Come Dine with Me Australia

Come Dine with Me Australia is an Australian television reality series based on the Come Dine with Me format which premiered on 18 January 2010 on The LifeStyle Channel in Australia. It is narrated by Aimee Reid and James Valentine.

Come Dine with Me Australia
Country of originAustralia
Original language(s)English
No. of seasons4
No. of episodes80
Production
Producer(s)Granada Australia
Running time30 minutes
Release
Original networkThe LifeStyle Channel
Original release18 January 2010 –
8 February 2013
Chronology
Related showsCome Dine with Me
External links
Website
Production website

In 2009, The Lifestyle Channel bought the rights to the show, commissioning Granada Australia to produce a version for the Australian market. The first season consists of 20 episodes.[1] A second season was approved before the first season premiered and was broadcast in mid-2010.[2] The fourth series involves four contestants as opposed to the regular five, in hour long episode instead of the usual format of 30-minute five episodes each week.

Series Summary
Season Episodes Originally Aired
Premiere Finale
One 20 18 January 2010 12 March 2010
Two 23 August 2010 17 September 2010
Three 17 January 2011 11 February 2011
Four 8 January 2013 8 February 2013

Format

The unscripted show follows amateur chefs competing against each other in hosting a dinner party for the other contestants. Each week over five nights, five total strangers take it in turns to cook up their idea of the perfect evening for the other four. Each believes they can cook up the perfect evening and hopes their unique style will clinch them the title of best host and the $2000 cash prize. [3]

Episodes

Season 1 (2010)
Week Episode Night Host Airdate
One Episode 1 Julie 18 January 2010
Episode 2 Gail 19 January 2010
Episode 3 Ben 20 January 2010
Episode 4 Jennifer 21 January 2010
Episode 5 Richard 22 January 2010
Two Episode 6 Trudi 25 January 2010
Episode 7 Luke 26 January 2010
Episode 8 Anne-Maree 27 January 2010
Episode 9 Angela 28 January 2010
Episode 10 Alex 29 January 2010
Three Episode 11 Bryan 1 March 2010
Episode 12 Mel 2 March 2010
Episode 13 Rita 3 March 2010
Episode 14 James 4 March 2010
Episode 15 Nicole 5 March 2010
Four Episode 16 Tony 8 March 2010
Episode 17 Celeste 9 March 2010
Episode 18 Nicole 10 March 2010
Episode 19 Stephen 11 March 2010
Episode 20 Sheeneagh 12 March 2010

Season 2 (2010)
Week Episode Night Host Airdate
One Episode 1 Helen 23 August 2010
Episode 2 Ray 24 August 2010
Episode 3 Joan 25 August 2010
Episode 4 Paula 26 August 2010
Episode 5 Taylor 27 August 2010
Two Episode 6 Jesse 30 August 2010
Episode 7 Sharon 31 August 2010
Episode 8 Kyoko 1 September 2010
Episode 9 David 2 September 2010
Episode 10 Jane 3 September 2010
Three Episode 11 Dominic 6 September 2010
Episode 12 Michelle 7 September 2010
Episode 13 Yolanda 8 September 2010
Episode 14 Tom 9 September 2010
Episode 15 Deb 10 September 2010
Four Episode 16 Megan 13 September 2010
Episode 17 David 14 September 2010
Episode 18 Karen 15 September 2010
Episode 19 Kate 16 September 2010
Episode 20 Mark 17 September 2010

Season 3 (2011)
Week Episode Night Host Airdate
One Episode 1 Leonie 17 January 2011
Episode 2 Lance 18 January 2011
Episode 3 Mary 19 January 2011
Episode 4 Shane 20 January 2011
Episode 5 Ammie 21 January 2011
Two Episode 6 Cheryl 24 January 2011
Episode 7 Donna 25 January 2011
Episode 8 Tony 26 January 2011
Episode 9 Doreen 27 January 2011
Episode 10 Lachlan 28 January 2011
Three Episode 11 Vanessa 31 January 2011
Episode 12 Sheila 1 February 2011
Episode 13 Anita 2 February 2011
Episode 14 Lachlan 3 February 2011
Episode 15 Warren 4 February 2011
Four Episode 16 Suze 7 February 2011
Episode 17 Jacki 8 February 2011
Episode 18 Gerry 9 February 2011
Episode 19 Bromwyn 10 February 2011
Episode 20 Mary-Ann 11 February 2011

Season 4 (2013)
Week Episode Night Host Airdate
One Episode 1 Mike 8 January 2013
Episode 2 Kiri 9 January 2013
Episode 3 Danielle 10 January 2013
Episode 4 James 11 January 2013
Two Episode 5 Derek 15 January 2013
Episode 6 Natalie 16 January 2013
Episode 7 Amaya 17 January 2013
Episode 8 Myles 18 January 2013
Three Episode 9 Andrew 22 January 2013
Episode 10 Roxanne 23 January 2013
Episode 11 Peter 24 January 2013
Episode 12 Sharon 25 January 2013
Four Episode 13 Todd 29 January 2013
Episode 14 Eve 30 January 2013
Episode 15 Tom 31 January 2013
Episode 16 Ebony 1 February 2013
Five Episode 17 Ellen 5 February 2013
Episode 18 Harry 6 February 2013
Episode 19 Alexi 7 February 2013
Episode 20 Sami 8 February 2013

Celebrity Come Dine With Me Australia
Main article: Celebrity Come Dine With Me Australia

A celebrity version originally aired on 11 December 2012 to 28 January 2014 on the Lifestyle Channel. The series was set to be revived in 2016 by ITV Studios for the Nine Network,[4][5] however on 14 April 2016, the series was shelved due to production issues and Nine implementing changes after a bad start to the ratings year.[6][7]

Trivia

In July 2010, the show began broadcasting in the UK under the title Come Dine with Me Down Under before reverting to its original Come Dine with Me Australia title and changing again in the third series.

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References
  1. Come Dine with Me in Oz Archived 7 October 2009 at the Wayback Machine - B&T Today, 24 August 2009
  2. Second serve for Come Dine with Me Australia
  3. Come Dine with Me Australia Archived 22 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine - Official Website, 18 January 2010
  4. http://itvstudios.com.au/format/celebrity-come-dine-with-me-australia
  5. http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2016/03/nine-greenlights-celebrity-come-dine-with-me.html
  6. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/media-diary/fairfax-missed-a-wellsuited-col-allan/news-story/a2bb2be6868c6ff7fc15072cfba28220
  7. http://tvtonight.com.au/2016/04/nine-shelves-celebrity-come-dine-with-me.html

See also


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