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The weird genius of Neighbours made ordinary life seem precious

The Australian soap ran about nine thousand three hundred sixty-three episodes before Amazon declined to renew it; RoseBerry Media is now recutting it into vertical clips.

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe Telegraph says Neighbours made ordinary life seem precious. The show ran from nineteen eighty-five to twenty twenty-five, about nine thousand three hundred sixty-three episodes.

  2. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorWith us is Winston Achterberg, inmate forty thousand six hundred seventeen at Danbury, who says he's an expert.

  3. Winston AchterbergStrictly as a viewer, Hank, I watched every one of them. The prison library gets the channel on Sundays.

  4. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIs it ordinary life, though? In the eighties, Toadie drove himself and Dee into the sea on their honeymoon.

  5. Winston AchterbergYes, ordinary. Drive into the sea, come back later. Neighbours call that a commute.

  6. Winston AchterbergStrictly as a viewer, a return like that takes a lot of forms. I've filled out a few.

  7. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFilled out what?

  8. Winston AchterbergHypothetical forms. Look, my favorite is the pub booking Powerfinger.

  9. Winston AchterbergToadie thought it was Powderfinger, and the act was a guy with a keyboard. Strictly as a viewer, I've booked a keyboard guy for a wedding that wasn't one.

  10. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo the wedding wasn't one, and you booked the entertainment.

  11. Winston AchterbergI'm saying nothing. But Amazon didn't renew it, and RoseBerry Media is cutting it into vertical clips with Margot Robbie.

  12. Winston AchterbergI'd be a great script editor. Please write that down.

  13. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorI've read worse. Not today, but I have.

  14. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorI'll write viewer. The parole board can read the rest.

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