''Bondi Vet'' is an Australian

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television series. It follows the lives of veterinary surgeon

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at the Bondi Junction Veterinary Hospital (near

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), and emergency

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Lisa Chimes at the Small Animal Specialist Hospital (SASH), in the Sydney suburb of

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. Also featured on ''Bondi Vet'' are Andrew Marchevsky, a specialist surgeon at SASH, and Tim Faulkner of the Australian Reptile Park at Somersby on the New South Wales central coast. The series first broadcast on 5 February 2009, with the first two full seasons averaging a rating of 0.93 million viewers in the five capital cities. ''Bondi Vet'' screened for seven seasons on

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. From 28 September 2013 to 25 May 2019, the show had been seen on Saturday mornings in the United States on Ten's sister network, CBS, under the title of ''Dr. Chris: Pet Vet'', both as the Bondi community is unfamiliar to most American audiences, and to clarify Dr. Chris Brown as not the similarly named American musical artist. The program was slightly re-edited by American distributor Litton Entertainment to comply with American requirements regarding educational children's programming.

Bondi Vet: Coast to Coast

In March 2017, Brown announced he was stepping down as host due to his extensive television hosting and presenting schedule. The series production company, WTFN Entertainment, searched for a new host. Over 800 nominations were received in just a week of the announcement and it was revealed that a top 10 would be nominated and the public would decide who the next ''Bondi Vet'' would be. In July 2017, a top 5 shortlist of vets from around Australia was revealed. In November 2017, WTFN Entertainment revealed that the series would showcase multiple vets in the next series instead of one and they would be Dr Peter Ricci, Dr Alex Hynes, Dr Kate Adams, Dr Lewis Hunt and Dr Danni Dusek. The new series would be known as ''"Bondi Vet: Coast to Coast"'' and would feature vets from locations all over Australia. In December 2018, it was announced the series would be switching from

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in 2019. In February 2019, WTFN entertainment announced an additional two vets to the cast, with identical twin sisters Alison & Audrey Shen being included in the new series. ''Bondi Vet: Coast to Coast'' premiered in Australia on

on 11 October 2019 at 7:30 pm and concluded on 29 November 2019. It first premiered in Canada on the Cottage Life TV network on 27 March 2019. It was officially renewed for a second series in February 2021, which premiered on 14 May 2021, and was renewed for a third series which will air in 2022.

Casts

Bondi Vet team

, BVSc (Hons) – veterinary surgeon ( Bondi Junction Veterinary Hospital) * Lisa Chimes, BVSc (Hons), MANZCVS – emergency veterinarian at the Small Animal Specialist Hospital (SASH) * Andrew Marchevsky, BVSc (Hons), MVS, FANZCVS – specialist veterinarian surgeon (SASH) * Tim Faulkner – general manager ( Australian Reptile Park)

Bondi Vet: Coast to Coast team

* Peter Ricci,

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, BVMS – small animal emergency veterinarian (The Animal Hospital at

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) and wildlife and zoo veterinarian (

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) * Alex Hynes,

, MVS, MANZCVS,

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– emergency and critical care veterinarian ( Animal Emergency Service) * Kate Adams – veterinary surgeon ( Bondi veterinary hospital) * Lewis Hunt – veterinary surgeon * Danni Dusek – veterinary surgeon * Tim Faulkner – general manager ( Australian Reptile Park) * Audrey Shen – mobile veterinarian * Alison Shen – mobile veterinarian * Scott Miller - Australian veterinary surgeon at his three veterinary practices, including Vet on Richmond Hill in London, United Kingdom * Dr Arvid - veterinary surgeon at his veterinary practice in Atlanta, United States

Nominations and awards

Broadcast

The series was broadcast in the United States, on CBS as part of their educational '' CBS Dream Team'' Saturday morning programming strand programmed by Litton Entertainment, under the title of ''Dr. Chris: Pet Vet''. The series ran from 28 September 2013 to 25 May 2019. After 2019, it was renamed ''Pet Vet Dream Team.'' In Canada, the series is broadcast on

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. In Czech Republic, the series is broadcast on Animal Planet. In the Netherlands, it is broadcast on RTL5 after TLC broadcast the show first. The RTL5 episodes are edited different in comparison to the TLC episodes. In Spain, the series is broadcast on BeMad TV.

Home media

Notes

References

External links

*
10Play Website

Production website

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