Neighbours

Now see when you've just got back into neighbours its nice that there are lots of new characters, saves trying to catch up on what the old characters have been getting upto over the years.
I will be tuning out though until April as watching ozzies galavanting in the sun at 5pm every night makes me just a bit envious. So i hope theres lots of even newer characters come spring.

Any of you lot ever recieved a Xmas card from oz? The one i had last year had Kangaroos on Bondi beach, carrying a tinny while barbequeing their mate. Its wrong i tell u wrong. Oh and never have an Oz over for winter. They get over excited when they see a flake of snow.

I can understand where some of you are coming from. Neighbours is certainly not what it was. Im not at the point of switch off just yet but i am getting close. Theres not as much fun in the programme lately, a lot of the storylines have been on a serious nature with not much in the way of light hearted stories to balance it all out. Most people watch tv to relax and forget about problems. Neighbours just all seems a bit too serious!

Neighbours disappears from the schedule on Monday 17th December, with the weekday schedule for that week running:
1.40. Doctors
2.10. Monk
2.50. Allo' Allo'
3.20. BBC News
3.25. CBBC.
5.35. Cash In The Attic.

I reckon come January BBC1 will just screen Neighbours at 5.35pm up until its departure.

More's the point though, what the hell is Cash in the Attic doing on at that bizarre time?

Why is there any need for Neighbours to disappear completely that week at all?

Because it delays when Five can start screening it. If the BBC wanted to be petty they could just screen one episdoe a week next year if they really wanted too.

Interesting. I guess it wont return until the new year? We are 12 weeks behind at the moment and the season finale is due to screen in Oz in a few weeks (which I understand is where the BBC's contract ends?) so it looks like the BBC is holding onto it as long as possible.

Dont see the point in them moving it to 2.10pm this week though if it was only for 3 weeks before they were taking it off air.

no, it won't be I think it annually takes a break for the cristmas period,

As has already been said what an odd time to put on Cash In The Attic.

Surely something like Outtake TV would have been better suited heading into a night schedule and following CBBC, and it could have been easily edited by removing a clip or two.

Surely it and 'Allo 'Allo have been placed the wrong way around on that schedule, I know there is a time difference but its not hard to move CBBC back by 5 minutes.

In years gone by it has done - although in the early years I don't believe it did - didn't it air on Christmas day once or twice?

Also the past 2 years Neighbours has run through the Christmas schedules - only breaking for Christmas Day and Boxing Day IIRC - although some episodes only got one showing at early than usual times like mid-day. Even stil this is early for Neighbours christmas break over here. It usually finishes the Friday before Christmas and restarts a couple of days after new year

So the BBC have commissioned a new Australian soap set in Sydney - Out of the Blue - for a 130 episode daytime run, though at the moment it's not likely to air in the 5.35pm slot which has been left to Weakest Link.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/nov/30/bbc.television4


Can't really see this working - and from what I can gather it's an original commission, not something from another Aussie broadcaster.