Home and Away

Sully · January 29, 2019, 9:59am

Sounds awfully familiar

JohnsonTV · February 5, 2019, 8:22am

It’s the 18th. Updated promo for the new season premiere (with the endboard “starts next Monday week”) aired this evening during My Kitchen Rules.

TV_Addict · February 5, 2019, 9:23am

Wonder if it premieres as a double episode?

JBar · February 5, 2019, 9:27am

No. There’s no room in the schedule with My Kitchen Rules and Instant Hotel having bloated, supersized episodes.

TV_Addict · February 5, 2019, 9:33am

What about Thursdays , those would be doubles ? Or not until later in the year?

JBar · February 5, 2019, 9:35am

Probably triples.

mirb · February 9, 2019, 1:31am

Home and Away has had an incredibly long break.

TV_Addict · February 9, 2019, 4:20am

Can’t they follow Neighbours and air it all year around ?

David · February 10, 2019, 5:11am

I was just thinking about the shows long break and realised we are actually having a similar schedule in terms of weeks aired compared to last year.

Yes, it’s starting later but last April we had a 2 week break for the Commonwealth Games.

So all up it really isn’t that bad.

TV_Addict · February 12, 2019, 11:06pm

What happens if it launches and the ratings are like 550,000 or 450,000 and it stays like that ?

ryan1890 · February 12, 2019, 11:08pm

That would be disastrous for Seven and House Rules could be moved to 7pm or MKR could be moved back to 7 with Home and Away pushed to 7TWO.

Tom_TV7 · February 18, 2019, 10:53pm

After last night’s ratings bombed Seven should move the show permanently to 7TWO and have reality (or whatever airs at 7:30) at the 7pm slot. H&A’s bad ratings is killing its lead-out shows and is not doing Seven any favours in the long term.

Either that, or cut the news by 30 minutes and have H&A on the main channel at 6:30 as an alternative.

TV_Addict · February 18, 2019, 11:11pm

Moving it to a multichannel would drop the numbers down even lower though. Home and Away would get what 250,000 on 7mate?

TheIdiotBoxAU · February 18, 2019, 11:17pm

I wouldn’t say 620k is a bomb at all in total people, it’s just that the demos are low. I think if Seven committed to Monday-Friday again it would be a big help. Moving Better Homes to 7:30-9pm would also help their Friday shares later in the night so it seems like a win-win to me.

Nicholas · February 18, 2019, 11:20pm

It’s funny how people are saying H&A should be moved to 7two yet they are also saying Neighbours should be moved back to 10?

nationalnews · February 18, 2019, 11:44pm

It is not about Home and Away anymore. It is about finding a show that can competively compete in the 7pm slot for Seven. Nine’s ACA pulled 800k+ last night.

ryan1890 · February 18, 2019, 11:54pm

Sometimes it is a case of better the devil you know. Hence why Seven won’t and shouldn’t rush a decision on this.

Tom_TV7 · February 18, 2019, 11:58pm

Because apparently Home and Away is trash and Neighbours is great.

A lot has said that Home and Away has declined in recent years in terms of quality, while Neighbours is working its way back up.

Haven’t watched either show in ages so can’t personally see the difference, other than that they’re both long-running soap dramas which do well in UK and other countries, less so here.

JBar · February 19, 2019, 12:17am

Because Neighbours has more fans in this forum than Home and Away.

Si-Co · February 19, 2019, 1:09am

I see they are showing three episodes back to back on Thursday, which IMO is not the way to treat a show that is produced as 30-minute episodes. I assume we can expect more of this if their intention is to “catch up” due to the late start this season.