G'day and g'bye: it's the end for Neighbours
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
After 37 years, the longest-running drama in Australian TV history is coming to an end.
We ask why the Neighbours funding model ultimately failed.
We speak to Rob Mills, who played the notorious villain Finn Kelly, about his efforts for the show to be rescued. We also look at how the series launched so many careers both on and off the screen.
And we go behind the scenes of the Neighbours set and speak to super-fans taking one last trip down their favourite fictional street.
Presenter: Vivienne Nunis Producer: Izzy Greenfield
(Photo: Ramsey St, the fictional street where the progarmme is set. Credit: Fairfax Media/Getty Images)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Ramsey Street. |
| 0:10.7 | Today's business daily is coming to you from a very famous cul-de-sac in suburban Melbourne. |
| 0:17.7 | This is where the Australian soap opera Neighbours has been filmed for the past 37 years. |
| 0:23.8 | There's a very blue sky here in Melbourne today and that's part of the appeal of this programme that's gone on for decades, but which is soon coming to an end. |
| 0:33.5 | That's when good neighbours become good friends. |
| 0:42.0 | In today's episode of Business Daily, we'll take you behind the scenes of one of the world's |
| 0:47.3 | longest running soaps. |
| 0:49.0 | That's the studio. |
| 0:50.1 | So if you're heading there, that's where all the secrets are happening. |
| 0:52.9 | We'll speak to one of the show's most notorious villains about the Neighbours effect, |
| 0:57.6 | how the programme helped his career, as well as so many others. |
| 1:01.6 | I know that it's such a training ground for young actors, for young writers. |
| 1:05.1 | There's the training ground for makeup artists, for hair, for wardrobe. |
| 1:09.0 | And as the curtain finally falls, we ask why did Neighbors' funding model ultimately fail? |
| 1:16.0 | That's Business Daily from the BBC. |
| 1:19.6 | And then we'll head in and get the show on the road. |
| 1:22.3 | Shortly before Neighbours stopped filming in Melbourne, I joined a Ramsey Street tour. |
| 1:29.1 | Coming up on the right-hand side, we'll come back here at the end. |
| 1:34.1 | Of course, we've got to get some pictures with the Erinsborough sign. |
| 1:36.8 | On the tour bus, I was surrounded by Neighbours fans from across the world. |
| 1:40.9 | The show was first broadcast back in 1985 and while the largest audiences |
| 1:46.6 | in the UK, it's been sold to over 60 countries. Out here on the right hand side we've got |
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