The Block NZ: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

The Block NZ is the first local version of an international hit renovation-reality series in which four couples compete to renovate four dilapidated houses in a very upmarket suburb – room by room, week by week, challenge by challenge – and sell them at auction for the highest price. The teams can be couples, family members, or friends, and do not need any DIY experience. Once selected, the contestants live and breathe their DIY project for the nine week shoot, living on site in The Block NZ houses. There are no further eliminations, and the winning couple is decided by the toughest judge of all, the real estate market! All four renovated houses go to a live TV auction, with The Block NZ crown going to the couple whose house fetches the highest price on the night!. All the couples receive profits from the sale of their house at the televised auction.

Series details

• Title: The Block NZ
• Format: Reality
• Language: English
• Premiere date: 2012-07-04
• Status in TVmaze: Running
• Network listed by TVmaze: Three
• Network country: New Zealand
• Typical episode runtime: 61 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 8063
• IMDb ID: tt2194408
• TVDB ID: 260462

Cast and credited roles

• Mark Richardson — Host
• Shannon Ryan — Host
• Shelley Ferguson — Host
• Shelley Ferguson — Judge
• Mark Gascogine — Judge
• Fiona MacLeod — Judge
• Paul Izzard — Judge
• Bernadette Morrison — Judge
• Jason Bonham — Judge
• Janice Kumar-Ward — Judge
• Jeremy Hansen — Judge
• Victoria Bidwell — Judge

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2012-07-04; final listed air date 2012-09-06.
• Season 2: premiered 2013-08-26; final listed air date 2013-11-04.
• Season 3: premiered 2014-08-26; final listed air date 2014-11-18.
• Season 4: premiered 2015-09-29; final listed air date 2015-12-07; episode order: 40.
• Season 5: premiered 2016-05-29; final listed air date 2016-08-14.
• Season 6: premiered 2017-06-25; final listed air date 2017-09-18.
• Season 7: premiered 2018-07-08; final listed air date 2018-09-30.
• Season 8: premiered 2019-06-17; final listed air date 2019-09-08.
• Season 9: premiered 2021-06-14; final listed air date 2021-11-14.
• Season 10: premiered 2022-07-18; final listed air date 2022-10-10.

Source and licence

Adapted from The Block NZ on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.