{"id":42874,"date":"2024-01-02T15:06:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T14:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1952893"},"modified":"2024-01-02T18:03:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T17:03:38","slug":"home-and-away-marks-35th-anniversary-with-reruns-on-new-tv-channel","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/home-and-away-marks-35th-anniversary-with-reruns-on-new-tv-channel\/","title":{"rendered":"Home and Away marks 35th anniversary with reruns on new TV channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> Classic episodes will soon start airing on new channel That&#8217;s TV 2. <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By James Hibbs\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Tuesday, 02 January 2024 at 14:06 PM<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/soaps\/home-and-away\/\">Home and Away<\/a> continues to air brand new episodes on Channel 5, the long-running Australian soap will soon be bringing classic episodes to a new Freeview TV channel.<\/p>\n<p>The channel, That\u2019s TV 2, is a sister channel to That\u2019s TV, and will also be airing other classic series including Humans, Baywatch and Prisoner: Cell Block H. It will start broadcasting from Wednesday 3rd January on Freeview channel 65, Sky channel 188 and Freesat channel 181.<\/p>\n<p>The episodes of Home and Away will be airing to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the soap, giving viewers the opportunity to relive the show\u2019s first episodes, not seen on terrestrial TV since it all started.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Head of Programming for That\u2019s TV and That\u2019s TV 2, Kris Vaiksalu, said: \u201cOver the past year That\u2019s TV has reached new heights and we now have a schedule bursting with iconic TV shows from Benidorm to Shameless.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u201cThere are so many more iconic TV shows we would love to show but we had simply run out of hours to fit them in. So I asked myself, what would Einstein do? It\u2019s been a lot of work but we\u2019re hugely excited and privileged to be launching That\u2019s TV 2 as our second archive TV channel.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Happy 35 years to us! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HomeandAway?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HomeandAway<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/35years?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#35years<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/summerbay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#summerbay<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/birthday?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#birthday<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/anniversary?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#anniversary<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5NnvcrVbxO\">pic.twitter.com\/5NnvcrVbxO<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Home and Away (@homeandaway) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/homeandaway\/status\/1615154222655504384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"\/>\n<p>Vaiksalu continued: \u201cOur aim is to make it a complete nostalgia-fest with such iconic shows from the beginning as Home and Away, Humans, Prisoner Cell Block H and Baywatch. That\u2019s TV 2 does what it says on the tin \u2013 it\u2019s a second helping of iconic TV from the That\u2019s TV team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/soaps\/coronation-street\/coronation-street-will-mellor-harvey-return-exclusive\/\">Will Mellor says multiple Coronation Street characters should fear Harvey\u2019s return<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/soaps\/eastenders\/eastenders-max-bowden-ben-mitchell-leave-newsupdate\/\">EastEnders confirms Max Bowden exit from role as Ben Mitchell in 2024<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Home and Away first started airing on 17th January 1988, and Channel 5 acquired the rights to the Australian soap in 2000. The channel has been airing brand new episodes ever since.<\/p> <p>Following the cancellation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/soaps\/neighbours\/\">Neighbours<\/a> (which was later rebooted) in 2022, fans had worried about the future of Home and Away as well \u2013 however, Channel 5\u2019s director of programmes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/soaps\/home-and-away\/home-away-channel-5-safe-newsupdate\/\">Ben Frow, revealed there was no prospect of the soap getting dropped<\/a> by the broadcaster ahead of time.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cI think it will be interesting to see what we do with it as we evolve. There might be somewhere else to put it in the 5 spectrum. But it\u2019s a life-of-series deal, so it\u2019s not going anywhere until the makers decide to cancel it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Home and Away airs weekdays at 1:45pm on Channel 5 and at 6pm on 5STAR. You can catch the first-look on weekdays at 6.30pm on 5STAR, and the show also streams on My5.\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Check out more of our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/soaps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Soaps<\/a>\u00a0coverage or visit our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/tv-listings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0to see what\u2019s on tonight.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Try Radio Times magazine today and get 10 issues for only \u00a310 \u2013\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/magazine-subscription\/?utm_term=evergreen-article\"><strong>subscribe now<\/strong><\/a><strong>. For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/audio\/podcasts\/\"><strong>The Radio Times Podcast<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Classic episodes will soon start airing on new channel That&#8217;s TV 2. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":42875,"template":"","categories":[1,2,5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/01\/home-and-away-marks-35th-anniversary-with-reruns-on-new-tv-channel.jpg",900,600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/01\/home-and-away-marks-35th-anniversary-with-reruns-on-new-tv-channel-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/01\/home-and-away-marks-35th-anniversary-with-reruns-on-new-tv-channel-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/01\/home-and-away-marks-35th-anniversary-with-reruns-on-new-tv-channel-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/01\/home-and-away-marks-35th-anniversary-with-reruns-on-new-tv-channel.jpg",800,533,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/01\/home-and-away-marks-35th-anniversary-with-reruns-on-new-tv-channel.jpg",900,600,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/01\/home-and-away-marks-35th-anniversary-with-reruns-on-new-tv-channel.jpg",900,600,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Classic episodes will soon start airing on new channel That's TV 2.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/42874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}