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Official confirmation from the show itself:

https://twitter.com/neighbours/status/14...VT9lGViPWA

JasonB post_id=70994 time= user_id=901 Wrote:Even without massive publicity like the previous two house sales on Pin Oak Court have had, 2 Pin Oak Court (22 Ramsay Street) recently sold for $1,500.000 AUD in December last year: https://www.realestate.com.au/property/2...h-vic-3133

Scroll down the page to see the previous sold prices.

That's about the going rate for the area, though you can probably add an extra $100K to that price now, with how hot the market is here.

As I said earlier in the thread, I live 10 minutes or so further out from Pin Oak Ct, and it's not unusual to get at least 1 phone call a day from an estate agent chasing listings, however a first yesterday was a migration agent doorknocking my street asking if anyone was looking to sell up. He was representing 'clients migrating', most likely from China.

I must admit that I stopped watching after I left Uni back in 1996 but, for years, Neighbours was an important part of my daily schedule so I feel gutted for the fans.

Soaps don't seem to have translated well to the streaming world if the ratings of EastEnders, Corrie, and Emmerdale are to be taken at face value.

One question on TV execs' minds must be whether there is a cheaper way to fill the airtime and maintain ad revenues than continuing drama serials.

Sad news! I started re-watching in 2015 after years away from it. Some of the stories recently, while far-fetched at times, have been really enjoyable. Excellent production values too which I guess is what has pushed the cost so high. I found it a nice distraction during the dark days of 2020!

I believe there was interest from both ITV and Five when the BBCs rights for Neighbours came up for renewal around 2007ish and Five managed to get it by outbidding BBC1 and ITV. But the TV landscape has changed even in 15 years and especially with soaps.

If ITV weren't producing both of their soaps in house and having more control over the budgets it makes you wonder if they would be continuing the way things are going.

it is sad for all the cast and crew who work on the show, but let's face it, it's hardly a big loss. like most people here, I watched it after the children's programmes finished in the afternoon in the 1990s (along with home and away) but stopped watching it probably around 1995, 1996. my wife would still watch it from time to time, but it is really, really appallingly bad, I don't think there is anything you could do to it within it's own universe and maintaining coherency to make it appointment viewing, it's just too banal, the tv equivalent to dull wallpaper.

Neighbours isn't the first long running soap to end and it won't be the last. It would have been unthinkable to say it even a couple of years ago but I can't help but feel the end will one day come to Eastenders, it seems to be on the same downhill trajectory.

Yeah, Brookside and Crossroads (original version) are proof of that. Corrie is the big exception, shows that last over half a century like that are very rare. Emmerdale and EastEnders are going to duke it out to the death. They'll probably both get lower ratings with next week's new schedule. Time will tell if it does demolish Albert Square.

As the imminent changes to ITV's schedules show, the soaps aren't quite the draw they once were. I can't help thinking that there are just too many - not enough people interested and those that are will only follow a couple at the most.

Neighbours and Home and Away have been irrelevant for a long long time, their heyday was late 80's and 90's and since then they've been living on the goodwill and nostalgia from then

I don't think schedules are quite the draw they once were too - networks seem happy now to get 2m in the overnight and let that rise to 8m with either pre or post on demand viewings. Of course at the moment the news is all over the place anyway so many viewers may just think the changes next week are Ukraine related.

Ultimately news is what killed Neighbours off in Australia anyhow - even though 7 and 9 are unbeatable in the 6pm hour on that front Ten see more value in generally competing like for like than offering an alternative. It initially left the main channel schedules for a current affairs show and extra news bulletin in the hour, which then got dropped with The Project (kind of like a nightly Last Leg, but a bit more focused on the news than the comedy) expanded to take the slot. Ten did persist with gameshows at 6pm, a slot that could easily have been given to Neighbours with a "first look" on 11/Peach after, but ultimately when they failed they went back to an expanded news format again. I think they also tried repeating Neighbours on the main channel at lunchtimes and at weekends but it didn't stay in the schedules long on either occassion.

Do we know yet the official last day of production in Australia, the official last date of transmission in Australia, and the last day of transmission in the UK, Ireland, and New Zealand?

Not to the date but we know it'll end production in June, end in the UK in August and as things stand in September in Australia, though critics over there are putting pressure on 10 to ensure the finale doesn't air abroad first.

Those critics don't have a leg to stand on. If enough Aussies were bothered, it would've been able to support itself without UK funding.

Robertclark125 post_id=71641 time= user_id=1163 Wrote:Do we know yet the official last day of production in Australia, the official last date of transmission in Australia, and the last day of transmission in the UK, Ireland, and New Zealand?

Last day of production on set is 10th June 2022.

Keep seeing suggestions of 26th august in uk although 3rd has also been mentioned . Ireland will be 1 day later - Australia currently 4 nights screen v uk 5 will put it around 5 or 6 weeks later and New Zealand around a fortnight later still. It is possible stitching together various comments in various sources that at current screening rates it will be over in all 4 markets come November - what other countries show it and how far behind are they?

Torpido1 post_id=71697 time= user_id=857 Wrote:Keep seeing suggestions of 26th august in uk although 3rd has also been mentioned . Ireland will be 1 day later - Australia currently 4 nights screen v uk 5 will put it around 5 or 6 weeks later and New Zealand around a fortnight later still. It is possible stitching together various comments in various sources that at current screening rates it will be over in all 4 markets come November - what other countries show it and how far behind are they?

Belgium but I think they about two years behind.