New and returning Australian TV shows you won’t want to miss in 2024
From high-octane reality and nostalgic game-show reboots to cracking international and local drama, there are plenty of new streaming and free-to-air shows coming.
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From high-octane reality to nostalgic game show reboots, and cracking international and local drama, there’s plenty of new shows to be excited about next year.
Here’s a taste of what you’ll be watching in 2024:
SEVEN
Dream Home
Replacing House Rules, this new reno show hosted by Dr Chris Brown follows six suburban homes transformed by their owners – six pairs of everyday Aussies will battling it out room by room. A trio of yet-to-be named expert judges will score. The winning couple receives the home of the dreams and a life-changing prize.
Once in a Lifetime
Brown’s global adventure series will see Australia’s most loved vet pushed to his limits in pursuit of the ultimate animal encounter. But he won’t be alone, he’ll be taking some of Australia’s most entertaining personalities along as his vet assistant.
Made in Bondi
A spin-off from the wildly popular Brit reality series Made in Chelsea, it will follow the lives and loves of Sydney’s young socialites. Set in one of Sydney’s most exclusive neighbourhoods, every episode is tipped to provide a front-row seat to jaw-dropping parties, breathtaking fashion and sizzling romances.
Stranded on Honeymoon Island
It’s been branded next year’s “biggest and most radical dating experiment” and will see couples matched together following a speed dating event, before being left on a deserted island in nothing but their wedding attire.
NINE
Tipping Point Australia
The worldwide game show phenomenon will be hosted by Aussie sporting legend Todd Woodbridge, and sees three players answering general knowledge questions, hoping to win counters which can be used on a large coin pusher.
Human Error
Inspired by actual events, this new drama series follows Detective Holly O’Rourke (Leeanna Walsman) and her homicide team as a seemingly open-and-shut murder investigation threatens to destroy her career, her family, and her faith in justice. Cast also includes Australia’s busiest actor Stephen Peacocke, and Matt Day.
Blood on the Tracks – The Platform Killer
When a train commuter is found dead during peak hour, police suspect suicide. But when Detective Kate Fletcher finds links to an “accidental” death at a suburban station, she suspects something far more sinister. She then uncovers a web of connections to other deaths on the rail network. Cast yet to be announced.
Jeopardy Australia
Brit actor Stephen Fry helms this version, which will feature a cast of clever Aussie competitors. The hit show flips the traditional Q+A format, presenting answers first with the general knowledge showdown giving contestants the chance to win a lucrative cash prize.
TEN
Gladiators
A reboot of the Seven series which ran for three seasons in the ’90s, Hosted by sporting legends Liz Ellis and Beau Ryan, a team of 21st century superhumans are gearing up to challenge a new breed of everyday Aussies in the ultimate test of speed, strength, stamina and agility.
Deal or No Deal
Grant Denyer will be back in the slot that earned him a Gold Logie – 6pm, five nights a week – in this global mega-hit. The game show originally screened on Seven, hosted by the troubled Andew O’Keefe for a decade, before it was axed in 2014.
Wheel of Fortune Australia
Helmed by the BAFTA award winner, uber chat show host Graham Norton the classic game show is coming back to prime time. It will once again be centred around a giant carnival wheel as contestants spin to win for a life-changing cash prize.
Ready Steady Cook
Exuberant chef Miguel Maestre will host this new incantation of the much-loved cooking show – which originally ran in the afternoons on the network for seven years. It’s being programmed for the notoriously tricky Friday night slot.
PARAMOUNT+
Fake
Starring Asher Keddie and David Wenham and inspired by Stephanie Wood’s best-selling book, this eight-part series follows Birdie Bell (Keddie), a magazine features writer who thinks she has found “the one” when she meets successful grazier Joe Burt (Wenham) on a dating app. But as cracks start to form in Joe’s stories, Birdie soon discovers her boyfriend isn’t all he’s led her to believe.
Top Gear Australia
Australian Survivor host Jonathan LaPaglia is joined by Amazing Race’s Beau Ryan and YouTube series Mighty Car Mods co-creator Blair “Moog” Joscelyne at the helm of the eight-part series based on the world-famous format from BBC Studios.
BINGE & FOXTEL
How to Make Gravy
the story of an inmate writing a letter home as his family prepare to celebrate their first Christmas without him. Cast includes Daniel Henshall, Hugo Weaving, with Brenton Thwaites, Damon Herriman and Kate Mulvany.
The Last Anniversary
An adaptation of Aussie author Liane Moriarty’s novel, with Nicole Kidman as one of the producers. Moriarty’s book follows Sophie, who unexpectedly inherits the house of an aunt of an ex-boyfriend on Scribbly Gum Island, home of the famously unsolved Munro Baby mystery. Cast is yet to be announced.
High Country
An eight-part mystery thriller starring Leah Purcell, Aaron Pedersen, Sara Wiseman and Ian McElhinney, which tells the story of detective Andrea (Andie) Whitford (Purcell) who is transferred to the Victorian High Country, where she is thrust into a baffling mystery of five missing persons who have vanished into the wilderness.
Mix Tape
A four-part event miniseries, adapted from the hugely popular 2020 novel by Jane Sanderson, starts in Sheffield, England, in 1989, with Daniel and Alison’s teen romance. He’s the first to make her a mix tape of the music of their generation. Now living on opposite sides of the world, a new chapter begins for them when they reconnect through a song from their past.
NETFLIX
Boy Swallows Universe
Netflix’s adaptation of Trent Dalton’s bestseller will span eight episodes, running as a self-contained limited series. It spins a story about a young boy, his prophetic brother and his jail-breaking best friend as they navigate the heroin-filled underworld of 80s Queensland. Travis Fimmel stars as Lyle Orlik, while the cast also includes Simon Baker, Phoebe Tonkin, Felix Cameron and Bryan Brown.
DISNEY+
Echo
The Marvel Cinematic Universe continues to expand with this latest spin-off from a spin-off. This origin story stemming from 2022’s Hawkeye revisits Maya Lopez (Alaqua Cox), whose ruthless behaviour in New York City catches up with her in her hometown. Excitingly for long-term Marvel fans – Vincent D’Onofrio and Charlie Cox will reprise their roles as Wilson Fisk/The Kingpin and Matt Murdock/Daredevil for the first time since 2018.
APPLE TV+
Masters of the Air
This spiritual sequel to 2001’s Band of Brothers has been more than a decade in the making. Based on Donald L. Miller’s book, the nine-part series which stars Austin Butler as Major Gale Cleven will tell the incredible true story of the American Eight air force who conducted perilous bombing raids over Nazi Germany.
PRIME VIDEO
The Office Australia
Felicity Ward is the first-ever female lead in the iconic franchise. Hannah Howard (Ward) is the managing director of packaging company Flinley Craddick. When she gets news from Head Office that they will be shutting down her branch and making everyone work from home, she goes into survival mode, making promises she can’t keep in order to keep her “work family” together.
Five Blind Dates
The Family Law’s Shuang Hu stars in this movie as 20-something Lia. Faced with her failing traditional Chinese tea shop inherited from her beloved grandma, and the prospect of attending her older sister’s wedding alone, she’s gifted a “prophecy” – the fate of her shop and her love life are intertwined, and the secret lies in one of her next five dates. Under pressure, Lia agrees to be set up with five different suitors.
Mr & Mrs Smith
A reimagining of the 2005 film, this series stars Donald Glover as John Smith and Maya Erskine as Jane Smith. The two strangers have been thrown together as partners – in espionage and marriage. Matched by a mysterious agency, each episode follows them on a new mission and new milestone in their relationship.
STAN
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Academy Award nominee Harvey Keitel is the lead in this adaptation of the globally best-selling novel by Heather Morris. Inspired by a true story, Lale (Jonah Hauer-King) arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1942, and was charged to ink identification numbers on to fellow prisoners’ arms. He meets Gita (Anna Próchniak) and it’s love at first sight. Around 60 years later, Lale (Keitel) meets novice writer Heather Morris (Melanie Lynskey) and finds the courage to share his story.
Prosper
Richard Roxburgh is Cal Quinn, founder of one of the fastest growing megachurches in the world, alongside Rebecca Gibney as Abi Quinn, his wife and worship leader. The family is about to catapult into a whole new stratosphere of wealth and unchecked power. But behind closed doors, the Quinns are protecting shameful secrets.
ABC and SBS are yet to hold their 2024 program slate announces.
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