The Block (season 13)

The Block (season 13)
Country of origin	Australia
Release
Original network	Nine Network
Original release	30 July 2017
Season chronology

The thirteenth season of Australian reality television series The Block, titled The Block: Street, will premiere on 30 July 2017 on the Nine Network.^[1] Both hosts Scott Cam (host) and Shelley Craft (Challenge Master) returned from the previous season, as did the three judges: Neale Whitaker, Shaynna Blaze and Darren Palmer.^[2]

Production

On 8 November 2016, The Block was renewed for a thirteenth season at Nine's upfronts.^[3][4] Applications for the thirteenth season of the series opened on January 9th 2017, with energetic couples aged between 18 and 65 years old being sought by casting agents.^[5] Filming for the season is scheduled to occur between April 2017 and July 2017.^[5] The casting call also specifies first round couples will be reduced to final participants in the first week of filming, which suggests Season 13 will feature an elimination round similar to that of Season 5.^[5]

On 11 March 2017, it was reported that a vacant block of land at 46 Regent Street, Elsternwick, had been purchased for $9.6 million back in December 2016, with plans approved to build a five lot subdivision, meaning for the first time ever, they would be building a property from the ground up, instead of renovating an existing building.^[6][7] On 17 March 2017, it was officially confirmed that 46 Regent Street Elsternwick will be the location of The Block's thirteenth season with filming to begin on 27 April 2017,^[8] however they will not be building a property from the ground up, as five old rundown weatherboard houses are being relocated to the location,^[9] meaning this will be the first time since the sixth season the contestants will renovate a house.^[10]

Contestants

This is the fifth season of The Block to have five couples instead of the traditional four couples.^[11] Each team will renovate a house which have each been relocated from different suburbs around Melbourne.

Score history

Weekly Room Prize

Results

Judges' scores

Colour key:

     Highest Score

     Lowest Score

Challenge Scores

Domain Prize

Each week during the weekly walkthrough, Alice Stolz from Domain will judge each teams current room. She judges each room on suitability, continuity and flow, functionality, progress & budget. The weekly winner will be awarded a $5,000 weekly prize that is split equally in cash and marketing with domain. Each week the points are tallied and the team at the end with the highest score will have themselves and their property featured on the cover of Domain Magazine.

Auction

Ratings

Notes

• ^a Ratings data is from OzTAM and represents the live and same day average viewership from the 5 largest Australian metropolitan centres (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide).
• ^b In House 3 resided a secret vault of which the contents were unknown until it was opened. Whoever selected House 3 (Georgia & Ronnie) were able to open it and take ownership of the contents within. The vault contained $15,000 vouchers to Reece, Freedom Furniture, Neff & $5,000 in cash. The safe also included The Big Steal, which was two options, option 1 was to steal someone elses house & option 2 was to take the amount of money they spent on the 48 Hour challenge (which was $8,700) from another team. They chose option 2, to take money from another team, they took from Elyse & Josh.
• ^c The name of the house indicates the suburb the house use to belong to and was relocated from.

References

1. ↑ Knox, David (12 July 2017). "Airdate: The Block 2017". dailytelegraph.com.au. Retrieved 12 July 2017. 
2. ↑ Knox, David (22 June 2017). "Nine confrims 2017 cast for The Block". tvtonight.nine.com.au. Retrieved 22 June 2017. 
3. ↑ Knox, David (8 November 2016). "Nine Upfronts 2017". TV Tonight. Retrieved 8 November 2016. 
4. ↑ "Nine in 2017". nineentertainmentco.com.au. Retrieved 9 November 2016. 
5. 1 2 3 "The Block 2017 Casting". castasugar.com. Retrieved 9 January 2017. 
6. ↑ Byrne, Fiona (11 March 2017). "Forget The Gatwick: New location for The Block revealed". heraldsun.com.au. Retrieved 11 March 2017. 
7. ↑ Knox, David (14 March 2017). "Regent St new home for The Block?". tvtonight.com.au. Retrieved 14 March 2017. 
8. ↑ Knox, David (17 March 2017). "The Block to begin filming on April 27". tvtonight.com.au. Retrieved 17 March 2017. 
9. ↑ Knox, David (20 March 2017). "The Block 2017… renovate this!". tvtonight.com.au. Retrieved 20 March 2017. 
10. ↑ Dennehy, Luke (17 March 2017). "Is this Elsternwick site the new location of The Block?". heraldsun.com.au. Retrieved 17 March 2017. 
11. ↑ "The Block 2017 teams". news.com.au. 22 June 2017. Retrieved 22 June 2017. 
12. ↑ Knox, David (31 July 2017). "Sunday 30 July 2017". TV Tonight. Retrieved 31 July 2017. 
13. ↑ Knox, David (1 August 2017). "Monday 31 July 2017". TV Tonight. Retrieved 1 August 2017. 
14. ↑ Knox, David (2 August 2017). "Tuesday 1 August 2017". TV Tonight. Retrieved 2 August 2017. 
15. ↑ Knox, David (3 August 2017). "Wednesday 2 August 2017". TV Tonight. Retrieved 3 August 2017. 
16. ↑ Knox, David (7 August 2017). "Sunday 6 August 2017". TV Tonight. Retrieved 7 August 2017. 
17. ↑ Knox, David (8 August 2017). "Monday 7 August 2017". TV Tonight. Retrieved 8 August 2017. 
18. ↑ Knox, David (9 August 2017). "Tuesday 8 August 2017". TV Tonight. Retrieved 9 August 2017. 
19. ↑ Knox, David (10 August 2017). "Wednesday 9 August 2017". TV Tonight. Retrieved 10 August 2017.