Originally Posted by
Danners9
should the writers, producers, actors etc take any 'blame' for the show being cancelled?
Channel 5 cutting costs or deciding it doesn't make enough money is one thing, but why.. you can say it's a show from a different era, fine, maybe it is, but Eastenders (~3m viewers) and Coronation St (~5.5m viewers) are still going. Channel 5 messed around with the time slot, Ch 10 messed around with the weekly schedule. If we accept it's not as popular as it once was, let's work out why that is. H&A gets approx twice as many viewers per episode (400k vs 200k ish). It is only 3yrs younger than Neighbours.
For me, yes, the writers and producers do take a lot of the responsibility. It's been a poor show for a while. Repetitive storylines, bad writing outweighing the good elements and replacing departing actors with guest spots. Paul and Terese ad infinitum, disaster holidays (another one coming up soon...).
Reading the spoilers for the upcoming episodes we have what sounds like a big angle with one of the schoolkids' grandparents. Who cares. As of right now, I don't think we have met this character yet. Another new girl coming in with a secret about to get into a love story with Nicolette, for a change.
When Tyler was arrested and sent to jail it was a case of 'you were there, it must be you'. Case closed. This happens so often. Jane discussing Zara last week - you were there, someone said it was you, you're guilty and Amy is a terrible parent. The end. Same thing happened when she was suspended. You're suspended, then one of the bad girls sticks up for her, well okay then, not suspended anymore. Ah, that easy is it?!
Aaron, David and this new guy from the hospital. Never seen him before, now he's David's best friend, coincidentally also gay and newly-single, and Aaron (why don't you go to work anymore Aaron!!!) is insanely jealous.
Run out of ideas? budget constraints? changing plans due to covid (which i can believe because of the lockdowns)? or just a decline in quality.
I used to watch Neighbours on TV, then I moved to watching it later on Tenplay, now I can go 2-3 days without watching it and forgetting it was even on.