Predicting they’ll fully push it back to Peach before next year.
If it rates better than the cooking shows, 10 will keep it at 4pm.
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Validates them making the switch then.
Definitely significantly higher (double) cooking.
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I think they need More Ian “Huey” Hewittson… Nothing beats Heuy’s Cooking Adventures
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Everything beat it, which is why it was axed. 
I always thought 4pm would have been a smart scheduling move for Neighbours. You pick up viewers who are waiting for B&B and build that audience. Scheduling Neighbours at 4.30pm was a bold move (pardon the pun) but unfortunately the relaunch didn’t work out as well as it could have.
I think the producers made some big mistakes. It would have been wiser to have new characters launch some interesting new storylines from the start and have some of the legacy characters continue their storylines from the finale to bring back established viewers. Instead, they decided to create a massive swerve with existing couples in the first episode which divided fans and confused new viewers. Nobody has been impressed by the show’s return and that’s the biggest problem.
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It may still build its audience at 4.00pm. Give it time to build.
I could also potential see a younger audience after school watching the show for the first time.
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Has Erinsborough always been next to the beach? It seems to have geographically moved much closer to the bay.
No. They don’t say Erinsborough is near the beach. They just visit the beach sometimes and have mentioned the names of the beaches as real suburb names. Different beaches are used for these scenes.
Erinsborough and the surrounding suburbs have fictional names including Ansons Corner, West Waratah, Elliott Park and Eden Hills.
However, real suburbs are often mentioned too. Frankston was regularly mentioned for years because the Canning family moved from there and still had other family members that lived there. Werribee is getting lots of mentions at the moment for plotline purposes because the Varga-Murphys just moved from there and the Rodwells lived there twenty years ago.
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It just seems like it’s very closeby for a lot of things, and the suburb seems closer to the city these days too. Seems like it used to be very fringe suburban (like in reality).
Can’t mess with Neighbours squeaky-clean image.
It’s still meant to be approximately 26km from the city centre like the real suburb where it is filmed Vermont South. They infamously did a storyline years ago where Toadie got an office job with a law firm “in the city” but had to give it up because commuting took up too much of his time so he had to go back to being a suburban lawyer again. 
It’s a soap so I guess you have suspend your belief sometimes. They currently have a set which is supposed to be at a winery restaurant at a vineyard. The characters seem to visit it like it’s just down the road. 
The real Panton Hill Winery is in fact 30km away from Vermont South.
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I did notice all the sets look exactly the same and none of them look like the actual date or the houses from the outside 
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Good for them, its better to do what you want rather than the viewers. If they get cancelled again then less they put out the show they wanted.
A few things to address. Neighbours was channel 5s most watched show other than the 9pm time lost which sometimes beat neighbours with specials docos etc
It’s freevees most watched show in the UK and is doing so well even Freevee US did a mini advertising campaign in the us seeing how popular it is
Freevee deliberately chose the daily drop method to
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Being people to the Freevee platform daily and make coming to Freevee habit forming a
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Mirror the traditional way in which consumers know how to consume soap
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This strategy seems smart to me. They have also done this with Judy Justice overseas. From what I can tell, both are doing well for Freevee.
I know one of the streaming services I pay for I only use once a week, for one show. I’d feel much better about that if it was free …or if there was a show I watched 4-5x a week.
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I’ve watched every episode and I never watched the original series. It was easy jumping on point and easy to watch in the background which is good for streaming.
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Yep, I’m sure some people at Paramount + must be thinking why didnt we do this? Especially, when they own 10 and 5.
This Reece storyline is so stupid.