The new series of Mint Pictures production Great Australian Walks premieres on SBS and SBS On Demand this week. The second series of the show triples the attraction for viewers. There’s not one great host, but three this time around.
Joining original host Julia Zemiro on the series are additional hosts Gina Chick and Susie Youssef . Mint Pictures creative director Dan Goldberg told Mediaweek : “They are all fabulous in their own right, but as a trio they offer diversity on all levels.” Goldberg explained that each host fronts separate episodes – Zemiro hosts three, including the season opener, Chick, the winner of the first season of Alone Australia , does three and Youssef does four.
Julia Zemiro hosted the first series of 10 episodes solo. “That was a huge amount of work,” said Goldberg. “We shoot the episodes in record speed and it’s a lot of travelling to each destination and then walking.
” The first series of Great Australian Walks went to air last year – exactly 12 months ago. Goldberg said as soon as SBS saw the ratings for the first episodes they started talks with Mint Pictures about a recommission. “It was great the series quickly found an audience.
I was apprehensive because you just never know how something will go after you deliver it to the network. The series has a calming, soothing tone about it and it takes viewers to places that they either want to go to or they might have already been to.” The producers keep the location costs down b.