Put the “for sale” sign up on Ramsay Street, pack up the tuba, send the bulldozers into Lassiters. Neighbours, that unlikely Aussie soap mainstay on British TV, is no more.
The phrase “end of an era” usually feels a bit meaningless, but really does apply here. Neighbours has been on our screens for just shy of 40 years, and many of us can’t recall a time when it wasn’t occupying the teatime TV slot (literally in my case – it first aired in Australia a week or so before I was born). But Neighbours’s demise also feels symbolic, delivering the final shovel of dirt on the grave of daytime TV.
