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Ratings

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Season Episodes Timeslot Original airing Viewers
First Airing Last Airing
1 23 Wednesday 7:30 pm 6 December 2006 28 February 2007 281,000[1] sdsfsdf
2 23 5 December 2007 20 February 2008 13.00[2]
3 22 Sunday 9:00 pm 3 December 2008 4 February 2009 11.83[3]
S 22 18 March 2010 10 June 2010 10.98[4]
S 22 23 June 2011 18 August 2011 11.43[5]
4 22 14 February 2013 18 April 2013 12.17[6]
5 22 7 January 2016 10 March 2016 10.84[7]

Food Safari, whilst never garnering the high ratings of similar food programs on commercial networks, it has become a renown staple in the Australian television scene, and consistently reached SBS’ top 50 programs between 2007 to 2011 when such information was made publicly available. This is in part due to it acting as successful filler programming for SBS (and later, SBS Food), with the network consistently airing repeats of previous seasons, which often achieved greater success than their initial debut. For season 2, first run episodes garnered an average regional audience of 359,000, though on its second airing this audience increased by 13% to 406,000 (page 34) - 2007 to 2008, with one repeat attracting 514,000 viewers, becoming SBS’ sixth most watched program of 2008 (Page 33). In 2009, a repeat of a season 4 episode became the network’s second most popular commissioned program and tenth most popular program overall, garnering 456,000 viewers.

Release

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Domestic

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Food Safari was first broadcast on SBS on the 7 June 2006, on Wednesday 7:30 timeslot, which it would mostly occupy for its series run. The food series was renewed for its second and third seasons which debuted on 5 December 2008 and 3 December 2009, respectively. The series was commissioned for a fourth season which began on February 14, 2013.[8] A fifth season, began airing from January 7, 2016.[9] A sixth season Earth, began airing from October 12, 2017.[10]

Initially, the series' seventh season, Water, was announced to air in 2017, a move which would have seen it debut in the same year as the previous season, a first for the series.[11] However, this never came to fruition, and instead Water debuted on 1 August 2018, with SBS following the previous season's original Thursday 8pm timeslot.[12][13] However, the season struggled in the ratings, garnering just 118,000 viewers by its fourth episode. In response, SBS temporarily pulled the program from its schedule, placing it on a 3-week hiatus in an attempt to boost viewership.[14] This strategy was successful and the fifth episode debuted on 19 September with 143,000 viewers, returning to the previous season's Wednesday 8pm timeslot, before it moved forward to 7:30pm, a week later.[15]

The series garnered two spin off seasons, Italian Food Safari and French Food Safari, which debuted in 2010 and 2011, respectively.

International

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As of 2015, Food Safari has grossed $1 million from international syndication deals, selling television rights to TV One in New Zealand and the OKTO Channel in Singapore.[16]

Home media

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Title DVD release dates Special features
Region 1 Region 2 Region 4
Australia New Zealand

Food Safari

— — 6 June 2007[17] 11 July 2007[18]

Food Safari 2

 — — 21 February 2008[19] 20 March 2008[20]

Food Safari 3

 — — 18 March 2009[21] —

Italian Food Safari

 — — 2 June 2010[22] —
  • 160 minutes of bonus material.[23]

French Food Safari

 — — 3 August 2011[24] —
  • 90 minutes of bonus material.[25]

Food Safari 4

 — — 6 March 2013[26] 11 April 2013[27]

Food Safari Fire

— — 3 Febuary 2016[28] 10 March 2016[29]

Food Safari Earth

— — 19 December 2018[30] 10 January 2019[31]

Food Safari Water

— — 19 December 2018[32] 10 January 2019[33]

Food Safari Elements:
Earth, Water & Fire

 — — 20 March 2019[34] —
  1. ^ "Final 2009–10 Broadcast Primetime Show Average Viewership". TV by the Numbers. June 16, 2010. Archived from the original on June 19, 2010. Retrieved July 29, 2010.
  2. ^ "2010–11 Season Broadcast Primetime Show Viewership Averages". Tvbythenumbers.com. June 1, 2011. Archived from the original on June 20, 2011. Retrieved June 1, 2011.
  3. ^ "2011–12 Season Broadcast Primetime Show Viewership Averages". Tvbythenumbers.com. May 25, 2012. Retrieved May 25, 2012.
  4. ^ "Full 2012-2013 TV Season Series Rankings".
  5. ^ "Full 2013-2014 TV Season Series Rankings".
  6. ^ "Full 2014-15 TV Season Series Rankings: Football & 'Empire' Ruled". Archived from the original on May 22, 2015.
  7. ^ "Full 2015–16 TV Season Series Rankings". Deadline Hollywood. May 26, 2015. Retrieved May 26, 2015.
  8. ^ "Returning: Food Safari". TV Tonight. 5 February 2013. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
  9. ^ "Returning: Food Safari". SBS. 2 December 2015. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
  10. ^ "Returning: Food Safari Earth". TV Tonight. 21 September 2017. Retrieved 20 October 2017.
  11. ^ "SBS Unveils Impressive 2017 Line-Up". B&T. 16 November 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
  12. ^ Knox, David (28 December 2017). "Absent in 2017". TV Tonight. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
  13. ^ Knox, David (12 July 2018). "Airdate: Food Safari Water". TV Tonight. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
  14. ^ Knox, David (28 August 2018). "Gone: Food Safari: Water". TV Tonight. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
  15. ^ Knox, David (19 October 2018). "Bumped: Food Safari Water, Great British Railway Journeys". TV Tonight. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
  16. ^ SBS Annual Report 2015 (PDF). Australia: SBS. 2015. p. 42.
  17. ^ "Food Safari - Series 1". JB Hi-Fi. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  18. ^ "Food Safari". MightyApe. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  19. ^ "Food Safari 2". Booktopia. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  20. ^ "Food Safari 2 (2 Disk Set)". MightyApe. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  21. ^ "Food Safari: Series 3". Sanity. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  22. ^ "Italian Food Safari". JB Hi-Fi. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  23. ^ "Italian Food Safari". Booktopia. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  24. ^ "French Food Safari". Booktopia. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  25. ^ "French Food Safari". Booktopia. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  26. ^ "Food Safari: Series 4". Sanity. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  27. ^ "Food Safari - Series 4". MightyApe. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  28. ^ "Food Safari Fire". Sanity. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  29. ^ "Food Safari Fire". MightyApe. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  30. ^ "Food Safari Earth". JB Hi-Fi. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  31. ^ "Food Safari - Earth". MightyApe. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  32. ^ "Food Safari: Water". JB Hi-Fi. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  33. ^ "Food Safari - Water". Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  34. ^ "Food Safari Elements Box Set - Earth, Water & Fire". JB Hi-Fi. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
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