A change of address
Every one of these formats leans on a single fixed set. Here are the seasons where that set moved, and the show had to prove it could survive somewhere else.
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The 12, in order.
- #01
Before the Caribbean jump, the franchise already left Australian waters once.
Below Deck Down Under's identity was built on Australian anchorages, and season three is the one that actually leaves them first — the Seychelles, plus the franchise's largest charter yacht yet, arrive a full season before the more famous Caribbean move. - #02
A franchise named for Australian waters relocates to the Caribbean for its fourth season.
Season four moves the whole operation to the Caribbean — the franchise's biggest jump yet — plus a franchise-first charter crossover with a full reality cast aboard as guests. - #03
The Mediterranean franchise trades open saltwater for a freshwater lake.
Five seasons of Adriatic charters give way to Lake Como, the franchise's first freshwater season. Shorter passages shift the pressure toward the interior department, and northern Italy gives the show a visual register none of its saltwater seasons had. - #04
The only season in the show's run that leaves the country entirely.
Same seven roommates, but the boardwalk and the shore house are gone, swapped for a Tuscan apartment. The gym-tan-laundry rhythm somehow survives cobblestone streets and a language barrier just fine. - #05
The format's first road test: a new coastline, no home turf to fall back on.
MTV trades the Jersey boardwalk for South Beach for a full summer, testing whether eight roommates' chemistry travels without the routines of home. It does, and the longer episode order gives the move room to prove it. - #06
The villa jumps continents for the franchise's first winter edition.
The usual Mallorca villa moves to Cape Town for a winter run, with a new host taking over the format for the first time. A bold experiment in whether the summer template holds in a different season and setting. - #07
The brokerage doesn't change a single agent — it just moves into a bigger office.
Same eleven-agent roster as the year before, but the Oppenheim Group relocates next door into a space roughly double the size, with a noticeable design upgrade. The rare season where the address is the whole story. - #08
The first time this format has to relocate its own share house.
After the group loses its original East Hampton rental, Summer House moves into a new house in Watermill for season two. A partly new cast finds its footing in unfamiliar rooms, the first test of a format that leans entirely on one address. - #09
Years into Watermill, the group packs up for a second new house.
After settling into one Hamptons house for several years, the cast relocates again, the first move since Watermill. Three new faces join the same season the show resets its own setting. - #10
SUR gets company: the show's world picks up a second real address.
Tom Tom, a bar co-owned by several cast members, opens mid-run and gives the show an entire second location to work out of. The SUR floor plan that carries the format doesn't lose a step for the expansion. - #11
The brokerage leaves its own office for the first time, if only for one arc.
Six seasons of Sunset Strip listings give way to a group retreat filmed entirely in Palm Springs, the first arc the show has ever staged away from its usual office setting. - #12
A single-anchorage format expands into three ports in one season.
The franchise's third trip to Sint Maarten doesn't stay there. Charters add stops in Anguilla and St. Barths, the most logistically ambitious route any Below Deck season has tried.
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