BTTB EXCLUSIVE: 20th Year News
BTTB has received exclusive news regarding the 20th Anniversary of Home and Away, starting in January 2008.
Current Script Producer Sarah Walker has this week finished her period in the role, plotting the stories right up until the end of the year, and next week the new Script Producer takes over to start plotting for the 20th year of the show.
With it being such an important landmark for the show, it was decided that the show should receive the best work possible, from someone who is passionate about the show and knows a lot about its history.
Therefore we are thrilled to announce that Seven Network Script Executive, Bevan Lee, will be returning to the role of Script Producer for the first 6 months of 2008.
Bevan was brought in way back in 1987 to completely rewrite the disasterous pilot episode of the show. He did so in only 3 weeks and the pilot aired in Sunday 17th January 1988. Bevan then stayed on as Script Producer for the first year and a half of the show. After an eight year gap he returned to the Seven Network in November 1996 as Network Script Executive, a role he has fulfilled the the last 10 years. As well as overseeing the scripts of Home and Away for all this time, he has also created such shows as Always Greener and All Saints.
Bevan’ss last stint as Script Producer of the show came in 2004, when he filled the role in order to take the show through a difficult period in between the stints of Coral Drouyn and Daniel Bennett, and during this time he was responsible for such stories as the Sarah Lewis saga and Kane’ss cancer battle.
Speaking of his upcoming stint back in the chair, it is clear that Bevan wishes to create a memorable year for all fans of the show:
I wanted to come back to pay honor to the show I love so much and plot material that will pay strong tribute to the first twenty years. I don’st want to honor the 20th year in just one big event, I want to pay tribute throughout the entire year by referencing the show’ss history in as many ways as I can.
Bevan has promised to fans of the show that the 2007 Season Cliffhanger, will NOT involve anyone leaving, dying or being injured and that there is no physical jeopardy involved whatsoever. However this does not mean that we won’st be in for a huge shock…
My material will start with a very startling cliffhanger at the end of this year that will make regular viewers re-evaluate something that they have always taken for granted about one of the characters in the show. This cliffhanger will turn the life of that character on its head and will lead to one of the major stories of 2008.
Unless I’sm mistaken, this cliffhanger will makes the jaws of those who have watched the show from the beginning well and truly drop. And the story will lead to the return of many old faces to the show at various stages through 2008.
So will it turn out that Sally’ss real parents are still alive? Maybe Alf was adopted and isn’st a true Stewart? Stay tuned to BTTB to be one of the first to find out!
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