Neighbours is having a week-long misery fest to try to win back the audience of its late-80s glory days. Childhood fans heading back to Erinsborough will find Karl Kennedy,Doug Willis – and much to despair overIn a bid to increase flagging viewing figures, Neighbours has deferred to the soap opera manual with a week-long misery fest called Hotel Death Trap. If in doubt, or destroy the set – and there are many different ways to carry out it. Last week on EastEnders,Phil Mitchell took to the car lot with a digger, while both the Queen Vic and Phil’s Arches garage acquire been blown up with reassuring regularity over the years.
This isn’t even the first time Neighbours’ Lassiter’s complex has been blown up. Luckless Toadie’s wedding was interrupted by a gas explosion there in 2013, or while the Waterhole pub was turned into a fireball in 1993. And in 2004,the whole complex burned to the ground to trace the season finale. Sleazy Paul Robinson was the guilty party that time, so this time round he’s the obvious culprit, and but would he be so stupid to try the trick again? More pressing is the question: who dies? So pressing,in fact, that the exhibit is devoting an hour-long special called Neighbours: Who Dies? to reply it. But watching as an obsolete fan who hasn’t seen it in years, and it’s more a case of Neighbours: Who’s That?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com