Bondi Vet

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Bondi Vet is an Australian factual television series. It follows the lives of veterinary surgeon Chris Brown at the Bondi Junction Veterinary Hospital (near Bondi Beach), and emergency veterinarian Lisa Chimes at the Small Animal Specialist Hospital (SASH), in the Sydney suburb of North Ryde.

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 is now in its seventh season. The series airs on Network Ten on Saturday night from 6.30pm to 7.30pm. Bondi Vet can also be seen on Network Ten on Wednesday morning from 11.00am to 12.00pm. Since 28 September 2013 the show is seen on Saturday mornings in the United States on the CBS network, under the title of "Dr. Chris: Pet Vet."

In March 2017, Brown announced he was stepping down as host due to an extensive schedule. The series production company, WTFN Entertainment, are currently searching for a new host. The company reported it had received over 800 nominations in just a week of the announcement and revealed they will choose the Top 10 people and the public will get to decide on who will be the next Bondi Vet. In July 2017, the top 5 shortlisted vets from around Australia were revealed, they are Dr Peter Ricci from WA, Dr Alex Hynes & Dr Anthony Cassimatis both from QLD, Dr Danni Dusek from VIC and Dr Lewis Hunt from NSW, they will all proceed to the next stage.

In November 2017, WTFN Entertainment revealed that the series will showcase four vets in the next series instead of one, they will be Dr Alex Hynes (Qld), Dr Danni Dusek (VIC), Dr Lewis Hunt (NSW) & Dr Peter Ricci (WA).

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Bondi Vet team

Chris Brown , 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)

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Nominations and awards

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Broadcast

The series is broadcast in the United States, on CBS as part of their educational CBS Dream Team Saturday morning programming strand, under the title of Dr. Chris: Pet Vet. The series began broadcasting on 28 September 2013. In Canada the series is broadcast on CBC Television. In Czech Republic the series is broadcast on Animal Planet. In the Netherlands it is broadcast on TLC. In Spain the series is broadcast on BeMad TV.