Are the current producers ruining Home and Away?

[Skylover]

Just now, Matt said:

Although I do thing we are starting to drift away from the purpose of the topic now.

Not really, it's the crime element which is ruining the show, so it's on topic.

If you don't view it as a crime show, what do you view it as? Surely not a family show 

 

[Bobby Forever Missed]

11 minutes ago, Edward Skylover said:

 

If you don't view it as a crime show, what do you view it as? Surely not a family show 

 

You know, FOR KIDS!

[Matt]

12 minutes ago, Edward Skylover said:

Not really, it's the crime element which is ruining the show, so it's on topic.

If you don't view it as a crime show, what do you view it as? Surely not a family show 

I view it as a soap. If I wanted to watch a family show, I'd put on one of the feel-good, always-happy-ending shows like the Brady Bunch. It's not meant to be a family show - someone tell me when the last time there was a 'family show' on mainstream television? Because I can think of one since the 70s...

The purpose of Home and Away is for people to watch it and it's meant to leave them coming back for more. To tune in again and see what's going to happen. Like it or despise it, you yourself still watch it. It's doing it's job. I don't think there's a single person out there that views anything on television nowadays as 'a family show'.

Just now, Bobby Forever Missed said:

You know, FOR KIDS!

But it's not for kids. It specifically states 'Parental guidance recommended for persons under 15.' And I'm sorry, but coming from someone the age of half the characters (or around the age), I find it incredibly relatable!

[Skylover]

2 minutes ago, Matt said:

Like it or despise it, you yourself still watch it.

It was so bad between 2013 and 2015 that I didn't watch it. It's still bad but there are glimmers of hope occasionally, what with things like Duncan's return.

Home and Away was a family show as recently as the early 2000s IMO.

[Matt]

9 minutes ago, Edward Skylover said:

It was so bad between 2013 and 2015 that I didn't watch it. It's still bad but there are glimmers of hope occasionally, what with things like Duncan's return.

Home and Away was a family show as recently as the early 2000s IMO.

I'll admit, I didn't watch 2012-2014, but I didn't enjoy the show then. So I didn't watch it.

As for being a family show, I think it comes down to perception. I've always watched the show with my family. We watch it at dinner time, as many families I know do. Over here, it's a really respected show to Australian youth. But I haven't the foggiest how it's received in the UK.

[Skylover]

Hardly anyone watches H&A in the UK anymore. It's certainly not talked about. Not many people watch Neighbours either these days but it is more of a talking point in the UK than H&A is these days.

I'm surprised that H&A is respected among the youth in Australia, I was under the impression that soaps were seen as cheesy by Australian youth.

[Matt]

2 minutes ago, Edward Skylover said:

I'm surprised that H&A is respected among the youth in Australia, I was under the impression that soaps were seen as cheesy by Australian youth.

Ah yeah, well, it's one of two ways, you watch them or you think they're cheesy - but I think most youths go through bouts of watching one or the other...  The hotties (mainly Ash, Hunter, Brody and Mason) have an effect...

[Skylover]

Mason and Hunter are definitely an incentive 

[Homeandawayfan.]

32 minutes ago, Edward Skylover said:

Hardly anyone watches H&A in the UK anymore. It's certainly not talked about. Not many people watch Neighbours either these days but it is more of a talking point in the UK than H&A is these days.

I'm surprised that H&A is respected among the youth in Australia, I was under the impression that soaps were seen as cheesy by Australian youth.

In early 1994 when Bobby was killed off, I was round my mums friends house in Great Yarmouth and I was playing video games with her daughters and she said "Did you watch H&A, Bobby has died in a boating accident". The show was so massive back then it was unreal. 14 million an episode. 23 years later we can say those days are long, long gone. In the UK H&A is remembered by the longer term viewers for its legacy now and how massive it once was rather than the current episodes.

[Skylover]

As much as Five respects Home and Away & Neighbours more than their original UK broadcasters, I feel that both shows essentially were shot in the foot by moving. Had H&A never moved from ITV I think it would still be one of the most popular shows in the UK. They are popular for their channel, but moving to channel 5 has made them niche rather than mainstream.

Sorry, off topic.