News and Spoilers > September 2006

It has been announced that Daniel Bennett has left his post as Home and Away Script Producer.

Daniel, who started work in his senior position in 2005, has handed over the mantle to Leigh McGrath and Faith McKinnon, who will jointly take care of things in the Bay until a new Script Producer is appointed in the new year.

Due to the advance writing of the show, Daniel's work will continue to be seen into 2007.

BTTB wishes Dan the best of luck for the future.

Congratulations to Home and Away writer Sam Meikle for his win at the 39th Annual AWGIE awards which were announced last week in Sydney.

The winning script was for Episode 4121, the episode of Flynn's (Joel McIllroy) death. It was up against three Neighbours episodes.

Contrary to other awards, the best writer won, as the awards are judged on the scripts, not the final product.

Congratulations Sam!

After months of reassurance that there would be no stars from their own network on this year's Dancing With The Stars, Channel Seven has done another backfilp with popular Summer Bay star Chris Hemsworth signing on for the show's 5th season.

After network pressure that the show lacked a "high profile, spunky, male conmtestant" Seven caved in and asked Hemsworth to consider, even though he had declined two times already. Lucky for them he committed.

Also confirmed for this year's dance off are Andrew Gaze, Tamsyn Lewis, Anthony Koutoufides, Tom Waterhouse, Gary Sweet, Fiona Falkiner, Kerry Armstrong, Amanda Keller and virtual unknown chess player from Queensland Arianne Caoili.

Proving that there is nothing like a good old soapie, Home and Away has taken the place for 2nd most watched show on Thursday 30th August. With 1,315,000 viewers, the show beat other popular programs such as Getaway and My Name Is Earl and only losing to Australian Idol by 18,000 viewers, showing that H&A is as popular as ever.