Changing Rooms (Australian TV series)
Changing Rooms | |
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Genre |
Lifestyle Home Renovation |
Based on | Changing Rooms UK version |
Starring | Natalie Bassingthwaighte |
Country of origin | Australia |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 8 |
Production | |
Production location(s) | Sydney |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Release | |
Original network | Network Ten |
Picture format |
4.3 PAL (1998-2000) 16.9 PAL (2001-2005) |
Audio format | Stereo |
Original release | 1998 |
Changing Rooms is an Australian lifestyle/home renovating television series which is based on the British series Changing Rooms on the BBC. It was originally one of many home improvement and lifestyle shows popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Early series
The series first aired on the Nine Network in 1998 until 2005, hosted by Suzie Wilks, who was assisted by handyman James Lunday and designers Peter Everett, Deborah De Jong, Glenn T and Tim Janenko-Panaeff. Executive Producers were Eric Dwyer, David Barbour and Julian Cress. Each week, two couples would swap houses and with a tight budget of $AU1,500 and just two days, would renovate one room in each other's house with the aid of a carpenter and professional designer.The series was axed when host Suzie Wilks quit in 2005.[1]
Revival
The series has been revived by Network Ten and is due to return in 2019[2][3] hosted by Natalie Bassingthwaighte.[4]
References
- ↑ https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/flashback/changing-rooms-host-suzie-wilks-this-sleazy-mans-got-his-hand-on-my-backside/news-story/00d959dbd0d3dc31208e3e3cf6954d22
- ↑ https://tvtonight.com.au/2018/09/ten-announces-changing-rooms-for-2019.html
- ↑ https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/reality-tv/network-ten-is-making-a-new-series-of-changing-rooms/news-story/a5bba1b5f75033715071676f5d516737
- ↑ https://tendaily.com.au/entertainment/tv/a180917mwk/natalie-bassingthwaighte-to-host-changing-rooms-in-2019-20180917