Neighbours finale a ratings smash, drawing biggest numbers in over a decade | karlkwin
drew its biggest audience in 13 years and was the most-watched program in Australia’s five mainland capital cities on Thursday night as 873,000 people tuned in to bid Ramsay Street farewell.had screened on 10’s main channel since it moved to the network’s digital multichannel after the end of the 2010 season. The ratings result was its best since July 2009.
The show typically managed to draw around 300,000 viewers per half-hour episode until 2016, when it dropped to around 200,000. Over the past year, it had typically drawn half that number of viewers in Australia.ploughed on because it still had a loyal following in the UK, where it was typically watched by more than one million people a day. More importantly, production company Fremantle had a contract with Channel 5 that paid for the bulk of the show’s production costs.
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