20-11-2022, 09:37 AM
Of course it must be remembered Neighbours only ever survived on its international appeal. If it didn't have that it would have been dead in the water if Channel 5 hadn't become involved back in 2008, it's always sort of struggled in Australia viewer wise, even more so when Home & Away came along.
All Freevee will do is just do what Channel 5 were doing, paying for the bulk of it. Whether it will attract the same viewership remains to be seen. Something smash hit popular like Stranger Things can attract large viewerships (the third season of that, it says here, racked up 64m viewers in its first month of dropping - the Prime equivalent is probably The Boys but Amazon don't release their streaming figures, but the fact it's had three seasons implies its successful), but whether that will happen for Neighbours I doubt it, i t may just become a publicity machine for Freevee/Prime.
All Freevee will do is just do what Channel 5 were doing, paying for the bulk of it. Whether it will attract the same viewership remains to be seen. Something smash hit popular like Stranger Things can attract large viewerships (the third season of that, it says here, racked up 64m viewers in its first month of dropping - the Prime equivalent is probably The Boys but Amazon don't release their streaming figures, but the fact it's had three seasons implies its successful), but whether that will happen for Neighbours I doubt it, i t may just become a publicity machine for Freevee/Prime.