As soon as a backwater for nationwide TV reveals, the coronavirus pandemic has kickstarted a resurgence in Queensland manufacturing with one other two packages set to be filmed within the Sunshine State.
Sporting documentary Sporting Bubble and the reprise of Love Island will each be filmed in Queensland for the 9 Community.
Sporting Bubble is a behind-the-scenes reveal on how 5 of the nation’s elite sporting codes, now calling Queensland residence, have coped throughout the pandemic. It has been commissioned by 9 in partnership with Tourism and Occasions Queensland.
The sequence comes on the again of each Tremendous Netball workforce basing itself in Queensland and the AFL staging its first grand closing exterior of Victoria on the Gabba.
The Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast have been the principle hub areas for a number of AFL golf equipment together with reigning premier Richmond who despatched two gamers residence after they visited a strip membership after which concerned in an early morning fracas exterior a kebab store in Surfers Paradise.
The NRL additionally needed to resort to utilizing Queensland as a base for Melbourne Storm earlier than it acquired caught in Victoria’s lockdown following a second coronavirus wave.
Love Island will go into manufacturing at a secret location on the Gold Coast a quickly because the state borders reopen and will likely be screened in 2021. The primary two seasons have been shot in Spain and Fiji, respectively.
The 9 Community took simply 5 days to tape 30 episodes of Millionaire Sizzling Seat on the Gold Coast whereas the second season of life-style program My Approach, with Tim Backwell as narrator, has been recorded and can air on 9 in 2021.
Sizzling Seat host Eddie McGuire was amongst 400 folks in an AFL quarantine hub on the Gold Coast for 2 weeks earlier than he broke away to begin taping the quiz present. The primary of the locally-produced episodes will go to air on Monday night.
It’s a serious upswing in productions in Queensland the place primarily nationwide youngsters’s TV reveals have been being produced resembling Toasted TV and Completely Wild, which have each been axed lately, and The Bureau of Magical Issues which was being shot on the Gold Coast.
9 Queensland Managing Director, Kylie Blucher, mentioned dozens of jobs are being created with the resurgence in manufacturing within the Sunshine State.
“It’s extremely necessary for the Australian tv trade to have so many packages at the moment in manufacturing in Queensland,” Ms Blucher mentioned.
“Queensland has actually confirmed itself in combating the COVID-19 pandemic, making certain our viewers are delivered the easiest content material throughout leisure, information and sport.”
Holey Moley when contestants play for $100,000. Image: Channel 7
The Seven Community can be filming its excessive putt-putt sequence Holey Moley, that includes Queensland’s {golfing} legend Greg Norman, at Redlands.
The sequence relies round a mini golf competitors with $100,000 up for grabs when the winners of every episode playoff within the closing.
Sonia Kruger will host Holey Moley with Norman billed because the ‘resident professional’ and former Olympic sprinter turned-sports anchor Matt Shirvington and comic Rob Riggle offering commentary.
Humorist Riggle is a former solid member of Saturday Evening Reside within the US and spent a number of seasons on satirical sequence The Day by day Present.
