The Great Outdoors
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| The Great Outdoors | |
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| Genre | Travel Magazine |
| Presented by | Ernie Dingo Tom Williams Jennifer Hawkins |
| Country of origin |  Australia |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 17 |
| No. of episodes | 640 (as of August 15, 2009) |
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| Running time | 60 minutes (Including commercials) |
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| Original channel | Seven Network |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original run | February 5, 1993 – present |
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| Official website | |
- 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 competitors Getaway and So Many Worlds, 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. (Repeat episodes from 2002 onwards are currently shown on Seven HD during weekday afternoons.)
The seventeenth series of The Great Outdoors is set to return on Saturday 15th August 2009 at 6.30pm on Seven with brand new episodes.[2]
[edit] Presenters
[edit] Current presenters
The current presenters on the show are:
- Ernie Dingo (2000 - 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)
- Tony Johnston (1996)
- Shelley Craft (2001 - 2007)
- Neil Crompton
- Laura Csortan (2000 - 2006)
- Andrew Dwyer (1994)
- Sophie Falkiner (1999 - 2005)
- Terasa Livingstone
- Di Smith (1996 - 2006)
- Andrew Daddo (1994, 2002 - 2008)
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Idato, Michael (2007-04-27). "The Great Outdoors". The Sydney Morning Herald. http://www.smh.com.au/news/tv-reviews/the-great-outdoors/2007/04/27/1177459955592.html. Retrieved 2007-12-09.
- ^ "Latest Show - The Great Outdoors - Yahoo!7 Travel". http://au.travel.yahoo.com/great-outdoors/latest-show/index.html. Retrieved August 1, 2009.
