UK Christmas Break 2012

[James Martin]

It's getting colder here but warmer in Summer Bay and anyone on DigitalSpy will have seen that the Christmas break details have been confirmed with the show taking a three week hiatus from British screens.

Episodes finish with 5630 on Friday December 14th, and resume with 5631 on Monday January 7th.

Depending on how long the Summer break is in Australia, the UK should return about 2-3 weeks behind.

It's unknown whether 5* will be running any classic episodes and if so whether they'll be from the entire archive, or just C5's.

[Shibs]

H&A finishes in Australia on the 30th of November and is back on the 21st of January giving them an 8 week Summer break.

That means us in the UK will only be 4 weeks behind in the New Year!

[Red Ranger 1]

Doing basic maths and not bothering to check the dates, we're currently eight weeks behind, so if we're off air for three weeks and Australia's off air for eight weeks, then wouldn't we catch up by five weeks and be three weeks behind?Which wouldn't be too bad, it's what we were at the beginning of the year, although I'd rather they closed it to two weeks again.

Thanks for the info.I don't think we've been having repeats at Christmas recently but you never know.

[Inactive User]

I wonder if H&A will have a summer break too here in NZ by the end of November (like in Australia) or in the 2nd week of December this year...?

[Light of the Bay]

I'm probably wrong but didn't C5 show repeats of old episodes during the Christmas break? I wonder why they stopped?

[dublinfan]

Does anyone know why the gap was closed in the first place? Wasn't there a stage in 2008 or 2009 where the gap was only 5 days or something?

[Red Ranger 1]

I'm probably wrong but didn't C5 show repeats of old episodes during the Christmas break? I wonder why they stopped?

I think they did used to, yes.Maybe they got as fed up of showing episodes that had only been on the last time a few months previous as we did.Be nice to see some really old episodes again but I'm not getting my hopes up, keeping my fingers crossed for next summer instead.

[630si]

The gap was only five days because when channel 5 started home and away they were like a year behind, so there were I breaks at all, of course Australia kept up with their breaks and we caught up... As far as I'm aware.

[James Martin]

That's basically it - until a couple of years ago it was on every weekday, even Christmas Day. They went through a phase of taking it off for Bank Holidays but it ended up pushing weekend cliffhangers into midweek and as a result they eventually dropped the idea.

[Red Ranger 1]

I seem to remember the first year they started having these long breaks twice a year was 2008, which ironically was around the time I joined BTTB.