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Home and Away

Home and Away is an Australian weeknightly half-hour television soap opera produced in Sydney by the Seven Network since January 1988. It is broadcast on the Seven Network and its affiliates 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 Five (TV) (Five won). The show has more overall viewers in the larger UK market than it has in its home market, but a higher proportion of viewers in Australia, due to Australia's smaller population base, making it the highest rating locally produced drama. 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 Frank Morgan, Carly Morris, Steven Matheson, Lynn Davenport, & Sally Fletcher, who was adopted by Tom & Pippa. The family became bigger when Bobby Simpson (daughter of Donald Fisher & Morag Bellingham) came into the picture as well as her adopted younger sister Sophie years later. But it now has many different families: the Hunter family, the Holden family, the Fletcher/Saunders family, the Patterson/Bakers, and Alf Stewart (an original character) and his grandchildren, Ric & Martha.

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

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.

Cast

See main articles:

  • Current Home and Away characters
  • Past Home and Away characters
  • List of cast members of Home and Away

Current cast members

  • Nicholas Bishop (Peter Baker) (2004-2005, 2006-2007)
  • Holly Brisley (Amanda Vale) (2005-)
  • Tim Campbell (Daniel Baker) (2004-2006)
  • Lyn Collingwood (Colleen Smart) (1988-1989, 1997, 1999-)
  • Indiana Evans (Matilda Hunter) (2004-)
  • Mark Furze (Eric Dalby) (2004-)
  • Jodi Gordon (Martha McKenzie) (2005-)
  • Chris Hemsworth (Kim Hyde) (2004-2006)
  • Clarissa House (Beth Hunter) (2003-)
  • Ivar Kants (Barry Hyde) (2004-)
  • Isabel Lucas (Tasha Andrews) (2003-)
  • Amy Mathews (Rachel Armstrong) (2006-)
  • Lynne McGranger (Irene Roberts) (#2) (1992-)
  • Joel McIlroy (Flynn Saunders) (#2) (2003-2006)
  • Ray Meagher (Alf Stewart) (1988-)
  • Ada Nicodemou (Leah Patterson) (2000-)
  • Paul O'Brien (Jack Holden) (2005-)
  • Kate Ritchie (Sally Fletcher) (1988-)
  • Jon Sivewright (Tony Holden) (2005-)
  • Jason Smith (Robbie Hunter) (2003-2007)
  • Jessica Tovey (Belle Taylor) (2006-)
  • Sharni Vinson (Cassandra Turner) (2005-)
  • Rhys Wakefield (Lucas Holden) (2005-)

Recurring cast members

  • Daniel Collopy (Joshua "Josh" West)(Credited full time 2001-2003, recurring for 2005 to 2006 for one of the current storylines. Unlike Cornelia/Morag, his character's return will not constitute a long term recurance)
  • Cornelia Frances (Morag Bellingham)(Credited full time 1988 - 1989, recurring 1994,2001- The character of Morag Bellingham has become somewhat of a full-time recurring character making numerous visits since 2001, possibly due to her resurgance in television with her hosting the Weakest Link , Australian version in 2001, along with her popularity in Australia and her character being one of the most memorable despite being full-time for only a year)
  • Isaac Gorman (Ryan Baker) (2005-
  • Amy Mizzi (Kit Hunter) (2003-2004,2005,2006)
  • Tameka and Bojana Main (Pippa Saunders) (2004-
  • Emily Perry (Zoe) (2005-2006)
  • Doug Scroope (Graham Walters) (2005-2006)
  • Cameron and Nicholas Stevens (Vincent "VJ" Patterson, Jr.) (2002-

Cast Returns

All but five of the original cast have at some point reprised their role. Those characters who haven't returned are Lynn Davenport,Roo Stewart, Tom Fletcher (was killed off),Pippa (as played by Vanessa Downing, Debra Lawrance who took over the role until 1998 has made several returns since her own departure) and Neville Mcphee. Neville Mcphee was killed off-screen after Frank llyod, who played Neville refused to come back in 2000 for Sally's wedding. The reason why Frank Llyod refused to return was that his character was written out after the first year as producers felt that they needed more time for the younger characters, and wasn't imformed about this by producers, but rather from reading local tv magazines. When he refused to come back as he was still upset about it, the decision was made to kill his character off-screen. Sheila Kennely, who played Floss Mcphee was also cut after the first year, but agreed to return in 2000, despite not being told she was cut back in 1989. Ailsa and Bobby made returns, but as they were both killed off, they returned as ghosts.

Many other characters have made returns, many of which were either during Sally's wedding or the massive landslide/storm in 2000. In most cases, the more popular charcters have made more significant returns, while less received characters have either had a cameo like at sally's wedding or not returned at all.

Future cast members

  • Debra Lawrance (Pippa Ross) (returning February 16th)(The role of Pippa was an original charcter,in fact, one of the main ones, but Debra Lawerance is the second actress to play this role, up until the character was written out. Pippa has since made numerous returns to Summer Bay and it has been Debra Lawrance who has reprised the role, rather than the first actress)*
  • Amy Mizzi (Katherine "Kit" Hunter) (returning March 2006 for 7 week guest stint)(Credited full time 2003-2004, recurring 2005 and 2006 as stated)
  • Kimberly Cooper (Gypsy Nash) (2006 - )(Credited full time 1998 - 2002)
  • Emily Perry (Zoe McCallister/Eve Jacobson) (Returning Late 2006)
  • The character of Selina is thus far the only one to have been played by two actresses, where on her return to visit Summer Bay, it has been the original actress, Tempany Deckart, who has reprised the role.

Departing cast members

  • Chris Hemsworth has announced he will not renew his contract when it expires at the end of 2006.

Actors Kate Ritchie and Ray Meagher have been with the show since the first episode, the longest such run in Australian television history. Ritchie was aged nine and playing a character a year younger when the show began filming in late 1987. Her character, Sally, is now a teacher at the local high school, and became Acting Principal when Norman Coburn's character, Donald Fisher, the previous principal and fellow original cast member, left the show. She is now assistant principal.

Alf has been in several business ventures, many of which were either destroyed by storylines involving natural disasters or losses through bad choices. Some examples include a mini supermarket(early years), the Diner (worked in the old one with Ailsa and also in the new one until recently, that is around 2002-2003), and currently the Surf Club. In late 2005, he also ran for Mayor in an attempt to stop Josh West (Daniel Collopy), but was unsuccessful due to some scam Josh pulled through.

Successful former cast members include Isla Fisher, Naomi Watts, Heath Ledger, Dannii Minogue, Julian McMahon, Simon Baker, Melissa George, Tammin Sursok, Bec Cartwright, Daniel Goddard.

Production and broadcast schedule

The show is filmed five days a week for 46 weeks of the year. The crew is given a four week holiday at Christmas and a two week break for recuperation mid-year. A normal shooting day is 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM, but can go later if shooting goes over time. There are 8 weeks between shooting and airing the program. The interior shots are filmed at a permanent set for the show in Seven Sydney's Epping studio. The exterior scenes are filmed on location at Palm Beach in Sydney's Northern Beaches region.

Australian Broadcast

Home and Away is broadcast in Australia on weekdays at 7:00pm. The show airs for 46 weeks each year (except for some years where Seven broadcast the Olympic Games in which only 44 weeks worth of episodes air). Each new season begins on the second Monday in January (an exception to this was the 2006 season where it returned on the third Monday), and the season finale airs on the last Friday in November.

During the broadcast there are three ad-breaks and immediately following the broadcast of each episode is a short promotional trailer for the next episode.

Repeat episodes of the series were broadcast between 1999 and 2002, with a one-year break in 2000. The first 623 episodes (except for Episode 469, which was overlooked when Seven were showing the tennis in September 2001) were shown in this run, before it was taken off in May 2002. and so far has never been returned.

International Broadcasts

As of 2006, in the UK, the show is broadcast weekdays at 6:00 PM, (repeated 12.00 PM weekdays).

In New Zealand, the show is broadcast weekdays at 5:30 PM, (repeated 11.00 AM weekdays and omnibus on Sundays 10:25 AM - New Zealand only).

In Ireland, the show is broadcast weekdays at 6:30 PM on RTÉ Two, regulary getting into the top 5 ratings for that week.

Other countries that broadcast Home and Away include: Belgium; Canada; Denmark; Estonia; Iceland; Israel; Lithuania; Norway; Poland; South Africa and Sweden.


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Other countries that broadcast Home and Away include: Belgium; Canada; Denmark; Estonia; Iceland; Israel; Lithuania; Norway; Poland; South Africa and Sweden. The following is a list, divided in historical periods, of the greatest players in the history of Juventus. In Ireland, the show is broadcast weekdays at 6:30 PM on RTÉ Two, regulary getting into the top 5 ratings for that week. In terms of league championships (called Albo d'Oro (palmarés) ), the club is the most successful in Italian football. In New Zealand, the show is broadcast weekdays at 5:30 PM, (repeated 11.00 AM weekdays and omnibus on Sundays 10:25 AM - New Zealand only). As of January 31, 2006. As of 2006, in the UK, the show is broadcast weekdays at 6:00 PM, (repeated 12.00 PM weekdays). .

and so far has never been returned. The previous record holder was Giampiero Boniperti, who scored 182 goals for the club. The first 623 episodes (except for Episode 469, which was overlooked when Seven were showing the tennis in September 2001) were shown in this run, before it was taken off in May 2002. On January 10, 2006 Alessandro Del Piero became the all time leading goalscorer for Juventus when he scored three times in a match against Fiorentina and took his total goals for the club to 185. Repeat episodes of the series were broadcast between 1999 and 2002, with a one-year break in 2000. The sale of Zinedine Zidane to Real Madrid of Spain was the most expensive in football to date, costing the Spanish club over $64 million (US), which is accurately £48 million. During the broadcast there are three ad-breaks and immediately following the broadcast of each episode is a short promotional trailer for the next episode. Juventus is now a corporation, listed on the Borsa Italiana.

Each new season begins on the second Monday in January (an exception to this was the 2006 season where it returned on the third Monday), and the season finale airs on the last Friday in November. In fact, Juventus won the Italian Championship 28 times, more than any other Italian club; no other club has won the championship over 20 times, but the closest one to that objective is AC Milan. The show airs for 46 weeks each year (except for some years where Seven broadcast the Olympic Games in which only 44 weeks worth of episodes air). The two stars on the Juventus shirt signify they have won the Scudetto over 20 times. Home and Away is broadcast in Australia on weekdays at 7:00pm. Most of its players remained with Juventus until the end of their careers; many still work for the club or for Fiat (or related companies). The exterior scenes are filmed on location at Palm Beach in Sydney's Northern Beaches region. Until recently, Juventus' players had to wear short (and regular) hair; the club also provided the team with official formal wear (made by famous tailors) and forced them to complete their educational studies.

The interior shots are filmed at a permanent set for the show in Seven Sydney's Epping studio. The club is also one of only four to have won all three major European trophies. There are 8 weeks between shooting and airing the program. They have won 28 Italian titles and nine Coppa Italias to date, both national records. A normal shooting day is 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM, but can go later if shooting goes over time. However, in 1999, due to their poor domestic season, they were forced into the ignominy of entering the UEFA Intertoto Cup in order to qualify for Europe. The crew is given a four week holiday at Christmas and a two week break for recuperation mid-year. Juventus also won the Cup Winners' Cup in 1984 and two more UEFA Cup (1990, 1993).

The show is filmed five days a week for 46 weeks of the year. Juventus repeated the success by winning the Champions League for a second time in 1996, and have not won it again since, the closest chance being when they lost to AC Milan in the 2003 final due to losing in a penalty shootout. Successful former cast members include Isla Fisher, Naomi Watts, Heath Ledger, Dannii Minogue, Julian McMahon, Simon Baker, Melissa George, Tammin Sursok, Bec Cartwright, Daniel Goddard. The height of European success was not reached until 1985, when they won the European Champions Cup, but this success was largely overshadowed by the Heysel disaster that had occurred during the final between Juventus and Liverpool. In late 2005, he also ran for Mayor in an attempt to stop Josh West (Daniel Collopy), but was unsuccessful due to some scam Josh pulled through. Post-war the club was very successful domestically, winning its tenth championship in 1961, but did not win any European titles until 1977 with the UEFA Cup. Some examples include a mini supermarket(early years), the Diner (worked in the old one with Ailsa and also in the new one until recently, that is around 2002-2003), and currently the Surf Club. In 1933, they began playing at the Stadio Comunale.

Alf has been in several business ventures, many of which were either destroyed by storylines involving natural disasters or losses through bad choices. From 1931, the club won five consecutive Italian league championships (Italian scudetto). She is now assistant principal. In 1923, the Agnelli family (owners of Fiat) gained control of the club, and built a private stadium in Villar Perosa (near Turin) and a complete series of facilities and services. Her character, Sally, is now a teacher at the local high school, and became Acting Principal when Norman Coburn's character, Donald Fisher, the previous principal and fellow original cast member, left the show. The team won a previous version of the national league titles as early as 1905, but did not win their second until 1926. Ritchie was aged nine and playing a character a year younger when the show began filming in late 1987. was founded in November 1897 by students from Massimo D'Azeglio Lyceum, in a "legendary" bench in one of Turin's boulevard, Re Umberto boulevard.

Actors Kate Ritchie and Ray Meagher have been with the show since the first episode, the longest such run in Australian television history. Juventus F.C. In most cases, the more popular charcters have made more significant returns, while less received characters have either had a cameo like at sally's wedding or not returned at all. This arrangement will end after the 2004–05 season, when Torino Calcio will open a new ground of its own. Many other characters have made returns, many of which were either during Sally's wedding or the massive landslide/storm in 2000. The club's stadium is the 69,041-seat Stadio Delle Alpi, which it currently shares with Torino Calcio. Ailsa and Bobby made returns, but as they were both killed off, they returned as ghosts. When the club decided to change these, it was decided to import kits in the red of Nottingham Forest, but a mix-up by the supplier meant that the team got the Notts County black and white instead.

Sheila Kennely, who played Floss Mcphee was also cut after the first year, but agreed to return in 2000, despite not being told she was cut back in 1989. Originally the team played in pink shirts (pink being the cheapest material available) with a black tie. When he refused to come back as he was still upset about it, the decision was made to kill his character off-screen. The team gets its black-and-white striped kits from English side Notts County. The reason why Frank Llyod refused to return was that his character was written out after the first year as producers felt that they needed more time for the younger characters, and wasn't imformed about this by producers, but rather from reading local tv magazines. The team typically plays in black-and-white striped shirts and black shorts (but for decades in white shorts), and is nicknamed la Vecchia Signora (the Old Lady), bianconeri (black-and-white's), zebre (zebras), or deprecatively gobbi (humpbacks) by the opponents. Neville Mcphee was killed off-screen after Frank llyod, who played Neville refused to come back in 2000 for Sally's wedding. Juventus are widely regarded as one of the world's top clubs.

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The character of Selina is thus far the only one to have been played by two actresses, where on her return to visit Summer Bay, it has been the original actress, Tempany Deckart, who has reprised the role. Filippo Inzaghi. Emily Perry (Zoe McCallister/Eve Jacobson) (Returning Late 2006). Christian Vieri. Kimberly Cooper (Gypsy Nash) (2006 - )(Credited full time 1998 - 2002). Antonio Conte. Amy Mizzi (Katherine "Kit" Hunter) (returning March 2006 for 7 week guest stint)(Credited full time 2003-2004, recurring 2005 and 2006 as stated). Fabrizio Ravanelli.

Pippa has since made numerous returns to Summer Bay and it has been Debra Lawrance who has reprised the role, rather than the first actress)*. Alessandro Del Piero. Debra Lawrance (Pippa Ross) (returning February 16th)(The role of Pippa was an original charcter,in fact, one of the main ones, but Debra Lawerance is the second actress to play this role, up until the character was written out. Angelo Di Livio. Cameron and Nicholas Stevens (Vincent "VJ" Patterson, Jr.) (2002-. Roberto Baggio. Doug Scroope (Graham Walters) (2005-2006). Gianluca Vialli.

Emily Perry (Zoe) (2005-2006). Zinédine Zidane. Tameka and Bojana Main (Pippa Saunders) (2004-. Didier Deschamps. Amy Mizzi (Kit Hunter) (2003-2004,2005,2006). Ciro Ferrara. Isaac Gorman (Ryan Baker) (2005-. Angelo Peruzzi.

Cornelia Frances (Morag Bellingham)(Credited full time 1988 - 1989, recurring 1994,2001- The character of Morag Bellingham has become somewhat of a full-time recurring character making numerous visits since 2001, possibly due to her resurgance in television with her hosting the Weakest Link , Australian version in 2001, along with her popularity in Australia and her character being one of the most memorable despite being full-time for only a year). Paolo Rossi. Unlike Cornelia/Morag, his character's return will not constitute a long term recurance). Marco Tardelli. Daniel Collopy (Joshua "Josh" West)(Credited full time 2001-2003, recurring for 2005 to 2006 for one of the current storylines. Franco Causio. Rhys Wakefield (Lucas Holden) (2005-). Gaetano Scirea.

Sharni Vinson (Cassandra Turner) (2005-). Antonio Cabrini. Jessica Tovey (Belle Taylor) (2006-). Claudio Gentile. Jason Smith (Robbie Hunter) (2003-2007). Dino Zoff. Jon Sivewright (Tony Holden) (2005-). Andreas Möller.

Kate Ritchie (Sally Fletcher) (1988-). Stefan Reuter. Paul O'Brien (Jack Holden) (2005-). Thomas Häßler. Ada Nicodemou (Leah Patterson) (2000-). Jürgen Kohler. Ray Meagher (Alf Stewart) (1988-). Michael Laudrup.

Joel McIlroy (Flynn Saunders) (#2) (2003-2006). Stefano Tacconi. Lynne McGranger (Irene Roberts) (#2) (1992-). Liam Brady. Amy Mathews (Rachel Armstrong) (2006-). Michel Platini. Isabel Lucas (Tasha Andrews) (2003-). Zbigniew Boniek.

Ivar Kants (Barry Hyde) (2004-). Franco Causio. Clarissa House (Beth Hunter) (2003-). Pietro Anastasi. Chris Hemsworth (Kim Hyde) (2004-2006). Giuseppe Furino. Jodi Gordon (Martha McKenzie) (2005-). Fabio Capello.

Mark Furze (Eric Dalby) (2004-). Antonello Cuccureddu. Indiana Evans (Matilda Hunter) (2004-). Roberto Bettega. Lyn Collingwood (Colleen Smart) (1988-1989, 1997, 1999-). Roberto Boninsegna. Tim Campbell (Daniel Baker) (2004-2006). Helmut Haller.

Holly Brisley (Amanda Vale) (2005-). Luis Del Sol. Nicholas Bishop (Peter Baker) (2004-2005, 2006-2007). José Altafini. List of cast members of Home and Away. John Charles. Past Home and Away characters. Omar Sivori.

Current Home and Away characters. Giampiero Boniperti. Ermes Muccinelli. Carlo Parola. Felice Borel.

Giovanni Ferrari. Luis Monti. Raimundo Orsi. Umberto Caligaris.

Virginio Rosetta. Giampiero Combi. First team in Europe to win Champions League/Cup Winners Cup/UEFA Cup. 1985, 1996.

Intercontinental Cups: 2

    . 1999. Intertoto Cups: 1
      . 1985, 1996.

      European Super Cups: 2

        . 1976-77, 1989-90, 1992-93. UEFA Cups: 3
          . 1983-84.

          Cup Winners' Cups: 1

            . 1984-85, 1995-96. European Cups: 2
              . 1995, 1997, 2002, 2003.

              Italian Supercups: 4

                . 1937-38, 1941-42, 1958-59, 1959-60, 1964-65, 1978-79, 1982-83, 1989-90, 1994-95. Italian Cups: 9
                  . 1905, 1925-26, 1930-31, 1931-32, 1932-33, 1933-34, 1934-35, 1949-50, 1951-52, 1957-58, 1959-60, 1960-61, 1966-67, 1971-72, 1972-73, 1974-75, 1976-77, 1977-78, 1980-81, 1981-82, 1983-84, 1985-86, 1994-95, 1996-97, 1997-98, 2001-02, 2002-03, 2004-05.

                  Italian Championships: 28

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