Backyard Blitz

Backyard Blitz is a Logie Award winning Australian lifestyle and DIY television program that aired on the Nine Network between 2000 and 2007. It was hosted by Jamie Durie and was produced by Don Burke. The show featured a very similar premise to the show Ground Force, in which a team of gardeners employed by the show descend on a supposedly worthy individual's place and improve the garden for the cameras within a specified time limit. This simila... more

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Air date of first episode:

  • Apr 9, 2000

Air date of final episode:

  • Sep 16, 2007

Number of seasons:

  • 7

Number of episodes:

  • 159

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Don Burke

Don Burke (born 16 July 1947) is an Australian television personality and author. He is best known as the long time host of Burke's Backyard, a lifestyle program which ran for 17 years from 1987 to late 2004 on the Nine Network. It has returned several times over recent years with a number of Burke...

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