Neighbours couldn’t even rate well enough at 4:30 let alone 6:30z
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Don’t upset the Bold and the Beautiful fans. lol. Neighbours airs at 4pm.
But could Neighbours air at 6.30pm in its final weeks of its run? To get that slightly extra boost to end its 40 years on air?
Its currently getting more than whats airing at 6:30pm now…and of course its going to rate lower at 4pm lol. With its audience split at 4pm and 6:30pm on Peach
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10 comedy.
And they won’t move it, it’ll be lucky to get its finale aired in primetime again.
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So, Neighbours could go out with a whimper?
Neighbours has a huge fan base in the UK so perhaps they could do a spin off over there? It would involve a selection of the current cast and also use popular UK actors. Some of the Australian cast may not want to relocate but I imagine others would be happy to do it. Perhaps they could film for only six months of the year?
Who would want to see Neighbours set in the dreary UK?
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Yes it is called Eastenders!!!
If they could find cheaper filming options, perhaps it could be done like Grundys did with Sons And Daughters (eg Sydney and Melbourne)
How is that cheaper? Also, that wasn’t done for S&D for financial reasons, it was for political reasons i.e. the address the common ratings divide between the two cities. It would have very expensive having to fly Sydney based actors to Melbourne just for the occasion bit of location filming. All studio scenes were done in Sydney.
Surely it can’t rate any worse than 10 News + in that slot 
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I think there’s a way any of the networks could fund it. 3 nights a week. Clearly the uk audience is still there
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The sad thing is the Melbourne television industry is being hit hard. There is very little local production in the pipeline.
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How is paying people to live abroad any cheaper? Plus Australian content could defeat the purpose of producing an “Australian” program abroad ?
If the show was produced in New Zealand it could be cheaper and meet quota requirements, but would the Brits tune in? Perhaps not. My example was an illustration of what could be done vs what is realistic given networks want to reduce costs.
To sum it up for Neighbours, in the words of an auctioneer on The Block “We’re all done”
I didn’t say anything about that?
I didn’t say it would be cheaper either. I was emphasising how unrealistic the proposal to move it abroad was just to keep it alive. The shows production being vast distances apart is not necessarily as much of a barrier these days but given Neighbours is an Australian show, I fail to see how the show would be of benefit to Australian quotas.
If you are wanting to keep it going, cut it down to either 1 hour a week or 3 half hour episodes and not producing any more than 150 half hour episodes a year. My maximum would be 120 x half hour or 60 x 1 hour episodes a year (packaged in a way where it could be sold either way). The 1 hour episodes could air on 10 on say Thursday or Friday night each week (2 episodes a week December-January). Note that at one stage we had 2 to 3 Australian bi-weekly soaps on TV along with Australian weekday soaps.
Change of venue could be an option - possibly a relaunch with a storyline like Paul is out scouting for a second Lassiters in beachside towns and the one in Erinsborough mysteriously burns down - and all fingers point to Paul.
This is just an idea to start a relaunch or spin off. But then how long could another reboot last?
Im wondering how the cast and crew on Home & Away feel about Neighbours ending yet again, particularly the veteran actors like Ray and Lynne
Again i think its time to let it go and look for the next Australian soap
Had a huge fanbase. Long gone, hence why C5 and now Amazon dropped it. More value in the archive than producing new episodes.
And just no appetite for a “new” UK soap - even Emmerdale and Corrie are having their number of episodes cut and the volume of soap put out in the UK has been slashed by over a third in the last couple of years.
Certainly if they go back to pre covid filming of 6 episodes a week and only air 3 episodes, it frees expenses up for 6 months of the year. But all too late for that…for now
Or even more, Hollyoaks, Corrie and Emmerdale all slashed or getting slashed. Doctors cancelled, and Scottish soap River City cancelled. (That one is bizarre to me how they didnt try schedule that somewhere BBC wide since they were paying for it and it was being made.