In Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, ordinary men are taught to sear tuna steaks and get pumped about soft furnishings.

Blokesworld is equally instructional. It teaches ordinary men to defend themselves in a car park brawl, appreciate the nuances of pole dancing and fill out a betting slip.

The late-night show, which screens on Network Ten from October 8, also offers cooking tips from an Elvis impersonator, relationship advice from an AC/DC fan and music from house band Holeshot, whose songs are all about dirt biking.

"We liken the show to that great time in the '70s just before all the rules and regulations came in that eventually gave rise to the metrosexual," said Blokesworld co-host Ado Knox.

Knox and co-host Ben-Wah both 35, single and obsessed with dirt bikes began broadcasting the politically incorrect Blokesworld on community station Channel 31 in February last year. Taping the weekly show in the living room and kitchen of their rented Cammeray townhouse on Sydney's north shore, they struck a chord with many viewers.


At its peak, the show had more than 120,000 viewers in Melbourne. Fans of the show regularly sing its praises on the website www.blokesworld.com. "You've inspired me to buy that beer fridge and put up a shed!" writes one.

As part of their deal with Ten, Knox and Ben-Wah have moved to an eight-hectare farm an hour from Melbourne. It has given them more room for dirt biking, but won't affect the show's lo-fi production values or familiar diet of hot cars, chicks and barbecues.

Tim Clucas, Ten's head of production and development, said Blokesworld would air at 11.30pm on Fridays.

Ten made few changes to the format apart from toning down some "don't try this at home" type activities.





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blokes world is awesome. I watch it every tuesday and saturday night. And im glad that its gonna be on channel 10 now......better picture quality to look at the pole dancers

Sounds like a cheap rip off of the "man show" on comedy central....

Strange show.

Ahhhhhh........ok, I have better things to do then watch another crappy reality tv show, at least we still have some creativity in us whether its good or not is another question altogether though!