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Neighbours boosts Freevee in UK, set to screen on Christmas Day in Australia

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Neighbours is set to screen on Christmas Day in Australia, for the first time in 4 years and expected to have a Christmas flavour.

“Neighbours will air as per normal through the Christmas period Monday to Thursday 4pm on 10 and 10 Play and 6.30pm on 10 Peach,” a 10 spokesperson told TV Tonight.

The confirmation also comes as news emerges in the UK of the soap’s success as a Freevee title.

Speaking at C21 Content London event, Jamie Lynn Executive Vice President, Co-Production & Distribution at Fremantle said, “In the first 28 days in the UK, Neighbours has become the #1 Freevee Original in customers and has driven the most non-Prime customers to the free streaming service.”

Amazon-owned Freevee is an AVOD service, streaming free with advertisements.

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  2. I’m hoping 10 keep Bold going throughout the Christmas break too. Traditionally 10 would pause, however they are sitting two weeks behind CBS (at time of writing) which is their preferred lag.

  3. It actually started out fresh and more interesting but as time goes by they are including more of the old characters and same old story lines so it’s looking like it was before it ended last year. I found Mischa Barton a bit grating but the character turned out to be fairly interesting but now they have swapped her out for her so called British half sister with an Aussie accent who seems to be less interesting. It now nothing new again.

    1. Agreed. They promised a refresh, but really, it’s same old, same old. I didn’t need Aaron and David or Nicolette to return. Harold doesn’t need to come back. We had our nostalgia fill with the finale, let Neighbours be something new and fresh if it truly is Neighbours 3.0.

      The opening theme is horrendous (I like Chris Sebastian, it’s the arrangement that’s bad) as are the titles – having character/actor names against the relevant cast member is useful, otherwise why have the titles? They might as well just have a title card and cut the opening entirely, like Home and Away. They seem to need the time as they’ve cut the closing credits entirely too. At least Home and Away had the decency to keep those.

  6. There were 5m fans on Channel 5, getting some of them where Amazon can plug Prime TV and free delivery was part of the plan. It’s also be reported as doing well in the US, which is they hired Mischa Barton.

    1. Neighbours hadn’t been getting anywhere close to 5m viewers since it left the BBC in the mid-noughties.

      Agree with Michael’s comment – as a former viewer who only looked in occassionally on it Freevee has offered nothing to entice me to watch. It was a huge misstep really just to launch with one episode – they should at least have put the first weeks episodes in as a block so people might watch the first 1hr 20minutes rather than 20 minutes and be more hooked in.

  7. A sigh of relief cause those Australian broadcast numbers make Blow Up! And Big ‘Love Island’ Brother look like a smash hit.

    If I was Ten I’d program it around the old ‘Day of Our Lives’ timeslot. 1 or 2pm.

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