Critic's View - Neighbours vs Home and Away, The Age, 28 Apr 05 |
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Critic's View - Neighbours vs Home and Away, The Age, 28 Apr 05 |
 Apr 28 2005, 07:22 AM
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 aka Valkyrie  Group: Members Joined: 7-May 04 From: NSW, Australia Member No.: 756  |
CRITIC'S VIEW REVIEWS
28 April 2005 The Age Despite unimpressive ratings, you can tell that the writers of Neighbours are working hard to distil some contemporary significance into their nightly excursions to Erinsborough. Over at Home and Away's Summer Bay, things are really heating up this week with the unmasking of the serial stalker who's been creating a tidal wave of fear all the way to Yabbie Creek. It's quite exciting, really, with a kidnapping and a psychopath who communicates via email. And that's just so typical of Seven's bogans-by-the-sea drama and its continual game of one-upmanship with fictional suburban Melbourne. Neighbours comes up with school truancy, Home and Away counters with teen pregnancy. Shonky doctors? Jailbird lovers! Delta? Bec Cartwright and Lleyton Hewitt. Trumped! Ten's poor little drama can't win a trick these days, what with Kylie pleading schedule clashes to avoid the 20th anniversary celebrations, and the name Holly becoming a byword for tacky, lip-synching, and dumped by your record label. But where both shows are mined by record company execs, Home and Away is also beloved of FHM - and thus Neighbours may be trying to win ground back this week when Liliana goes into a reverie imagining hot passion with Paul Robinson on a table at Harold's cafe. It's about as steamy as this show ever gets - but that's not all. It gets all newsy and topical with a storyline featuring drink-spiking, and shakes off its G shackles and heads recklessly for PG territory as Erinsborough's most unlikely police officer Stuart "Chooka" Parker and his annoying blonde girlfriend get jiggy with a pair of handcuffs. It's enough to make you blush over your chicken tikka Lean Cuisine. -------------------- I rather you hate me for everything I am than love me for something I am not
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Apr 29 2005, 07:44 AM
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Off the Scale! Group: Members Joined: 9-November 04 From: for me to know Member No.: 1388 |
Kylie dropped ?
Neighbours is pathetic and geting worse every passing day. It should be ratings winner in the UK then. |
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Apr 29 2005, 08:42 AM
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 Member Group: Members Joined: 19-September 04 From: Australia Member No.: 1215 |
Neighbours rates poorly every week of the year, it is a poorly made, poorly acted out show.
H&A gets between 1-2 Million viewers each night. Neigbours would have been axed long ago if it wasn't for the UK liking the rubbish. |
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Apr 29 2005, 03:03 PM
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 Wests Tigers Fan Group: Members Joined: 8-August 04 From: Sydney, Australia Member No.: 931 |
I think that was about Holly Valance
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Apr 30 2005, 06:43 PM
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 Super Poster Group: Members Joined: 19-July 04 From: England, United Kingdom Member No.: 886 |
QUOTE (. : a state of mind : . @ Apr 29 2005, 09:42 AM) Neigbours would have been axed long ago if it wasn't for the UK liking the rubbish.  Unfortunately the British public love anything that is absoloute tosh. Neighbours is indeed surviving on its UK audience alone. -------------------- The next 20 years start here...
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Apr 30 2005, 07:32 PM
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I use to love this show but now
 it's just turned in to a load of rubbish This is mainly down to the s**t storylines and Crap acting that have taken over. 
-------------------- "Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history."
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May 2 2005, 06:25 PM
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 Wonder Poster! Group: Members Joined: 15-September 04 From: Nottingham, UK Member No.: 1208 |
Not all of us ukers like 'absolute tosh'. Neighbours is poor and it's only out of loyalty as a long-standing viewer (and the fact that there's nothing else on at that time) that keeps me watching.
-------------------- Thanks to Kris10na for the fantastic avatar.
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May 2 2005, 08:52 PM
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Off the Scale! Group: Members Joined: 9-November 04 From: for me to know Member No.: 1388 |
QUOTE (claire_louise @ May 2 2005, 07:25 PM) Not all of us ukers like 'absolute tosh'. Neighbours is poor and it's only out of loyalty as a long-standing viewer (and the fact that there's nothing else on at that time) that keeps me watching. Breakers used to be on at the same time, now it's on at 5pm |
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May 3 2005, 11:31 AM
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 Adam Willits fan Group: Members Joined: 28-March 05 From: Kent, England Member No.: 1737 |
Breakers used to be on at the same time, now it's on at 5pm
[/quote] I thought Breakers finished years ago. At least it did in the UK. -------------------- Personal Motto: You can never have too many friends!
Celebrating the fact that Steven and Selina are back together! |
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May 3 2005, 11:45 AM
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Off the Scale! Group: Members Joined: 9-November 04 From: for me to know Member No.: 1388 |
[quote=chair,May 3 2005, 12:31 PM]
Breakers used to be on at the same time, now it's on at 5pm [/quote] I thought Breakers finished years ago. At least it did in the UK. [/quote] It's still shown in the UK, and Europe for that matter : it is shown on Unlimited TV (channel 259 on Sky, Free To Air). There's an omnibus on Saturday and Sunday arvos. It's really good too. Emily Perry (Zoe in H&A) is in it, and so is Ada (Leah). |
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