Five wins Neighbours soap fight

 

Long-running Australian soap opera Neighbours will move to Five after the BBC pulled out of bidding for the show.

 

The channel will begin showing the soap, which launched the careers of Kylie Minogue and Guy Pearce, in 2008.

 

"Neighbours will be a greatly prized part of our schedule and suitably cherished by us," said Lisa Opie, Five's managing editor of content.

 

The BBC withdrew from talks to keep the show, saying it had been asked to pay three times the show's current price.

 

BBC One controller Peter Fincham said he had been asked for £300m over eight years by Fremantle Media, which owns the rights to the show.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6669769.stm

Didn't know Five had that kind of money. They mustn't have paid Jonathan Pierce enough in his heyday. That or they booted that bloke off 100% before he won the decade's budget

They make all their money from premium-rate phone-lines.

Who cares? Neighbours died years ago anyway.....................waste of money if you ask me.;)

True, and it does open up a slot on the BBC 1 channel for 5:30.

True, and it does open up a slot on the BBC 1 channel for 5:30.

 

Which will no doubt be filled with something even drossier!!:P

The Weakest Link me bets

^Or "Birdwatch" with Bill Oddie............................... :rolleyes:

Or maybe Holby-Junior, a spin-off of Holby City for kids

Neighbours is a show that I'm surprised is still running. It and Home & Away need to finish - they've been going for too long and the plot lines are getting more and more stupid.

Home and Away sucks but I really like Neighbors. It would be better without the Timmons family though.

I don't even know who the Timmons family are... I haven't watched the show properly in ages... But what I've seen of it has been silly. Is the Timmons family the kinda bogan family? Where the mum is dating the cop?

Yep, that's them! They give Colac a bad name, lol.