The Seven Network today held their annual Upfronts event for 2024, and confirmed a number of returning reality series, dramas, game & quiz show and documentaries to air on Channel 7 and 7plus next year.
Find out all the returning series below:
Farmer Wants A Wife
Ten long-term relationships. Nine marriages. Twenty-six babies. Farmer Wants A Wife is the real deal, a show that is all about true love, not short-term social media fame. This year, the beloved show grew its audience 13% and reached more than nine million viewers. The 2024 season is ready to roll, with more episodes, more farmers, and Samantha Armytage and Natalie Gruzlewski on a quest to find our farmers their one true love. Next year will also bring a Farmer Wants A Wife special event featuring the weddings and babies of past participants.
Farmer Wants A Wife is a Fremantle Australia and Eureka Productions co-production for the Seven Network.
The Voice
The spinning red chairs are back in 2024, as host Sonia Kruger and superstar coaches search for Australia’s next singing sensation. The 2023 season of The Voice smashed it out of the park, reaching 11.7 million people, routinely winning its timeslot and generating big numbers on 7plus. Next year will be bigger, better and noisier.
The Voice is produced by ITV Studios Australia for the Seven Network.
Dancing With The Stars
The stars and the sequins will hit the dance floor again in 2024 – and Sonia Kruger will welcome a brand-new co-host: Dr Chris Brown. Together, Sonia, Chris and our expert judges will keep the stars spinning, rhumba-ing and two-stepping. The hit series was hot in 2023, with its audience up 10% year-on-year, including a 19% lift in 18 to 39s, and reached almost seven million people.
Dancing With The Stars is produced by BBC Studios Australia and New Zealand for the Seven Network, from a format created by the BBC and distributed by BBC Studios.
Australian Idol
Twenty years after Guy Sebastian pipped Shannon Noll to become Australia’s first Idol, the international star-making sensation returns to Seven for a second big season. Radio king Kyle Sandilands and TV WEEK Logie Award winner and acclaimed singer Amy Shark will be joined by a new judge: Australian Idol OG and pop legend Marcia Hines. The trio will traverse the country to find the next Guy, Casey or Royston. Hosts Ricki-Lee and Scott Tweedie are back to help create an Idol dream.
Australian Idol is produced by Eureka Productions for the Seven Network.
The 1% Club
A game show like no other, The 1% Club captivated Australia this year, becoming the #1 new entertainment show of 2023. The show and host Jim Jefferies will be back in 2024, delivering an entertaining and hilarious experience as people of all ages and backgrounds find out if they are a rocket scientist or a space cadet. Unlike most quizzes, general knowledge isn’t what players need to excel; instead, it’s all about logic and common sense. To get to the end, contestants will have to bring their A-game to win big and join the elite ranks of the 1%.
The 1% Club is produced by BBC Studios Australia and New Zealand, based on a Magnum Media format.
My Kitchen Rules
Australia’s #1 cooking show set taste buds tingling this year, reaching 7.6 million people on Channel 7 and 7plus and serving up 13% more viewers year-on-year (overnight broadcast increase; total TV increase was 10%). Everyday cooks, great food, kitchen dramas and the wise guiding words of Manu Feildel, Colin Fassnidge and Nigella Lawson – plus the iconic ringing of the doorbell – were a winning recipe. The hit series returns in 2024, bigger, tastier and more entertaining than ever.
My Kitchen Rules is produced by ITV Studios Australia for the Seven Network.
SAS Australia
This year SAS Australia Chief Instructor Ant Middleton and his team of DS dumped 14 unsuspecting celebrities in a Middle Eastern desert for the biggest physical and emotional test of their lives. What will 2024 bring? A new batch of celebrities. More extreme conditions. More extraordinary tests of stamina and resilience from the real SAS selection process. More remarkable revelations.
SAS Australia is produced by Screentime, a Banijay Group company, based on a Minnow Films format.
Home and Away
After 36 years of sun, surf and sizzling drama, Home and Away continues its reign as the most-watched regular local drama series on Australian screens. Four nights a week, an average of more than one million Australians come home to Summer Bay; it’s also the biggest show on 7plus). Next year promises fresh faces, new drama and all the heart-stopping moments that make Home and Away an integral part of the fabric of Australian life.
Home and Away is a Seven Production.
RFDS
More than five million people can’t be wrong: after just two seasons, RFDS has become a much-loved part of Australian TV and digital viewing. The stories of the doctors, nurses, pilots and support staff in the Royal Flying Doctor Service dealing with emergency retrievals across some of the most inhospitable places in the country have won a place in viewers’ hearts. Seven is proud to announce it has commissioned a third season of the soaring series.
RFDS is produced by Endemol Shine Australia (a Banijay company) for the Seven Network, with Banijay Rights managing international distribution.
The Chase Australia
Larry Emdur and his chasers – The Supernerd, The Shark, Goliath, The Governess, The Beast, The Tiger Mum and The Smiling Assassin – have made The Chase Australia the #1 afternoon game show in every week of 2023. The hit series will be back in 2024 for another year of tough questions, eager contestants – and with two brand new chasers, including The Professor.
The Chase Australia is produced by ITV Studios Australia for the Seven Network based on the original ITV quiz show.
Big Brother
Host Sonia Kruger and Big Brother will welcome a new batch of housemates when Big Brother returns in 2024. A proven hit with younger viewers and on 7plus, Big Brother defined the reality TV genre and continues to enthral and – sometimes – shock Australians more than 20 years after it first arrived on our screens. Next year’s series will deliver hook ups, break ups, make ups, shake ups and love in a battlefield, plus the return of Big Brother Uncut, a spicy exclusive 7plus only series.
Big Brother is produced by Endemol Shine Australia (a Banijay company) for the Seven Network.
Better Homes and Gardens
The longest running lifestyle program on Australian TV, Better Homes and Gardens has been keeping viewers informed, entertained and primed for the weekend since 1995. Celebrating 30 years in 2024, host Johanna Griggs and presenters Adam Dovile, Charlie Albone, Dr Harry Cooper, Graham Ross, Juliet Love, “Fast Ed” Halmagyi, Karen Martini, Melissa King and Pete Colquhoun once again present all the cooking, gardening, home improvement, decorating, design, technology, health, wellbeing, fitness and motoring advice Australia needs.
Better Homes and Gardens is a Seven Production.
Highway Patrol
Day in, day out, the members of the Victoria Police Highway Patrol (formerly the Traffic Management Unit) keep the roads and the people on them safe – and Highway Patrol has been with them for 14 years.
Highway Patrol is produced by Greenstone TV for the Seven Network with the cooperation of Victoria Police.
Border Security: Australia’s Front Line
One of the most iconic and enduring shows on Australian TV, Border Security: Australia’s Front Line reaches a milestone in 2024: its 20th birthday. The new series will once again showcase the people from Australia’s customs, immigration and quarantine departments who devote their days and nights to keeping the country safe.
Riveting, dramatic and often funny, Border Security: Australia’s Front Line is produced by EQ Media for the Seven Network.
Special Events
The home of special events got bigger this year, when the TV WEEK Logie Awards returned to Seven for the first time since 1995. The homecoming was a success: the Logies had its biggest audience since 2017 and reached more than 3.6 million people. The glitz, glamour and excitement of the Logies will be back on Seven and 7plus in 2024.
The Perth Channel 7 Telethon is taking place on 21 and 22 October – live from RAC Arena for 26 hours – and will return in 2024. Established in 1968, the Telethon has raised more than $500 million to ensure a better life for our children, now and in the future. Funds raised support more than 100 charitable organisations that deliver media research into childhood diseases and much-needed equipment, programs and health services for sick, vulnerable and disadvantaged children in Western Australia.
Next year will also bring the Good Friday Appeal in partnership with the Herald Sun, which this year raised more than $23 million for the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne.
Carols In The Domain will be live, free and exclusive on Seven on 23 December this year with a galaxy of stars helping Australia celebrate the festive season. It will be back in 2024.
The red-carpet dazzle and all the star power of both the 96th and 97th Annual Academy Awards will be on the screens of Seven in 2024 and 2025.
So wonderful to see RFDS getting another go around!
Daniel Graeme Rose yes! Was great to speak with the cast about it last night. They’re understandably happy. 🙂
Any news on what happened with Australia’s Got Talent? Silently cancelled?
Love RFDS