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Neighbours replay

TEN has scheduled all five Neighbours episodes to replay tomorrow arvo and plans the same trick for next week.

TEN must be unhappy with its figures for Neighbours this week, it has scheduled all five episodes to replay tomorrow arvo.

In fact its scheduled another session on Saturday week too with all of next week’s episodes. It tried to call them “Encores” but that term is used to loosely in this biz for my liking. A repeat is a repeat….

Sat Jan 16
2:00pm Escape With ET (As Scheduled)
2:30pm Neighbours rpt
3:00pm Neighbours rpt
3:30pm Neighbours rpt
4:00pm Neighbours rpt
4:30pm Neighbours rpt
5:00pm TEN News At Five

Sat Jan 23
1:00pm Escape With ET (As Scheduled)
1:30pm Life Is Wild
2:30pm Neighbours rpt
3:00pm Neighbours rpt
3:30pm Neighbours rpt
4:00pm Neighbours rpt
4:30pm Neighbours rpt
5:00pm TEN News At Five (As Scheduled)

Shows including Saving Babies, Life Is Wild, The Doctors, and One Tree Hill are out on these two dates. One Tree Hill was set to air on the 23rd. Saving Babies will air 1pm Sunday 24th.

Next year it might be wiser not to bring the show back quite so early if there aren’t enough viewers back to their regular routines.

34 Responses

  1. I watch Neighbours, but I think it is only because I live so close to where the series is shot. I actually think the opposite and this week’s episodes have been the best since the whole Bridget dying thing. Some things like the deb they had I can see past, but the more the show intergrates Melbourne and my local neighbourhood, the better. It provides more realism for viewers, makes the Neighbours characters give off the feel that they live in your community.

  2. If this was to become more regular, they should try to merge the episodes into a 2 hour block (shouldn’t be too hard once you lose 4 credits and 4 re-caps).

    Definitely would make a smart choic for some lazy weekend afternoon programming on Ten2 later in the year.

  3. What’s the point ten, neighbours is always gonna get around 600K, no point trying to increase its numbers because it never will. And Home and Away this year doesnt look too flashy.

  4. As earthquake has mentioned, i think the term we are looking for is Omnibus edition. Thats what the uk call theie weekend catch up eps for their soaps anyway.

    I liked Nighbours low key cliffhanger last year, I prefer a long lost son turning up over a building collaps or drowning in the rapids any day. Have been enjoying the returm of Andrew Robinson, last seen as a baby. But it is annoying how they have rewritten some of his and Pauls history, plus they have made him 16, when he should be 17 or 18 ( going against the usual soapy trand of aging the kids). Why? When he looks and acts 18 and it would have put him in the same age bracket as the other teens. They are going to do the same for Summer, when last on the show she was the same age as Zeke, Very annoying.

  5. @Beckala: Re Lyn Scully
    I was hoping that the return of Lyn Scully would be good. At the time she worked for Paul and married him, her character changed a lot, very independant, confident, well dressed, with better style. Now her characted is back to the way she was in 1999 when she moved into the street, which is what you said, slapstick. She’s got that whiney voice back, and childish behaviour with storylines that match, and has gone back to her hideous dress sense, and hair.
    Her freinds and family have forgiven her for way to much cr@p in the time she has been back too. Luckily her comeback was for 6 months. Hopefully it has not been extended further.

  6. That’s interesting that the Neighbours omnibus is back – although only for two weeks.

    In this time of the Internet and catch up tv and considering that the majority of Neighbours’ audience would use the Internet, it makes you wonder about the time they’re scheduling it at?

  7. As soon as Lyn Scully came back, it made a Huge difference – it turned to crap (which is a relative term, I mean in comparison to what it was). I don’t understand the reasoning behind that decision – with the death of Bridget, they created some really lovely dramatic moments. Once Lyn Scully came back, it sunk to pathetic slapstick and hideously written and acted conflicts.

  8. they won’t get rid of 1hd especially with these new afl rights and nrl rights coming up. they are better starting up an entertainment channel from scratch

  9. I agree with Russell in regards to the terminology, encore is the correct term in this instance. I agree with David that it is used too frequently.
    I have watched Neighbours for many years, the acting is not as bad as people make out, the older cast are great, I’d like to see the writers focus more on them this year, maybe bring in a few more older cast members… A good Mrs Mangle type would be fun to add to the mix.
    Neighbours deserves higher ratings then Home and Away gets…
    I think Neighbours would pick up a larger audience if it was replayed after Letterman.

  10. Far out … that’s just a bit too much. I couldn’t agree more they need to lose the One HD and have that as their other channel. I haven’t watch Neighbours in years as I’ve just lost interest in it. There’s no way I’ll be watching 5 episodes back to back on a Saturday afternoon.

  11. So Ch 10 moves the Neighbours recaps from its defunct 10 HD channel!.

    How hard is it for Ch 10 to screen the remaining eps of “OTH s6”?. It was supposed to back after Xmas, but instead, Jamie Oliver repeats were shown & now this!!.

    I’m so glad that I already own the OTH s6 dvd!. As for other OTH fans, the s6 dvd is out in a couple of weeks, so they are able to watch all the eps without any interference from below standard programming from Ch 10.

  12. I’m one of those who sadly still watch (who knows why!)
    But I won’t be watching any ‘repeats’.
    Maybe if the ratings aren’t so good,
    maybe it’s time to say goodbye permanently.

  13. I have stopped watching this season, haven’t seen an episode this week. After seeing the promos about Another evil kid I turned off. I have watched Neighbours for many many years but have had enough of the same storylines over and over again. The “revamp” has done nothing.

  14. Caught 10 minutes of Neighbours the other day to see what it was like at the moment. I can say I agree with the fact that the acting is dreadful and it is nowhere near as good as it once was. Couple that with the fact that probably alot of people would not have reailsed it was on yet and it is no wonder the show is achieving the poor ratings figures it has seen so far this year.

    Given the international success of the show, it won’t be going anywhere until international networks start axing it.

  15. if people aren’t going to watch a show that is well past it’s used by at night. what makes them think they are going to watch repeats of the show. 10 are idiots when it’s to this kind of stuff.

    they can’t show repeats during the afl season

  16. They should have played the season out longer last year, and brought it back later this year. I know they has a season finale cliffhanger and all, but it was pretty boring, and if you saw the first ep back this season, you would have seen that the cliffhanger wrapped up in the first 5 mins. It could have just been a end of week cliffhanger like they once had to keep you coming back the following week.
    The Friday and Monday episodes these days do not draw you in anymore to watch the next epsiode.
    Are TEN still trying with One Tree Hill? They should just on sell it to Arena, or preferably FOX8 who had it first on Foxtel so we can see it in 16:9 and HD.

  17. I think repeat is when a show is run again to fill a hole in a schedule or provide cheaper programming than an all new episode (a repeat of NCIS or a repeat of Billy Elliot)

    When episodes are run in close proximity to their original telecast, solely for the purpose of boosting ratings and gaining greater exposure or sampling, then the industry term is encore.

    They are two different things.

    1. “Encore” is a term for when the audience asks for more in my book. Always has been throughout entertainment history. How does an audience ask for more when it hasn’t even seen the first screening?

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