H&A vs Neighbours?

[samdanfan]

Again I will say I know fans who love both shows. Each has its good and bad moments. I see a down period in Aussie TV as a lot of talent is not being used and maybe things will change in the future.

As for N and H&A the current cast I hope continue to entertain the fans. sadly I have NO favs as I did years ago.

[Homeandawayfan.]

I met a former Neighbours star in May, Jason Donovan and a former H&A star last week, Nicola Quilter so I feel even more attached to my 2 fave ever Aussie shows.

If I had to choose one of them I dont know which I'd choose.

[LondonF4]

I used to be team H&A all the way, with the 90s being my favourite era. I lost interest in Neighbours for many years and found it quite unwatchable from 2009-12, but I began to drift back to it last year. Now I think it's great and H&A has become the unwatchable one, but of course I do still watch. I really hope it can lift its game, half the characters need to go and the producers need to listen to all the great comments on this site.

[Blaxland 89]

When I tune into Neighbours every now and then I sort of get that same feel from it, that I used to with Home and Away, It actually feels more like what Home and Away was then the current show.

Maybe because so many of the crew that worked on Home and Away seem to be involved in Neighbours now. Writers and even casting directors especially, including Anthony Ellis who wrote the Home and Away books in the 80s

[LondonF4]

When I tune into Neighbours every now and then I sort of get that same feel from it, that I used to with Home and Away, It actually feels more like what Home and Away was then the current show.

Maybe because so many of the crew that worked on Home and Away seem to be involved in Neighbours now. Writers and even casting directors especially, including Anthony Ellis who wrote the Home and Away books in the 80s

That's an interesting theory. Did many writers from H&A to Neighbours? Did it happen at the start of last year when Neighbours started to get better? They should entice all those writers back if that's the case because the quality of both shows seems to have totally flipped. I did notice this a little back in the 90s too, when one entered into a dull phase the other became good. But H&A has been in a lull for two long now, longer than ever before I think.

[Homeandawayfan.]

If many H&A writers have gone to Neighbours then this could mean a good future for Neighbours and this could mean the current format of H&A could be the H&A going forward, a Susan Bower style to H&A, endless crimes, teens etc.

Unless Jason Herbison or Richard Jasek became producer of H&A in the future.

[c120701]

Yeah, but that's how Neighbours began to go off track before, the network brought in Dan Bennett to turn it into Home and Away, hence the bombings and stalkers and it just didn't work.

[Homeandawayfan.]

2006/2007 was one of the lowest periods of Neighbours history, I dont know but did Dan Bennett make mistakes on H&A by turning it into a bomb and crime show and realised it is not what longer viewers want?

ATM the H&A producers are too busy attracting new viewers to worry about what us older viewers want. Jason Herbison knows what Neighbours is supposed to be and does understand older viewers as well as newer ones.

[LondonF4]

2006/2007 was one of the lowest periods of Neighbours history, I dont know but did Dan Bennett make mistakes on H&A by turning it into a bomb and crime show and realised it is not what longer viewers want?

ATM the H&A producers are too busy attracting new viewers to worry about what us older viewers want. Jason Herbison knows what Neighbours is supposed to be and does understand older viewers as well as newer ones.

I agree that whole period was terrible for Neighbours and it just got worse under Susan Bower. I thought for sure it would be axed but it's turned around which gives me hope for H&A. I know H&A isn't on the chopping board but I still don't get how they can be happy with its performance in the ratings. It's doing ok but it not a powerhouse like it has been at times in the past.

[Homeandawayfan.]

Re-watching 1988 episodes of both shows just makes me realise how different they were right from the off and how much more invigorating H&A was that year. I feel in 1988 Neighbours could still be set in 1978 whereas in 1988 H&A was very of its time.