An example of aussie TV

[VampDude]

I only watch Neighbours because there is often nothing better to do at 13:45 and 17:40 when it is shown

[Kramer]

lol, Neighbours is highly popular here in the UK...

...I can't wait until May 29th when Stingrey dies (thou I saw the aussie episode on YouTUBE), we're 3 months behind the aussie episodes - Neighbours is on when I wakeup at lunchtime!

Pepper and Carmella are the 2 hottest chicks in Neighbour, lol

lol I cant believe that neighbors is aired in the UK. I used to love neighbors but now it's got too many new characters and I fell behind on the never ending story.

[VampDude]

lol I cant believe that neighbors is aired in the UK. I used to love neighbors but now it's got too many new characters and I fell behind on the never ending story.

lol, yeah it's been aired in the UK since the mid 80's

The show is popular in the United Kingdom where it quickly gained a cult following after it began airing there on October 27, 1986. BBC One

My birthday wouldn't you believe, but guess which one! lol

Accounting for the duplication of viewers across its two UK showings a day, the show rates on average over five million viewers a day, making it the highest rated Commonwealth import on British television and one of the most popular international imports, rating higher than US programmes such as Desperate Housewives and Lost.

Other international broadcasts

It also airs every evening on Irish TV station RTÉ Two at 5:30 p.m., and is repeated the following day at around 7.00a.m on RTÉ One. These episodes are also about three months behind the Australian network.

The show has also been sold to television networks in many other countries. Episodes from 1999 were aired for a six-week trial basis on the American channel Oxygen in March of 2004. At first, it was shown in the afternoon opposite higher-rated American soaps such as The Young and the Restless and All My Children, which gave the show anemic ratings from the first airing; the people who would be most interested in the show were watching other, more established serials. After a couple of weeks, the show moved to a late-night time slot and eventually left the air entirely. It was not the first Australian soap opera to be aired in the United States: The Sullivans, Prisoner, Home and Away, The Young Doctors, Paradise Beach, and Pacific Drive had also been previously shown.

The show aired in Canada on regional television channel 47, Toronto-based CFMT (now part of the OMNI network owned by Rogers Communications Inc.), for a period of about five years in the early to mid-1990s, starting in September 1990. The channel started the series right from the beginning and aired two episodes back to back for the first several months. It never achieved the audience that youth-oriented cable network YTV saw at the same time with Home and Away and was dropped.

It has been long aired by Television New Zealand and screens twice daily at 11:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. It was initially aired by TVNZ when Neighbours started showing in New Zealand in 1988, but by 1996 it had been removed from the schedule. Canwest's TV4 (now C4) picked it up and aired it from 1997 to 2000. They dropped it in 2000, and it returned to TV2 in 2002, where it stayed till early 2007, until moving to TVOne in February 2007, and screens at the time of 3:50.

Neighbours is aired in Belgium on the VRT at 5:30 p.m., Monday to Saturday. The show has been broadcast in Belgium since 1988; they are three years behind Australia. In Kenya, Neighbours airs on the KTN network at 12.30 p.m., Monday to Friday with an omnibus on Sunday mornings. They are approximately three years behind Australia. Neighbours is also aired in Barbados on CBC8, Monday to Friday. They are approximately four years behind Australia

lol, in Beligum and Kenya they are 3 years behind whilst Barbados are 4 years behind... And in the UK we are only 3 months, I would hate to be all the way back in the 2003/4 episodes

:rofl:

[bah]

I knew it was popular in the UK, I had no idea it even aired elsewhere.

When I was really young I remember my older sister had neighbours cards (like basketball cards) with jason donovan/kylie minogue etc.

What I dont get is i remember lous daughter lolly was like a toddler only a cpl years ago and now she's 15 or something.
Whats with that?

I didnt see it at all for a year or two, working nights.

[VampDude]

I knew it was popular in the UK, I had no idea it even aired elsewhere.

When I was really young I remember my older sister had neighbours cards (like basketball cards) with jason donovan/kylie minogue etc.

What I dont get is i remember lous daughter lolly was like a toddler only a cpl years ago and now she's 15 or something.
Whats with that?

I didnt see it at all for a year or two, working nights.

Very popular - Maybe more so than it is in Aussie

Me neither until I read about it on Wikipedia some time ago

lol @ Neighbours cards, that's just sad! lmao

I know, she was born in 1994 and now in 2007 she's 15... when she should only be 13, but for the storyline she is in now they had to make the character a few years older (from being away) oh and replaced the original

About Louise Carpenter (below)

Louise Carpenter

I didn't watch Neighbours from March 2002 until May 2004 whilst living in Central America, I didn't miss too much thou! (thanks to the internet)