Home and Away

Home and Away is a weeknightly half-hour television soap opera produced in Australia. It is shown on the Seven Network in Australia and is exported to many countries, most notably the United Kingdom, where it briefly became the subject of a bidding war between ITV and Channel 5 (Channel 5 won). The show has more viewers in the larger UK market than it has in its home market, and Five funds more than half of the production costs. It has run since January 1988 and is still in production.

Synopsis

It features the travails of the inhabitants of a fictional small coastal town in New South Wales called Summer Bay. The soap originally revolved around one family, which was Pippa and Tom Fletcher, and their foster children, who included Sophie, Carly, Lynn, Steven, Bobby and Sally. But it now has many different groups: the Hunter family; the Holden family and the Fletcher/Saunders family.

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As of 2004, the program concentrates on the family occupying and running the local caravan park who typically foster several teenagers.

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Like Neighbours, Australia's other daily half-hour homegrown soap, it attracts a mainly teenage audience and features a constantly-rotating teenage cast with several older actors who tend to last considerably longer.

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