Channel 5 UK will not renew their contract with 'Neighbours', meaning that the show is destined to be cancelled. With a little luck 'Home and Away' will be next.
The show has provided a platform for a number of young Australian actors, including Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, and Margot Robbie, and it launched Kylie Minogue's singing career.
The following was first published in 'The Age' on April 16th, 1985 (‘Neighbours’, a video village in Bland Land).
'Neighbours’ is bland, inoffensive soap. It is predictable, relentlessly upmarket suburban, and has a theme song with lyrics you wouldn’t believe: “Nay-bors, should be there for one another / nay-bors should become good friends.” Quite. But not quite`.
Not quite at all.