James Martin Posted July 26, 2021 Report Share Posted July 26, 2021 Several media outlets both in the UK and Australia are today reporting that Channel 5 may choose to drop Neighbours.https://www.nowtolove.com.au/celebrity/tv/neighbours-ending-68463https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/neighbours-fans-fear-show-being-24617022 The news follows Ten Peach dropping to four episodes a week, cited as "allowing the UK to catch-up" after the COVID-19 ratitioning of episodes of both soaps in Spring 2020. Many speculated that Channel 5 would catch back up with double episodes during Home & Away's Christmas break but that didn't happen. Channel 5 have a lifetime deal for Home & Away, but don't for Neighbours. This may answer some questions over how the new 5pm news hour will affect the soaps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeandawayroxsomuch. Posted July 26, 2021 Report Share Posted July 26, 2021 These articles seem a bit clickbait-y and claim that the UK is "months behind Australia". We're ONE MONTH behind Australia. That's just 4 weeks of episodes. 20 episodes (now 19). 19 weeks from now is early December. We should be back in line with Australia by early December. This has probably been carefully planned so if something big is planned over Christmas, the UK will be able to see it the same day. Also, Channel 5 has involvement with the creative decisions for Neighbours, and apparently can include it in its quota of "home-grown content", and there has also been the additional Neighbours late-night specials that have been in collaboration with Channel 5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Martin Posted July 26, 2021 Author Report Share Posted July 26, 2021 That's the bit I don't get. Both Neighbours and Home & Away count as local productions in Ofcom's eyes because of how much of the production costs are met by Channel 5. I don't think they have any creative input on Home & Away but it certainly fulfils a production quota. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
630si Posted July 26, 2021 Report Share Posted July 26, 2021 Neighbours is sooooooooo expensive for C5. What they're paying for it, and the return they're probably getting these days don't weigh up. This is probably more telling of how the negotiations of the new contract is going behind the scenes. C5 will want to pay much less. As it stands the current contract is up at the end of the year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Martin Posted July 26, 2021 Author Report Share Posted July 26, 2021 How much would it be worth to ITV? Or has a twice daily Aussie soap in daytime lost its appeal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
630si Posted July 26, 2021 Report Share Posted July 26, 2021 18 minutes ago, James Martin said: How much would it be worth to ITV? Or has a twice daily Aussie soap in daytime lost its appeal? I'm not sure anyone in their right mind would pay the 80k per episode that C5 have been paying these days. The profit on it would be marginal, And commercial TV is difficult enough as it is these days. Both Aussie soaps do well in the demos though so good at attracting advertisers that way. To compare, I've heard they pay 3million a year for Home and Away, that's just over 13k an episode and attracts an audience only a couple hundred thousand below neighbours, similar demographic etc. Now if neighbours was pulling in 3 million every night that would be a different story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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