Being Lara Bingle | |
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Genre | Reality television |
Created by | Lara Bingle |
Written by | Claire Haywood |
Directed by | Ben Thompson |
Presented by | Jack Torracka |
Starring | Lara Bingle Joshua Bingle Hermione Underwood Sharon Bingle |
Opening theme | "Bop Girl" by Pat Wilson |
Country of origin | Australia |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 10 |
Production | |
Executive producer | John McAvoy |
Producer | Claire Haywood |
Camera setup | Craig Donaldson Wayne Vinten |
Original release | |
Network | Network Ten |
Release | 12 June – 7 August 2012 |
Being Lara Bingle was an Australian reality television series that premiered on 12 June 2012 on Network Ten. [1] [2] The series followed the misadventures of model and minor television personality, Lara Bingle. [3]
In April 2013, Network Ten expressed that "the extreme youth focus that led to programs like (the similarly unsuccessful) The Shire and Being Lara Bingle being commissioned is not quite right for us" and that Ten would now move on from that focus. [4]
The series aired in the 8:00 pm–8:30 pm timeslot on Tuesdays. Ratings aggregated by OzTam subsequent to the premiere of the series indicate that the premiere episode received an estimated viewership of 925,000 viewers, during which a peak of 1.3 million was reached. [5]
Episode number | Original air date | Viewers | Nightly rank | Weekly rank |
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1 | 12 June 2012 | 925,000 [5] | 13 [5] | 41 |
2 | 19 June 2012 | 786,000 [6] | 14 | 44 [7] |
3 | 26 June 2012 | 684,000 [8] | 17 | — |
4 | 3 July 2012 | 728,000 [9] | 13 [10] | — |
5 | 10 July 2012 | 650,000 [11] | 16 | — |
6 | 17 July 2012 | 713,000 [12] | 11 | — |
7 | 24 July 2012 | 768,000 [13] [14] 931,000 [n 1] [15] | 9 | — |
8 | 31 July 2012 | 463,000 [n 2] | 20 [16] | — |
9 | 7 August 2012 | — | — | — |
10 | 7 August 2012 | 387,000 [17] | — | — |
The reality series was filmed at Bondi Beach in New South Wales and other locations including Los Angeles, Melbourne, India, and New Zealand.
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