I also want to think it was on Trio before it was rejiggered as Sleuth... or 
Cloo... or whatever the devil NBCU is calling it these days.

~D

---- Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote: 
> Third time around in the States for "Neighbours"--it was tested in NY and
> LA in the late 80s (along with "Desperate Women," an Americanization of
> original producer Grundy's "Prisoner Cell Block H") and bombed.  Oxygen
> back when Oprah and Gerry Laybourne were still involved tried about ten
> years ago briefly.  Aussie soaps have had a hard time of it in the
> States--after the initial ratings spikes, "Prisoner" struck out once the
> episodes with Frankie Doyle, TV's first out lesbian, were aired, "Home and
> Away" barely lasted a year on the first incarnation of FX--excuse me, fX,
> and Norman Lear wanted to syndicate "The Sullivans" in the U.S. and got no
> takers--the series finally aired years later on the non-evangelical
> religious channel VISN (which, in many strange turns of events, is now the
> Hallmark Channel).
> 
> Mark Jeffries
> Saints Spotlight Editor
> [email protected]
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Brad Beam <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Today kicks off the streaming of the Australian soap on Hulu. Just in
> > time, too, as the American judge on Channel Ten’s “So You Think You Can
> > Dance” (Paula Abdul) will soon be dropping in on Ramsay Street.
> >
> >
> > http://variety.com/2014/digital/news/hulu-acquires-exclusive-u-s-rights-to-australian-soap-neighbours-1201258585/
> >
> >
> >
> > _  _
> >
> > |_>|_>  Brad Beam- Belle WV
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