Backyard Blitz

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Backyard Blitz

Genre	Renovation / Reality
Picture format	4:3 (2000) 16:9 (2001 - 2006)
Running time	30 - 60 minutes (Including commercials)
Creator(s)	Don Burke
Developer(s)	CTC Productions
Producer(s)	Don Burke Jamie Durie
Starring	Host Jamie Durie Team Members Scott Cam Jamie Durie Jody Rigby Nigel Ruck
Country of origin	Australia
Original channel	Nine Network
Original run	2000–2006
No. of episodes	153 (as of November 30, 2006)
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Backyard Blitz was an Australian "lifestyle" television program that aired on the Nine Network. It was hosted by Jamie Durie and was produced by Don Burke.

The show featured a very similar premise to the show Ground Force, in which a team of gardeners employed by the show descend on a supposedly worthy individual's place and improve the garden for the cameras within a specified time limit. This similarity in fact led to legal action being taken by the rival Seven Network, who at the time was set to debut an Australian version of Ground Force.

The show, like many of its other lifestyle brethren, was mainly watched by older viewers, and was widely derided by younger viewers and television critics. However it was a strong ratings performer.

The four regular presenters on the show were landscaper Jamie Durie, builder / carpenter Scott Cam, Landscaper Nigel Ruck and horticulturist Jody Rigby.

On November 14th 2006 Backyard Blitz was axed by the Nine Network after seven years on air. CTC director Don Burke, who hosted Burke's Backyard on Nine for nearly 18 years before it was axed in 2004, said the company was "quite shocked by this decision". The Australian