After a troubled year for all the commercial free-to-air networks Network Ten has announced its line-up of programming for 2025, headlined by a new show from Logies host Sam Pang.

Melbourne-based Pang, 50, who enjoys a solid relationship with Seven’s The Front Bar and Ten’s Have You Been Paying Attention, will create and star in his own weekly comedy show.

Content and programming boss for Paramount Australia (which owns Ten), Daniel Monaghan, told The New Daily they were currently in the “deep [final] stages of development” for Pang’s project.

“Sam’s quick wit has kept Aussies laughing for years, and we know his fresh new program will give audiences exactly what they want.”

Home of comedy

No title, no format? Another panel show like Have You Been Paying Attention or The Cheap Seats? A Front Bar-esque sit-down to camera reviewing the week that was?

Monaghan won’t reveal, except to say Ten is doubling down on comedy, to make the network the home of comedy with a “unique point of difference”.

There’s the return of franchises – the biggest in the world – like Big Brother, which Monaghan says will have 24-hour live-streaming and be made up of “real people that you can relate to”, Survivor and MasterChef.

Big Brother‘s return sees the show back on Ten some 17 years after it finished in 2008. It ran for eight seasons between 2001 and 2008.

Mel Tracina, right, will host the new version of Big Brother. Photo: Getty

The Nine Network brought the show back for three seasons in 2011, before it had a five-season stint on Seven from 2020.

Mel Tracina, best known as the entertainment correspondent on The Cheap Seats, will host Ten’s rebooted Big Brother.

In early May, Ten confirmed its two big-budget reality TV shows, The Masked Singer and The Bachelor, were being “rested”.

Around the same time, there were questions about how viewers relying on the network’s joint ventures with regional TV stations in northern Victoria, Tasmania and Western Australia would continue to watch popular shows like MasterChef Australia and I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!.

“We are in a good position, we have a full slate … we have our franchises … we have strength in return comedies … known brands and new shows,” Monaghan said.

“[And] Ten is the home of comedy. We know who we are to grow as a network, and are in a solid position [with] content.

“It’s exciting”.

Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Gen (as its now called) returns home after a stint on Nine in 2018 when Shaun Micallef hosted. There’ll be a new host and three new team captains pitting Gen X, the Millennials and the Zoomers against each other.

Critically acclaimed UK sitcom Ghosts is being adapted by BBC Studios Australia for a local eight-part series set in a haunted country house, with Aussie ghosts.

Renewals

Todd Sampson (Mirror, Mirror) returns for another standalone series Why?, keen to find out what motivates people to do “questionable things” like base jumping, becoming doomsday preppers or a donor dad.

Neighbours is back and The Dog House Australia, Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly, Deal or No Deal and Gogglebox Australia have had their shows renewed for another season.

What’s on offer

• The Inspired Unemployed have a new comedy travel series, The List, which follows the practical jokers as they holiday around the world
• Staycation, a feature-length, live action Christmas movie from Ludo, producers of the smash hit series, Bluey
• Matlock: A legal drama series starring Kathy Bates
• Airport 24/7: Reality TV series with exclusive access to Melbourne Airport’s air traffic control tower, fire brigade, federal police, border patrol and baggage handlers as 700 flights and 90,000 passengers pass through the airport every day
• House Hunters Australia: From humble suburban homes to high-end city pads, the show pairs potential buyers with agents to find a home
• I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! Hosts Julia Morris and Robert Irwin return to the jungle with new celebrities
• Australian Survivor: February sees a sequel of sorts with Survivor: Brains v Brawn II. Two tribes are separated by smarts and strength, before battling it out on the beaches of Samoa for the title, the glory, and $500,000
•  Survivor: Australia v The World: A world-first event where local Survivor legends take on players from Survivor franchises around the world.
• MasterChef Australia: Back to Win: Cooks who previously missed out are back for a second shot at glory, hosted by Andy Allen, Sofia Levin, Poh Ling Yeow and Jean-Christophe Novelli
• Dessert Masters: Premieres in October for second season with hosts Melissa Leong and Amaury Guichon
• Taskmaster: Season four starts in February with a line-up including Tommy Little, Emma Holland, Lisa McCune, Takashi Wakasugi and Dave Hughes
• Watson: A modern take on Sherlock Holmes’ clever offsider.

Have You Been Paying Attention?, The Cheap Seats, Thank God You’re Here and Shark Tank Australia have been renewed along with The Graham Norton Show and his hosting of Wheel Of Fortune Australia later this year.

“[We are] rolling out right off the bat in January starting with I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! and continuing all the way through to December with Big Brother,” Monaghan said.

“It’s a diverse slate of entertainment mixing audience favourites with brand new shows.”