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Do people in England really watch a lot of Australlian soap operas?

a lot of people do. i don't, but that's because i don't like any soap operas. my mum likes soaps but mainly british ones.

Neighbours is a soap opera????

I thought it was one of those reality TV shows!! !

Not personally. But then I cant stand British soaps either.

my mum watches Neighbours, or at least she used to. she stopped watching it when her religion said it was 'unwholesome entertainment'

so now she watches The Weakest Link instead. don't ask

I think its normally kids that watch them. Home and Away and Neighbours since they are perfectly timed for the little darlings when they come home from school.

I like Britcoms.

Some peeple do. Neibors is on BBC 1 and Home and Aways on channel 5. Australian soaps seem a helluva lot better than the crap British soap riters keep pourin out allthogh i dont genrally watch soaps anyway lol

Same here. I have the complete DVD sets of Fawlty Towers, Are You Being Served, and Keepng up Appearances. On Keeping Up Appearances, Hyacinth is the total opposite of what most of us are. To her, image is everything but most of us here don't care about image. I guess that's why I find her so funny.

Don't forget others like Good Neigbors(aka Good Life), Yes Minister, Yes Prime Minister, and of course, Monty Python's Flying Circus. They just don't make TV shows like that anymore.

I'm also a fan of some of the ITC productions action/adventure programs of the 1960's and 1970's. Stuff like U.F.O., Space: 1999 season 1, The Prisoner, The Champions, etc., are all classic in my eyes. Even though these shows often cast American actors, they are still British and tried to do what American TV never would.

These days, I find TV less and less entertaining. Most of what is coming out is just plain junk, so I seldom find myself watching anymore.

I love Monty Python. I hope they're gonna start showing it again on BBC America. I hate all this Footballers' Wives crap that's on now though.

But I do love Cash in the Attic. But I'm just nerdy that way. It's my favorite show, lol. We get reruns of course. Don't even know if it's still on in the UK.

Cash in the attic is on lunchtimes.

My sister-in-law records Neighbours (coz it's on whilst she's at work) daily and watches it avidly. As fair as I know, she hasn't missed a simgle episode since it started back in the mid-80s, BTW, she's 34 - for some there is no hope...

I must admit to getting drawn into the 20th Anniversary edition of said antipodean soap recently and ooohhinh and aaarhing at the cast of has-beens that was paraded before us.

I'm not sure if they did? I know that Australian humor is like scat jokes and such.

My favorite British shows bye the way are The Muppet Show (it was filmed in the UK), Monty Python and Spitting Image.

My favorite British shows were Mr. Bean and a comedy sex show called Coupling. They were funny funny shows.