OK so I am getting pretty pumped for the Block to return this Sunday 6:30pm!
Anyone else?
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The Block: Glasshouse
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THE BLOCK GLASSHOUSE 2014 TEAMS AND CONTESTANTS
The Block Glasshouse: Meet the Teams!
Are you ready for your lives to be taken over by the chaos and madness of TV's The Block yet? Judging by the popularity of the last season, we're tipping yes — so get ready to meet the new contestants! The Block Glasshouse takes place on High Street in Melbourne's trendy Prahran and these are the 10 people we'll be watching as they transform a run-down former factory into multimillion-dollar apartments.
This season, there are five teams: four couples and two brothers. As usual, the team that makes the most money over their apartment's reserve price wins a cool $100,000 to add to their profits — not bad for a few months of hard work! Keep reading to get to know the new teams before the show kicks off at 6:30 p.m. this Sunday on Channel Nine.
Source: Channel Nine
Maxine and Karstan
Shannon and Simon
Chris and Jenna
Darren and Deanne
Michael and Carlene
http://www.popsugar.com.au/celebrity/Block-Glasshouse-2014-Teams-Contestants-35301226#photo-5
The Block Glasshouse: Meet the Teams!
Are you ready for your lives to be taken over by the chaos and madness of TV's The Block yet? Judging by the popularity of the last season, we're tipping yes — so get ready to meet the new contestants! The Block Glasshouse takes place on High Street in Melbourne's trendy Prahran and these are the 10 people we'll be watching as they transform a run-down former factory into multimillion-dollar apartments.
This season, there are five teams: four couples and two brothers. As usual, the team that makes the most money over their apartment's reserve price wins a cool $100,000 to add to their profits — not bad for a few months of hard work! Keep reading to get to know the new teams before the show kicks off at 6:30 p.m. this Sunday on Channel Nine.
Source: Channel Nine
Maxine and Karstan
- Ages: Maxine is 24, Karstan is 26
- From: Newcastle, NSW
- Relationship: Together for eight years, engaged for two
- Occupations: Maxine is an event manager and Karstan is a coal miner
- Fun facts: These guys are a pair of travel junkies. Despite their young age, together they've backpacked across Europe, walked 900 kilometres (!) across Spain and France wearing matching pink thongs, and driven a 1971 Kombi around Australia.
Shannon and Simon
- Ages: Shannon is 35 and Simon is 28
- From: Born in Tasmania and raised in Coffs Harbour, NSW.
- Relationship: Brothers
- Occupations: Shannon is a painter, Simon is a plumber
- Fun facts: These guys love surfing and they love tattooes — but they love their family more and are very close to their two sisters. They also think being brothers gives them an advantage over the romantically-involved couples they're up against.
Chris and Jenna
- Ages: Chris is 24, Jenna's 26
- From: Campbelltown, NSW
- Relationship: Married for four-and-a-half years
- Occupations: Chris is a cabinet maker while Jenna is a video editor
- Fun facts: The pair met at church and married young — and they're open about potentially being the least experienced team this year. Jenna says, "We are couple of kids from Campbelltownwho are giving it a crack and learning each day just how much we are capable of."
Darren and Deanne
- Ages: Darren's 32 and Deanne is 44
- From: Melbourne, Victoria
- Relationship: Married for 10 years with two daughters
- Occupations: Darren's studying building and Deanne's a stay-at-home mum
- Fun facts: Darren retired last year from professional AFL. He played for the Sydney Swans from 2005-09 before heading home to Melbourne's Collingwood in 2010. Deanne used to own a successful fashion label, Sophie Penberthy, so her eye for design is second-to-none.
Michael and Carlene
- Ages: 31
- From: Gold Coast, Queensland
- Relationship: Married for seven years, with two kids
- Occupations: Michael's a project manager and carpenter, Carlene is a communications officer.
- Fun facts: The pair met when they were both performing at Universal Studios in Japan. Michael was a stunt man and Carlene performed in stage-show musicals.
http://www.popsugar.com.au/celebrity/Block-Glasshouse-2014-Teams-Contestants-35301226#photo-5
OK so I am getting pretty pumped for the Block to return this Sunday 6:30pm!
Anyone else?
Sunday can't come soon enough!
Inigo Montoya
The New Dread Pirate Roberts.
Chris and Jenna are my fav team! They are from near my neck of the woods. I hope they pull a Steve and Chantelle and take the whole thing out!
At the moment, before seeing any of them... I agree with you.
However I just hope he is more likeable than Steve. I wasn't a fan.
Inigo Montoya
The New Dread Pirate Roberts.
If the only minority on the show ends up being the villain I will pissed. I can see these 2 being the likable idiots (idiots in term of renovations) I'm sure they are pretty smart irl.
I'm Team Chris and Jenna as well. Especially hoping the AFL guy and his grandma don't win
jessy_girl
Well-Known Member
Those three blonde girls all look exactly the same, how confusing.
I liked the old format of The Block where it was on once a week and all the drama plus the reveals were crammed into 1 episode, I don't expect Nine to ever revert back to that format when they dominate the ratings, but it would be good. That said, I always get sucked into this show and their silly challenges. I'm out of the country for all of August, I'll probably still get sucked in when I'm back even if it's a third if the way through the series.
I liked the old format of The Block where it was on once a week and all the drama plus the reveals were crammed into 1 episode, I don't expect Nine to ever revert back to that format when they dominate the ratings, but it would be good. That said, I always get sucked into this show and their silly challenges. I'm out of the country for all of August, I'll probably still get sucked in when I'm back even if it's a third if the way through the series.
No gay team... again. They have not had a single gay couple since the show returned with Scott Cam as host, yet in the first run when Jamie Durie was around they had two in two (or three?) seasons.
When the show returned from its hiatus, someone here (or possibly on Whirlpool) posted words to the effect that with Cam on board 'they'll never cast a gay couple again now' and sure enough... Whether Cam as host would have any (or enough) influence on hosting is questionable and yet it does appear to have been prophetic.
When the show returned from its hiatus, someone here (or possibly on Whirlpool) posted words to the effect that with Cam on board 'they'll never cast a gay couple again now' and sure enough... Whether Cam as host would have any (or enough) influence on hosting is questionable and yet it does appear to have been prophetic.
Ah I LOVE this show! And so far I'm Team Chris and Jenna too. If the promos are anything to go by I expect to be ranting on here about Dee within the first couple of days. Bring on Sunday night bishes!!!!!!
Chris & Jenna to shake up The Block
By David Knox on July 25, 2014
Across its 11 year history, The Block has regularly come under the microscope for casting couples who are predominantly young, Anglo and hot.
This season Chinese-Indonesian cabinet-maker Chris and “half Maltese, a quarter Aussie and a quarter Aboriginal” video editor Jenna are about to shake it up.
“I want to put it out there – I’m Asian, and I want to break that stereotype, the Asians being dodgy and don’t know how to drive, and stuff like that,” Chris has said.
Promos see the couple from Campbelltown joking about how they differ, physically, from the 4 other ‘hot’ couples cast in The Block: Glasshouse. Yet they will likely become a talking point for their unashamed inexperience at renovation.
Executive Producer Justin Sturzaker tells TV Tonight, the show has had its share of diverse couples before.
“(The Glasshouse) may be a little bit more overt, particularly with Chris & Jenna you can see they are from another multicultural background. But we have in the past been multicultural but it’s just that the audience hasn’t picked up on it,” he explains.
“The twins were Eurasian, we’ve had Greeks and Italians in the past. But Chris and Jenna are really interesting because they’ve been great battlers, from Campbelltown. I think the audience will really warm to them.”
The first season in 2003 famously included Gav & Waz renovating in their underwear. It was a ground-breaking portrayal of a loving gay couple in a primetime reality show.
Joining Chris & Jenna this season are:
Michael and Carlene (both 31), from the Gold Coast, Qld married.
Maxine (24) and Karstan (26), from Newcastle, NSW, engaged.
Shannon (35) and Simon (28), born in Lichfield, TAS, raised in Coffs Harbour, NSW, brothers.
Darren (32) and Deanne (44), from Melbourne, VIC, married.
The Glasshouse site is a mammoth three-storey, 3540-square metre building on High Street, Prahran, which will be transformed into five split-level atrium apartments, with underground car parks, lock-up storage units and ground floor retail / commercial space.
The dated 1980s building is the biggest the show has ever tackled.
Sturzaker has been with the show since its first season, as it transformed from a twice-weekly series to a revived, stripped format that has shifted from Lifestyle to Reality genres. So successful for Nine, it now airs two seasons a year.
“It’s the day to day life, a Reality soap opera that people are buying into,” he says.
“So we find once we come off air the audiences are hankering for the next one in the same way that they would be if Home and Away left their screens.
“Both Nine and the audiences have seemed to embrace a shorter, more fun, summer series and a broader in-depth winter series.”
Alongside Gold Logie-winning host Scott Cam and Shelley Craft is ‘Blockinator’ foreman Keith Schleiger and judges Shaynna Blaze, Neale Whitaker and Darren Palmer. This year a new face will join their ranks.
“Because of the size and scale of this we have a Safety Officer fulltime to make sure all the OH&S components are there. Fortuitously he has a name which is Cam, so he’s ‘Safety Cam’ and the audience will see him a fair bit,” says Sturzaker.
The Glasshouse will include its very own Block ”Pop-Up Shop’ which will be sold later, but the couples won’t be responsible for renovating the larger ground-floor commercial spaces.
“They’re not part of the final space, they’re just concentrating on their own individual apartments.”
One area of regular criticism is in the show’s editing of footage. Last season’s Steve hit out at storylines that he felt misrepresented him, but he ultimately went on to win the show with his partner -with a whopping $736,000.
“It’s a common criticism by contestants who sign up for Reality shows across the board,” Sturzaker suggests. “MasterChef, My Kitchen Rules, The Block. It’s hard for them to understand that scenes have to be edited and decisions have to be made when you are collating 24 hours of footage into 40 minutes of content.
“There is also their own perspective: they don’t understand a lot of the time that the relationship they think they are having with other contestants aren’t always the same as the relationships their fellow contestants are having with them.
“So it’s the opinions that they didn’t hear that get them as upset as the tone of the voice-over that the producer has written.”
Sturzaker isn’t tipping any favourites for The Glasshouse but suggests it’s a very ‘poppy’ cast.
“Chris & Jenna will be really embraced by the audience because of their sense of humour. Obviously with a celebrity couple (ex AFL player Darren and Deanna) I think Melbourne will get behind that couple,” he says.
“I don’t have a favourite or a stand-out, but watch for the fireworks from Deanne. She has some great moments. She’s very forward and doesn’t hold back.”
The Block: Glasshouse airs 6:30pm Sunday and continues 7:30pm Monday – Thursday on Nine.
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By David Knox on July 25, 2014
Across its 11 year history, The Block has regularly come under the microscope for casting couples who are predominantly young, Anglo and hot.
This season Chinese-Indonesian cabinet-maker Chris and “half Maltese, a quarter Aussie and a quarter Aboriginal” video editor Jenna are about to shake it up.
“I want to put it out there – I’m Asian, and I want to break that stereotype, the Asians being dodgy and don’t know how to drive, and stuff like that,” Chris has said.
Promos see the couple from Campbelltown joking about how they differ, physically, from the 4 other ‘hot’ couples cast in The Block: Glasshouse. Yet they will likely become a talking point for their unashamed inexperience at renovation.
Executive Producer Justin Sturzaker tells TV Tonight, the show has had its share of diverse couples before.
“(The Glasshouse) may be a little bit more overt, particularly with Chris & Jenna you can see they are from another multicultural background. But we have in the past been multicultural but it’s just that the audience hasn’t picked up on it,” he explains.
“The twins were Eurasian, we’ve had Greeks and Italians in the past. But Chris and Jenna are really interesting because they’ve been great battlers, from Campbelltown. I think the audience will really warm to them.”
The first season in 2003 famously included Gav & Waz renovating in their underwear. It was a ground-breaking portrayal of a loving gay couple in a primetime reality show.
Joining Chris & Jenna this season are:
Michael and Carlene (both 31), from the Gold Coast, Qld married.
Maxine (24) and Karstan (26), from Newcastle, NSW, engaged.
Shannon (35) and Simon (28), born in Lichfield, TAS, raised in Coffs Harbour, NSW, brothers.
Darren (32) and Deanne (44), from Melbourne, VIC, married.
The Glasshouse site is a mammoth three-storey, 3540-square metre building on High Street, Prahran, which will be transformed into five split-level atrium apartments, with underground car parks, lock-up storage units and ground floor retail / commercial space.
The dated 1980s building is the biggest the show has ever tackled.
Sturzaker has been with the show since its first season, as it transformed from a twice-weekly series to a revived, stripped format that has shifted from Lifestyle to Reality genres. So successful for Nine, it now airs two seasons a year.
“It’s the day to day life, a Reality soap opera that people are buying into,” he says.
“So we find once we come off air the audiences are hankering for the next one in the same way that they would be if Home and Away left their screens.
“Both Nine and the audiences have seemed to embrace a shorter, more fun, summer series and a broader in-depth winter series.”
Alongside Gold Logie-winning host Scott Cam and Shelley Craft is ‘Blockinator’ foreman Keith Schleiger and judges Shaynna Blaze, Neale Whitaker and Darren Palmer. This year a new face will join their ranks.
“Because of the size and scale of this we have a Safety Officer fulltime to make sure all the OH&S components are there. Fortuitously he has a name which is Cam, so he’s ‘Safety Cam’ and the audience will see him a fair bit,” says Sturzaker.
The Glasshouse will include its very own Block ”Pop-Up Shop’ which will be sold later, but the couples won’t be responsible for renovating the larger ground-floor commercial spaces.
“They’re not part of the final space, they’re just concentrating on their own individual apartments.”
One area of regular criticism is in the show’s editing of footage. Last season’s Steve hit out at storylines that he felt misrepresented him, but he ultimately went on to win the show with his partner -with a whopping $736,000.
“It’s a common criticism by contestants who sign up for Reality shows across the board,” Sturzaker suggests. “MasterChef, My Kitchen Rules, The Block. It’s hard for them to understand that scenes have to be edited and decisions have to be made when you are collating 24 hours of footage into 40 minutes of content.
“There is also their own perspective: they don’t understand a lot of the time that the relationship they think they are having with other contestants aren’t always the same as the relationships their fellow contestants are having with them.
“So it’s the opinions that they didn’t hear that get them as upset as the tone of the voice-over that the producer has written.”
Sturzaker isn’t tipping any favourites for The Glasshouse but suggests it’s a very ‘poppy’ cast.
“Chris & Jenna will be really embraced by the audience because of their sense of humour. Obviously with a celebrity couple (ex AFL player Darren and Deanna) I think Melbourne will get behind that couple,” he says.
“I don’t have a favourite or a stand-out, but watch for the fireworks from Deanne. She has some great moments. She’s very forward and doesn’t hold back.”
The Block: Glasshouse airs 6:30pm Sunday and continues 7:30pm Monday – Thursday on Nine.
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SAPIOSEXUAL
Oooooo, some interesting dynamics amongst them - cougar/footy player; brothers but with a very big age gap - 7 years.
Chinese/Indian - thank heavens, we need a different aesthetic, all those brown and beige bathrooms be gone.
The house shows should actively recruit multicultural contestants just to get new and exciting different cultural design perspectives.
Instead of whole lot of white aussies trying to do Bali style, tropical, exotic, whatever - get real Indonesians doing Bali style.
Chinese/Indian - thank heavens, we need a different aesthetic, all those brown and beige bathrooms be gone.
The house shows should actively recruit multicultural contestants just to get new and exciting different cultural design perspectives.
Instead of whole lot of white aussies trying to do Bali style, tropical, exotic, whatever - get real Indonesians doing Bali style.
The Block debut tomorrow night is being simulcast on Go! & Gem. (Source: TV Tonight). I wonder if the means we can watch it in HD on GEM??
So how do we think the judging is going to work this year? Apparently the teams judge each other. Will the scores be made up of 50% judges and 50% competing contestants?
So how do we think the judging is going to work this year? Apparently the teams judge each other. Will the scores be made up of 50% judges and 50% competing contestants?
Jam
I don't like it
You're right! It would be so easy for a some of the couples to agree to vote to limit the scores of a couple who seem to be doing very well. I'm sure, if it was available then, it would have happened in Sky High with the top floors joining forces to vote against the twins.
Inigo Montoya
The New Dread Pirate Roberts.
I saw an interview with Scott Cam and the brothers team on Mornings earlier (repeat from some time this week) - Cam said that the judges reward $10000, then the contestants vote on each other and reward $5000. He suggested there was lots of "alliances" formed to work out who gets/doesn't get the $5k and it "was not what is seems"..... he also say "the women of Australia will love Dee" (the AFL players cougar) - there was an awkward silence, so I'm thinking he was being sarcastic
Oh ok. That sounds ok then. It is in addition to the normal judges and prize. Doesn't really matter if there is collusion etc in that case. It will make for more interesting storylines. Haha. In the end it's just an added bonus.