Neighbours slips back to 3 episodes per week
From next week, Ramsay Street takes up residence on 3 instead of 4 days a week on 10.
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In a surprising move, next week Neighbours will screen 3 days a week rather than 4.
A Network 10 spokesperson: “From Monday, 14 October through to Wednesday, 18 December, Neighbours will air three times a week (Monday to Wednesday at 4.00pm on 10 and 10 Play and 6:30pm on 10 Peach Comedy).”
Family Feud will screen Thursdays and Fridays on 10 and with Friends on 10 Peach Comedy.
But the move is not permanent.
“In 2025, your favourite Ramsay Street residents will return to screens four times a week from Monday to Thursday,” they added.
It isn’t clear if the move might put Australian viewers out of sync with UK viewers given episodes have screened on the same day since the show’s revival.
Neighbours, which traditionally screened 5 days a week, returned as 4 days a week when it returned in 2022 on 10 and Amazon Prime.
Other global soaps have also seen output changes with Shortland Street dropping from 5 to 3 episodes per week and Britain’s Hollyoaks to 3 episodes per week.
Home & Away remains at outlier at up to 6 episodes per week on Seven.
Updated:
Network 10 reverses Neighbours decision, continues at 4 episodes a week.
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I saw the news on a Facebook group (one of those random groups that come up on your feed), I thought it was clickbait.
And if family feud rates better than neighbours on Thursdays and Fridays……it’s
Good bye neighbours
my suspicion is Neighbours will only off air for a week or two in December not 4 or 5 as it always used to be
i think Channel 10 will run neighbours right through the Summer
10 Needs to axe the Project and move Neighbours back to 6:30 on the main Channel and maybe release all eps on a monday at 7am on 10Play
Neighbours is never even on the main page of tenplay, it has to be searched for. Ten clearly don’t give a sh*t about it. Is the end nigh? (Again)
Its under popular titles on tenplay website
I do wonder what Amazon’s plans are for the series beyond their initial order. Surely that decision has to be made soon. If Amazon decides not to proceed beyond the initial order (I suspect they will but streamers are notoriously fickle), the show will again be in a bind as 10 couldn’t foot the entire bill then and certainly can’t do so now in even more dire circumstances.
Amazon ‘upgraded’ Neighbours from the 2024 season from being a Freevee Original title to a Prime Video title in the UK (not sure if that’s the same for the US). Neighbours is also usually one of the top 3 programmes on Prime in the UK. Both good indicators that it may go beyond this current season, but as you say the streamer’s are fickle.
How odd. Is this because there is no Christmas break? I’d rather it stay at four days a week. Have a break and then come back. Like they used to do.
Looking forward to Ramsay Street celebrating Christmas and ringing in the new year in February.
It would seem the simplest explanation would be that if it remains 4 episodes a week the show will finish end of November, but they’re spreading it out to last into December instead? Depends on what you prefer I guess as there’s still only the same number of episodes available.
Yes obviously they are stretching out the last episodes commissioned. And are planning on it being renewed for 2025.
Not happy…
Very annoying, bad enough we only get four episodes a week.
I suppose this is what happens when there are not drama points to keep Australian stories on screen.
This seems an odd move!
What a bizarre move. If it’s not a permanent thing, then why show it just 3 nights a week for “two months”? If there is there a Christmas break, then the UK can do catch up during that time…..
What a way to alienate the last few remaining Australian audience there is….