The Block's Scott Cam reveals why the series moved from Sydney to Melbourne READ MORE: Major news about The Block released ahead of new season By Matt Demarco For Daily Mail Australia Published: 10:34 BST, 12 August 2024 | Updated: 10:39 BST, 12 August 2024 e-mail View comments Scott Cam and a producer of The Block have revealed the real reason the show moved from Sydney to Melbourne . The hit renovation series, which filmed its first three seasons in Sydney, moved production south to Melbourne in 2011, where it has stayed ever since. Host Scott Cam and producer Justin Sturzaker told Yahoo Australia that the Victorian capital worked better for the fourth season when the show was retooled from a weekly to a weeknight show.
'It was decided to strip the show, meaning five nights a week, and then all of a sudden we had to come up with a whole new concept,' Scott said. Sturzaker then claimed that the audience numbers in Melbourne also motivated the move. 'Melbourne was always the number one audience for Australia, like it was always embraced really well,' the producer explained.
'And then obviously with the huge amount of passion for design and art that is Melbourne, to come down and give it a crack down here, it went gangbusters,' he added. Even though the show premiered in 2003 in Bondi, and returned there for season six for its ten-year anniversary, there are no plans to return to the harbour city. Scott Cam and a producer of The Block have revealed the real reason the show mov.