Like gravity, you don’t have to actually see Neighbours to feel reassured by it being there. The Aussie soap is a cathedral of the UK TV schedule – an edifice you can walk past daily without ever stepping inside, but knowing that if you ever feel the need for cold stone and silent reflection/sunshine and kidnapping plots, its doors are open. The news that Channel 5, which took over Neighbours’ UK broadcast from BBC One in 2008, will drop the show from this autumn has been met with some outrage. ‘Hey!’ people said, ‘leave Neighbours alone! We weren’t really watching that!’
Over a million people are watching Neighbours in the UK. Over a million TV commuters are still travelling daily between here and Ramsay Street. What, I wondered, has changed in the two decades since I last numbered among them? Let’s find out.
One change is that Neighbours...
Over a million people are watching Neighbours in the UK. Over a million TV commuters are still travelling daily between here and Ramsay Street. What, I wondered, has changed in the two decades since I last numbered among them? Let’s find out.
One change is that Neighbours...
- 2/8/2022
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
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