Home and Away future backed by Australian network after shocking Neighbours axe

Virgin Radio

4 Mar 2022, 10:20

Strewth. We're still crying into our tinnies over the end of the Aussie favourite, but we can stop panicking about the future of H&A as the soap has been publicly backed by its people Down Under.

Channel 7's director of content scheduling, Brook Hall, told TV Tonight: "I know it's not a sexy thing to say, but Home and Away is our main drama that we run pretty much all year.

"It's an expensive drama, a high-quality one. It runs on our main channel in primetime. It's not something that we use on the multi to get drama points. It is our most expensive outlay of content. And that gets lost.

"There's no other network that would have as big a price tag on a show. It's our biggest production of the year.

"I'm very proud of Home and Away, and it's arguably our most important show and our biggest cash outlay," he said. "We don't have to do it. We believe in it.

"We don't do it because it's a drama quota. We do it because it's an amazingly successful show."

Luckily, the channel has a 'life-of-series contract', so it will broadcast the show for as long as episodes are being churned out.

Neigh problem here then.