Home And Away World

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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. Furthermore, many fans believe the shift in the UK from ITV to Five damaged its popularity. Contract obligations sent it off air in the UK for a year and the smaller audience share Five has means the show now rates significantly lower than it did on ITV (though it is Five's second highest rated show) and its ratings are less than half of BBC1's Neighbours. Five funds more than half of the production costs. It has run since January 1988 and is still in production.

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.

In the forum, you will be able to chat about everything related to Home And Away!! For example, spoilers, characters and Home and away villians!

Current Cast Members.

Nicholas Bishop (Peter Baker) (2004-)

Holly Brisley (Amanda Vale) (2005-2006)

Tim Campbell (Dan Baker) (2004-2006)

Lyn Collingwood (Colleen Smart) (1988-1989, 1997, 1999-)

Indiana Evans (Matilda Hunter) (2004-)

Mark Furze (Eric/Ric Dalby) (2004-)

Jodi Gordon (Martha McKenzie) (2005-)

Chris Hemsworth (Kim Hyde) (2004-2006)

Clarissa House (Beth Hunter) (2003-2007)

Ivar Kants (Barry Hyde) (2004-)

Isabel Lucas (Tasha Andrews) (2003-)

Amy Mathews (Rachel Armstrong) (2006-)

Lynne McGranger (Irene Roberts) (1992-)

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 (Cassie Turner) (2005-)

Rhys Wakefield (Lucas Holden) (2005-)

Future Cast Members.

Emily Perry (Eve Jacobson/Zoe McCallister) (Returning Mid-April 2006)

Rodger Corser (TBA) (Starting in April 2006)

Geraldine Turner (TBA) (Starting in 2006)