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The interminable wait is over! We finally have an airdate for the next season of The Biggest Loser Australia.

Season 9 of the show, focusing on Ararat, “Australia’s fattest town”, begins January 19th at 6.30pm according to an update this morning to the show’s official Facebook page. See it here.

Shannan, Michelle and Commando Steve are going to tackle transforming an entire town – or at least the portion of the populace who agree to be on TV. The ads they’ve been running have shown a lot of people with extreme weight problems, along with the usual sob stories on how they got that way.

The focus this season seems more on changing lifestyles and shifting the weight of a large number of people, rather than the competitive weightloss of previous seasons. The series was actually filmed in the middle of last year, so it’s unclear why it has taken so long. Perhaps they’ve filmed some proper follow ups this time around, to air as part of a finale episode?

Anyway. Sunday, January 19th. 6.30pm. Channel 10. Are we excited?

Filming for the next season (?) of the show is already under way in the rural Victorian town of Ararat, according to The Ararat Advertiser.

The Biggest Loser crew, including the three trainers, will be going to Ararat to bring the healthy living knowledge hammer down upon the community, with plans to set up support groups and weekend workshops for people to attend if they want to get involved. There’s no casting call as such for those events, if you live in the area and are interested you can just rock up and take part.

There’ll also be a core group of locals, probably around 20, taken up to Camp Biggest Loser in Sydney to do the “intensive course” contestants on the show are used to. It’s unclear whether there’ll be eliminations involved in this, could make town life a little awkward if so?

The plans for this series seem to be aimed at some of the criticisms of the show, where people complain there is little support for contestants upon their return home. People like personal trainer Andrew Meade. I’m sorry, “former personal trainer on The Biggest Loser” Andrew Meade.

I’m not sure being the PT production hired for one of the eliminated contestants back in the second season really qualifies you as being on the show, but whatever.

With filming of The Biggest Loser: Ararat having begun in April and a 12 week timeline for their stay in the country town, we might just see The Biggest Loser again this year, potentially right after Masterchef finishes it’s second outing of the year.

Colour me excited!