Former Home And Away Star Alea O’Shea Reveals Devastating Diagnosis At Just 25
Channel 5 have dropped Home and Away from the main channel in the UK. It will only be shown online and on 5Star from January.
If it wasn’t for the life of the series deal 5’s previous owner signed, they would have ditched it entirely long before they dumped Neighbours.
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But surely they would be able to drop the contract if it is no longer making them money.
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That’s certainly what I’ve said, or certainly get a massive reductive in how much they pay if the show is getting lower ratings and or %shares. It also seems like they must which is why 5 have been slowly bumping it off the schedule over the last 2 years.
Otherwise why would they now pay for replacement programs for Home and Aways main channel slots.
So what does this mean for H&A in the UK?
I thought this was clearly explained.
- Ratings are down so it has been dropped from the Channel 5’s main channel.
- It will now only screen on their multichannel 5 Star.
- It will still be on their streaming service as usual.
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My apologies JBar.
I wonder how long this decision will last.
This change is final. They’re not going back from this. It’s a reflection of a general drop in interest in soapies on linear channels.
Channel 5 axed Neighbours in 2022.
Channel 4 dropped Hollyoaks in 2024. They moved it to their multichannel E4 and reduced it from five days a week to three days a week. They also trimmed episodes to 20 minutes..
The BBC axed Holby City in 2022 and River City will end in 2026.
In America, Days of Our Lives was dropped from NBC in 2022 and is only on streaming service Peacock. There are only four daytime soaps on linear channels now compared to the peak in 1981 when there were twenty daytime soaps on television.
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