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Home and Away (commonly abbreviated to H&A) is an Australian weeknightly half-hour television soap opera that has been produced in Sydney by Seven Network since July 1987. The show first went to air on Sunday 17 January 1988 with a two hour pilot and from then it premiered as a weeknightly program the night after on Monday 18 January 1988 at 6 p.m. before Seven News which then aired at 6:30 p.m.. Home and Away has also aired at the 6:30 p.m. timeslot however from 1992 the 7 p.m. slot has been its stable time. The show is broadcast on the Seven Network and its affiliates from Monday to Friday at 7 p.m. in Australia and is exported to many countries including Ireland, New Zealand, Estonia, France, Norway, United Kingdom and many Asian countries.
HistoryImage:TheDiner2.jpg The Diner In 1985, Seven Network axed the poor rating soap Neighbours; they continued producing that series for its remaining contract, ultimately producing 170 episodes. However Seven Network was unaware that Network Ten, a rival television network, was in talks with the production team to air the soap on their network in 1986. When Neighbours returned, on Ten, in 1986, it initially attracted low ratings.[1] The Network worked hard to publicise Neighbours[2] by revamping the show and adding several new, younger cast members, and they launched a concerted publicity drive largely focused on these new actors.[3] This paid off for Neighbours and its popularity grew; by the end of 1987 it was attracting high ratings in Australia.[4] In October 1986, Neighbours started being broadcast in the UK, where it began to attract strong viewing figures. From about 1988 to 1991 Neighbours was regually watched by 20 million viewers in the UK. In late 1986 the Seven Network’s head of drama at the time Alan Bateman was tasked with creating a pilot for a soap opera that was in no way a copy of Neighbours. Bateman soon found his inspiration when he stopped in Kangaroo Point, New South Wales on a family outing. Chatting to locals Bateman discovered that the townspeople were angered over the construction of a home for foster children from the city. Seeing the degree of conflict the plan for the new youth centre had produced within the community, Bateman recognised the drama that could be generated by this situation and began to develop it as the basis for the new soap opera. Cast
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Production and broadcast scheduleThe show is filmed five days a week for 46 weeks of the year. The crew is given a four week holiday at Christmas and a two week break for recuperation mid-year. A normal shooting day is 7:00am to 6:00pm, but can go later if shooting goes over time. There are an average of 8 weeks between shooting and airing the program. The interior shots are filmed at a permanent set for the show in Seven Sydney's Epping studio. The exterior scenes are filmed on location at Palm Beach and at Long Reef Beach in Sydney's Northern Beaches region. Filming normally takes place early in the week here. Australian broadcastsImage:JodiGordonfilming.jpg Jodi Gordon and Ben Guernens during filming Home and Away is broadcast in Australia on weekdays at 7:00 p.m.. The show airs for 46 weeks each year (except for occasions where worldwide events take priority such as tennis and Olympic Games). Each new season begins on the second Monday in January (an exception to this was the 2006 season where it returned on the third Monday), and the season finale airs on the last Friday of the ratings period (usually the last Friday in November, although was not the case in 2006 as it was aired on the first Friday of December). The show rates very well in its timeslot, receiving between 1.1 and 1.5 million viewers per episode. The show's main rival is Temptation on the Nine Network, which usually comes second in this timeslot. In this timeslot Network Ten screens, at various times of the year, programs such as the Big Brother Australia Daily Show, The Biggest Loser, or repeats of The Simpsons, which usually come third in ratings behind networks Seven and Nine. During the broadcast there are three ad-breaks and immediately following the broadcast of each episode is a short promotional trailer for the next episode. Repeat episodes of the series were broadcast between 1999 and 2002, with a one-year break in 2000. The first 623 episodes (except for Episode 469, which was overlooked when Seven were showing the tennis in September 2001) were shown in this run, before it was taken off in May 2002, and so far has never returned. Restrictions due to contracts with actors who appeared in the early days of the series prevent the Seven Network from showing repeats of Home and Away, or releasing DVD sets[1]. United Kingdom broadcastsThe show has more overall viewers in the larger UK market than it has in its home market,[citation needed] but a higher proportion of viewers in Australia due to Australia's smaller population.[citation needed] All ITV regions showed the same episode each day however it was shown at different times, with the first opportunity to watch normally at lunchtime, followed by a teatime screening. UK regions have historically had different timeslots for the programme. Most regions aired it at 5.10pm, however Central and Anglia originally showed it at 6.35pm, later 6pm. Thames and Granada then moved the show from 5.10pm to 6pm, Border at 6.30pm. TSW at 3.25pm (6:30pm from 1992) before their successor Westcountry Television moved the series to 5.10pm in 1993. TSW's scheduling was controversial. In 1991 the lunchtime showing was 1.20pm with the repeat following at 3.25pm. TSW persisted with the 3:25pm slot for a long period (apparently to avoid having to schedule two quiz shows consecutively), despite the fact many of Home And Away's teenage followers would still have been at school at this time. All regions screened at 5pm from March 1999. In the UK episode from 1993 onwards were sometimes censored for content. Two episodes were dropped in their entirety, one due to similarities to the Dunblane massacre, another due to similarities to the James Bulger kidnap. Image:SurfClubSign.jpg Surf Club Sign In 2000, episodes aired in the UK were aired only one week previously in Australia. The shift in the UK from ITV in June 2000 to Five damaged the programme's ratings; contract obligations kept it off air in the UK for a year (although episodes from 1997 were broadcast on ITV2) and the smaller audience share Five has is believed to contribute to the show achieving ratings significantly lower than those it enjoyed on ITV. Five funds more than half of the production costs, and it is officially Five's second highest rated show. In accordance with European Union regulations for shows of this time-length, only one advertisement break is inserted into the programme at approximately the halfway point. An omnibus edition aired on Saturday mornings when that week's episodes were all repeated until October 2005. Five Life, a brand new channel, started airing the omnibus from October 2006. Home and Away was first aired on Five on 2001-07-16. At this stage it was fifty weeks (250 episodes) behind Australia. Due to the breaks in transmission in Australia, it has been catching up in the UK ever since and is currently only eleven weeks behind.[original research?] It is believed that by December 2008 that both the UK and Ireland will have caught up fully with Australian episodes (this is not the case for New Zealand as they too take their summer break at this time) The deal between the channels was reached on February 24 2000.[citation needed] Five schedulingThe night before Home and Away was launched on Five a recap episode was broadcast featuring Sally Fletcher and Leah Patterson-Baker. This was repeated from 12:30-1:30pm the following day. July 2001-December 2005: Monday to Friday 12.30pm-1.00pm (repeat of previous day's episode) Image:Homeandawayfilming.jpg Indiana Evans, Mark Furze and the crew during filming January 2006 until the present: Monday to Friday 12.00noon-12.30pm (repeat of previous day's episode) Monday to Friday 6.00pm-6.30pm. The nightly episode new to analogue viewers (from October 2006 episodes are first screened on Five Life the day before they are shown on Five). Between July 2001 and October 2005, Channel Five screened an Omnibus on Saturdays. Five Life shows episodes new to the UK every weeknight at 6:30pm and shows a repeat at 4pm on weekdays. An omnibus edition is broadcast every Saturday containing the five new episodes shown on Five Life that week. SponsorshipHome and Away broadcasts have received sponsorship since they moved to Five. Sponsors include:
ITV regional scheduling
Other international broadcastsImage:Palmbeach14.jpg The Beach and Stewarts Point In New Zealand, the show used to be broadcast on TV One, later TV 2 but now screens on TV3 on weekdays at 5:30pm, (repeated 10:30am on weekdays and an omnibus airs on Sundays at 10:15am). 1995 episodes were briefly shown on Prime TV at 3:30pm weekdays. NZ is exactly 5 weeks behind Australia. In Ireland, the national state broadcaster RTE has shown the programme since its inception. It has continually been a highly popular show, that has attracted a very wide and loyal fan base. The show is broadcast weekdays at 1:25pm on RTÉ One and repeated at 6:30pm on RTÉ Two regularly getting into the top 5 ratings for that week. It is approximately three months behind Australia. The show is now also repeated on RTÉ Two on Saturdays and Sundays (subject to no live sport etc.) with two episodes on Saturday and three on Sunday. Also on one occasion a double-episode was shown on a Friday. Estonia is quite behind various other countries. Currently episodes from 2003 are shown on Kanal 2 every weekday at 6:30pm. In summertime (June-August), two episodes are shown instead of one. Other countries that broadcast Home And Away include: Belgium on Kanaal Twee with a double broadcast on weekdays; Denmark; Iceland; Israel; Lithuania; Norway; Poland; Serbia; Macedonia; South Africa; Sweden; France. The series is also broadcast in the following countries via the Australia Network: American Samoa; Cambodia; Cook Islands; East Timor; Federated States of Micronesia; Fiji; French Polynesia; Guam; Hong Kong; India; Indonesia; Japan; Kiribati; Laos; Macau; Malaysia; Maldives; Marshall Islands; Mongolia; Niue; Northern Mariana Islands; Pakistan; Palau; Papua New Guinea; Philippines; Samoa; Singapore; Solomon Islands; South Korea; Sri Lanka; Taiwan; Thailand; Tonga; Vanuatu; Vietnam. PopularityHome and Away has seen a resurgence in popularity since 2003,[citation needed] beginning with the Angela Russell storyline.[citation needed] The "Summer Bay Stalker" storyline in 2005 was another storyline that was wildly successful,[citation needed] attracting many new viewers to the show.[citation needed] The Stalker storyline was brought back in 2006, ending with an explosion at the wedding of couple Jack Holden and Martha Mackenzie. The show also started airing more risky material in 2006 with storylines including drug use, violence and family love triangles, which proved to be popular with audience and a few times pushed the show which is normally rated G into a PG rating.[original research?] Television programs are not rated in the UK, but episodes that originally aired in 2001 have been released on DVDs there. The show has often broken in to the weekly top ten most watched shows in Australia according to OzTam.[citation needed] The success of the show was seen at the Logie Awards of 2006 with the soap's actors winning many awards and Home and Away winning the award for outstanding Australian drama series. The 2006 season finale aired 2006-12-01 and attracted a total audience of 1,220,000, making it the fifth most watched show in Australia on the day and the most watched soap on the day.[citation needed] In 2007, the British sketch show Man Stroke Woman preformed a sketch where the characters sing the theme tune to Home and Away on a London Bus. ThemeThe current theme, which has been in use since the show's first 2007 episode, was recorded by Israel Cannan, who had previously appeared on the soap as 'bad boy' Wazza.
AwardsImage:JodiG.jpg Logi Winner Jodi Gordon Home and Away has won many awards in the past, in particular at the Logies. Below is a list on Logies won:
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