Home and Away

Advantages: 100% pure escapism, beautiful people, gorgeous setting!
Disadvantages: It's addictive.

...is Claire and I’m a Home And Away addict…!” There, I’ve admitted it. But am I shame faced and embarrassed??? Am I heck! I would shout it from the rooftops if I were light enough to shimmy up the drainpipe. I don’t actually watch much TV – normally because I’m glued to my PC monitor – but I refuse to miss a single episode of this addictive Aussie soap. It is 100% pure escapism. My dream is travel around Australia but seen as that isn’t going to happen ...
...soap on the box! Home And Away is set in a fictional town called “Summer Bay”. It’s cheesy – I know- but very accurate because this place NEVER gets any rain. Except when there’s a freak weather storm, normally coinciding with when a character needs killing off! So what makes up Summer Bay??? THE BEACH Every decent Aussie soap needs a beach (except Neighbours – but then again that’s not decent!) The Summer Bay beach is a gorgeous house-shoe bay. ... Read review

Advantages: escapist drama, very watchable
Disadvantages: acting sometimes a bit wooden

I confess to being a Home and Away addict, there I’ve admitted it! I’ve watched it on and off since it first hit our screens in the UK. I can remember when Danni Minogue was in it. It’s the sort of programme you can not watch for ages and it will only take a couple of episodes or until the commercial break for those who are really clever, to catch up with it. I’ve started watching it again in the last year, it’s a good thing to watch when I come ...
...find oscar worthy acting in Home and Away, but if I wanted that I’d watch an oscar worthy film. Anyway, the characters can be cliched there’s always a teenage rebel who drops out of school and then sees the error of their ways, an alcoholic who reforms and now everyone loves them and a teenager who moves to Summer Bay and hates it because its a small town but grows to realise just how wonderful it all is. So without further ado here’s a list of characters ... Read review

Advantages: A bit of austrailian escapism as you finish eating your dinner every evening.
Disadvantages: None at all.

...case anyone doesn't know what Home and Away is I will explain, its an Australian soap set in the beautiful town of Summer bay which has the most gorgeous beach you have ever seen. It is quite a small town and of course being a soap everyone knows everyone else's business. The show started on ITV back in the late 1980's and the first scenes were of Pippa and Tom Fletcher turning up at the Caravan Park with their whole tribe of foster children, who ...
...Like any good soap Home and Away certainly entertains and hopefully it can only get better. Its on Channel 5 at 6pm Monday to Friday, and then repeated the next day at 12.30pm also there is an omnibus on Saturdays at 12.10pm. The other characters in it at the moment are Shauna Bradley who has just found out she is the daughter of Ailsa Stewart. Alf Stewart who is Ailsa's husband and Duncan their son. Donald Fisher ex-headmaster of the local high ... Read review

Advantages: Tangled web of intrigue, romance and tragedy of Shakespearean proportions
Disadvantages: I feel really sad for loving it so

...is Eastenders, the other is Home and Away. After watching Eastenders I often feel dirty and used, as the acting is double-poor, the script writing terrible and the filming wobbly at best. I don't usually rise to the accusations that it is miserable, because I like gloomy things, but more and more recently it just hasn't made the grade. Home and Away is literally and metaphorically its polar opposite. Set in the (mostly) sunny town of Summer Bay, ...
...Alf would put it) then Home and Away will spin several, weaving many stories in and out of one another and over extended periods. There's no moral highground from the show itself. There are many characters with definite principles, but you never feel preached to. This is achieved by the seamless bonding of relationships among teenagers, 20/30-somethings and oldies alike. And there is no subject they are afraid to tackle. If you want some extreme ... Read review

Advantages: STONE THE FLAMIN' CROWS!!!
Disadvantages: The rest of them ya-hoos

...Well now. I've been watchin' Home and Away for years. If you total the amount of time I've spent watchin' the guys down the Surf Club, at the Diner and in the Bait Shop, I reckon it'd come out to an even two weeks. Quite a lot I reckon you bunch of Poms. And during this time the standard has fluctuated big time. When ITV cut it, I couldn't be bothered to watch it any more, *that's* how bad it had become. Some flamin' galah had ruined it. But. There ...
...it, you'll be chasin after these young coots, goin' flat out like a flamin' lizard drinkin'. Doubt I'll watch Home and Away when it returns to flamin' channel 5, but I'll definitely flick it over now and then to get some more words of wisdom from Alf. Strewth! ... Read review

Advantages: Great show
Disadvantages: Not on

...I am a daily Home and Away watcher, or was before ITV took it off the air. The way that I understand it is that ITV lost the contract to Channel 5 and for their own reasons, probably sour grapes I would guess, invoked a clause in their contract which meant that it could not be aired by Channel 5 for a year. I am disgusted with ITV, they obviously have no thought for the viewers only how the loss of the show will effect their ratings. I have emailed them asking for an explanation and they couldnt even do me the courtesy of a standard reply. They have now put on some hospital show in the lunchtime Home and Away slot and out of principle I will not watch it. If this is the way that ITV conduct themselves they need to review their policies. Anyway I hope that ITV get the message and allow Channel 5 to bring back Home and Away... Read review

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Advantages: Erm...none really.
Disadvantages: The C5 advertising plugging it was far more interesting.

...Go Home or Go Away I am not a big fan of Soap Operas, but I will admit that they have a knack of getting you hooked into the apparent roller coaster of some very traumatised characters if you let them. One of the great things about this Soap phenomenon is that you can watch a couple of episodes, get to grips with the various story lines, and then miss about 20 episodes, only to switch on and still be plodding along on the back of the same old gripes and traumas. As a bored teenager, I inevitably got hooked on Home & Away, back in the bad old days when it was on in the late afternoon, and for the most part, rather enjoyed it. I didn’t fall for the same tricks when I came to Britain, but was quite intrigued when, over the last month or so, the Channel 5 advertising has literally been falling over itself to make sure... Read review

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Advantages: easy to catch up on
Disadvantages: Same storylines over and over, not enough everyday looking people

...I remember the first time Home and Away hit our screens in the eighties, I think the opening scene was a scrap between Bobby(she was ace!) and one of the other Summer Bay Schoolies! I was always a bit of a "soapaholic" but I especially loved this one because I watched it from Day one! The first Pippa, who was married to Tom, actually had streaked blonde hair in a really eighties kinda perm style. It really surprised me when her replacement was darker haired, though the perm was the same! The Fletchers' (as they were in the start) household consisted of Carly, Lynne, Steven, Frank and Little Sally(who ain't that little any more!) Carly was a bit of an australian Miss Piggy, she had a psychotic side and then a few years into the show it emerged that she had a twin sister(with the help of some really cheap choreography... Read review

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