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EastErinsborough is a short spoof video where the long-running Australian soap opera Neighbours wishes EastEnders a happy birthday for its 30th anniversary, when it got 11.9m viewers with a fully live episode on Friday evening, following occasional live inserts during the earlier episodes in the week.
Personally, I haven’t watch Neighbours for a good few years because it went a bit crap, particularly around the time it moved across to Channel 5. A lot of decent characters had left by then, and it didn’t help when C5 were forced to adopt the iffy pretend-cinema look that it had (otherwise known as “field-removed video”) which the BBC technically should’ve had for the last 69 episodes they broadcast, but after all that time of broadcasting the show, they were able to request unique versions of the episodes which didn’t have this effect, and also replaced advert gaps with brief cutaways to outdoor shots of the houses.
Anyhoo, this excellent video shows Susan (Jackie Woodburne) and Karl Kennedy (Alan Fletcher) watching Eastenders on TV, and along the way, Susan ends up seeing Paul Robinson (Stefan Dennis) acting like Phil Mitchell, and other characters playing Kat Moon, and so on.
Check out the EastErinsborough video below:
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