Screen Producers Australia: “The loss of Neighbours is a blow to the Australian screen ecosystem”
If the Federal Government had mandated local quotas on streaming platforms as it vowed to do by 1 July 2024, might Neighbours have been saved?
Perhaps….
Perhaps not.
But there is also the removal of Drama sub-quotas on Free to Air networks in 2020 which is a contributing factor, according to Screen Producers Australia.
SPA CEO Matthew Deaner said, “The loss of Neighbours is a blow to the Australian screen ecosystem, which needs long-running, stable content production like this to be