contestants building a model that can fly through a hoop of fire – this year’s competition is rising to spectacular new heights. And the biggest challenge hit from Season 1, The Bridge, returns with an amazing twist.
The Brick Pit is the ultimate LEGO® dream room, and its 3.8 million bricks mean that the contestants will be able to build to their hearts’ content and meet every challenge. This year, an additional 600,000 bricks were ordered for Season 4.
Host Hamish Blake will push the boundaries of comedy as he provides the fun in the studio, with more hilarious and spur-of-the-moment gags. Ryan “Brickman” McNaught, will mentor and advise the contestants on how to make their builds as spectacular as possible. Brickman is the only LEGO® Certified Professional in the Southern Hemisphere, and one of only 13 in the world, so his knowledge and technical skills are invaluable to the progress of the teams.
HAMISH BLAKE
Host
Hamish Blake and his close friend and collaborator Andy Lee have been among Australia’s most popular entertainers for close to two decades. Hamish is a versatile performer, excelling in radio, television and film. In 2012, he was awarded the Gold Logie as the most popular talent on Australian television.
Hamish commenced his radio career with Andy in the early 2000s, rising to unparalleled success on the highest rating radio program in Australian history.
Their national Drive show reached around 2.5 million listeners each week and held that audience for an extraordinary four years, before they took a break from radio in 2011 to pursue other media ambitions.
With a desire to establish their careers on TV, the duo continued to captivate audiences with a stream of successful seasons of their global Gap Year expeditions on the Nine Network. The show featured the boys’ escapades in New York, the UK, Asia, South America, India, New Zealand and Europe, earning three Silver Logies and a Silver and Gold Logie for Hamish personally.
Together with radio and TV, they’ve also held comedy reign with their podcasts, having topped the iTunes charts as the #1 Australian radio podcast. In 2008, Hamish and Andy released their Unessential Listening CD which went platinum, selling well over 100,000 copies. In 2010, they released a second CD to great acclaim, Celebrating Over 50 Glorious Years.
In 2015, Hamish and Andy made their highly anticipated return to the HIT Radio network, once again hosting the top-rating weekday national Drive show. After a fabulous farewell tour at the end of 2017 they moved to broadcasting purely as podcasters, launching their own top-rating show for the Podcast One network in 2018.
In 2017, they returned to the Nine Network with the debut of True Story with Hamish and Andy, nominated for the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards and the Logies, and continued its success with season two in 2018.
In 2019, grown-up Hamish got to live out eight-year-old Hamish’s dreams – going to work with LEGO® every day as the host of LEGO® MASTERS Australia. An unabashed LEGO® fan, Hamish was not only in charge of proceedings, but also looking to pocket as much LEGO® as possible along the way without raising alarm. Three years later, Hamish is still living the dream as he hosts Season 4 of LEGO® MASTERS Australia.
Later in 2019, Hamish and Andy again paired up on Nine for another action-packed adventure – with a twist – in Hamish and Andy’s Perfect Holiday. As a television actor, Hamish has featured in the ABC comedy Twenty Something and the Seven Network’s Molly. He co-starred in his first feature film with Bret McKenzie (Flight of the Concords) in Two Little Boys, which was shot in New Zealand.
In 2015, he played alongside Portia de Rossi in Robyn Butler and Wayne Hope’s feature film Now Add Honey. Most recently, he featured as a voiced role in the sequel of the animation movie Wreck-It Ralph called Ralph Breaks the Internet.
Hamish has also appeared as a guest on a variety of Australian television series, including Have You Been Paying Attention, Spicks and Specks, Thank God You’re Here, Open Slather, Australia’s Brainiest Comedian, The Librarians, The Panel, Rove, Talkin’ ‘bout your Generation, The Project and The Footy Show. He has also featured in the British version of Thank God You’re Here and been a guest on the Graham Norton Show. In the United States he made a guest appearance on The Jay Leno Show. (You could add the Gogglebox Celebrity Special in his cv)
As an ambassador for the charitable organisation Soldier On, in 2015 Hamish, with Cadel Evans, joined a group of military veterans in Italy for an intense three-day cycling challenge in the Trois Etapes Giro.
Hamish was also an ambassador for the 2018 Invictus Games.
In 2020-21, Hamish and his wife Zoë were tasked with fronting the Holiday Here This Year campaign as ambassadors for Tourism Australia, which saw them travel extensively to promote the wonders of the country both big and small.
RYAN ‘BRICKMAN’ McNAUGHT
Judge
As a chief information officer in the corporate world, Ryan McNaught often found his creativity
constrained by the nature of his work.
A LEGO® fan as a child – winning awards for his building at the age of five – he returned to his hobby when he became a father, and his mother gave him back his childhood LEGO® collection.
When MINDSTORMS was released, a hardware and software platform for programmable robots based on LEGO® bricks, Ryan began to combine his IT know-how and LEGO® building skills.
Relishing the chance to express and create, in 2009 he made a model of an Airbus A380 incorporating the LEGO® MINDSTORMS robotics, which enabled the cockpit controls to be activated remotely by a touchscreen computer for the aircraft’s wing flaps, landing gear and cargo doors. It won Best in Show at Melbourne’s Brickvention before he displayed it at the Brickworld event in Chicago. There it caught the eye of a member of the team responsible for LEGO® MINDSTORMS who was highly impressed, and Ryan was asked to consider becoming a LEGO® Certified Professional.
Six months and many interviews later, Ryan became the only person in the Southern Hemisphere to hold this role. Whilst not a LEGO® employee, he does a lot of work for the LEGO® company, even building models for its offices around the world.
After launching his Brickman business in 2010, Ryan now has a team of passionate craftsmen and women who have built some of the world’s largest and most detailed LEGO® models.
Specialising in interactive models and cutaways as well as record-breaking creations like life-sized cars, motorcycles, and the tallest LEGO® model in the Southern Hemisphere, Ryan and his team take great pleasure in sharing their work with others.
Having produced five global touring exhibitions and hundreds of models for museums, galleries and shopping centres around the world, the Brickman team have proven there is nothing they cannot make out of LEGO® bricks.
Based in Melbourne, the team have won many awards for their work and maintain a unique style which makes their creations some of the best and most recognisable in the world. Ryan is thrilled to be back for the fourth series as judge of LEGO® Masters Australia and looks forward to marvelling at the creations and being a firm but fair assessor of true LEGO® talent.
Father to 14-year-old twin sons (who also love LEGO®), in his downtime Ryan enjoys running marathons in unusual places around the world and is always dreaming up his next latest and greatest LEGO® creation.
TEAM BIOS
Alex (25) and Caleb (21)
NSW
Alex from Sydney is a makeup artist with a love and natural creative knack for LEGO®. A self-confessed nerd, she enjoys watching Star Wars and Harry Potter on repeat most weekends. She collects Star Wars memorabilia, and despite having only been an AFOL (Adult
Fan Of LEGO®) for the last two years, she now owns 12 LEGO® sets, and that number is quickly growing. Alex says: “My family no longer ask me what I’d like for my birthday, rather which LEGO® set!”
Her teammate Caleb is a Sydney law student who uses LEGO® to decompress after long, stressful hours of studying. He likes to create unique takes on architecture with his builds and is often inspired by movies. Unlike Alex, Caleb grew up with LEGO® and he loves the challenge of mastering the creations he dreams up.
A high-energy, ultra-competitive type who thrives on social interaction, Caleb always gives 100 per cent and throws himself into any challenge he is presented with. As a LEGO® builder, he says he’s not the sort of guy to get upset if a build doesn’t go his way – he’ll laugh it off and then try again.
When it comes to LEGO® Masters, Alex is determined to bring her energy, organisation and imaginative mind to the table. She is a quick learner and will need to hit the ground running to pick up some more technical skills if she wants to make it all the way to the end of the competition. Alex’s biggest build ever is the Death Star from Star Wars, and the build she is most proud of is her creation of the Ewok Village.
Her favourite LEGO® piece is the rat. Being part of LEGO® Masters is a dream come true for Caleb. He says that having the chance to build whatever crazy ideas he comes up with is an unbeatable opportunity. His favourite MOC (My Own Creation) is an Explorer and Ancient Civilisation model he created in 2020, and his favourite brick is either the flex tube or the headlight brick, which he uses to create organic shapes and amazing wall textures.
Though always passionate about LEGO®, Caleb had a four-year “dark age” as a teenager.
Now he tries to spend at least three hours a day building to his heart’s desire. Caleb knows that a weakness may be his inability to think on his feet, but he hopes that by combining forces with Alex they will have what it takes to win the LEGO® Masters crown.
Trent (45) and Paul (50)
NSW
Trent and Paul are a fun-loving, lively couple from Newcastle who became the first Australian gay men to be wed, in New Zealand in 2013, years before marriage equality laws were passed in Australia. Paul describes himself as loud and extroverted, while Trent is more reserved. Trent still acts the clown though, and they always find a way to laugh and support each other when they are going through tough times.
Trent is artistic, with a gift and love for sculpture, and laughs easily, usually at Paul’s expense. He is in touch with the natural world and loves building LEGO® botanical sets. Trent likes his builds to look aesthetically pleasing, and as a primary school teacher he
incorporates LEGO® into his classes.
Paul has a passion for art and wants to use his favourite artworks as inspiration for his builds. His first LEGO® set was an auto service tow truck he built in 1979, and he has been hooked ever since. He uses LEGO® building as his mindfulness activity after a stressful day at work as a veterinary surgeon, and he always gets excited when a
new Star Wars set comes out.
Trent got into LEGO® as a child, and says his fondest memory is from his time in kindergarten when he was fascinated by the chance to recreate characters from
other sets. He would save his pocket money for a year to splurge on LEGO® train sets. Trent and Paul mostly build from sets, so they might find building only MOCs challenging during the competition. However, they are determined to work through their ideas and experiment
and support each other on their LEGO® Masters journey.
Branko (48) and Max (17)
NSW
Branko and Max are the father and son duo from Sydney who are ready to put their relationship and LEGO® skills to the test as they team up for the ultimate competition. Originally from the Netherlands, they have lived in Australia for 15 years. Branko
discovered his love of LEGO® when Max and his twin brother were born, and now they have an entire room at home full to the brim with LEGO®, around half a million bricks.
As an engineer, Branko believes his technical skills will come to the fore when they are required to build extremely complex structures.
Branko is determined and rational and says that often he is his own biggest competitor. He deals well with pressure and has learned how to work effectively in similar environments.
Unlike dad, high school student Max admits that he might be the one to crack under the pressure. Max is the youngest competitor in LEGO® Masters Australia history, and although he is quick-witted, smart and articulate, he admits to being worried that his comparative lack of building experience might be a shortcoming. As a team, Max will provide the creative vision for the builds while Branko focuses on the mechanical and structural elements. Branko says: “As an engineer I know how to build, but I like the fact that Max tells me what to build.” Generally, Branko prefers to build with instructions, while Max relies on his imagination.
Branko’s dream build is a landscape that features intelligent animals working together in a peaceful setting – but on the other side of the base plate is a Minifig world with steam engines and trucks slowly turning the world black. Max’s dream build is four large characters playing music in a jazz club. He would incorporate LEGO® Technic so that the fingers are able to play the piano and the arms move up and down for the drums.
Daniel (42) and Kirsti (44)
NSW
Daniel is a web developer from Canberra, a long-time solo builder whose passion for LEGO® was renewed once he started building with his two young children. Daniel even has his very own “mini brick pit” at home. Support worker Kirsti’s love of LEGO® began when she was in her 20s and writing a sitcom.
Without access to a cast or crew, she decided to get creative and developed her show using LEGO®.
Daniel and Kirsti have very different building styles but are excited to get into the groove of working together. Daniel is a skilled builder with experience in Technic. He draws inspiration from movies and his childhood and says that while he is immersed in his builds they often come to life as he works on them, taking an imaginative form that he didn’t necessarily plan for.
Kirsti is an enthusiastic foster mother from Sydney who works as a school learning support officer. As she loves her job LEGO® equally, it was only natural for her to play with it with her students and her foster children, to help them learn and grow. She doesn’t often attempt large-scale creations, preferring intricate, smaller builds.
Kirsti finds LEGO® very therapeutic and says her favourite brick is the Travis, as it is great for any SNOT (Studs Not On Top) builds.
At home, Kirsti tries to build something small at least once a day. She loves to create upside-down builds and says that LEGO® is always on her mind. Daniel also dedicates at least an hour a day to building because it makes him feel happy and relaxed.
Henry (20) and Joss (23)
NSW
Newcastle-based brothers Henry and Joss might just be the ones to beat in this series, with Joss already a well-known name in the LEGO® world. Joss is obsessed with all things LEGO®, working at a LEGO® store and having one of his builds exhibited at the LEGO® House Masterpiece Gallery in Denmark. The brothers are confident in their abilities and passionate about building.
Student Henry agreed to take part in LEGO® Masters to support Joss, and while he too loves LEGO®, he doesn’t have the same depth of experience in MOCS as his brother. Henry usually sticks to smaller builds like trees and houses and admits that when he is not passionate about something, he finds it difficult to give it his all. Despite this, his creations capture a lot of emotion.
Joss is determined and composed and says that building LEGO® relaxes him with the opportunity to explore his creativity. Spending at least 20-30 hours a week on building, Joss believes his collection would be worth thousands of dollars. He goes for creatures and characters that have real personality and can be clearly understood from the outset.
Henry and Joss often spend hours building together and say that LEGO® has nurtured their relationship. Through play, the brothers have found a safe space to break down walls
and talk to each other about anything at all while they are building, saying that “it brings us back to our childhood”.
Henry compares the team’s building dynamic to that of an architect and an engineer. He will take care of the design components while Joss finds creative ways to bring the build to life on the base plate.
Lexi (32) and Rachael (37)
NSW
Rachael’s passion for LEGO® is on display in all her builds as she challenges herself to always go bigger and better than her original plans. An auditor by day and a massive Harry Potter fan, Rachael’s biggest build is the 6,000-piece Hogwarts Castle she made after discovering Harry Potter LEGO® in 2008. In 2015, her second son was born and since then their LEGO®
collection has exploded as they enjoy building together.
Video editor Lexi loves creating with LEGO® as it makes her feel calm and gives her a chance to put her imagination to the test, trouble-shooting and problem solving along the way. Lexi is proud of every build, even those that might not be as impressive as others. She
regards them all as a learning opportunity to improve her skills and she takes immense pride in her work.
Lexi and Rachael are the only all-female team on LEGO® Masters Season 4, and Lexi wants to inspire girls all over Australia to get into LEGO® because it is such an amazing tool to create with. “The possibilities are endless and that’s what I love about it,” she says.
For Lexi and Rachael, when they are being creative and trying new techniques, there is no such thing as right or wrong, success or failure, just pure enjoyment. This will be the mindset they take into the competition. Rachael loves the creative side of LEGO® building, and while admitting that she finds Technic difficult, she works hard at everything she puts her mind to. She says: “If I can dream it, I can build it.”
Nick (30) and Gene (32)
NSW
Video editors Nick and Gene are best friends and lifelong LEGO® lovers. When they realised they shared this passion they became obsessed with what they could create. Nick tries to bring his sense of humour and creativity into each build, while Gene likes to get his
builds done as quickly as possible.
Nick got into LEGO® as a kid and says the first set he remembers playing with was the Black Seas Barracuda. To this day, LEGO® Pirate sets are Nick’s favourites to build from, as they bring him a sense of nostalgia and playfulness. Gene’s favourite build is a dragon head he once made by using deliberately misaligned bricks – a design concept that came to life almost exactly as he planned.
However, Gene is hoping that Nick will be the one to bring the necessary creativity to their team, including what Nick describes as his “cinematic” build style. Nick always tries to tell stories through LEGO® in as much depth as he can and loves the challenge of incorporating jokes or puns into his builds.
Gene’s dream build would be a huge number of different cars filling a drive-in cinema, complete with a concession stand with waiters serving food and drinks, plus popcorn machines and food trays to feed the Minifigs watching a stop-motion LEGO® movie.
Nick’s dream build is a sunken galleon that features divers exploring the ocean depths where they find the tendrils of a kraken, a mythical sea monster, stirring in the darkness. He would use lots of colours in the build to showcase the difference between the scenes above and below the waterline.
Andrew (38) and Crystal (30)
VIC
Andrew and Crystal met over 10 years ago through Andrew’s cosplay photography business and have been friends ever since. Although they have never built together, they are confident that their shared love of LEGO® will be enough to see them through to the end of the competition.
Now a social media producer and curator of a LEGO® news and reviews blog, Andrew’s passion for LEGO® began when he used it for a stop-motion animation he was working on.
He prides himself on his efficiency and speed, and now is a LEGO® super-fan. His dream is to use around 5,000 bricks to create a zoetrope, a giant spinning wheel giving the illusion of movement to the Minifig scenes he would create inside the wheel, with motors making it move at high speed.
Crystal is a content creator, model and actress. She uses LEGO® to relax when she’s stressed, and although she favours building sets over her own creations, she is positive that her creativity won’t let Andrew down.
Andrew has always been an avid LEGO® builder, inheriting his father’s sets when he was a boy. From there his collection has grown exponentially and he can’t put a number on how much LEGO® he now owns. When he’s building, Andrew mostly focuses on what he describes as bringing LEGO® into reality.
He says: “It might only be with one element or one Minifig, but it’s all about making that element look like it belongs in the human world.”
Crystal’s favourite bricks are Tile Quarter Circles, which she incorporates as lettering on her builds. Both hailing from creative worlds, look out for Andrew and Crystal to put their imaginative skills together and create some very distinctive builds throughout competition.
HISTORY AND FACTS ABOUT LEGO®
Guided by the company spirit, “Only the best is good enough”, LEGO® is committed to the development of children and aims to inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow through creative play and learning.
1932 – Master carpenter Ole Kirk Kristiansen starts making wooden toys. He names his company LEGO® by combining the two Danish words “Leg Godt”, meaning “Play Well”.
1949 – The first bricks, called automatic binding bricks, are launched. With no tubes inside, the bricks don’t stick well together and play experience is limited.
1953 – Automatic binding bricks are renamed LEGO® Mursten (Danish for LEGO® bricks) and come in five colours: white, red, yellow, blue and green. The name LEGO® is now moulded onto every brick.
1955 – The LEGO® System in Play launches as a structured system of products: the more bricks you have, the more you can build.
1958 – The LEGO® brick as we know it today is patented, opening up endless building possibilities and creativity.
1962 – The LEGO® wheel is launched, introducing movement into play.
1963 – The first LEGO® building instruction is introduced.
1968 – The first LEGO®LAND park opens in Billund, Denmark.
1978 – The LEGO® Minifigure is launched, bringing role-play to LEGO® play.
1978 – LEGO® Products are developed to offer children the right products at the right age. New themes such as Castle, Space and Town come to life.
1980 – A department is established to develop educational materials based on the belief that LEGO® products are more than a toy. Today LEGO® Education works with educational systems worldwide.
1984 – The LEGO® Group initiates a visionary partnership with MIT Media Lab USA – aiming to add intelligence and behaviour to LEGO® play.
1989 – The LEGO® Pirates theme is launched. The pirate Minifigures are the first to have multiple facial expressions.
1996 – www.LEGO®.com goes live on March 22.
1998 – The LEGO® Group and MIT Media Lab launch LEGO® MINDSTORMS, an intelligent LEGO® brick integrating robot technology and the LEGO® building system.
1999 – The LEGO® brick is elected “Toy of the Century”.
2002 – The first LEGO® Brand Retail Store opens in Cologne, Germany.
2003 – LEGO® Creator as we know it today is launched.
2004 – The LEGO® Group faces a serious crisis and establishes a survival and turnaround plan by reintroducing a strong focus on the core LEGO® brick.
2011 – LEGO® NINJAGO is launched and quickly becomes an evergreen.
2012 – LEGO® Friends is launched, and with it a new mini-doll figure enters the LEGO® play universe.
2014 – The LEGO® Movie premieres in cinemas all over the world.
2017 – LEGO® BOOST is launched, merging digital programming and physical building.
2017 – LEGO® House opens in Billund, Denmark: a new experience house filled with 25 million LEGO® bricks ready to give fans of all ages the ultimate LEGO® experience.
2018 – The LEGO® brick celebrates 60 years of endless play possibilities.
2019 – The LEGO® Movie 2 is released.
2020 – LEGO® moves into paper packaging to reduce the amount of plastic.
2020 – The LEGO® Minifig turns 42. (Introduced in 1978)
2020 – LEGO® partners with other brands including Adidas, Levi and Ikea to release a range of LEGO® themed items from fashion to shoes and storage.
LEGO® Facts
• Six 2×4 LEGO® bricks can be combined in more than 915 million ways.
• If you built a column of about 40 billion LEGO® bricks it would reach the moon.
• The moulds used to produce LEGO® elements are accurate to within 0.004mm – less than the width of a hair. This accuracy is what we refer to as clutch power.
• Number of different colours used in production: 60-plus.
• Number of different types of LEGO® elements (includes all types of LEGO® bricks and other elements): 3,700-plus.
LEGO® Masters Australia Season 4 Facts
• Approximately 3.8 million pieces of LEGO® live in the Brick Pit.
• An additional 600,000 bricks were ordered for Season 4.
• This included every basic brick in every colour and every sized plate in every colour available.
• It included new animal and printed parts, as well as the light nougat colour and bricks that glow in the dark.
• Over 200 metres of LEGO® Flex Tube were ordered.
• With exciting new changes to how the challenges are played, more LEGO® than
ever is used.
• Each team has a sorter that breaks down their model after the episode to be
returned to the Brick Pit.
• To ensure COVID safety measures, each build is dismantled and washed before
being sorted and re-added to the Brick Pit.
DAVID McDONALD
Head of Comedy – Endemol Shine Australia
With a career spanning three decades, David McDonald has been an Executive Producer with Endemol Shine Australia (ESA), and formerly Shine Australia, since 2012 when he joined the MasterChef Australia team as Co-Executive Producer. In 2022, his role at ESA was elevated to Head of Comedy, where he will take charge of steering the company into new territory in the form of scripted and sketch comedy, as well as other light entertainment projects.
Since joining ESA, David has proven his expertise in the Australian reality TV genre through his critically acclaimed work as Executive Producer on the award-winning productions MasterChef Australia, Gogglebox, LOL: Last One Laughing and LEGO® Masters. In 2013, he was Co-Executive Producer of MasterChef Australia: The Professionals which won the AACTA Award for Best Reality Television Series.
Under David’s leadership as EP, Gogglebox won the 2016 and 2017 Logie Award for Best Factual Program, the 2018 and 2019 Logie for Most Popular Entertainment Program, and the 2020 AACTA Award for Best Factual Entertainment Program. In 2021, it was nominated for Best Factual Entertainment Program at the AACTA Awards.
In 2020, David was Co-Executive Producer of ESA’s first Amazon Original Series for Amazon Prime Video, LOL: Last One Laughing, which featured Rebel Wilson as host. LOL and Wilson went on to win in the category of Best Subscription Television Presenter at the 2020 AACTA Awards.
Most recently, as Executive Producer, David oversaw the debut of the international LEGO® Masters format. In 2019, Season 1 of LEGO® Masters took home the AACTA Award for Best Entertainment Program, the Real Screen Award of Excellence: Competition Program, as well as Competition: Game or Quiz Show, and the Asian Academy Award for Best Adaption of an Existing Format. Season 2 won Silver at the 2020 New York TV and Film Festival in the category of Entertainment Program – Family Programs, and also won at the TBI Content Innovation Awards in the category of Competition Show of the Year. Season 3 of LEGO® Masters was nominated for Best Entertainment Program at the 2021 AACTA Awards and won
the Audience Choice Award for Favourite Competition Reality Show.
David’s career in the Australian TV industry began in 1990 in the art department on various productions. From there he worked closely with Andrew Denton for a number of years before joining forces with producer John Eastway to launch production company McDonald Eastway in 1999. In 2001, he directed the first series of the Election Chaser for the ABC, and in 2004 joined Crackerjack as Director, Producer and Writer.
