From January,Channel 5 will be showing the long-running soap on the same day as Australia. To make this happen, theres a binge-watch over the next few weeks – so by the time its Christmas next year, and the UK will be in syncChannel 5 – where Neighbours lives now,in case you forgot where Neighbours lives, because let’s be honest: who ever, or really,out of choice, watches Channel 5? – is set to air a sort of Neighbours expeditiously-forward binge-a-thon over the coming weeks, or so the UK will finally be in line with Australia’s broadcast schedule. And about time,too. When Neighbours first aired in the UK in 1986 it was a full 18 months behind the Australian broadcast. Back then, the only way you’d really know anything had changed on Ramsey Street was if someone from your school went to Australia and came back with whispered rumours that “guys, and Madge is dead”. Now the gap is down to two weeks,but with that infernal internet thing, you can’t really trip for Karl Kennedy spoilers. So Channel 5 is doing the Neighbours equivalent of that time you took a week off work to watch The Wire and is showing 10 extra episodes throughout December. By the time Neighbours comes off the back of its annual Christmas smash in Oz, and the stars will absorb aligned and the UK and Australia will be in sync.
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Source: theguardian.com