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.
It is all about the greedy Americans who killed Soap operas and half the soap audiences who watched it 15-20 years ago went to steaming TV services.
And to be fair, a lot of people who watched soap in the 80s and 90s, probably have gone to streaming…and are dead
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I didn’t know streaming causes death. 
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Depends how much you binge and forget to eat
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not sure we could lay blame to “greedy Americans”
Paul Robinson’s daughter Elle is returning to Neighbours but the role has been recast. Elise Jansen is now playing Elle Robinson, which had been previously played by Pippa Black from 2005 to 2009.
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According to UK paper Metro, it is Elise Jansen’s third part in Neighbours, having appeared as Eden Hills student Alicia Berry in 2010, and as Erinsborough Hospital Doctor Erin Salisbury in 2012.
Yes Erin was a friend of Kate Ramsay’s and she pretended to date Dr Rhys Lawson?
How will Neighbours end this time could there be a spinoffs? I reckon a development could take over Erinsborough and Ramsay St so the residents have to move away for a while.
Maybe it ends with Harolds death. That to me would bring closure