starrychris Posted October 27, 2005 Report Posted October 27, 2005 If it wasn't for Neighbours overseas success, then I reckon that ten would have axed Neighbours long ago. Even Channel 9s The Alice was averaging about a million viewers, much better than what Neighbours average audience has been this year, and that shows getting axed. It's so great to see H&A's audience so much bigger than Neighbours, because its so much better!
*Maggie* Posted October 27, 2005 Report Posted October 27, 2005 I agree. I think that a lot of viewers in Oz are actually Pom backpackers,and I wonder how many home grown viewers there are. I don't understand why the poms seem to prefer it to Home and Away. It does not make sense.
Andy Posted October 27, 2005 Report Posted October 27, 2005 Even Channel 9s The Alice was averaging about a million viewers, much better than what Neighbours average audience has been this year, and that shows getting axed. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes, but The Alice is alot more expensive to produce and was produced for the 7.30pm timeslot where there are alot more viewers then at 6.30pm. And Neighbours isn't made by Channel 10. It's made by a production company for Channel 10 (Grundy). The Alice was co-produced by Nine and Southern Star. All Saints, Home and Away, and Headland are produced entirely by Seven, whereas Blue Heelers is produced by Southern Star.
*dW* Posted October 27, 2005 Report Posted October 27, 2005 Does anyone have the ratings for tuesdays neighbours?
JCR Posted October 27, 2005 Report Posted October 27, 2005 If it wasn't for Neighbours overseas success, then I reckon that ten would have axed Neighbours long ago. Even Channel 9s The Alice was averaging about a million viewers, much better than what Neighbours average audience has been this year, and that shows getting axed. It's so great to see H&A's audience so much bigger than Neighbours, because its so much better! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'd go out on a limb here and say it is unlikely neighbours will ever be axed. The 20th anniversary show got 6.5 million viewers in the UK , a huge number for the times it was on at. Even if it was no longer wanted in Aus, I would think the bbc would pay for it to be made purely for the UK.
starrychris Posted October 28, 2005 Report Posted October 28, 2005 That is my entire point JCR. Neighbours rates pretty badly in Australia, and as I said above, the thing that is keeping it on air is it's overseas success. I will be interested to see how the current Home and Away episodes we are seeing in Australia do when they go to air in the UK. It's pretty massive here at the moment.
wanda Posted October 28, 2005 Report Posted October 28, 2005 If the over-seas viewing figures plummetted for Home and Away(not that they are very good in uk anyway) and it was axed overseas , do you think it would carry on as a show ie., does the revenue that it makes from overseas sales make a big difference to it's viability Neighbours must make a lot of money from eg the BBC in the UK , so maybe they don't have to worry about the viewing figures in Australia so much ?? I have no idea what the percentage of income for shows like HAA and Neighbours is from overseas sales compared to what they make from broadcasting in Australia alone ....if anyone knows the answer to these Q's (prob Valk) I would be very interested to know. I also wonder how it affects writers ,production styles etc if a show is aimed more at generating sales overseas rather than at home ....would it affect the show much if eg most of the money generated came from a particular country with a different culture.
starrychris Posted October 28, 2005 Report Posted October 28, 2005 If the over-seas viewing figures plummetted for Home and Away(not that they are very good in uk anyway) and it was axed overseas , do you think it would carry on as a show Yes, it would definately continue. At the moment it's one of Australias most watched TV shows. There are many Australian dramas (eg Blue Heelers) that don't have massive ratings and aren't on many places overseas but are still on air.
ste Posted October 28, 2005 Report Posted October 28, 2005 I think the viewing figures are pretty good in the UK. Sure, they aren't what they once were. But it's on Channel Five which isn't availible everywhere in the UK, plus a lot of people still regard Five as being a crap channel and don't watch it. Add to that the fact Home and Away is up against The Simpsons - one of the most popular television shows in the world, ever, I think it rates pretty well considering!
wanda Posted October 28, 2005 Report Posted October 28, 2005 I was more asking about how it works in the indusrty ,eg Neighbours can sustain itself on overseas viewing figures even if they go down in Australia....in UK it's actually getting huge figures to what it used to ,Paul Robinson has been a huge hit over here , and figures are up,so even if it became a total flop in Australia it would still be produced ....a recent Neighbours ep over here was way over the 6 million mark!! And I was asking is the reverse also true ....if a show was successful in Australia eg HAA getting good ratings , would it still be in danger of folding if it flopped over-seas.It's a hypothetical question ...so say if Ch5 pulled out ,how would that affect the show...I'm not saying that it's going to happen , I just wondered what the effect of overseas financial interest is and how big an influence on the production style and the survival of the show it is ,bearing in mind that Australia has a rellatively small population so more people actually watch a low-rating show in eg. UK (where 2 million would be considered low rating),than watch a high rating show in Australia. In other words how does the financial implication of over-seas sales affect the shows. Not just HAA or Neighbours.
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