Channel 5 to fast-track Neighbours for Brits
UK fans will be watching Ramsay Street residents within 24hrs of their Australian broadcast.
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British fans will no longer be waiting for their favourite Neighbours with Channel 5 set to fast-track episodes to within 24 hours of their Australian broadcast.
UK viewers are currently 2 weeks behind Australia, but Channel 5 will air ten episodes in December, while the show is on an Aussie hiatus, and return on January 4th 2016, the same day it returns to ELEVEN.
“At a time when online piracy can often mean hard core fans’ enjoyment of continuing drama is spoilt, this is great news for our millions of Neighbours fans,” said Greg Barnett, Channel 5’s Commissioning Editor. “Not only for the first time will it actually be Christmas when it actually is Christmas (instead of February), but viewers will see the new year start with a bang for Ramsay Street rotter Paul Robinson and the woman he’s been taunting, Steph Scully, who are caught up in one of the series’ most gripping storylines.”
Jason Herbison, Series Producer, added: “We’re delighted that UK fans of Neighbours will be able to catch up with Karl, Susan, Toadie and the gang at the same time as Australian viewers. Thanks to today’s technology, and the collaboration of our friends at Channel 5, we’re now able to get episodes sent halfway round the world in record-breaking time, giving viewers of the show immediate access to our stories as they unfold.”
The show screens twice-daily in the UK.
Source: TV Wise
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People actually still watch Neighbors, Good God test pattern is more interesting Days of Our Lives Um no
It’s Neighbours, mate. Not the American comedy that has been axed. 😉
I would love to see EE the same day, but I don’t think Foxtel would appreciate the airing times in the UK (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday – which would then be Saturday here). Plus the BBC shuffle it around in the schedules to avoid football clashes and sometimes Emmerdale clashes, plus they air a number of 1 hour episodes through out the year which UKTV splits into two episodes here. While I would love to see it same day, the uncertainty of scheduling and the headaches it would cause wouldn’t be worth the hassle.
And Corrie has two episodes of a Monday and Friday and a single ep on a Wednesday, not ideal for us over here….
I would have thought the Brits could have neighbours Christams at Christmas time, considering they air Christmas episodes here at least a couple of weeks before Christmas, then it’s the season finale.
That’s proper fast tracking, our networks need to take note!
It’s the way of the future. Same day debuts, across the world.
If only we could get the favour returned by having Corrie and Eastenders on the same day here!!!
I’m not sure I want same day broadcasts for eastenders. Their Christmas episodes are always really heavy, far too much stress for Christmas time here. Two weeks behind is better than the months behind they used to be.
The Christmas day episode are the best!!! Your whole day over there is worked around the episodes that air that night, they were awesome Xmas’s!
I love those episodes too, it’s just that finding out that your nephew raped your wife and that your sister is really your mother, and therefore the nephew you’re trying to kill is really “your brutha”, the heart attacks, murders and wife bashings really arn’t the type of tv fare us Aussies are used to on Chrsitamas day. Maybe it’s just me…