Broadcast
The show premiered in Australia in 2004 and became a ratings hit. The first season was hosted by Grant Bowler, who stopped appearing on camera in subsequent seasons. However, Bowler appears on the show again in 2010 at the beginning of the show. In all seasons, Bowler provides the voice over for every story. The show has continued to air since then, and airs on Wednesday nights in 2010. It is classified PG. The show was moved to a Sunday Night slot for Season 7 in 2011. The show premiered on Sunday 6 February 2011, at 7:30pm time slot. The show continues to garner high ratings.
The show is also broadcast in New Zealand on TVNZ's TV1, in the United Kingdom on Sky Living, Pick TV, and in Ireland on TV3 (airing as Nothing to Declare in both the UK and Ireland), on Tele 5 in Poland (in Polish), on Veronica in the Netherlands, where it features a Dutch voice-over, on Kanal 9 in Sweden, on JIM in Finland, on the TV 2 channel in Denmark, on DMAX in Germany with German voice-over and olso in Italy on DMAX with Italian voice-over. It is broadcast as Grensevakten in Norway on TVNorge. It is also broadcast on the Australian Pay TV channel The LifeStyle Channel and on the Australia Network across Asia in countries such as Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand and Macau.
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