The Bridge Australia proves TV producers can make watching anything exciting with some suspenseful music and quite a few healthy helpings of contestant drama and rivalries — and here’s how to watch it.
Based on the highly successful UK format, The Bridge follows 12 contestants working together in the Tasmanian wilderness to craft a 330-metre-long bridge across a waterway.
If you’ve clicked on this article, you’re keen to watch a bunch of randos to see if they can make it over and win a cool $250k and there’s only one place to view it.
The Bridge Australia 2022 is streaming only on Paramount+, from August 19.
NGL tho, we’re kinda obsessed with the intensely dramatic tagline: “Three hundred and thirty metres. Seventeen days. One winner. Build it together. Cross it alone.”
What is The Bridge Australia Actually About?
Basically, The Bridge Australia is part survival, part social strategy. A So Dramatic! insider even described the show as being “absolutely f*cked”! Excellent.
Only one challenger is allowed to cross the bridge over Tasmania’s Lake Pieman once it’s built. They solely get to decide whether to keep the cash prize on their own or share it among the group.
“You’re handing $250,000, are you really going to divvy it up? Let’s be real,” one sceptical challenger questioned. And yeah, duh, we’d take it for ourselves, too!
Hugo Weaving is narrating the eerie survival series, and it feels way more cinematic watching Osher Günsberg hosting yet another Aussie reality show. Soz, Osh.
How Do They Actually Build the Goddamn Bridge, Though?
With only their bare hands and basic tools to build the bridge, the contestants have to put their trust in a lot more than their carpentry skills over the 17 days of competition.
The Bridge Australia challengers have been supplied 300 six-metre logs, so we’re watching as they attempt to fashion together in all sorts of unique ways to get over to the island (where the prize money is).
Apparently, it’s enough timber to build over 300 metres worth of bridge rafts (about six trucks worth of timber and enough to fill a football field). So, keep that in mind every time the contestants hilariously screw it up.
The Bridge Australia is streaming on Paramount+.
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