Far more excited about Channel 10's plans for 2015 than Nine's
I’m A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here! Overload coming your way in 2016
November 19, 2015 7:15pm
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GET ready for a double dose of I’m A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here! in 2016, with Network Ten revealing its plans to amp up the jungle-based reality TV show when it returns next year.
Ten announced its upcoming content line-up overnight and the big reveal was the network’s significant investment in six new local productions, most notably
I’m A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here! Now.
The series will function as a companion show to Ten’s second season of
I’m A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here! — hosted again by Julia Morris and Chris Brown — which was one of the top-rating shows of 2015.
Bachelor star Heather Maltman will co-host.
Joel Creasey competed on I’m A Celeb in 2015.
Comedian, author and artist Ahn Do.
Chrissie Swan.
Matt Preston and Grant Denyer on set of Family Feud.
Matthew Le Nevez will play motoring legend Peter Brock in the upcoming telemovie.
Jessica Marais will star in The Wrong Girl.
Author Zoe Foster Blake.
Waleed Aly, Carrie Bickmore, Peter Helliar will return to The Project desk in 2016.
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Hosted by comedian Joel Creasey and
Bachelor contestant Heather Maltman, the new show promises to treat
I’m A Celeb fans to “behind-the-scenes action from the jungle, updates about their favourite celebrities and exclusive news and gossip.”
Now will run each night after the main show on secondary Channel Eleven and will be broadcast from South Africa.
While the rumour mill is already in full swing, we’ll have to wait until next year to find out which celebs have signed on for season two.
Another notable newbie coming on Ten next year is a local version of reality series
Survivor.
Australian Survivor, part docu-soap, part competition, part human drama, will be set on a remote tropical island overseas and Ten promises it will be “big, noisy and exciting family entertainment”.
Also added to the schedule is
Long Lost Family, hosted by Anh Do and Chrissie Swan. “An uplifting factual series that reunites mothers, fathers, daughters, sisters and brothers after years of separation.”
Based on the award-winning UK format,
Long Lost Family will “take viewers through the complex, emotional and often painful process of reuniting people who have been lost to each other, sometimes for decades.”
This means Chrissie Swan, who emerged as runner-up on
I’m A Celeb last season, will be a busy woman in 2016. The TV and radio personality was recently named co-host of Nova’s revamped breakfast radio show in Melbourne along with Sam Pang and Jonathan Brown, and she will also return to co-host
Spelling Bee with Grant Denyer.
All Star Family Feud will be coming to Ten in 2016, capitalising on the success of the Grant Denyer-hosted
Family Feud. Denyer will also host the new series, which will run in addition to his regular game show six nights a week.
All Star is tipped to feature anyone from politicians, to pop stars, to football players and fashion icons, all competing for cash prizes for their favourite charities.
Ten will also air two new dramas, the first being the Peter Brock telemovie, starring everyone’s favourite TV heart-throb, Matthew Le Nevez.
Steve Bisley, Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Brendan Cowell and Ella Scott Lynch will also appear in
Brock.
One surprise of the night was the announcement of brand new drama,
The Wrong Girl, based on the 2014 book by Zoe Foster Blake. From the writers of
The Secret Life Of Us,
The Wrong Girl will star Aussie golden girl Jessica Marais in the lead role of Lily.
Returning local content in 2016 will include the eighth season of
MasterChef, with George Calombaris, Gary Mehigan and Matt Preston all back for more, and Nigella Lawson announced as a new guest chef.
Also back is
The Bachelor and
The Bachelorette, hosted again by Osher Gunsberg,
Shark Tank, hosted again by Sarah Harris,
Gogglebox,
Have You Been Paying Attention,
The Living Room,
The Great Australian Spelling Bee,
Territory Cops,
Bondi Rescue and
Bondi Vet.
The sixth season of beloved drama
Offspring will also finally make a return to our screens — hooray!
Noticeably absent from the list of returning shows is
TBL: Families, which has struggled in the ratings this season, despite the added interest of celebrity trainers Michelle Bridges and Steve ‘Commando’ Willis expecting their first child together.
New overseas content includes the six-part television event of
The X Files, new US series
American Crime Story, starring John Travolta, new comedy
Life In Pieces, starring James Brolin and Dianne Wiest and US legal comedy series
The Grinder, starring Rob Lowe.
Returning overseas content includes
NCIS and its spin-offs
NCIS: Los Angeles and
NCIS: New Orleans,
Modern Family,
Madam Secretary,
Law & Order: SVU,
CSI: Cyber,
Scorpion,
The Good Wife,
Limitless, The Graham Norton Show and more.
Network Ten Chief Programming Officer, Beverley McGarvey, said: “Content that lives on all
screens is at the heart of our business. In 2016 we will continue to introduce innovative,
contemporary content with mass appeal that our viewers can engage with in multiple ways
on numerous platforms.
“For several years now, our strategy has been to encourage people to enjoy our content anywhere, at any time and on any device. That will remain our mantra in 2016. It is television as it should be, with our viewers being able to watch our great content whenever they want, wherever they are and however they want.”
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