Kitchen Week rolled into its third night on The Block, and while the judges are still keeping their scorecards to themselves, Blockheads weren’t waiting around. Between a heater cranked to a sauna-adjacent 32 degrees, a sink half the thread reckons should be repatriated to a church font, and yet another round of AI-generated jingles nobody asked for, r/TheBlock had a full house tonight. Here’s what fans made of it, and what the mastheads had to say about where the show goes next.
“ooh its beige. wouldnt have guessed that one.”
u/cherrykittenluvr, r/TheBlock
What Blockheads Are Saying
The Kitchen Week live thread pulled in close to 300 comments on r/TheBlock tonight, and the reception for that oversized kitchen sink was roughly what you’d expect for something that looks like a christening font. One commenter just wanted someone to turn the heater down rather than sweat it out until morning, another was still stuck on the $250,000 appliance package, joking it looks more like a restaurant fit-out than a family kitchen. But the line of the night, unsurprisingly, went to the palette: “ooh its beige. wouldnt have guessed that one,” wrote u/cherrykittenluvr, which at this point is either the show’s tagline or its epitaph.
What the Mastheads Ran Today
Away from the comments section, the bigger story is that Nine has officially opened casting for The Block 2027 (also covered by TV Tonight and New Idea), with applications live for teams willing to hand over twelve weeks from next February and give up working entirely for the privilege. No location has been locked in yet, though reports are circling a return to a more traditional suburban setting. Closer to home, last night’s episode kept doing what it always does: The Block cruised past First Dates and Sydney Harbour Cops in Tuesday’s ratings with 1.09 million viewers, proving that no amount of beige or AI slop is putting a dent in the numbers.
That’s the Buzz for today. See you back here tomorrow, hopefully with fewer AI slop counters.
