Are the current producers ruining Home and Away?

[Matt]

Just now, John said:

I don't agree with the proposition that the show has strayed from its roots.  I feel the show just takes an updated approach to its roots.  It's just moved with the times.

Oh agreed! It's the closest it's been to its roots since Sally left

[Homeandawayfan.]

47 minutes ago, John said:

I don't agree with the proposition that the show has strayed from its roots.  I feel the show just takes an updated approach to its roots.  It's just moved with the times.

 

I do find the show has become more dark and destructive in recent years, and can be very unwatchable at times, but it still deals with troubled teens, troublesome teens and it still revolves around the lives of Summer Bay House inhabitants, the school, beach and surf club etc. The show was never a show about fostering itself but about a fostering family who took on wayward foster children.

[Skylover]

Zac and Leah shouldn't be the next Tom and Pippa though. The writers shouldn't try and make them foster parents just because the actors are willing to stay long term and live in Summer Bay House at the moment.

[Jamie!]

6 hours ago, John said:

I don't agree with the proposition that the show has strayed from its roots.  I feel the show just takes an updated approach to its roots.  It's just moved with the times.

 

For me, I feel that it has strayed from its roots. Compared to what the show was like 20 years ago, it's almost like watching a different show. I think that it's all very well updating a show so that it doesn't become out of date, but I feel like you can do that without changing what the show was originally about. The Home and Away I loved from 20 years ago was a warm show that centred around families, friendships and fostering. Today's show mainly centres around bad boys and violence and it has a cold, shallow feel. There are some moments that remind me of the show I loved, but nowhere near as many as there once was.

[its.like.that]

I didn't say it would be axed because it went away from its roots. What I meant was that it is going to be axed because it's currently crap in regards to the characters/storylines etc. They need a revamp and need one fast. 

[Matt]

7 minutes ago, its.like.that said:

I didn't say it would be axed because it went away from its roots. What I meant was that it is going to be axed because it's currently crap in regards to the characters/storylines etc. They need a revamp and need one fast. 

And what we were saying is that a show doesn't get axed because a couple of viewers out of more than a million think the characters and storylines are crap. Nothing gets axed if the ratings are stable, and it's currently the highest rating Aussie drama on network television

[dee123]

1 hour ago, Matt said:

And what we were saying is that a show doesn't get axed because a couple of viewers out of more than a million think the characters and storylines are crap. Nothing gets axed if the ratings are stable, and it's currently the highest rating Aussie drama on network television

While i agree. 2 things. It hasn't hasn't rated a million or over in awhile and far more importantly and as i'm sure you know Aussie drama isn't exactly in great shape. On free to air there is what? House Husbands, Winners & Losers and stuff on ABC & SBS that nobody watches.

[Matt]

11 minutes ago, dee123 said:

While i agree. 2 things. It hasn't hasn't rated a million or over in awhile and far more importantly and as i'm sure you know Aussie drama isn't exactly in great shape. On free to air there is what? House Husbands, Winners & Losers and stuff on ABC & SBS that nobody watches.

The ratings that are released to the general public (those seen on TV Tonight) only account for Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane... The complete ratings, consolidated, show that the series gets well over a million viewers a night. (Love Child, Offspring, House Husbands, Winners & Losers, 800 Words, Wanted, Janet King, Jack Irish, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, The Doctor Blake Mysteries, Neighbours, with Wentworth and A Place to Call Home on pay TV)

[dee123]

1 hour ago, Matt said:

The ratings that are released to the general public (those seen on TV Tonight) only account for Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane... The complete ratings, consolidated, show that the series gets well over a million viewers a night. (Love Child, Offspring, House Husbands, Winners & Losers, 800 Words, Wanted, Janet King, Jack Irish, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, The Doctor Blake Mysteries, Neighbours, with Wentworth and A Place to Call Home on pay TV)

I stand corrected about Aussie Drama. Though Neighbours doesn't count, it rate less than a 20 year old Simpsons episode these days.

[cadyctslover]

6 hours ago, Matt said:

The ratings that are released to the general public (those seen on TV Tonight) only account for Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane... The complete ratings, consolidated, show that the series gets well over a million viewers a night. (Love Child, Offspring, House Husbands, Winners & Losers, 800 Words, Wanted, Janet King, Jack Irish, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, The Doctor Blake Mysteries, Neighbours, with Wentworth and A Place to Call Home on pay TV)

And how does that compare to where it was 5 years ago, or 10 years ago for example?