Wife Swap Australia

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Wife Swap Australia
GenreReality
Dating
Created by Stephen Lambert
Narrated by Peter O'Brien (2012)
Country of origin Australia
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes16
Production
Executive producerMatt Apps
Production companies
Release
Original network
Original release9 January 2012 (2012-01-09) 
present
Related
Wife Swap (US)
Wife Swap (UK)

Wife Swap Australia is an Australian reality television program based on the British TV format Wife Swap . The show ran for a single season of ten episodes on Lifestyle You from 9 January 2012. [1]

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In October 2018, it was announced that the Seven Network would be reviving the format in 2019, [2] however in September 2019, the series was delayed and was intended to air sometime in 2020 [3] but was again pushed back in October 2020 and is set to air 2021. [4] The season began airing on 11 February 2021. [5]

Season 1 (2012)

The original series aired 10 episodes in 2012 [6]

No.
overall
No. in
season
TitleOriginal air dateAustralia viewers
11"Montford and Barry"9 January 2012 (2012-01-09)130,000 [7]
22"Zantey and King"16 January 2012 (2012-01-16)108,000 [8]
33"Jackson and Daly"23 January 2012 (2012-01-23)115,000 [9]
44"Sivkova and Mansell"30 January 2012 (2012-01-30)75,000 [10]
55"Dedes & Biecker"6 February 2012 (2012-02-06)77,000 [11]
66"Wilkinson & Matikanen"13 February 2012 (2012-02-13)71,000 [12]
77"West & Driscoll"20 February 2012 (2012-02-20)79,000 [13]
88"Clark & Harding"27 February 2012 (2012-02-27)N/A
99"Faber & Liggins"5 March 2012 (2012-03-05)N/A
1010"Kuhn & Marshall"12 March 2012 (2012-03-12)N/A

Season 2 (2021)

No.
overall
No. in
season
TitleOriginal air dateAustralia viewers
111"Walker & Duncan"11 February 2021 (2021-02-11)407,000 [14]
122"Andrew & Lister"18 February 2021 (2021-02-18)362,000 [15]
133"Jackson & Hagar"25 February 2021 (2021-02-25)292,000 [16]
144"Aravidis & Lange"4 March 2021 (2021-03-04)370,000 [17]
155"Petersen & Cowles"11 March 2021 (2021-03-11)304,000 [18]
166"Kevill & Polson"18 March 2021 (2021-03-18)172,000
(3 cities)
[19]

Season 3 (2022)

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