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Ratings
Food Safari, whilst never garnering the high ratings of similar food programs on commercial networks, it has become a renown staple in the Australian television scene, and consistently reached SBS’ top 50 programs between 2007 to 2011 when such information was made publicly available. This is in part due to it acting as successful filler programming for SBS (and later, SBS Food), with the network consistently airing repeats of previous seasons, which often achieved greater success than their initial debut. For season 2, first run episodes garnered an average regional audience of 359,000, though on its second airing this audience increased by 13% to 406,000 (page 34) - 2007 to 2008, with one repeat attracting 514,000 viewers, becoming SBS’ sixth most watched program of 2008 (Page 33). In 2009, a repeat of a season 4 episode became the network’s second most popular commissioned program and tenth most popular program overall, garnering 456,000 viewers.

Domestic
Food Safari was first broadcast on SBS on the 7 June 2006, on Wednesday 7:30 timeslot, which it would mostly occupy for its series run. The food series was renewed for its second and third seasons which debuted on 5 December 2008 and 3 December 2009, respectively. The series was commissioned for a fourth season which began on February 14, 2013. A fifth season, began airing from January 7, 2016. A sixth season Earth, began airing from October 12, 2017.

Initially, the series' seventh season, Water, was announced to air in 2017, a move which would have seen it debut in the same year as the previous season, a first for the series. However, this never came to fruition, and instead Water debuted on 1 August 2018, with SBS following the previous season's original Thursday 8pm timeslot. However, the season struggled in the ratings, garnering just 118,000 viewers by its fourth episode. In response, SBS temporarily pulled the program from its schedule, placing it on a 3-week hiatus in an attempt to boost viewership. This strategy was successful and the fifth episode debuted on 19 September with 143,000 viewers, returning to the previous season's Wednesday 8pm timeslot, before it moved forward to 7:30pm, a week later.

The series garnered two spin off seasons, Italian Food Safari and French Food Safari, which debuted in 2010 and 2011, respectively.

International
As of 2015, Food Safari has grossed $1 million from international syndication deals, selling television rights to TV One in New Zealand and the OKTO Channel in Singapore.