Paramount ANZ has announced its slate of new and returning content at its 2023 Upfront, held at Sydney’s ICC Convention Centre.
Channel 10 2023: New and Returning Shows
As 2022 draws to a close, Paramount has launched The Real Love Boat. Setting the search for love on the high seas, the show captures the feel-good tone of the original Love Boat, proving a fancy mansion isn’t the only place where romance can blossom.
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The Traitors is a new show that takes the whodunit murder mystery to the next level. Hosted by Rodger Corser, the series sees 24 strangers meet in an old hotel in the countryside where they’re forced to lie and deceive to win a $250,000 prize.
Corser said: “The Traitors will grip you within the first few minutes. I always thought country life was laid back, not stab-in-the-back!”
Celebrities will be living in each other’s pockets while battling it out in physical challenges on The Challenge Australia.
Host Brihony Dawson said: “Earlier this year some of the biggest names in Australian sport and entertainment descended on the Argentinian wilderness to compete in the world’s most gruelling – not to mention, cutthroat – competition.
“With the unique challenges I’ll be setting and the curveballs I’ll be throwing, only two competitors will survive to be crowned champions of The Challenge Australia.”
Brihony Dawson
The new season of The Bachelors will be screening throughout January 2023.
Host Osher Günsberg said: “We find love and celebrate love better than anyone. And it all happens in our glamorous new home on the Gold Coast.
“There’s a lot that’s going to look and feel very different. I mean, the name of the show for starters. It’s The Bachelors. Plural. There’s three of them. An abundance of Bachelors!
“Joining these three eligible young men from across the country are smart, powerful, beautiful women who – like our Bachelors – are over the dating apps, the ghosting and the inability to commit.”
The Bachelors
From February, Australian Survivor returns to Paramount with the most popular theme the franchise has ever seen: Heroes Versus Villains.
Complementing Australian Survivor is the third season of The Dog House Australia.
Returning to Monday nights is the second season of Would I Lie To You? with Chrissie Swan, Frank Woodley and a new team captain – the always funny Charlie Pickering.
Pickering said: “I have always loved the show, and as a new team captain I can’t wait to maximise my opportunities to lie to the Australian public.”
Rounding out the week is the premiere of Taskmaster Australia.
Tom Gleeson stars as the Taskmaster, with Tom Cashman his devoted assistant. Each week the two Toms set five comedians a range of tasks. In the inaugural season, the funny folk taking part are Julia Morris, Luke McGregor, Jimmy Rees, Nina Oyama, and Danielle Walker.
Hitting the couch once again is Gogglebox Australia.
And after two years locked Down Under, the ninth season of the Logie award-winning I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! is returning to South Africa, just in time for Easter.
MasterChef Australia returns in winter for a shorter, more compact run. This year the aim is to keep audiences not entertained as well as guessing, with Season 15 branded as MasterChef Australia: Secrets & Surprises.
Joining the MasterChef quarter are award-winning comedies Have You Been Paying Attention? and The Cheap Seats, plus several new Australian dramas.
Crime thriller North Shore is set to arrive at Paramount. Its creator is Mike Bullen of Cold Feet fame, it’s directed by the highly acclaimed Gregor Jordan, and it stars Joanne Froggatt.
What happens when a British detective and his Australian counterpart team up to solve a murder? The answer is a clash of cultures and personalities.
Another drama on the slate is Paper Dolls. The fictional series tracks the meteoric rise of a girl band spawned by a reality television show. A cautionary tale about the pitfalls of sudden fame, Paper Dolls will strike a chord with audiences who have grown up amid the boom in TV talent shows this century.
In the second half of 2023, there are more fugitives working to avoid capture in Hunted and lonely-hearts setting sail aboard The Real Love Boat.
Factual series such as Ambulance Australia and Bondi Rescue will also be back to Paramount, plus new series The First Inventors.
The First Inventors will transport you back in time – between 70,000 and 120,000 years ago – to a community in the midst of developing sophisticated stone tools, art, agriculture, irrigation and much more.
In this story of knowledge, resilience, and invention, presenter Rob Collins will meet and collaborate with First Nations authorities whose frontline fieldwork offers a new insight into ancient Indigenous innovations and discoveries.
With the success of The Dog House Australia, Paramount has announcd the debut season of Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly. Graeme Hall, the Dogfather of dog training, is up for a new challenge: helping you train your new canine compadre.
Meanwhile, for the first time ever on free to air TV, 2023 will see the premiere of Location, Location, Location.
Whether it’s homebuyers downsizing to an inner-city apartment or seeking a tree or sea change, Location, Location, Location is ready to help turn dream homes into reality.
The new MasterChef spinoff, Dessert Masters, will be making its debut in 2023.
This series is all about desserts, with ten masters of their art battling for the inaugural title of Dessert Master.
News
10 News First reaches three million Australians every week, while the live stream and off-network news presence continues to grow.
Host Sandra Sully said: “In a world that’s getting smaller, news has never been more relied upon, more sought after or simply, more important.
“News you can trust is more critical than ever – and our journalists, producers and crews across the country work around the clock and across multiple platforms to ensure our viewers can access the latest news quickly and accurately.”
Sandra Sully
Every week more than three million Australians join the conversation on The Project – the youngest news and current affairs show on TV. More than half The Project’s audience is under the age of 50.
Host Waleed Aly said: “The Project team is there to test new ideas, debate opinions, and engage candidly and comically with the world’s biggest stars and newsmakers. All this incredible news content, delivered straight to your TV, tablet, or phone – anytime, anyplace.”
And, Studio 10 is back weekday mornings.
Sport
From the Australian MotoGP and the Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix to the Melbourne Cup Carnival, 10 will deliver memorable sporting moments in 2023 for Paramount.
Plus, 10 Bold will continue to kick goals with the Isuzu UTE A-League matches across the season, along with NBL games every Sunday on 10 Peach.
Multichannels
On 10 Bold, there are plenty of favourites returning for the new year – shows like Star Trek: Discovery, Law & Order: SVU, NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, NCIS: New Orleans, Blue Bloods and Bull.
Meanwhile, 10 Peach continues to be the go-to channel for ‘80s, ‘90s and ‘00s nostalgia with The Big Bang Theory, Mom, Seinfeld, and Friends.
Over on 10 Shake, it’s sitcoms, romcoms, stand-up comedy. Shows like PAW Patrol, Blaze and the Monster Machines, Blue’s Clues & You!, The Loud House, The Thundermans and Game Shakers will keep the little ones entertained, while The Office US, South Park, Workaholics, Catfish, Comedy Central Roasts, Comedy Central Stand Up and Aussie stand up specials will have grown-ups laughing.