Bosses at Channel 5 have hinted Home and Away might be on the move after the controversial to axe fellow Australian soap Neighbours. The long-running show, which first aired in 1985, ends this month after the UK network decided to invest in home-grown shows.
Ben Frow, Channel 5’s head of programming, suggested the money could be spent better elsewhere. He told Radio Times that axing Neighbours was “a business decision”.
To the suggestion that he could have spent large sums of money on keeping the show going, he replied: “Yes. Or I could spend the money on other things, which is what I decided to do. I can better spend the Neighbours money on UK shows.”
