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Five Bedrooms is an Australian comedy-drama television series, which first screened on Network 10. The eight part series premiered on 15 May 2019, at 8:40 pm. In the United States, the series started streaming on Peacock on April 15, 2020.[2]
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| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 32 |
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| Running time | 45 minutes[1] |
| Production company | Hoodlum |
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| Release | 15 May 2019 – 18 June 2023 |
In October 2019, the drama was renewed for a second season by 10[3][4] which was set premiere in 2020, however due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the second season was rescheduled to air in 2021 instead.[5] In May 2021, the Australian broadcast of the series was announced to be moving from Network 10 to the 10 affiliated streaming service, Paramount+.[6][7] Filming of the fourth season began in Melbourne in September 2022.[8][9] The fourth season of the series would get a free to air viewing from November 4 2024 on Channel 10.[10]
Five Bedrooms tells the story of five people at different times of their lives. They bond after they find themselves seated together at the singles table at a wedding. After a few too many drinks, the solution to all of their problems seems to be buying a house together; a five bedroom house.[11][12]
In January 2019, it was announced Roy Joseph, Doris Younane, Katie Robertson, Kat Stewart, Stephen Peacocke, Kate Jenkinson and Hugh Sheridan had been cast in the new drama.[13] In July 2021, it was announced that Rodger Corser would join the cast of the second season to guest star as Stuart, Liz's ex-husband.[14] In October 2019, the drama was renewed for a second season by Network 10[15][4] which began filming in February 2020 before the production was closed down in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[16][17] The second season's production resumed filming between June and July 2020.[18] On 6 May 2021, it was announced the series moved to Paramount+, and that the second season premiered on 11 August 2021, coinciding with the Australian re-branding of 10 All Access to Paramount+.[19] In October 2020, it was announced that a third season had been renewed[20] which began filming in August 2021.[21] It premiered on New Year's Day 2022. In May 2022, it was announced that a fourth season had been renewed which would begin filming in October 2022.[22]
| Season | Episodes | Originally released | |||
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| 1 | 8 | 15 May 2019 | 3 July 2019 | Network 10 | |
| 2 | 8 | 11 August 2021 | Paramount+ | ||
| 3 | 8 | 1 January 2022 | |||
| 4 | 8 | 14 May 2023[23] | 18 June 2023 | ||
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | Prod. code | Australian viewers (millions) |
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| 1 | 1 | "Five Owners" | Peter Templeman | Christine Bartlett & Michael Lucas | 15 May 2019 | 351986-1 | 507,000[24] |
| 2 | 2 | "Twenty Guests" | Peter Templeman | Christine Bartlett & Michael Lucas | 22 May 2019 | 351986-2 | 428,000[25] |
| 3 | 3 | "Three Millimetres" | Corrie Chen | Christine Bartlett & Michael Lucas | 29 May 2019 | 351986-3 | 483,000[26] |
| 4 | 4 | "Zero Dollars" | Corrie Chen | Christine Bartlett & Michael Lucas | 5 June 2019 | 351986-4 | 347,000[27] |
| 5 | 5 | "Five Lies" | Fiona Banks | Mithila Gupta | 12 June 2019 | 351986-5 | 499,000[28] |
| 6 | 6 | "Fifty Years" | Fiona Banks | Christine Bartlett & Michael Lucas | 19 June 2019 | 351986-6 | 437,000[29] |
| 7 | 7 | "Four Meats" | Peter Templeman | Christine Bartlett & Michael Lucas | 26 June 2019 | 351986-7 | 519,000[30] |
| 8 | 8 | "One Bid" | Peter Templeman | Christine Bartlett & Michael Lucas | 3 July 2019 | 351986-8 | 476,000[31] |
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | Prod. code |
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| 9 | 1 | "Thirty Open Houses" | Peter Templeman | Christine Bartlett & Michael Lucas | 11 August 2021 | 351986-10 |
| 10 | 2 | "Two Mothers" | Peter Templeman | Christine Bartlett & Michael Lucas | 11 August 2021 | 351986-9 |
| 11 | 3 | "Nine Feet" | Shirley Barrett | Christine Bartlett & Michael Lucas | 11 August 2021 | 351986-11 |
| 12 | 4 | "Five Wishes" | Shirley Barrett | Mithila Gupta | 11 August 2021 | 351986-12 |
| 13 | 5 | "Two Warnings" | Fadia Abboud | Xavier Coy | 11 August 2021 | 351986-13 |
| 14 | 6 | "Twenty-Seven Weeks" | Fadia Abboud | Christine Bartlett & Michael Lucas | 11 August 2021 | 351986-14 |
| 15 | 7 | "Three Messages" | Peter Templeman | Christine Bartlett & Michael Lucas | 11 August 2021 | 351986-15 |
| 16 | 8 | "One Way" | Peter Templeman | Christine Bartlett & Michael Lucas | 11 August 2021 | 351986-16 |
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | Prod. code |
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| 17 | 1 | "Zero Logic" | Peter Templeman | Christine Bartlett & Michael Lucas | 1 January 2022 | 351986-17 |
| 18 | 2 | "Three Teams" | Peter Templeman | Christine Bartlett & Michael Lucas | 1 January 2022 | 351986-18 |
| 19 | 3 | "Nine Carats" | Fiona Banks | Christine Bartlett & Michael Lucas | 1 January 2022 | 351986-19 |
| 20 | 4 | "One Kiss" | Fiona Banks | Christine Bartlett & Michael Lucas | 1 January 2022 | 351986-20 |
| 21 | 5 | "Four Memories" | Craig Irvin | Alisha Hnatjuk | 1 January 2022 | 351986-21 |
| 22 | 6 | "Three Dates" | Craig Irvin | Christine Bartlett & Michael Lucas | 1 January 2022 | 351986-22 |
| 23 | 7 | "Two Parties" | Peter Templeman | Christine Bartlett & Michael Lucas | 1 January 2022 | 351986-23 |
| 24 | 8 | "Two Words" | Peter Templeman | Christine Bartlett & Michael Lucas & Claire Phillips | 1 January 2022 | 351986-24 |
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | Prod. code |
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| 25 | 1 | "Two Bluffs"[32] | Peter Templeman | Christine Bartlett | 14 May 2023 | 351986-25 |
| 26 | 2 | "Two Battlers"[33] | Peter Templeman | Christine Bartlett & Mithila Gupta | 14 May 2023 | 351986-26 |
| 27 | 3 | "Two Wills"[34] | Fiona Banks | Alisha Hnayjuk | 14 May 2023 | 351986-27 |
| 28 | 4 | "Four Gummies"[35] | Fiona Banks | Christine Bartlett | 21 May 2023 | 351986-28 |
| 29 | 5 | "Three Tents"[36] | Adrian Chiarella | Christine Bartlett & Michael Lucas | 28 May 2023 | 351986-29 |
| 30 | 6 | "Seventy-Two Hours"[37] | Adrian Chiarella | Christine Bartlett & Michael Lucas | 4 June 2023 | 351986-30 |
| 31 | 7 | "One Flame"[38] | Peter Templeman | Christine Bartlett & Michael Lucas | 11 June 2023 | 351986-31 |
| 32 | 8 | "Five Sellers"[39] | Peter Templeman | Christine Bartlett & Michael Lucas | 18 June 2023 | 351986-32 |
| No. | Title | Air date | Overnight ratings | Consolidated ratings | Total viewers |
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| 1 | "Five Owners" | 15 May 2019 | 507,000 | 16 | 114,000 | 12 | 621,000 | [24][40] |
| 2 | "Twenty Guests" | 22 May 2019 | 428,000 | 17 | 154,000 | 14 | 582,000 | [25][41] |
| 3 | "Three Millimetres" | 29 May 2019 | 483,000 | 17 | 146,000 | 12 | 629,000 | [26][42] |
| 4 | "Zero Dollars" | 5 June 2019 | 347,000 | 20 | 64,000 | 19 | 411,000 | [27][43] |
| 5 | "Five Lies" | 12 June 2019 | 499,000 | 14 | 150,000 | 10 | 649,000 | [28][44] |
| 6 | "Fifty Years" | 19 June 2019 | 437,000 | 16 | 168,000 | 13 | 605,000 | [29][45] |
| 7 | "Four Meats" | 26 June 2019 | 519,000 | 14 | 159,000 | 10 | 678,000 | [30][46] |
| 8 | "One Bid" | 3 July 2019 | 475,000 | 15 | 119,000 | 13 | 594,000 | [31] |
Five Bedrooms was shown on BBC One from 10 March 2020, and was the fifth Australian drama to be broadcast on the BBC after Out of the Blue, The Doctor Blake Mysteries, A Place to Call Home and 800 Words since the broadcasting rights of Neighbours went to Channel 5 in 2008. Five Bedrooms had only the two seasons released on Peacock in the United States. It was also shown on RTP2 in Portugal and began airing on W Network in Canada in 2021. It began airing on RTÉ2 in the Republic of Ireland in July 2021, season two aired from November 2021 and season three from July 2022. May 2023 season 2 on Dutch television Net5. It's shown on TVNZ in New Zealand.
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