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Getaway is Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
's longest-running and most popular holiday and travel television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 programme. Debuting on 14 May 1992, it is currently broadcast on the Nine Network
Nine Network

The Nine Network, or Channel Nine, is an Australian Television broadcasting in Australia based in Willoughby, New South Wales, a suburb on the North Shore of Sydney....
 and W.
W. Channel

W. is an Australian cable and satellite channel available on Foxtel, Austar and Optus Television subscription platforms....
 Its main competitor is The Great Outdoors
The Great Outdoors

The Great Outdoors is an Australian travel magazine television series broadcast on the Seven Network....
 on the Seven Network
Seven Network

The Seven Network is an Australia Television broadcasting in Australia owned by the Seven Media Group. It dates back to 2 December 1956, when the first stations on the Very high frequency frequency were established in Sydney and Melbourne....
.

The first season initially only looked at only Australian resorts but by 1993 had expanded to look at overseas destinations.



etaway won a People's Choice Award
People's Choice Awards (Australia)

The Australian People's Choice Awards winners:...
 in 1994 and an Australian Tourism Award for Excellence in the Media in 1995.

Getaway has also been nominated for the Most Popular Lifestyle Program Logie Award at the Logie Awards of 2003
Logie Awards of 2003

The 45th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Sunday 11 May 2003 at Crown Casino in Melbourne and broadcast on the Nine Network. Eddie McGuire from the Nine Network was all Master of Ceremonies....
, 2004
Logie Awards of 2004

The 46th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Sunday 18 April 2004 at Crown Casino in Melbourne and broadcast on the Nine Network. Eddie McGuire presided as Master of Ceremonies for the second year in a row, and the awards featured special guest Mel Brooks....
 and 2005
Logie Awards of 2005

The 47th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Sunday 1 May 2005 at Crown Casino in Melbourne and broadcast on the Nine Network. In an historic first Andrew O'Keefe from the Seven Network, Eddie McGuire from the Nine Network and Rove McManus from Network Ten were all Master of Ceremonies....
, each time being beaten by the ever popular Backyard Blitz
Backyard Blitz

Backyard Blitz is a Logie Award winning Australian lifestyle and Do it yourself television program that aired on the Nine Network between 2000 and 2007....
.






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Getaway is Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
's longest-running and most popular holiday and travel television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 programme. Debuting on 14 May 1992, it is currently broadcast on the Nine Network
Nine Network

The Nine Network, or Channel Nine, is an Australian Television broadcasting in Australia based in Willoughby, New South Wales, a suburb on the North Shore of Sydney....
 and W.
W. Channel

W. is an Australian cable and satellite channel available on Foxtel, Austar and Optus Television subscription platforms....
 Its main competitor is The Great Outdoors
The Great Outdoors

The Great Outdoors is an Australian travel magazine television series broadcast on the Seven Network....
 on the Seven Network
Seven Network

The Seven Network is an Australia Television broadcasting in Australia owned by the Seven Media Group. It dates back to 2 December 1956, when the first stations on the Very high frequency frequency were established in Sydney and Melbourne....
.

The first season initially only looked at only Australian resorts but by 1993 had expanded to look at overseas destinations.

On Air


Presenters

  • Catriona Rowntree
    Catriona Rowntree

    Catriona Pettit is a presenter for Australian Nine Network's Getaway program.Pettit studied journalism at Macleay College in Sydney, after working as a researcher with Business Review Weekly, 2GB and Prime Television....
     (1996 - )
  • Ben Dark
    Ben Dark

    Ben Dark is an Australian television presenter.From an early age, Ben had an affinity with the bush. Born on a dam bank on 14 January 1972, he spent the first 11 years of his life on his parents' property in Stanthorpe, Queensland, south-east Queensland....
     (1999 - )
  • Jules Lund
    Jules Lund

    Jules Lund is an Australian television presenter from Melbourne. He attended De La Salle College MalvernThe bleached-blonde Lund's career began when he won the FOX FM's "15 Minutes of Fame" competition on radio in the early 2000s....
     (2004 - )
  • Natalie Gruzlewski
    Natalie Gruzlewski

    Natalie Gruzlewski is an Australian television presenter. Gruzlewski grew up on the Gold Coast, Queensland and studied journalism at Griffith University after finishing school....
     (2004 - )
  • Jason Dundas
    Jason Dundas

    Jason Dundas is an Australian television personality. He began his television career after winning a competition to become an MTV Australia VJ. Currently, he is a presenter on Australian lifestyle program Getaway ....
     (2007 - )
  • Dermott Brereton
    Dermott Brereton

    Dermott Hugh Brereton is a former champion Australian rules football player in the Australian Football League.In a 211 game career, Brereton kick 464 goals....
     (2007 - )
  • Kelly Landry (2008-)
  • Giann Rooney (2008-)


Former Presenters

  • Erik Thomson
    Erik Thomson

    Erik Thomson is an Australian actor best known for his roles in the television series All Saints as Dr. Mitch Stevens and Packed to the Rafters as Dave Rafter....
     (2006 - 2007)
  • Jodhi Meares
    Jodhi Meares

    Jodhi Meares is an Australian fashion designer, former glamour model, and television personality....
     (2006)
  • Megan Gale
    Megan Gale

    Megan Gale is an Australian model and actress....
     (2005-2006)
  • Brendon Julian
    Brendon Julian

    Brendon Paul Julian is a former Australian cricketer who played in 7 Test cricket and 25 One Day Internationals from 1993 to 1999.Standing at 6' 5", he was a dangerous left-arm fast-medium bowler and a tremendously hard-hitting right-handed late-middle order batsman, he was regarded as a prospect to become an all-rounder....
     (2004 - 2005)
  • Sorrell Wilby (1996 - 2005)
  • David Reyne
    David Reyne

    David Nicholas Reyne is an Australian actor, musician and presenter. He was educated at The Peninsula School, Mount Eliza....
     (1992 - 1993, 1996 - 2005)
  • Lochie Daddo
    Lochie Daddo

    Christopher Lachlan "Lochie" Daddo is an Australian actor and television presenter. His elder brothers are actors Andrew Daddo and Cameron Daddo....
     (1994 - 1999)
  • Jeff Watson (1992 - 1998)
  • Rebecca Harris (1992 - 1997)
  • Chrissy Morrisey (1995)
  • Jane Rutter
    Jane Rutter

    Jane Rutter is an Australian flautist of international note. Her repertoire encompasses Classical music, jazz and Pop music.Rutter attended the Conservatorium High School in Sydney, and was awarded a scholarship to study with renowned flautists Alain Marion and Jean-Pierre Rampal....
     (1994)
  • Tina Dalton (1992 - 1993)
  • Anna McMahon (1992 - 1993)


Awards

Getaway won a People's Choice Award
People's Choice Awards (Australia)

The Australian People's Choice Awards winners:...
 in 1994 and an Australian Tourism Award for Excellence in the Media in 1995.

Getaway has also been nominated for the Most Popular Lifestyle Program Logie Award at the Logie Awards of 2003
Logie Awards of 2003

The 45th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Sunday 11 May 2003 at Crown Casino in Melbourne and broadcast on the Nine Network. Eddie McGuire from the Nine Network was all Master of Ceremonies....
, 2004
Logie Awards of 2004

The 46th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Sunday 18 April 2004 at Crown Casino in Melbourne and broadcast on the Nine Network. Eddie McGuire presided as Master of Ceremonies for the second year in a row, and the awards featured special guest Mel Brooks....
 and 2005
Logie Awards of 2005

The 47th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Sunday 1 May 2005 at Crown Casino in Melbourne and broadcast on the Nine Network. In an historic first Andrew O'Keefe from the Seven Network, Eddie McGuire from the Nine Network and Rove McManus from Network Ten were all Master of Ceremonies....
, each time being beaten by the ever popular Backyard Blitz
Backyard Blitz

Backyard Blitz is a Logie Award winning Australian lifestyle and Do it yourself television program that aired on the Nine Network between 2000 and 2007....
. It was also nominated at the Logie Awards of 1999
Logie Awards of 1999

The 41st Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Sunday 11 April 1999 at Crown Casino in Melbourne and broadcast on the Nine Network. Andrew Denton from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation was the Master of Ceremonies....
 and nominated as the Favourite Lifestyle Program at the Australian People Choice Awards of 1999.

Seven Wonders of the World


In a recent episode, Getaway asked viewers to choose a new Seven Wonders of the World based on several destinations which had been pre-selected by the show's producers.

The destinations were (winners are shown in bold):

Natural wonders:

  • Milford Sound
    Milford Sound

    Milford Sound is a fjord in the south west of New Zealand's South Island, within Fiordland National Park and the Te Wahipounamu World Heritage site....
  • Mt Everest
  • Grand Canyon
    Grand Canyon

    The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided gorge carved by the Colorado River in the United States in the state of Arizona....


Ancient 1 wonders

  • Machu Picchu
    Machu Picchu

    Machu Picchu is a pre-Columbian Inca Empire site located above sea level. It is situated on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru, which is northwest of Cuzco and through which the Urubamba River flows....
  • Pyramids
  • Petra
    Petra

    Petra is an Archaeology site in the Arabah, Ma'an Governorate, Jordan, lying on the slope of Mount Hor in a Depression among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Arabah , the large valley running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba....


Ancient 2 wonders
  • Angkor Wat
    Angkor Wat

    Angkor Wat , is a temple complex at Angkor, Cambodia, built for the king Suryavarman II in the early 12th century as his state temple and capital city....
  • Great Wall of China
    Great Wall of China

    The Great Wall of China or is a series of stone and earthen fortifications in China, built, rebuilt, and maintained between the 5th century BC and the 16th century to protect the northern borders of the History of China from Xiongnu attacks during the rule of Dynasties in Chinese history....
  • Easter Island
    Easter Island

    Easter Island is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeastern most point of the Polynesian triangle. The island is a special territory of Chile....


Waterfall wonders
  • Niagara Falls
    Niagara Falls

    The Niagara Falls are massive waterfalls on the Niagara River, straddling the Canada?United States border between the Provinces and territories of Canada of Ontario and the U.S....
  • Victoria Falls
    Victoria Falls

    The Victoria Falls or Mosi-oa-Tunya is a waterfall situated in southern Africa on the Zambezi River between the countries of Zambia and Zimbabwe....
  • Iguazu Falls
    Iguazu Falls

    Iguazu Falls, Iguassu Falls, or Igua?u Falls are waterfalls of the Iguazu River located on the border of the Brazilian state of Paran? and the Argentina province of Misiones Province....


Modern wonders
  • Eiffel Tower
    Eiffel Tower

    The Eiffel Tower is an Puddle iron tower built on the Champ de Mars beside the Seine River in Paris. The tower has become a global Cultural icon of France and is one of the most recognizable structures in the world....
  • Taj Mahal
    Taj Mahal

    The Taj Mahal is a mausoleum located in Agra, India, built by Mughal Empire list of Mughal emperors Shah Jahan in memory of his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal....
  • Opera House
    Opera house

    An opera house is a theater building used for opera performances that consists of a stage, an orchestra pit, audience seating, and backstage facilities for costumes and set building....


City wonders
  • Rome
    Rome

    Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
  • New York
    New York

    The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
  • Shanghai
    Shanghai

    Shanghai is the List of cities in the People's Republic of China by population in China and one of the List of metropolitan areas by population in the world, with over 20 million people....


Island wonders
  • Bora Bora
    Bora Bora

    Bora Bora is an island in the Leeward Islands group of the Society Islands of French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France in the Pacific Ocean....
  • Aitutaki
    Aitutaki

    Aitutaki, also traditionally known as Araura, Ararau and Utataki, is one of the Cook Islands, north of Rarotonga. It has a population of approximately 2,000....
  • Santorini
    Santorini

    Santorini is a small, circular archipelago of volcano islands located in the southern Aegean Sea, about 200 km southeast from Greece's mainland....


See also

  • List of Australian television series
    List of Australian television series

    This is an incomplete list of Australian television series and television programs....
  • List of Nine Network programs


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