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Series 17 premiered on May 15, 2017 on 9Go! (by Go Kids!) in Australia. Created by Helena Harris and Posie Graeme-Evans.
This was the only appearance of the recent line-up, that was revealed on December 14, 2016, which succeeded the Hi-5 House generation. However, this season didn't broadcast in Latin America, and some elements existed in the Latin version called Hi-5 Fiesta, which suffered delays in the dubbed copies from the Hi-5 House seasons (except Hi-5 House Series 3).
On 14 October 2016, it was announced that the Nine Network had renewed its partnership with the Hi-5 franchise, revealing plans to revive the television series with an entirely new cast in 2017. The new series would feature a new cast and set, but retain the original team of producers and writers. Julie Greene, who had previously been a series producer of the original series, was announced as the executive producer of the revival. Greene became the brand's executive creative director in 2012 and was the executive producer for Hi-5 House. She stated "we're really excited to be working with Nine to develop a reinvigorated Hi-5 show". Auditions for the cast were held in November 2016, and the successful auditionees were revealed in December. Courtney Clarke, Shay Clifford, Joe Kalou and Bailey Spalding were announced to be joining Lachie Dearing to form the next generation Hi-5 group, chosen from over 450 applications. Dearing had previously joined the group in January 2016, and had to re-audition for his role. The quintet made their public debut at Carols by Candlelight on Christmas Eve.
The revival began production in January 2017 and was filmed at Pinewood Iskandar Malaysia Studios over six weeks. The series premiered on Nine's multichannel, 9Go!, on 15 May, airing at 9:00 AM weekdays. The premiere run averaged a viewership of 10,000. The series was released on online streaming service Stan on 1 October 2017.
Four of the five featured songs ("Abracadabra", "Stop and Go", "Living in a Rainbow" and "Party Street"), were previously featured throughout the show's original run. The fifth song, "Hi-5 Dance Off", made its debut in the new episodes. The series also featured new puppet characters, the Jupsters, who were introduced as the family of previously established character Jup Jup. The revival also retained a segment introduced in Hi-5 House, entitled The Chatterbox. This segment focuses on the discovery of language through simple words and phrases, and features the puppet Chatterbox, who teaches a toy robot named Tinka how to speak, along with two bookworms, Horace and Aristotle.
A second revived series was planned for 2018, with 45 episodes ordered by Nine. Production of the series halted before the Australian production office was closed, and filming did not resume. The five cast members later announced their departures from the group.
new cast Of Member of hi-5:2017
1.Joe Kalou-Replace Stevie Nicholson
2.Shay Clifford-Replaxe Tanika Anderson
3.Bailey Spalding-Replace Dayen Zheng
4.Courtney Clarke-Replace Mary Lascaris
5.Lachie Dearing-Replace Ainsley Melham
Songs Of The Week.
1.Dance Off
2.Abracadabra
3.Stop And Go
4.Living In A Rainbow
5.Party Street
