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Scott Cam and Shelley Craft will be back in 2020. Picture: NIGEL HALLETT
The Block’s 2020 season, which will be shot in Melbourne’s bayside at Brighton, looks set to be a battle of the decades.
There will be five relocated homes, one from every decade between the 1920s and the 1960s. I’m guessing the contestant couples will then take their decorative themes from the era in modernising their home which will also come with a rear two-storey extension.
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Contestants from the 2017 season of the show. Picture: David Crosling
Maybe the time-warp series will be something like Annabel Crabb’s Back in Time for Dinner on the ABC, but for the masses and sponsored by McCafe and Youfoodz.
The worthy sustainable recycling endeavour is similar to the show’s Elsternwick series
two season’s ago when five weatherboard homes facing the wrecking ball were relocated under host Scott Cam’s watch.
A look at the 1940s-era house to be used in the show. Picture from Bayside City Council planning application.
This time they will be installed on a 2770sq m holding being bought by Channel 9 for around $15 million.
It was once a nursing home which was bought for $5 million in 2013 by Nick Williams, the son of horse trainer, Lloyd Williams, after its closure. The parcel was onsold by another developer who proposed 13 townhouses.
This is the 1950s-era house to be featured in the show. Picture from Bayside City Council planning application.
The next series of The Block starts next month with the refurbishment of the Oslo Hotel,
St Kilda.
The producers quit Sydney in 2011 complaining that they couldn’t cope with our councils.