Coming in ’26: a new comedy from Mick Molloy and Glenn Robbins, a Shane Jacobson quiz, plus Tina Arena, Comm. Games and 7Plus alerts synced to your mobile.
Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games
New: Mick Molloy comedy, Caught in the Middle with Shane Jacobson, SAS: Australia v England with Ryan Moloney & Nat Bassingthwaighte, My Reno Rules, Once in a Lifetime, Tina Arena: Unravel Me
Returning: Australian Idol, Farmer Wants a Wife, MKR, The Voice, The 1% Club, Home & Away
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Seven has unveiled its 2026 Programming highlights at an industry event this afternoon at Winx Stand, Royal Randwick.
Amongst the new titles next year is new quiz series Caught in the Middle, to be hosted by Shane Jacobson, and filmed in The Netherlands; a yet-to-be-titled comedy entertainment series from Mick Molloy and Glenn Robbins; SAS: Australia v England with celebrities (but no Ant Middleton); showbiz special Tina Arena: Unravel Me; and the previously-announced My Reno Rules hosted by Dr. Chris Brown.
Dr. Chris Brown also fronts feelgood travel show Once in a Lifetime, previously announced for 2025. Also pushed into 2026 are the return of First Dates Australia and special event The Mental As Anything Story.
Hit returning shows include Australian Idol, Farmer Wants a Wife, MKR, The Voice, The 1% Club, Home & Away, Better Homes & Gardens, The Front Bar and more.
In addition to AFL, Cricket, Horse Racing, Supercars, Bathurst 1000, NFL and more is the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games next July and August.
Seven West Media Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Jeff Howard, said, “This year we’ve focused on driving growth, especially across 7plus, and on delivering consistently for our audience and commercial partners. We’re doubling down on what works: content that helps brands meet audiences wherever they are, and of course, delivering results. Our focus in 2026 is on growth, partnership and performance. We’re bringing all three.”
Seven Group Managing Director, Television, Angus Ross, said: “We reach millions of Australians every day, across every screen, every format, and every region. And we do it with content made for all of Australia, 52 weeks a year. Our model is working, built on the best Aussie sport, entertainment and news shows, as well as premium overseas content.
“This year has seen audience growth for a lot of our content – including AFL, cricket, Supercars, the Brownlow Medal, Home and Away, My Kitchen Rules, Australian Idol, The 1% Club, 7NEWS, The Front Bar, 7NEWS Spotlight, the TV Week Logie Awards, Sunrise and The Morning Show – and we are building an even stronger entertainment, sport and news lineup for 2026.
“Seven already has the best sport schedule in Australia and next year it will get even better with the addition of the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Australians love sport and the growth in our audiences this year shows they love sport on Seven and 7plus.”
Seven did not announce any new drama but is hoping to renew RFDS. Meanwhile Dancing with the Stars is also not yet renewed.
Below are the 2026 highlights with exclusive comments from Seven Group Managing Director, Television, Angus Ross.
Commonwealth Games
The Commonwealth Games return to Seven in 2026, with coverage from Glasgow running from 23 July to 2 August. Australians will have the chance to witness some of the nation’s most exciting sporting superstars in action – including the sprint sensation on everybody’s radar, Gout Gout, Olympic pole vault champion Nina Kennedy, high jump world champion Nicola Olyslagers, and rising para-swimming star Declan Budd. Live, free and exclusively on Seven and 7plus Sport, the Glasgow Games will feature a 10-sport program and approximately 3,000 world-class athletes competing from up to 74 Commonwealth nations and territories. The 2026 Games will include athletics and para-athletics (track and field), swimming and para swimming, artistic gymnastics, track cycling and para track cycling, netball, weightlifting and para powerlifting, boxing, judo, bowls and para bowls, and 3×3 basketball and 3×3 wheelchair basketball. More than 200 gold medals will be up for grabs across the 10 days of sporting competition, including the biggest track cycling and swim programs ever seen at a Commonwealth Games, with 26 medal events in the velodrome and 56 medal events in the pool.
New:
Caught In The Middle is the ultimate quiz battle between one duo and one hundred opponents. The duo stands at the centre of a giant LED arena surrounded by a hundred opponents. Over the course of 15 questions, they must outsmart the crowd by picking answers that match as many rivals as possible; knocking them out one by one before the opponents reach the middle and claim the life-changing jackpot for themselves. Hosted by Shane Jacobson, the compelling new series comes from Talpa Studios, the independent global content house founded by John de Mol, the legendary producer and creator of The Voice, The Floor and many other hits. It is being produced for Seven by Talpa Studios and Eureka.
AR: “Quiz is running red hot at the moment, not just here, but around the world. We’ve had huge success with 1% Club and Nine obviously had big success with The Floor this year. This show is from Talpa, who also created, created The Floor. It’s a massive-sized quiz show that we’re shooting in the Netherlands.”
Comedy returns to prime time on Seven with a new format featuring Mick Molloy and Glenn Robbins and funny friends as guests. It is produced by Molloy Boy Productions.
AR: “This was the best pilot we’d seen for years. We just absolutely laughed our heads off. We really want to make sure no one steals the idea before we get it to air. Hence why, we haven’t put a title against it at this stage!”
SAS: Australia v England pits seven Aussie celebrities against seven UK celebrities in one of the most unforgiving environments in the world: the Moroccan desert. The Directing Staff take the recruits through hostile and unforgiving warfare environments, while testing their mental and physical ability through a series of realistic training exercises, all designed to simulate real SAS training. Can the Aussies triumph in the world’s toughest test and in the end, who can make the final SAS selection? SAS: Australia v England is produced by Minnow Films and distributed by Banijay Rights.
AR: “The Australian SAS contestants are Mack Horton, Emily Seebohm, Brad Hodge, Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Ryan Moloney, Jessika Power and Axle Whitehead.”
My Reno Rules is a brand-new renovation competition that’s raising the stakes and flipping the script, with epic twists set to transform the lives of everyday Aussies. Hosted by Dr Chris Brown, My Reno Rules will be must-watch television, with four hardworking teams of Aussie battlers going head-to-head, breathing new life into two neighbouring rundown houses in a picturesque Melbourne suburb. The live grand final will see some lucky Australians receive a life-changing call telling them they’ve won a spectacularly renovated, multi-million-dollar home: fully furnished, landscaped and equipped with state-of-the-art technology. Joining Dr Chris are style icon Neale Whitaker, top buyer’s agent Simon Cohen and interiors expert Julia Green as the judging panel. My Reno Rules is a new format produced by Endemol Shine Australia (a Banijay Entertainment Company) and distributed internationally by Banijay Rights.
Dr Chris also stars in the all-new Once In A Lifetime, which sees him embark on global wildlife journeys, joined by entertaining Australian personalities (including Mick Molloy, Amanda Keller, Kate Ritchie and Matt Preston) as his untrained and unqualified veterinary assistants. Together, they help animals while navigating unpredictable and often humorous situations. Once In A Lifetime is a Happy Camel and ITV Studios Australia production.
Marking 50 years in the spotlight, Tina Arena: Unravel Me is an intimate and cinematic portrait of one of Australia’s most enduring and enigmatic artists. Told through two interwoven lenses – Tina the icon and Tina the woman – this landmark documentary from Helium Pictures peels back five decades of fame to reveal the dualities that have defined her life and the new revelations that have remained untold until now. From Young Talent Time to global superstardom, heartbreak to hard-won independence, Tina Arena: Unravel Me traces Tina’s extraordinary evolution across continents and languages – from Australia’s sweetheart to a reinvention in France that crowned her a true global icon. Featuring candid new interviews, rare archives and appearances from friends, family, and collaborators, including Katy Perry, Celine Dion and Lionel Richie, it reveals the woman behind the legend: reflective, unfiltered and still wrestling with her own legacy.
First Dates Australia
The Mental As Anything Story
Returning:
My Kitchen Rules
Australian Idol Marcia Hines, Kyle Sandilands and Amy Shark search for the country’s next singing sensation.
The Voice with returning coaches Ronan Keating, Melanie C, Richard Marx and Kate Miller-Heidke.
The 1% Club with host Jim Jefferies.
Farmer Wants A Wife with host host Natalie Gruzlewski
Home & Away. Brax (Stephen Peacocke) and Ricky (Bonnie Sveen) return in special episodes.
Better Homes & Gardens,
The Chase Australia,
The Front Bar,
Highway Patrol,
Border Security: Australia’s Front Line,
The Great Outdoors
Off The Grid With Colin and Manu
The Great Outdoors
South Aussie with Cosi
Special events:
TV Week Logie Awards
Telethon 2026
Good Friday Appeal
Carols In The Domain
Annual Academy Awards
Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo
International:
New:
Extreme Planet Earth,
Operation Dark Phone
A Taste For Murder
Returning:
Ludwig,
The Rookie,
The 1% Club UK,
9-1-1,
Britain’s Got Talent
The Hunting Party
News & Current Affairs:
7NEWS
7NEWS Spotlight
Sunrise
The Morning Show
Weekend Sunrise
Sport:
Every week, Seven’s stellar lineup of the best local and international sport reaches more than nine million Australians. Every week, Seven delivers the sport the nation loves, from Australia’s #1 winter and #1 summer sport – AFL and Cricket – to horse racing, Supercars including the Bathurst 1000, NFL including the Super Bowl, LIV Golf, surfing, cycling, athletics, hockey, extreme sports and more.
Plus Women’s International, AFLW, Brownlow Medal, AFL Origin, The Front Bar, The Agenda Setters, Sunday Footy Feast, Unfiltered, Extra Time, AFL Kids Call, Magic Millions Raceday.
7Plus:
Seven’s Director, Content Strategy, 7plus, Andrew Green, said: “As well as our unparallelled slate of content, it is our user experience that also supports our growth. Every new feature on 7plus is designed to make streaming smarter and more intuitive. With upcoming ‘Remind Me’ alerts synced to your mobile and a personalised ‘My 7plus’ preference centre, we’re turning choice into convenience and helping people find what they want faster.”
Still to Come:
Carols In The Domain
Two Front Bar cricket specials in November
The Ashes, starting in Perth on 21 November – fans can also look forward to another season of the Big Bash League (from 14 December) and Women’s Big Bash League (from 9 November.
Ashes Preview Show, The Spin.
Absent:
RFDS. AR: “Seven is very keen to go again. We’re in the hands of Endemol Shine and Banijay.”
Dancing with the Stars: AR: “It’s not on the list at the moment. It’s another one we’re working through, whether it can fit (the schedule).”
Stranded on Honeymoon Island is axed.
Ultimate Escape is axed.
Jim Jefferies & Friends
Healthy Wealthy & Wise
The House of Wellness
Tomorrow: 7Plus / Multichannels.