Vet Chris Brown busy with two TV shows

Given that a number of Network Ten shows crashed and burned in 2012 it's no mean feat that Living Room was renewed.

The lifestyle series with Amanda Keller, Chris Brown, Miguel Maestre and Barry du Bois returns on Friday night for its second season.

It also means female viewers will get to see plenty of the "eye candy" vet Brown from this weekend.

Besides appearing on Living Room, Brown will be seen on Saturdays when the fifth season of Bondi Vet kicks off.

He says Living Room slotted in well because Australians had been groomed for lifestyle shows on Friday night by Burke's Backyard.

Burke's Backyard, hosted by Don Burke, ran from 1987-2004 on the Nine Network.

"Australians have almost been trained for lifestyle TV on Friday night and it started with Burke's backyard," Brown told AAP.

"We try to give people something a little bit different and a bit edgier.

"It is lifestyle meets entertainment."

In between appearing on Living Room and Bondi Vet, Brown is still a practising vet.

When he's not travelling, he works as many as four days a week at the Bondi Junction Veterinary Hospital.

He says he spent too many years studying for his degree to throw it away for a full-time career in entertainment.

"From the outset, when I agreed to do the Living Room, my priority was that there had to be time in my schedule to work at the vet clinic," he says.

"You spend a lot of time getting your vet skills and you don't want to walk away from it.

"I have regular clients and regular shifts and thankfully the clinic is very accommodating with my lifestyle."

On the new series of Bondi Vet, Brown travels to Asia where he works at an animal refuge centre doing emergency calls.

On one occasion, he was called to get a python out of a house but it was his trip to a school in Thailand which he said was the most challenging.

"I got called out to a school and there was a bully in the school yard hassling the kids for their l! unches," Brown explains.

"It was a one-metre monkey with long teeth and it was running up to the kids and scaring them.

"In years gone past they would have shot and killed it but thankfully they have changed their attitude toward animals.

"But it did take five hours to follow and subdue this marauding monkey."

* Living Room returns to Network Ten on Friday night at 8.30pm

* Bondi Vet return on Network Ten on Saturday night at 7.30pm