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Bev McGarvey addressing the upfront (Mumbrella)<\/p>\n
Also resurrected for 2026 is Millionaire Hot Seat, which was dumped by Nine at the end of 2023, and now lives at Ten, with Rebecca Gibney hosting.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople think they know who she is \u2026 you\u2019ve grown up with her to a certain extent, but you don\u2019t know her really until you see her a scenario like this, every single night with lots of different people,\u201d Tamara Simoneau, vice president of content told Burrowes. \u201cSo that\u2019s going to be a surprise for the audience to get to know her in a way that they don\u2019t. \u201d<\/p>\n
Ten will also debut a pair of docu-shows: Sydney Harbour Cops, which is like real-life Water Rats, following the police who patrol the harbour; and The Animal Sanctuary, set inside Tasmania\u2019s family-operated Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary.<\/p>\n
Paramount+ will debut two new dramas: Dalliance, a show about dating in your sixties \u2014 starring Hugo Weaving and Georgie Parker \u2014 and Two Years Later, a show about dating in your thirties, starring Brenton Thwaites and Phoebe Tonkin. Variety is the spice of life.<\/p>\n
And in terms of sport, Ten has the UFC from January, the Women\u2019s Asian Cup (hosted in Australia), two back-to-back A-League men\u2019s soccer matches each Saturday, NBL double-headers on Sundays, the Australian MotoGP, the Formula 1 in Melbourne next March \u2013 and the NRL?<\/p>\n
Well, it\u2019s a possibility. Burrowes posited to McGarvey that the recent rise of Formula One makes it a better fit for Paramount than the NRL, saying \u201cif you were to chase one hard, it feels to me like your appetite presumably would be more F1.\u201d<\/p>\n
McGarvey replied: \u201cWell, yes and no. The F1\u2019s incredible and it is a global phenomenon. But, there\u2019s more volume in NRL and the NRL is great and they\u2019ve had a great year \u2026 the code\u2019s been really great this year, and it\u2019s done really good numbers.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo honestly, you know, if Santa could give me it, you\u2019d take both, obviously. But I don\u2019t know that that\u2019s a problem we\u2019re gonna have to suffer through.\u201d<\/p>\n
When asked if she\u2019d yet had conversations globally about the appetite for the organisation in chasing NRL, McGarvey said \u201cwe will certainly have those conversations. We look at every available rights and especially local ones\u201d.<\/p>\n
She continued: \u201cWe look at them tactically. You know, it\u2019s only been a few months\u201d [since the Skydance merger]. She also noted that, with international boss Kevin MacLellan in Australia for the upfront, \u201cit\u2019s a good time for us to start thinking about what that might look like for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, during the wide-ranging interview, McGarvey hosed down rumours that she is in line for the top job at SBS \u2014 saying \u201cnot that I\u2019m aware of. I\u2019m very busy in my day job.\u201d<\/p>\n
Okay, back to the Big Brother house for the rest of the upfront announcements.<\/p>\n
And while we don\u2019t know yet which contestants will be entering the Big Brother house on Sunday night, we know there will be a tonne of contextual advertising, with \u2018Own The Moment\u2019 and \u2018Pause to Shop\u2019 features coming to the show, after the latter debuted on MasterChef Australia earlier this year.<\/p>\n
McCain is the first sponsor to sign up to this new frontier of lounge-room advertising. Basically the 2026 version of product placement, Paramount\u2019s contextual advertising suite will enable brands to sell to viewers with \u201ccontextual relevancy\u201d \u2013 which may or may not mean bored Big Brother housemates munching on fish fingers and oven chips.<\/p>\n