The Great Outdoors
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The Great Outdoors | |
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Genre | Travel Magazine |
Presented by | Ernie Dingo Andrew Daddo Tom Williams Jennifer Hawkins |
Country of origin | Australia |
Language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 16 |
No. of episodes | 629 (as of May 17, 2008) |
Production | |
Running time | 60 minutes (Including commercials) |
Broadcast | |
Original channel | Seven Network |
Picture format | 576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
Audio format | Stereo |
Original run | February 5, 1993 – present |
External links | |
Official website | |
IMDb profile |
- For the 1988 film, see The Great Outdoors (1988 film). "The Great Outdoors" is also a British hillwalking magazine.
The Great Outdoors is an Australian travel magazine series broadcast on the Seven Network.
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[edit] History
Similar to its competitor Getaway, the program features a team of reporters who travel around Australia and overseas, reporting on travel destinations, tourist attractions and accommodation.
The program premiered on 5 February 1993 in a 30 minute format and was broadcast on Tuesday evenings at 8:00 pm. In 2002, the show was expanded to 60 minutes and moved to the Monday 7:30 pm timeslot, where it had stayed until 2006.
After suffering a gradual decline in ratings over the past few years, the show moved to a new timeslot of 6:30 pm Saturdays from the 2007 season. On 28 April 2007, the show celebrated 600 episodes,[1] making it one of the longest running programs on Australian television.
The sixteenth season of the show premiered on April 5, 2008. Repeat episodes from 2002 onwards are also shown on Seven HD during weekday afternoons.
[edit] Presenters
[edit] Current presenters
The current presenters on the show are:
- Ernie Dingo (1993 - present)
- Andrew Daddo (1994, 2002 - present)
- Tom Williams (2001 - present)
- Jennifer Hawkins (2005 - present)
[edit] Former presenters
Previous presenters on the show include:
- Bridget Adams (1994)
- Penny Cook (1993 - 1996)
- Shelley Craft (2001 - 2007)
- Neil Crompton
- Laura Csortan (2000 - 2006)
- Andrew Dwyer (1994)
- Sophie Falkiner (? - 2005)
- Terasa Livingstone
- Di Smith (? - 2006)
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Idato, Michael. "The Great Outdoors", The Sydney Morning Herald, 2007-04-27. Retrieved on 2007-12-09.