Neighbours

From Monday - part one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYhMH_Ur6eg

The writer and director credits now appear in the closing credits and the episode titles have been dropped.

The Network Ten credits can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSDItsbQ2yA

There is also a clean version of the Neighbours closing theme over at The Neighbours Message Board spoilers section

Thank you very much guys, much appreciated

I prefered the pan round of the street

anyway whats with the old woman holding the other woman hostage?

I'd like to know how she uses the loo tied up like that

I was wondering that as well Steve!

Apparently she thinks that Pepper (the girl being held hostage) is pregnant with her granddaugher or something or she wants her to be - I missed the start of the storyline!

Pepper was recieving cryptic gifts and messages and she came to the conclusion it was Kevin, and ex boyfriend from years back. She was pregnant and miscarried when she was with him years back.

It turned out that it was Kevin's mum Mary who had been the stalker - sending the stuff as she thinks that Pepper aborted the baby.

Something like that.

What's Mary been in before? Was it Prisoner, or maybe Home & Away? Flying Doctors?! I can't place her but I've definitely seen her in something else.

Edit: Should have just Googled shouldn't I! Turns out she was in Prisoner, but it's Home & Away I remember her from; she was Don Fisher's wife for a while.

She was most famous for being in Sons and Daughters, well thats the impression i get from the promo :

http://youtube.com/watch?v=JWaEyDg-XEQ

The promo is silly - she's not Pat the Rat in Neighbours. The actress who played Pat the Rat in Sons and Daughers happens be now be in Neighbours. This character is nothing like Patricia was.

Yea i gathered that, TEN love hyping Neighbours up to such an extreme in the promos its amazing they get away with it.

I have just read on digital spy the Fremantle media want to move the show to a new purpose built set, is this all part of the evolution to a new show?

Nah, they've been talking about moving for well over a year now. The current studio is leased by FremantleMedia (formerly Grundy's) from Global Television. The complex used to be owned by TEN themselves as their main Melbourne production base, but that was back in the early days.

The problem with Studio B that Neighbours currently uses is that it is tiny - I've seen for myself how small it is and that it can only hold four interior staged sets at a time (even then they're tightly packed), and thus there's a huge amount of "taking up and putting down" during the week in order to film in as many sets as they need for a block of episodes. Obviously this is time consuming, and not good for the longevity of the sets themselves when they are needed as frequently as Neighbours sets are.

I seem to recall a suggestion that the land the studios are built on (ironically quite vast) would be valuable to developers, especially given the amount of domestic dwellings in the surrounding area.

The biggest problem of course is that moving Neighbours would almost certainly mean having to rebuild the Lassiter's Complex which is housed in the grounds of the current site. It would be interesting to see if they would increase the size and practicality of the complex's buildings to an extent that they could then film inside the shells, as opposed to building seperate interior stages for them.

Here is a mocked video I made of the new closing theme with a new closing sequence taking elements seen in the opening sequence:
You Tube link