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AUSTRALIA’S FAVOURITE RENOVATION REALITY PROGRAM RETURNS
Sunday, July 27, at 6.30pm on Channel Nine


Five couples and an abandoned 1980s office building come together for the biggest, most complex Block yet: The Block Glasshouse, premiering Sunday, July 27, at 6.30pm on Channel Nine.


Lured to host Scott Cam’s Channel Nine “office”, our new contestants soon discover they are actually on The Block. With no eliminations, they pick a number between 1 and 5, promptly receive the plans to their new apartment, and set about trying to locate their apartments within the ruined behemoth of a building.


The Block Glasshouse contestants have to deliver larger rooms on the same budget of $100,000 and sponsor vouchers as previous contestants. But this year they get to vote on each others’ rooms, and the winners of the weekly jury vote will top up their reno budget with an extra $5000 in goods and cash.


Nearly every couple in this series has at least one partner who is a tradie or experienced in renovating – a plumber, a painter, a chippy, building student and kitchen installer. Sounds like a huge advantage, but no one has taken on a build of this magnitude before, and it doesn’t take long for the cracks to show on the Glasshouse.


Our five couples are:

Michael and Carlene (both 31), from the Gold Coast, QLD
Together for 12 years and married for seven, with a son Paddy (5) and daughter Stella (3).
Michael is a Project Manager/Chippy and Carlene is a Communications Officer at a university.


Chris (24) and Jenna (26), from Campbelltown, NSW
Have known each other for seven years, married for four.
Chris is a Cabinet Maker and Jenna is a Video Editor, both self-employed.


Maxine (24) and Karstan (26), from Newcastle, NSW
Together for eight years, engaged for two.
Maxine is an Events Manager and Karstan is a Coal Miner.


Shannon (35) and Simon (28), born in Lichfield, TAS, raised in Coffs Harbour, NSW
Brothers.
Shannon is a Painter and Simon is a Plumber.


Darren (32) and Deanne (44), from Melbourne, VIC
Married 10 years with two daughters, Scarlett (7) and Lily (5).
Darren is an ex-AFL Footballer studying to be a builder and Deanne is a former Fashion Designer.


Just metres from Chapel Street, Melbourne’s world-famous epicentre of cool, the three-storey, 3540 square-metre Glasshouse building in downtown Prahran will come to life with five split-level atrium apartments, complete with two-car lock-up underground garages and 70 square-metre lock-up storage units.


Last home to communication technology company Vixtel, the building will undergo façade changes to complement the new internal layout. The ground floor will be converted to retail/commercial space totalling 254 square metres.


Everything about the building is solid, heavy and over-designed – just the kind of thing to cut into pieces. The mid 1980s office conversion our Blockheads moved into on day one was a sprawl of depression – suspended ceilings, hideous furniture, rancid bathrooms in a drab palette of pale blues and greys.


The Blockheads had to convert the office space into their living quarters for the first few weeks, sleeping under desks, in offices and behind partitions on blow-up mattresses. Far from glamorous, but within weeks the judges were rating their work the most sophisticated they have ever seen on The Block.


The Block Glasshouse will peel away the mistakes of the most recent fitout and restore the mammoth building to its former light-industrial glory, showcasing the spectacular ceiling heights, great structural bones and cool, old-school, metal-framed windows – with a twist.


It won’t be without its challenges, as the sheer scale of the building must be carefully carved up to create individual apartments with private terraces, voids, a multi-storey atrium and common area that gives a real sense of arrival.


Gold Logie winner and host Scott Cam is back for the ninth season of The Block. He says:

“This is without doubt the most challenging Block yet. We thought Sky High was the biggest, but this blows Sky High out of the water. We have so much on going structurally, with our demo work and over 100 guys on site every day. It’s definitely the toughest job for our contestants.


“We broke records last series, but I think buyers are going to go even more ballistic for these apartments. The sheer size of the apartments come sale time will blow people away: a huge storage unit in each one, double underground car parking and floor-to-sky atrium in the main foyer. Plus 60 metres of frontage. It’s just going to be enormous. Buyers in inner-city Prahran have never seen anything like it.”


Returning to join Scott Cam on The Block Glasshouse are challenge master Shelley Craft, judges Neale Whitaker, Shaynna Blaze and Darren Palmer, and “The Blockinator” foreman, Keith Schleiger.


Since it began in 2003, The Block has been a ratings juggernaut. The grand finale of The Block Fan v Faves was watched by a massive average national audience of more than three million viewers earlier this year and a record amount of $2,426,500 was given away at the auction of the Dux House apartments, taking the total series prizemoney since The Block began to $8.1 million.


THE BLOCK GLASSHOUSE
PREMIERES SUNDAY, JULY 27, AT 6.30PM ON CHANNEL NINE
THEN AIRS 7.30PM MONDAY TO THURSDAY AND 6.30PM SUNDAY
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My predictions is that this will be a normal 11 week series and it will conclude around 12/13/14th of October.

If Big Brother was starting after that it would only leave 6ish weeks of ratings.

But @Goon says September, so that means pretty much definitely overlapping.
 
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bleachy_dude said:
My predictions is that this will be a normal 11 week series and it will conclude around 12/13/14th of October.

If Big Brother was starting after that it would only leave 6ish weeks of ratings.

But @Goon says September, so that means pretty much definitely overlapping.
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I'm still not convinced they'll overlap unless they really don't give a damn about BB.
 
grishfish said:
Perhaps Big Brother will also take the Sunday - Thursday schedule... Still gives us 5 episodes a week.
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At this point, it's futile to try and guess how the hell Nine is going to schedule anything for the rest of the year because whatever they do, it's going to be stupid and make zero sense.
 
Whatever they do they better not leave the final week of BB to finish around mid to late November. I remember last year there were bushfires around the Dreamworld area about a week after the show had finished. Very dicey to leave it that late as they'll have to evacuate the housemates if there's a repeat of that.
 
bleachy_dude said:
The Voice: Kids
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This is a thing?
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Connoisseur said:
Whatever they do they better not leave the final week of BB to finish around mid to late November. I remember last year there were bushfires around the Dreamworld area about a week after the show had finished. Very dicey to leave it that late as they'll have to evacuate the housemates if there's a repeat of that.
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Yeah but in saying that, I'm pretty sure a fire that close to the compound is an incredibly rare occurrence. In all 14 years that the Big Brother house has been there I'm pretty that was the first and only time it's happened. I think.
 
True but past seasons of BB have been scheduled around mid year, from between April to August when it's winter season. Last season was the first time that it ever finished that late in the year, which happens to be summer and consequently bushfire season across Australia. I guess those that live in the Gold Coast could confirm how common bushfires are every summer near the Dreamworld area.
 
Don't forget the year that the house/coomera/dreamworld compound area was flooded from a weeks worth of heavy rainfall
 
wasn't the fire lit by an arsonist last year? There were naturally-caused bushfires in the Blue Mountains in New South Wales, but I thought that fire was man-made?
 
the Theorist said:
Yeah but in saying that, I'm pretty sure a fire that close to the compound is an incredibly rare occurrence. In all 14 years that the Big Brother house has been there I'm pretty that was the first and only time it's happened. I think.
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And if everything (fuel) has already been burnt by the previous fire would seem less likely to happen for a while after.
 
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