Perdita
21-04-2015, 11:03
Home and Away is to take a four-week break on Channel 5.
The Summer Bay soap will be off air throughout May for British fans in order to maintain a sizeable gap between the UK and Australian broadcasts.
Channel 5 will continue to air Home and Away as normal until Friday, May 1. Afterwards, no new episodes will be broadcast until Monday, June 1.
A Channel 5 spokesperson told Digital Spy: "There's only 45 weeks' worth of episodes produced of Home and Away in Australia every year, which sadly means Channel 5 has to take 2 annual breaks in order that we don't catch up, but worry not! 5* will be celebrating some of the show's most successful actors with classic episodes. More details on that very soon."
The news means that Channel 5 will be running eight weeks behind Home and Away's Australian broadcasts once the show returns to screens in June.
Channel 5 adopted a similar broadcasting pattern last year, taking Home and Away off air for three weeks in May as well as the usual scheduling break at Christmas.
Fellow Australian soap Neighbours will remain on air as usual. The Ramsay Street drama has to take breaks less often in the UK as it produces more episodes per year than Home and Away does.
The Summer Bay soap will be off air throughout May for British fans in order to maintain a sizeable gap between the UK and Australian broadcasts.
Channel 5 will continue to air Home and Away as normal until Friday, May 1. Afterwards, no new episodes will be broadcast until Monday, June 1.
A Channel 5 spokesperson told Digital Spy: "There's only 45 weeks' worth of episodes produced of Home and Away in Australia every year, which sadly means Channel 5 has to take 2 annual breaks in order that we don't catch up, but worry not! 5* will be celebrating some of the show's most successful actors with classic episodes. More details on that very soon."
The news means that Channel 5 will be running eight weeks behind Home and Away's Australian broadcasts once the show returns to screens in June.
Channel 5 adopted a similar broadcasting pattern last year, taking Home and Away off air for three weeks in May as well as the usual scheduling break at Christmas.
Fellow Australian soap Neighbours will remain on air as usual. The Ramsay Street drama has to take breaks less often in the UK as it produces more episodes per year than Home and Away does.