Bondi Vet

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Bondi Vet
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Also known as
  • Dr. Chris: Pet Vet (United States)
  • Ветеринар Бондай Бич (Russia)
  • Veterinario al rescate (Spain)
  • Veterinář z Bondi beach (Czech Republic)
  • Weterynarz z Antypodów (Poland)
  • Le Vet de Bondi (Quebec)
  • De Dierenkliniek Down Under (Netherlands)
  • Veterinären på Bondi Beach (Sweden)
Genre Factual
Starring Chris Brown
Lisa Chimes
Tim Faulkner
Andrew Marchevsky
Narrated bySteve Oemcke (Australia)
Alex Rain (United States)
Opening theme"Coming Home"
by Alex Lloyd
Composer Neil Sutherland
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons8
No. of episodes161
Production
Executive producerDavid Williams
Producers
  • Jane Caswell
  • Anne-Maree Sparkman
  • Phillip Tanner
  • Mark Hooper
CinematographyJeff Lawson, Mark Hooper
Camera setupMulti-camera
Running time43 minutes
Production company WTFN Entertainment
Original release
Network Network Ten
Release5 February 2009 (2009-02-05) 
9 July 2016 (2016-07-09)
Related
Bondi Rescue

Bondi Vet is an Australian factual television series. It follows the lives of veterinary surgeon Chris Brown at the Bondi Junction Veterinary Hospital [1] [2] [3] (near Bondi Beach), and emergency veterinarian Lisa Chimes at the Small Animal Specialist Hospital (SASH), [4] in the Sydney suburb of North Ryde. [5]

Contents

Also featured on Bondi Vet are Andrew Marchevsky, a specialist surgeon at SASH, and Tim Faulkner of the Australian Reptile Park at Somersby on the New South Wales central coast.

The series first broadcast on 5 February 2009, with the first two full seasons averaging a rating of 0.93 million viewers in the five capital cities. Bondi Vet screened for seven seasons on Network Ten. [6]

From 28 September 2013 to 25 May 2019, the show had been seen on Saturday mornings in the United States on Ten's sister network, CBS, under the title of Dr. Chris: Pet Vet, both as the Bondi community is unfamiliar to most American audiences, and to clarify Dr. Chris Brown as not the similarly named American musical artist. The program was slightly re-edited by American distributor Litton Entertainment to comply with American requirements regarding educational children's programming.

Bondi Vet: Coast to Coast

Bondi Vet
Also known as
  • Vets on the Beach (US)
Genre Factual
Starring
  • Peter Ricci
  • Alex Hynes
  • Kate Adams
  • Lewis Hunt
  • Danni Dusek
  • Tim Faulkner
  • Audrey Shen
  • Alison Shen
  • Scott Miller
Narrated bySteve Oemcke
Opening theme"Back to Life" by Danni Dusek
ComposerNeil Sutherland
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes25
Production
Executive producerWes Crook
Camera setupMulti-camera
Running time60 minutes
Production company WTFN Entertainment
Original release
Network Nine Network
Release11 October 2019 (2019-10-11) 
present

In March 2017, Brown announced he was stepping down as host due to his extensive television hosting and presenting schedule. The series production company, WTFN Entertainment, searched for a new host. [7] Over 800 nominations were received in just a week of the announcement and it was revealed that a top 10 would be nominated and the public would decide who the next Bondi Vet would be. [8] In July 2017, a top 5 shortlist of vets from around Australia was revealed. [9]

In November 2017, WTFN Entertainment revealed that the series would showcase multiple vets in the next series instead of one and they would be Dr Peter Ricci, Dr Alex Hynes, Dr Kate Adams, Dr Lewis Hunt and Dr Danni Dusek. [10] The new series would be known as "Bondi Vet: Coast to Coast" and would feature vets from locations all over Australia. In December 2018, it was announced the series would be switching from Network Ten to Nine Network in 2019. [11] In February 2019, WTFN entertainment announced an additional two vets to the cast, with identical twin sisters Alison & Audrey Shen being included in the new series. [12]

Bondi Vet: Coast to Coast premiered in Australia on Nine Network on 11 October 2019 at 7:30 pm [13] and concluded on 29 November 2019. It first premiered in Canada on the Cottage Life TV network on 27 March 2019. [14] [15]

It was officially renewed for a second series in February 2021, [16] which premiered on 14 May 2021, and was renewed for a third series which will air in 2022. [17]

Casts

Bondi Vet team

Bondi Vet: Coast to Coast team

Nominations and awards

YearNomineeAwardResult
2015 Bondi Vet Logie Award for Most Popular Reality Program Nominated [18]
2016 Bondi Vet Logie Award for Best Factual Program Nominated

Broadcast

The series was broadcast in the United States, on CBS as part of their educational CBS Dream Team Saturday morning programming strand programmed by Litton Entertainment, under the title of Dr. Chris: Pet Vet. The series ran from 28 September 2013 to 25 May 2019. [19] [20] After 2019, it was renamed Pet Vet Dream Team. In Canada, the series is broadcast on CBC Television. In Czech Republic, the series is broadcast on Animal Planet. In the Netherlands, it is broadcast on RTL5 after TLC broadcast the show first. The RTL5 episodes are edited different in comparison to the TLC episodes. In Spain, the series is broadcast on BeMad TV.

Home media

SeasonRelease datesNumber of episodesNumber of discsSpecial features
Season 110 February 2011 [21] 142
Season 1 & 23 July 201514 +166
Season 33 July 2015153
Season 43 July 2015163
Season 55 August 2015305
Season 65 August 2015305
Season 73 April 2016295
Season 8TBA13
Bondi Vet: Coast to CoastTBA10

Notes

  1. Lisa Chimes - Member of the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists
  2. Andrew Marchevsky - Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists

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