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Old 19-07-2009, 13:06
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I remember we had The Sullivans, Sons and Daughetrs, Young Doctors, A Country Practice, High Road then later on we had Home and Away, Families and Shortland Street

ITV 1 in the afternoon is complete bore of late
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Old 19-07-2009, 13:44
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Well thats probably because British tv doesn't really want to buy Australian soaps anymore. Apart from H&A and Neighbours they have pretty much fallen of our schedule. I guess they aren't as cheap and cheerful as they used to be. H&A is having problems with their ratings in Australia too, recently getting beaten by Neighbours for the first time in forever.
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Old 19-07-2009, 14:07
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I think Children's ITV is a bigger loss tbh. Mind you, it started going seriously downhill as early as 1993.
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Old 19-07-2009, 14:34
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I remember home and away being on itv at 5:00pm. the memories.
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Old 19-07-2009, 14:41
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God i used to watch em all.. lol
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Old 19-07-2009, 17:01
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They could repeat Prisoner Cell Block H again in the evenings at 11.30, better than that crime thing with Steve thing.
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Old 16-08-2009, 14:25
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I used to bunk off college to watch them and then have great conversations with friends on the train next morning about Sons and Daughters.
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Old 16-08-2009, 14:27
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I remember we had The Sullivans, Sons and Daughetrs, Young Doctors, A Country Practice, High Road then later on we had Home and Away, Families and Shortland Street

ITV 1 in the afternoon is complete bore of late
You missed out Crossroads.
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Old 16-08-2009, 14:39
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I used to love Shortland Street. I watched it for years.
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Old 16-08-2009, 15:07
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I used to love Shortland Street. I watched it for years.
SS was fantastic for the first few years but suffered when the original cast started leaving and I never warmed to the new characters... gave up on it before Central dropped it altogether. I never liked that Stuart Neilsen though

Young Doctors was always my favourite daytime soap and always will be
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Old 16-08-2009, 15:13
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More recently I enjoyed watching The Royal Today which was on for a few months last year.
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Old 16-08-2009, 15:26
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Does anyone remember 'Gems' and 'Richmond Hill'?
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Old 16-08-2009, 17:27
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Well thats probably because British tv doesn't really want to buy Australian soaps anymore. Apart from H&A and Neighbours they have pretty much fallen of our schedule. I guess they aren't as cheap and cheerful as they used to be. H&A is having problems with their ratings in Australia too, recently getting beaten by Neighbours for the first time in forever.
Are you sure about that?, As I thought it was the other way round with Home and Away beating Neighbours?.
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Old 16-08-2009, 17:36
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Does anyone remember 'Gems' and 'Richmond Hill'?
Richmond Hill was fab! I used to love Wednesdays and Thursdays as there would be RH & Young Doctors to watch when I got home from school. Would always tape them

Marty Bryant was a babe, I loved his spikey hair, and Tim the policeman was cute too

Mum, Connie & Andrew were fantastic characters too

Having so, so many big names from the Australian soaps of the time, RH should have been a massive hit, but sadly it didn't last a year
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Old 16-08-2009, 18:03
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i go back to the 70s when we had Crown Court,General Hospital,Harriet's back in town,the Cedar tree,Rooms,For Maddie with love.
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Old 16-08-2009, 18:11
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Does anyone remember 'Gems' and 'Richmond Hill'?
You are the second person to mention "Gems" to me. I have not seen it. It must have been on at a strange time when I was at school.

"Richmond Hill" I have seen a bit of on "Youtube".
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Old 16-08-2009, 19:22
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I miss 'Our New Life in Everwood' ITV used to show it early in the afternoon, I was hooked and was waiting for them to show the next and possibly final season but they never did
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Old 16-08-2009, 20:49
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I miss Families most of all, though it would have done better in a later slot.

I doubt ITV will invest in any new daytime drama in the foreseeable future; it's much cheaper to stick repeats of Heartbeat and Midsomer Murders in those slots

They could buy up a couple of American daytime soaps and run them in the afternoon, like a lot of other counties do on terrestrial TV; but again that'd cost them too much.

I wonder why they don't show some early Coronation Street in the afternoons next year to mark their 50th birthday; I reckon they'd work well with the daytime audience. Ditto early Emmerdale Farm.
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Old 16-08-2009, 23:18
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I miss Crossroads
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Old 16-08-2009, 23:49
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I miss 'Our New Life in Everwood' ITV used to show it early in the afternoon, I was hooked and was waiting for them to show the next and possibly final season but they never did
I think it is currently been shown on E4 what season it is I don't know though
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Old 17-08-2009, 01:10
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I miss 'Our New Life in Everwood' ITV used to show it early in the afternoon, I was hooked and was waiting for them to show the next and possibly final season but they never did
That's running on E4 but I have no idea how far through the series they now are.
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Old 06-11-2009, 11:51
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Richmond Hill ALL THE WAY!
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Old 06-11-2009, 11:54
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Does anyone remember 'Gems' and 'Richmond Hill'?
LOVED Richmond Hill!
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Old 06-11-2009, 11:57
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I remember we had The Sullivans, Sons and Daughetrs, Young Doctors, A Country Practice, High Road then later on we had Home and Away, Families and Shortland Street

ITV 1 in the afternoon is complete bore of late
Blue Heelers and Water Rats came a bit later.

Afternoons are dull and so are early mornings. Mind you these daysw we do get our aussie soaps issued out on DVD more often.

I can remember bunking off college to watch Sons and Daughters and then talking about it on the train with my friends.

I liked Santa Barbara which was a morning show too.
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Old 06-11-2009, 11:57
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sons & daughters was great, it always struck me as the Auzzie poor version of dynasty or something cos patricia hamilton was so much like alexis lol, but i loved it, shortland street & young docs was good as well, but see they dont make telly like they used to.
I was a closet prisoner fan as well i know it wasnt afternoons but well you just had to sing the feem choon

"He used to send me rosessssssssss, I wish he would againnnnnn, but that was on the outside & things were different then"
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