Wednesday, 20 February 2008

Neighbours drop to Channel 5...


As most of us should know by now, our favourite lunch time programme, Neighbours, has changed from trustworthy BBC 1 to can-never-get-a-signal-in-my-house cruddy Channel 5.

Of all the channels we can get in this advanced generation , where we can have up to 1,000 channels on our TV, and even watch them on new, state-of-the-art sheen black flat screen TV's for many, we have Neighbours on Channel 5... I may only be speaking for a small group of people here, but channel 5 in my house is about as good as trying to get my arse to smile...

What the hell is going on? I love Neighbours but having to watch it in prickly black and white spots with a crappy picture and sound really gets on my nerves and makes me wonder whether i'll ever get to watch it again without any distracting distortions.

Not only does the channel swap annoy me... but the advertisement for the switch is just cringe-worthy. I can't believe the cast of Neighbours actually thought it would be appealing to run around in their little cul-de-sac shouting, "Have you heard? We're switching to channel 5!" like it's the best thing since hair waxing.

TV bosses can put repeat after repeat of our usual favourite Friends, Frasier, Scrubs and so on and even have them on more than one channel. But when it comes to Neighbours...Channel 5 is their latest effort.

I hope BBC1 TV rates decrease so that they realise how important Neighbours is to the BBC...and to their viewers! Know your audience BBC1! Bring Neighbours BACK!!
Or...Fremantle company who sells Neighbours to us....Drop your prices you crazy people!

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