Is There Going To Be A Kiwi Version Of "Home and Away"?

Publish Date
Monday, 16 November 2015, 6:44AM
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TV3 is proposing a new soap that will try to replicate Home and Away - and it could be one of our most expensive shows ever made.

The Herald on Sunday understands the show will be based around a beach community, will screen up to four nights a week, and will require more than $10million of funding.

It sounds like it is set to be family-oriented and set on the outskirts of Auckland.

"It will be a soft, family relationship series set in a fictional community," a TV industry insider revealed.

"It is about beach life culture on the fringes of Auckland and will not be unlike Home and Away."

 

NZ On Air made a $10 million commitment to a 5.30pm soap called The Point in 2006-07 but the idea was dropped in favour of other dramas.

When Shortland Street was launched in 1992 it received almost $9 million over four years.

This year NZ On Air awarded TV3 series Westside $7.6million to make a second series and new TVNZ drama series Dirty Laundry $6.7 million.

 

"A decision will be made on December 11," spokeswoman Allanah Kalafatelis said.

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