Table of Content
- Home And Away popular with New Zealand gangs
- Blizzards form 'bomb cyclone' as six die and millions are left without power in the US and Canada
- Further reading
- 'Significant disruption': Qantas passengers stranded in Bali and Baku over Christmas
- Home and Away cuts gay kisses from Australian television, network blames human error
- Tunisha Sharma dies by suicide at 20; hangs herself in makeup room of the lead actor of Ali Baba: Dastaan-E-Kabul
- Popularity and viewership
Amy Winehouse, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, Jonathan Brandis, and Anton Yelchin are all stars who never made it to twenty-eight years old. R&B singer Aaliyah died at just twenty-two years old while flying back from her “Rock the Boat” video shoot in the Bahamas. “Queen of Tejano music” Selena Quintanilla Pérez tragically died after she was shot by the president of her fan club, Yolanda Saldívar.
Tunisha Sharma wanted to go back home to celebrate Christmas and her birthday with her family a... If you'd like to join the countless Mandy members who have worked on the show sign up today and start apply for paid jobs. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work. But Ms Shillington said both Home and Away and Neighbours were both yet to have a long-term lesbian couple, something she would like to see change. Ms Shillington said how LGBTIQ characters were portrayed on Australian screens had an impact beyond television.
Home And Away popular with New Zealand gangs
Following two warm-up matches, England play a day-night Test against New Zealand in Mount Maunganui on February before a second Test in Wellington on February 24-28. "I mean, Home and Away still rates really highly, but that model of broadcast is really fighting for its life so it doesn't surprise me in some way that there is a feeling of needing to pander to the broadest possible demographic." "At the moment, the free-to-air networks are under immense pressure, they are losing eyeballs each day because of streamers and so on," she said.

In addition to this, Home and Away took a transmission break on 3 April 2018 in order to broadcast the 2018 Commonwealth Games, and returned on 16 April 2018. Home and Away has been sold to over eighty countries around the world, making it one of Australia's most successful media exports. In the UK, it and Neighbours, another Australian soap opera, are the most popular of the genre that are filmed internationally, with them both airing on Channel 5. It is one of the highest-rating shows on RTÉ Television in Ireland and TVNZ 2 in New Zealand. In Australia, Home and Away is the most awarded program at the Logie Awards, with a total of forty-eight wins, including Most Popular Drama Program.
Blizzards form 'bomb cyclone' as six die and millions are left without power in the US and Canada
The following night, the viewing figure fell to 581,000 and the show ranked 10th for the night. The first triple bill on 21 February pulled in 577,000 viewers and ranked 8th for the evening. The ratings for the triple bill episodes continued to fall from 524,000 to 414,000 viewers, and on 28 March 2019, the triple bill pulled in a series low of 383,000 viewers and ranked 14th for the night.

Locations within the town include the beach, a high school, diner, bait shop, garage and a surf club, which includes a gym, small kiosk and an upstairs restaurant. Characters in the show live at surrounding neighbouring areas such as the Summer Bay House, Summer Bay Caravan Park, Beach House, The Farmhouse, Pier Flat, and Saxon Avenue. Other fictional towns mentioned and sometimes seen in Home and Away are Mangrove River and Yabbie Creek. Just three days ago, Tunisha had said in her interview that she wanted to go back home to her hometown in Chandigarh and celebrate the Christmas eve and shared her New Year plans.
Further reading
The show is however blocked in Northern Ireland via the SKY platform on both RTE1 and RTE2, yet it remains available on Irish platform Saorview for both Irish and Northern Irish viewers. The geo block has been lifted on the Sky platform in Northern Ireland and all airings are available to view. Home and Away is consistently RTÉ's most-watched soap opera, and in 2021, the series was streamed by 4.9 million viewers. Home and Away follows the lives and loves of the residents in Summer Bay, a fictional seaside town in New South Wales. During the first season alone, it featured several adult-themed storylines such as teen pregnancy, rape, drug and alcohol addiction, drug overdose and attempted suicide. The series has dealt with similar storylines over the years which have often exceeded its restricted time slot.
Ethan loved to watch films when he was little, but they didn’t just inspire him to become an actor - his favourite genre also led to him developing an interest in martial arts. He may have ended up venturing into acting instead, but music is still a part of Ethan’s life - he still shares clips on Instagram of drumming sessions. From impressive hidden talents in music and martial arts to a huge career change, here’s everything we know about the actor. "They can expect a familiar sense of humour unique to New Zealand, and to see a tight-knit family that faces their problems head on," he told the Herald.
'Significant disruption': Qantas passengers stranded in Bali and Baku over Christmas
April 2019 saw a slight rise in the viewing figures; the first episode of the month drew in 740,000 viewers and ranked 9th for that night. While Home and Away features a mix of young cast members and older, more experienced actors, the show has always had a definite youth focus, with the younger characters dominating much of the storylines. Many of the cast have spent several years on Home and Away, including original cast member Judy Nunn who left the series in 2000 after 12 years playing the co-owner of Summer Bay's diner. Other original cast members Norman Coburn played high school principal Donald Fisher until 2003, and Kate Ritchie departed in 2008 after 20 years playing Sally Fletcher. Both Coburn and Ritchie along with Ray Meagher entered the 2002 Guinness World Records as the longest-serving actors in an Australian drama series.
Eliana Quarles is a current undergraduate student from Washington, D.C. You can often find her scrolling through celebrity gossip accounts on TikTok, watching reality TV, or sending her friends updates on the latest celebrity news. As a History major, she enjoys learning about the historical development of Hollywood and celebrity culture. In addition to keeping tabs on celebrity news, she also enjoys listening to music, watching movies, and hanging out with friends and family. Just three days ago before committing suicide, Tunisha Sharma had said that she wanted to go back home to her hometown in Chandigarh to celebrate Christmas, New Year's eve and her birthday with her family and friends. In the UK the soap historically aired on ITV until it moved to Channel 5 (& now Paramount Network) in 2001.
S official Australian Facebook page reached one million likes, becoming the first Australian television show to reach this milestone. The Facebook page was established in November 2009 and is followed by fans mostly in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway and the United Kingdom. In 2013, Home and Away celebrated its 25th anniversary and former cast member Kate Ritchie returned for a special storyline to coincide with the celebrations. For the first time in the show's history, Home and Away aired a two-hander episode, featuring only the characters Ricky Sharpe and Darryl "Brax" Braxton , on 14 February 2016. Palm Beach in Sydney's Northern Beaches district has been used as the location for Summer Bay since Home and Away began in 1988. It has since become popular with tourists, and tours to the show's exterior sets at Palm Beach run throughout the year.

The various titles mostly featured scenes of bikini-clad women and shirtless men with surfboards at the beach. In 2018, a new series of eight-second titles were introduced along with the return of the show's theme song. The new titles, which currently change during each week, mostly feature two men or two women running down to the ocean for a surf. A 30-second version of the titles, not aired on Australian television, was released on the Home and Away website.
The caravan park set moved back to the estate after the house was rebuilt, and both exterior sets made their on-screen returns in 2015. The Summer Bay House is the only house to still be seen on screen since the pilot episode. For some dedicated fans, the death of their favorite celebrity can feel like the death of a family member—especially when their death comes suddenly. The “27 Club” is used to name the group of celebrities who died at age twenty-seven.
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. The family's setback is particularly hard on Nikau, who's devastated to be absent for the scattering of his father's ashes. Summer Bay’s Harley Bonner and Sam Frost share details of Logan and Jasmine's race against time to save lives after a horrifying mass poisoning incident. Summer Bay star Matt Evan’s has opened up about Theo Poulos’ make or break moment that could see his future being derailed. Summer Bay star Jacqui Purvis shares details of Felicity Newman’s stunned response to Tane Parata’s romantic gesture.
Alex Shillington covers queer pop culture on social media, and has written about the Home and Away characters, Alex Neilson and Willow Harris, who have become a new lesbian couple on the Channel Seven drama. In real life, New Zealand film-maker Tainui Stephens wrote this haka especially for Home and Away. Cultural advisor Kani Collier came to the set to teach the actors how to perform it. Rob Kipa-Williams, who plays Ari Parata, led an emotional haka alongside Tane and their nephew Nikau (Kawakawa Fox-Reo) on the beach to mark the death of their brother and father Mikaere one year ago. In the United States, Home and Away was first shown briefly on the FX cable network from the channel's launch on 1 June 1994 to February 1995. Over two decades later, the show began streaming on the subscription service Hulu on 2 March 2015, beginning with the 2015 season.

He'd cut himself at work, goes to hospital and there he is, in the middle of the siege, sitting next to Marilyn ! No, I wasn't introduced to it properly until my last year of high school. Summer Bay's newest residents, the Parata family, are set to cause quite a stir when they arrive in town.