Paramount has revealed its upcoming content slate for 2024, with new and returning shows coming to Channel 10 and 10 Play as well as new shows coming to Paramount+.
Channel 10 2024: New and Returning Shows
Paramount has promised that the new year will include a fresh and exciting early evening line-up plus the return of fan favourite programs and also some beloved legacy hits ready for discovery by a new generation of fans.
Gladiators is set for a triumphant return to Australian screens early in the new year.
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A team of 21st-century superhumans are relishing the chance to challenge a new breed of brave, everyday Aussie contenders in the ultimate test of speed, strength, stamina, agility and power. The returning series will be hosted by Liz Ellis and Beau Ryan.
Australian Survivor: Titans v Rebels will land back on the beaches of Samoa in 2024.
Hosted by Jonathan LaPaglia, the Titans will need to be at their best to take on the Rebels – a group of individuals who live life by a different set of rules.
Across the ocean from Samoa’s white sands to Africa’s teeming jungles, 2024 will see the 10th season of the Logie-winning I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here!
Paramount has promised that the 10th season is set to be the best yet with plenty of surprises as well as a brand-new co-host.
Alongside Julia Morris in the African treehouse, next year will be Robert Irwin, with the new duo set to debut on Sunday, March 24.
Filling out March is the Australian Formula One Grand Prix, with the only place to watch live and free being on 10 and 10 Play.
Deal or No Deal is set to return to screens, hosted by Gold Logie winner Grand Denyer.
10’s comedy lineup is all returning including Have You Been Paying Attention?, The Cheap Seats, Thank God You’re Here, Gogglebox Australia and Taskmaster.
A new season of Hunted Australia is coming as a group of fugitives will again attempt to vanish into the urban wilderness and survive a game of cat and mouse.
The second half of 2024 will see The Amazing Race Australia: Celebrity Edition return for a second season. Brand new celebrities and their loved ones will be once again tossed out of their comfort zone to scramble from pitstop to pitstop for their chosen charity.
A raft of classic shows are also returning for a new generation of viewers.
Wheel of Fortune Australia, hosted by Graham Norton and produced by Whisper North, part of the Sony Pictures Television-backed Whisper Group, will bring the game show back to primetime.
A brand-new incarnation of the iconic cooking show Ready Steady Cook is set to hook in Friday night audiences. Miguel Maestre will host.
Factual favourites returning include Bondi Rescue, Ambulance Australia, Mirror Mirror, The Dog House Australia and Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly.
10 headliners The Bachelors Australia, Shark Tank Australia and The Masked Singer Australia are also returning.
Multichannels
The kids will be sorted on Nicholdeon with the likes of PAW Patrol, Blue’s Clues & You!, Baby Shark’s Big Show, SpongeBob SquarePants, The Really Loud House and Middlemost Post. Over at Nick@Nite, the bigger kids have Friends, The Graham Norton Show and various movies.
Bold and Peach will feature NCIS, Bull, The Big Bang Theory and South Park. The channels will also feature the A-League and the NBL.
Paramount+ 2024: New and Returning Shows
Headlining Paramount+’s 2024 lineup is the announcement that Top Gear Australia is coming to the platform.
The re-vamped series will feature three new co-drivers at the wheel: Blair ‘Moog’ Joscelyne, the co-creator of the popular auto series Mighty Car Mods; Beau Ryan and Jonathan LaPaglia. Together, they will headline the new incarnation of Top Gear Australia.
Dropping November 10, NCIS: SYDNEY is the first-ever series from the global NCIS franchise to be shot outside the United States. NCIS: SYDNEY follows the high-octane adventures of a multinational task comprising NCIS agents and members of the Australian Federal Police as they police the most contested patch of ocean on Earth.
A new series titled Paper Dolls is set to premiere on Paramount+ on December 7, with the eight-part drama exploring the meteoric rise and tumultuous fall of HARLOW, a fictional girl group born of the world of reality television.
The second season of Last King of the Cross returns as Paramount+’s most-watched local original series as well as the upcoming premium event series Fake. Starring Asher Keddie and David Wenham and inspired by Stephanie Wood’s bestselling book, this eight-part series delivers a meditation on love in a world of lies and deceit.
The hit 2023 series The Inspired Unemployed (Impractical) Jokers is primed to return in 2024, gifting fans of cringe comedy another season of pranks and punishments.
MTV’s ‘Shores’ franchise is getting its own Aussie twist with Aussie Shore. Starting with Jersey Shore, MTV’s hit franchise has expanded to multiple global destinations including Geordie Shore (England), Warsaw Shore (Poland), Rio Shore (Brazil) and Acapulco Shore (Mexico).
2024 will mark the 40th anniversary of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, with the all-new series, Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set to premiere. The 25th anniversary of SpongeBob SquarePants will also take place as the platform will have all-new episodes of the animated series.
The all-new CG-animated preschool series Dora marks the return of the Latina heroine along with all the original series’ beloved characters.
A second season of Tokyo Vice will also delve deeper into the Tokyo underworld of the 1990s.
Paramount+ is the streaming home of the Star Trek Universe, boasting an expansive library of Star Trek series including full seasons of Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: The Next Generation; the Paramount+ original series Star Trek: Discovery; Star Trek: Picard; Star Trek: Strange New Worlds; animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks; and the complete line-up of Star Trek films.
2024 will see the long-running Star Trek: Discovery conclude with its fifth and final season.
On the sporting front, Paramount+ will provide front-row seats to the Matildas and Socceroos, streaming live coverage of Australia’s two national teams on the international stage.
As the Socceroos prepare for a date with the AFC Asian Cup in January 2024, fans will be able to enjoy live broadcasts of all the team’s matches as well as the entire tournament’s matches on Paramount+.
The Subway Socceroos World Cup qualifiers will kick off in November 2023 and continue in March and June 2024, when Australia’s men’s team will once again be chasing a place in football’s biggest tournament.
Meanwhile, the CommBank Matildas are ready for their AFC Olympic qualifiers campaign. If they manage to top their group, they’ll progress to the next stage of qualifiers in February 2024.
Locally, every match of every round in the Isuzu UTE A-League and Liberty A-League seasons will continue live on Paramount+.
The world’s oldest national football competition will once again captivate football lovers in 2024, with the final rounds of the Emirates FA Cup available exclusively on Paramount+.