We didn’t see that coming when the main Wheel of Fortune show will finally be on Network 10 beginning next week just days after Ryan Seacrest officially took over the hot seat at the new Wheel of Fortune host in place of the recently retired Pat Sajak following a long four-decade stint with co-host Vanna White still turning the letters. It’s been a long time coming having not heard much about Wheel in Australia for a long time but seems like the time is right, especially when 10’s parent company Viacom CBS has some rights to the franchise alongside Sony. Although the celebrity version of Wheel was previously shown on air here for some time in the past but that was via one of the Foxtel Pay TV channels in Arena or Fox One. We’ll wait and see if the celebrity will be on 10 also with the hope of seeing a bit more Pat Sajak for one last ride in this 2024-25 TV season.
Don’t forget the local Wheel version has already been announced for a revival nearly a year ago where it will rather be filmed in the UK than in a Melbourne or Sydney studio featuring Australian expatriate contestants but we still don’t know when this will make into air and whether or not if it will go for 30 mins or 1 hour. What we do know is that you can tune in the half-hour main Wheel of Fortune syndicated game show at 2pm weekdays right here on 10 as I’m sure there will be on-demand content on 10 Play if you can’t be there when everyone else is busy & looks like the episodes will be a week-long old. But that’s okay I guess as we’ll see how this turns out and if does turn out to be an success in like a year or two, then maybe they might fast-track it online just like they do with their soaps like Bold and The Beautiful, The Young and The Restless and Days of Our Lives.
By the way, great to see 10 revamping their Daytime line-up with a fun early afternoon delight of game shows from overseas like putting Wheel on at 2 + an hour of Lingo before the 3.30pm Afternoon News bulletin that rivals Nine’s Pointless quiz show and UK’s Tipping Point between 2-4pm. And yes, welcome Ryan Seacrest to the show when it’s going to take some time to fill Pat’s legendary shoes but he’s been there and done that with so many top shows & live specials in the past – good luck!!