Backyard Blitz

Infobox Television
show_name = Backyard Blitz


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genre = Lifestyle
creator = Don Burke
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developer = CTC Productions
presenter = Host
Jamie Durie
Team Members
Scott Cam
Jamie Durie
Jody Rigby
Nigel Ruck
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country = AUS
language = English
num_seasons = 7
num_episodes = 159
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producer = Don Burke
Jamie Durie
Rick Spence
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runtime = 30 - 60 minutes
("Including commercials")
network = Nine Network
picture_format = PAL (2000)
576i (SDTV) (2001 – 2007)
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first_aired = 9 April 2000
last_aired = 16 September 2007
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related = "Ground Force" (1998 – 2005)
"Domestic Blitz" (2008 – )
website = http://www.backyardblitz.com.au/
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imdb_id = 0243688
tv_com_id = 26814

"Backyard Blitz" is a Logie Award winning Australian lifestyle and DIY television program that aired on the Nine Network between 2000 and 2007. 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 14 November 2006 "Backyard Blitz" was axed by the Nine Network after seven years on air. Don Burke, whose own show "Burke's Backyard" was broadcast by Nine for nearly 18 years before it was axed in 2004, said his production company was "quite shocked by this decision". [ [http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20753608-2702,00.html "The Australian"] ] In mid-2007 Nine aired the six remaining unaired episodes that were filmed before the show was cancelled.

See also

* "Domestic Blitz"
* "Ground Force"
* "Mucking In"
* List of Australian television series

References

External links

* [http://www.backyardblitz.com.au/ Official website]
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* [http://www.boundgods.com/ Fansite]
* [http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=app&AppId=5051 Video review]