Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Viacom not feeling Neighbourly in the UK

2022-02-07 Thread Adam Bowie
Fremantle is shopping it, but there are few obvious outlets. At least few that are likely to want to spend the sort of money it'd take. Soaps are cheap in the scheme of things, but expensive given the volumes, and Channel 5 was paying the bulk of the production cost since the show slipped off linea

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Viacom not feeling Neighbourly in the UK

2022-02-05 Thread Mark Jeffries
The question is if there's another UK home for "Neighbours." BBC1 and ITV aren't going to move their 6 p.m. newscasts, especially with the Beeb getting threatened with the license fee going away. In the 5 p.m. hour, "Pointless" and "The Chase" aren't going anywhere. Fremantle probably won't acce

[TV orNotTV] Re: Viacom not feeling Neighbourly in the UK

2022-02-05 Thread Brad Beam
Reports are that Channel 5 is seeking to pull funding from its DowNunda corporate sibling Network Ten's longtime soap - this, despite "Neighbours" usually bringing 5 its best numbers of the day. https://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/neighbours/a38990910/neighbours-axe-channel-5/ You'd think Paramoun