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How long can the australian soap opera last?
Soap opera such as neighbours and home and away. I hope neighbours last a very long time. Feel free to comment
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it will last as long as we let it. after all we bank role them both. i am not sure it is worth it anymore to be honest.
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As long as possible
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If its lasted 30 years, i'm sure it'll carry on for another 30. I hope when the channel 5 deal is over they will transfer it to itv. It could rate well on ITV.
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If its lasted 30 years, i'm sure it'll carry on for another 30. I hope when the channel 5 deal is over they will transfer it to itv. It could rate well on ITV.
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hopefully for a good while yet
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As long as the UK bank rolls them
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It could if ITV were willing to put the money into it that Channel 5 does and I don't know if they would as they already have 2 prime time soaps of their own.
What I'm wondering is, will we ever see a new Aussie soap again? There hasn't been one since BBC made a shambles out of scheduling the pretty good Out of the Blue back in 2008. |
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Five's current deal with Neighbours ends in 2017 I think. Not sure what their deal with H&A is.
What I'm wondering is, will we ever see a new Aussie soap again? There hasn't been one since BBC made a shambles out of scheduling the pretty good Out of the Blue back in 2008. I don't think we'll see any new soaps at all. Aussie, UK or US. There just isn't the backing to fund new soaps like there was in the 90s. Networks don't have the patience to build up an audience and they often miss judge the scheduling. |
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C5 have a life-of-series deal to screen H&A, so it won't be able to jump networks.
I don't think we'll see any new soaps at all. Aussie, UK or US. There just isn't the backing to fund new soaps like there was in the 90s. Networks don't have the patience to build up an audience and they often miss judge the scheduling. |
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The current two Aussie soaps have outlasted their old soaps by decades, so they must be doing something right. Sons and Daughters ran for 5 years and The young Doctors ran for about 6 years back in the day.
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The current two Aussie soaps have outlasted their old soaps by decades, so they must be doing something right. Sons and Daughters ran for 5 years and The young Doctors ran for about 6 years back in the day.
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Yeah, aside from the two currently on air, I think A Country Practice was the only other one to last longer than ten years.
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Yeah, aside from the two currently on air, I think A Country Practice was the only other one to last longer than ten years.
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Home and Away just won the Logie for Most Popular Drama so it's still doing well in Australia.
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I think Prisoner Cell Block H ran for 7 years, not sure, but it seemed more like 20 years in my ITV region because it was only on once a week!
Yes Prisoner ran for 7 years and The Sullivan's ran for 6. Some of them seemed like they ran forever when aired in the UK because they were stripped into half hour episodes for international broadcast while in Australia they often aired as one hour episodes twice a week so the episode counts can vary dramatically. Bellbird was actually the fourth longest running at 10 years. It only aired briefly on ITV. I've only recently finished reading the book Super Aussie Soaps and they've had nearly 50 soaps on air over the years with only a portion of those ever making it to air in the UK.
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Yes Prisoner ran for 7 years and The Sullivan's ran for 6. Some of them seemed like they ran forever when aired in the UK because they were stripped into half hour episodes for international broadcast while in Australia they often aired as one hour episodes twice a week so the episode counts can vary dramatically. Bellbird was actually the fourth longest running at 10 years. It only aired briefly on ITV. I've only recently finished reading the book Super Aussie Soaps and they've had nearly 50 soaps on air over the years with only a portion of those ever making it to air in the UK. |
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Bellbird ran ten years but with only one hour of content each week it was quickly overtaken by Number 96, which, when it ended in 1977 with 1218 half hour episodes, was Australia's longest running soap.
The Young Doctors (1976-1983) broke that record in 1982 and aired a total of 1396 half hour episodes. Prisoner ran eight years (02/1979 to 12/1986) but with 692 one hour episodes didn't overtake TYD's record. That was broken by A Country Practice which ran 1981-1993 for 1088 hour episodes and a 30 episode revival on Network Ten in 1994. Neighbours currently is the longest running Australian drama. Neighbours will run as long as the UK bankrolls it. It isn't very popular in Australia so can't live off its Australian revenue. Home and Away has strong figures in Australia so long term prospects look secure, though the UK extra budget probably helps them pay for all the location shoots and slick visual quality that helps gain those ratings. |
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How many Episodes did Sons and Daughters have? I can remember my ITV region being very vocal about dropping 250 episodes of the Young Doctors to catch up with an adjoining region!
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How many Episodes did Sons and Daughters have?
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972 episodes
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It certainly had a limited shelf life and probably finished at the right time but still love to have a look back at it every now and then. Pat the Rat was certainly a soap classic.
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It certainly had a limited shelf life and probably finished at the right time but still love to have a look back at it every now and then. Pat the Rat was certainly a soap classic.
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Brilliant book for any Aussie soap lovers
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I reckon one day we'll end up with "soap channel" on free view, filled with old soaps to pad out the schedules, and all the soaps will eventually migrate to that and online services as they become more niche.
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Yes Prisoner ran for 7 years and The Sullivan's ran for 6. Some of them seemed like they ran forever when aired in the UK because they were stripped into half hour episodes for international broadcast while in Australia they often aired as one hour episodes twice a week so the episode counts can vary dramatically. Bellbird was actually the fourth longest running at 10 years. It only aired briefly on ITV. I've only recently finished reading the book Super Aussie Soaps and they've had nearly 50 soaps on air over the years with only a portion of those ever making it to air in the UK.