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Home & Away halts filming
Seven soap is the latest to pause as a precautionary measure.
- Published by David Knox
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Filming on long-running Seven soap Home & Away has been suspended as a precautionary measure.
“Seven Studios advised today that it would halt filming of Home and Away immediately,” a Seven spokesperson said.
“It confirmed that no cast or crew had tested positive for COVID-19, but that the decision was made due to the increasing logistical hurdles related to the COVID-19 situation.”
Principal filming sites for the series are Seven’s Eveleigh headquarters and Palm Beach on Sydney’s northern beaches.
Update: Seven has also announced the show is out for 2 weeks due to The Latest at 7pm.
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5 Responses
I’ve worked on Home and Away and I can tell you that they film fifteen (15) weeks ahead at the very most. I agree with tomothyd that the show airing Monday-Friday as single episodes.
Home and away films six months in advance so we’d be right till at least September. Then they can just go off the air early then normal.
Filming six months in advance compared to Neighbours’ three, H&A could continue airing without suspending broadcast for some time. They could go back to M-F broadcast too rather than M-Thurs now that AFL has been postponed.
Don’t HAA film about 5 months ahead which is quite a manageable gap. In the UK the soaps are 6 to 8 weeks ahead so have cut down episode to 2 or 3 a week in stead of 5 or 6. Perhaps they will need to explore that. HAA also has their Olympixs break (if they happen) so also assists.
7 should extend their 6pm news to 90mins and save their H&A episodes coz it could be months before production can resume. In these times I’m sure an extra 30mins of news would rate well too.