‘We’re the Britney Spears of TV’: Why the world loves Australia’s MAFS

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Promising US director Emerald Fennell was all nerves while waiting to see if she’d scored an Oscar nomination. “I did what any sensible person would do: I watched about six hours of Married at First Sight Australia to take my mind off it”

director Emerald Fennell revealed the comforting way she coped with nerves while waiting to see if she’d scored an Oscar nomination.Married at First Sight AustraliaThe surprise name-drop highlighted the extent to which our local reality TV series - which airs on Nine, the owner of this masthead - has become a global hit.In the UK, where the Australian version’s sixth season has been airing on Channel 4 during lockdown, viewers are raving.

The reason for the world’s interest is simple. The Australian version, with its cheating scandals and wine-throwing confrontations, is a dramatically different beast to international versions still taking their cues from the show’s polite, documentary-based Danish origins.consistently rated as Australia’s No. 1 non-news program, with an average of about 1.

Perhaps because of its divisiveness, or criticism that it is exploiting participants for our collective entertainment, the show’s overseas success begs the question: can Australia get behind“I think it’s fantastic,” says Catharine Lumby, a media professor at the University of Sydney who has written extensively on reality television.

 

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