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The Christian O’Connell Show

MINI: Neighbours

The Christian O’Connell Show

GOLD and iHeart Australia

Comedy, Music Interviews, Music, Comedy Interviews

4.7823 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

We're celebrating the end of the Australian Classic with a very special Weak Claim to Fame

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0:00.0

Christian.

0:01.2

Welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

0:04.6

Last night then, end of a really big era of TV.

0:09.5

A TV show that actually my country and your country both share.

0:13.7

It's bigger in England where Neighbors has been watched for decades by millions of people.

0:19.3

It's on twice a day.

0:22.4

There was the original screening at lunchtime when if you're off sick from school, you always watched it at lunchtime. And then it was

0:25.7

on again at half-past five, and it was one of the biggest shows on British TV for years and

0:31.4

years and years. So the fact that this came, come to an end, it felt last night when I was watching

0:36.6

it all, you actually felt like you were saying goodbye to an era of TV

0:39.7

that actually isn't going to ever be the same again.

0:42.3

Yeah, you're riding away

0:43.2

because now we're so used to streaming shows with big budgets

0:46.8

and it was funny to watch Neighbors again

0:48.9

like considerably a lower budget than what we're used to now.

0:52.4

Because it was spoiled now, aren't we?

0:53.4

It's a feast of all this

0:54.5

amazing streaming content we've got almost too much to keep up with what show you should be watching.

0:58.7

And because we grew up with the TV, that's just how it was then. And also they churned out

1:03.1

thousands and thousands and thousands of episodes over the years. What did we all think of it?

1:07.3

Passie, what do you think of it yesterday? I hadn't watched it since I was like 15 or 16, and I know what you mean.

1:13.2

It's kind of, I don't know if lacklustia is the right word to use, but I...

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