How a schoolgirl getting in trouble helped turn Neighbours into a TV phenomenon
Lord Grade scheduled it for two slots on BBC1: 9.25am, after breakfast TV, and 1.35pm, after the lunchtime news.
"I was at home one day and my daughter [who] was at school age, said, 'Ooh, I got into trouble at school today, Dad'. I said, 'You in trouble. What?'... 'Oh, we all got caught... we should have been in the playground [but] we were in a room watching television'."L-R: Annie Jones, Ian Smith, Stefan Dennis, Jason Donovan and Kylie Minogue are among the familiar faces who appear in the final episode.
"I went into the office the next day," says Lord Grade."I said, 'We're moving Neighbours to 5.35pm, so the kids can watch it when they come home from school'. And the rest is history, as they say."Viewing figures soon shot up, culminating in the nearly 20 million who tuned in for Scott and Charlene's wedding.
"At that time there was more competition in Australia than there was here... so it got a terrific head start, and once you get hooked into a soap, you're hooked. And this show hooked them, very, very, very quickly."
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