Margot Robbie leads a parade of alums on the final episode this week... https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/margot-robbie-series-finale-australian-soap-neighbours-1235185426/ (link) B
Mark Jeffries, March 4th: > The Aussie soap "Neighbours" is coming to an end after 37 years on the > air--Channel 5 in the UK, the show's main support after Australian ratings > dropped and Network Ten moved it to one to their digital subchannels, > decided to drop the show and producer Fremantle was unable to sell it > elsewhere in the UK, so production will soon come to an end: > > > https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/iconic-australian-soap-neighbours-to-end-after-37-years-1235102824/ > > In the U.S., Fremantle and its predecessor Grundy tried three times to > make the show popular here and struck out each time--in a New York and LA > test run in 1991 with "Dangerous Women," an Americanization of their > "Prisoner [Cell Block H]," a very brief run on Oxygen when Oprah still > owned a piece of the channel and nobody watched it, and a few years ago on > Hulu. It follows a long line of unsuccessful attempts to air Aussie soaps > after "Prisoner"'s initial success in 1980 (which ended with the departure > of Franky Doyle, probably the first out lesbian character on television > anywhere), with Norman Lear unable to sell "The Sullivans" in syndication > in1980 (it ended up on the little-watched VISN, which is now the Hallmark > Channel) and "Home and Away" bombing in prime time in the formative, New > York apartment, Tom Bergeron/Jeff Probst/Phil Keoghan/Bob the Puppet years > of FX when it was styled as fX. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/5a73292f-16f7-42e6-92f4-ce3ee686fc51n%40googlegroups.com.
