Talking about leading 1 programme into another. As it wont be possible for viewers to watch Doctors & Neighbours as on the BBC Doctors is likely to lose casual viewers who only tuned into it as it was before/ after neighbours.
The BBC have sold their new self-commissioned Aussie soap, Out of the Blue, back to the Aussies - Network Ten in fact, according to Broadcastnow.co.uk
broadcastnow.co.uk posted:
In a classic case of carrying coals to Newscastle, the BBC has sold its own Australian soap back to Aussie broadcaster Network Ten.
The BBC commissioned 130 x 30-minute episodes of Out of the Blue from Australian production company Southern Star Entertainment last year. The move came after it lost Neighbours to Five in an eight-year deal worth £300m.
The new series will not start airing in the UK until later this year, but Network Ten has already signed a deal to broadcast the series.
The BBC has not yet confirmed exactly when the soap will start or where it will sit in the schedules. In Australia it will be either stripped across a week or edited into two one-hour episodes each week.
Out of the Blue is filmed and set in the seaside resort of Manly, seven miles north of Sydney, and centres around a group of 30-somethings who go home for a school reunion.
According to the BBC, it will launch with a murder mystery-style storyline – where one of the group is killed – and evolve into a "more soapy drama".
The series went into production earlier this month and will be produced by John Edwards (The Secret Life of Us, Love My Way) and Julie McGauran (Home & Away).
A BBC spokesman said: "Network Ten clearly have as much confidence in the series as we do."
Imagine (but probably will never happen) if this new soap on Channel 10 starts to out preform Neighbours, and ended up stealing the Neighbours slot. A potental for the BBC to have the last laugh?
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