Re: English To Hindi Neighbours
Joao Charlesbois
Neighbours was created by Australian TV executive Reg Watson.[2][3] Watson got the idea for Neighbours during his time working on Crossroads and watching fellow soap Coronation Street in Britain.[4] He had already created successful Australian made soap operas The Young Doctors, Prisoner and Sons and Daughters.[2] Watson proposed the idea of making a show that would focus on more realistic stories and portray teens and adults who talk openly to each other and solve their problems together.[3][5] He also wanted the show to appeal to both Australian and British audiences.[4] Several titles were discussed, including People Like Us, One Way Street, No Through Road and Living Together, before Neighbours was chosen.[2] Watson said "In the end it came down to being what it is, a story around neighbours."[6] Reporters from the Herald Sun said that Watson took his idea to the Nine Network in 1982, but it was rejected.[7][8] He then went to the Seven Network, who commissioned the show in September 1984. The serial went into production that November with an $8 million budget.[9] The show's initial premise focused on three households, made up of 12 core characters, living in Ramsay Street, dealing with everyday life with humour and drama.[10] The first episode was broadcast on 18 March 1985 and reviews for the show were favourable.[10][11] However, the Melbourne-produced program underperformed in the Sydney market and Seven announced on 12 July 1985 that it was cancelling the show.[12][11]
In February 2022, it was announced that Channel 5 would be dropping the serial from its schedule later that year, and that production would cease if an alternative British broadcaster was not secured.[49] In response to the threat to the series' future, a fan-run petition on Change.org asking Channel 5 to reconsider its decision was launched,[50] which was signed by over 50,000 people,[51] including cast member Lucinda Cowden.[52] The petition reached 50,000 signatures after one week. This also sparked #saveneighbours to trend on social media.[53] Former star Jason Donovan and Home and Away actor Shane Withington also expressed their support for the soap on Twitter.[54][55] Neighbours actor Jackie Woodburne said in an interview with The Project that the cast were "in shock" upon hearing the news,[56] while Alan Fletcher said the soap needs "a hero" to save it and Cowden explained that "the idea of no longer playing Mel is devastating."[57][52] Numerous current and former cast members, such as Annie Jones, Natalie Bassingthwaighte and Geoff Paine,[58][59] expressed their sadness online, specifically Rob Mills, who called on the Morrison government to step in and help.[60] After the decision to cut the show's funding by British broadcaster Channel 5, an online campaign was launched trying to get Barry Crocker's version of the Neighbours theme song to number one in the UK charts. This success had the tune at number one on the iTunes chart for almost 24 hours.[61][53] An article in the Sydney Morning Herald noted that following the merger of Viacom and CBS, Channel 5 in the UK and Channel 10 in Australia became owned by the same corporate umbrella. Despite the soap being the 4th most popular in the UK (behind the country's traditional top 3 soaps), the funding arrangements meant that one part of ViacomCBS was cross-subsidising another.[62]
In the United States, Neighbours premiered on KCOP-TV in Los Angeles on 3 June 1991 at 5:30 pm weekdays.[3] KCOP planned to cancel the show by the end of the month due to low ratings, but brought it back due to viewer demand at a 9:30 am daily time slot from 1 July to 30 August 1991.[164][165][166] New York City station WWOR-TV showed Neighbours weekdays 5:30 pm from 17 June to 17 September 1991. Sixty-five selected episodes were aired from the beginning to where Charlene leaves Ramsay Street in 1988 in both markets.[166] In April 2004, the show began broadcasting nationally on the television channel Oxygen.[167] A spokeswomen from the channel said "Now our viewers can join in on the good, the bad and the endlessly entertaining lives of our Aussie neighbours."[167] The episodes started from the Scully family's arrival in 1999 and were aired for a six-week trial basis. The show was broadcast in the afternoon with two episodes being shown back to back at 1:00 pm and 2:00 pm.[168] After a couple of weeks, and only 65 episodes aired, the show was moved to a late-night time slot and it eventually left the air.[169] On 7 July 2014, Todd Spangler from Variety reported that FremantleMedia International had signed a deal with U.S. subscription service Hulu giving it exclusive rights to the most recent season of Neighbours.[170] The soap began airing from 14 July, with new episodes airing daily from Monday through to Friday, on Hulu and Hulu Plus services. The episodes were four weeks behind the Australian broadcast.[170] All episodes of Neighbours were later[when?] removed from Hulu.[123] From 18 September 2023, new episodes along with archive episodes, is now streaming on Amazon Freevee.
This book explores social cohesion in rural settlements in western Europe from 700-1050, asking to what extent settlements, or districts, constituted units of social organisation. It focuses on the interactions, interconnections and networks of people who lived side by side - neighbours. Drawing evidence from most of the current western European countries, the book plots and interrogates the very different practices of this wide range of regions in a systematically comparative framework. It considers the variety of local responses to the supra-local agents of landlords and rulers and the impact, such as it was, of those agents on the small-scale residential group. It also assesses the impact on local societies of the values, instructions and demands of the wider literate world of Christianity, as delivered by local priests.
This is where the volunteer neighbours come in. Reset uses our expertise from supporting groups who welcome refugees through the Community Sponsorship programme to equip volunteers with the right training and assistance to be ready to support the nurses once they arrive.
It has often been said that good drainage makes for good neighbours. Unfortunately, drainage of water is one the most common areas of dispute between rural neighbours, whether they be farmers or not. Drainage disputes generally fall into the realm of Common Law, a system of law that Ontario inherited from Great Britain. Common Law forms the basis of our legal system. It always applies, unless it is specifically altered by a statute passed by our Provincial or Federal Governments. Common Law disputes are arguments between landowners, and if they cannot be mutually resolved, final solutions can be determined through the courts.
Even though the courts have the ultimate decision on drainage disputes, neighbours should try to reach some common ground, and solve the problem in a neighbourly fashion without going to court. Court rulings in Common Law may not make either side happy. It is the intent of this Factsheet to help rural neighbours come to their own solutions and to avoid taking legal action against each other.
If "his water" is surface water, then it has no right of drainage. Neighbours can either choose to keep their water on their property, or allow it to pass along onto property at a lower elevation. Similarly, property owners at a lower elevation can either accept the water from neighbours above them or reject it. However, once the water reaches a natural watercourse it must be allowed to continue to flow through all properties.
Suppose there are two owners of adjacent parcels of land, A and B, where A is at a higher elevation than B. Obviously, precipitation that falls on the lands of A will flow towards the lands of B. If B objects to the flow of the surface water onto his lands, and A has done nothing to collect or concentrate the flow of water from his land, the courts are unlikely to rule against A, since they recognize that water flows downhill naturally. However, if B does not want the water from A, he can reject the water by building an impervious wall, berm or dyke along the boundary of his land, and in effect dam the water back upon the higher lands of A. Even though this may cause damage to A's property, B would not likely be liable, since surface water has no right of drainage, and A must accept the flooding. B may even fill his land until it exceeds the height of the higher ground of A. This apparent paradoxical circumstance would not make good neighbourly sense, does not solve anything, and simply would cause hard feelings between the neighbours.
The neighbour has another option, though, and that is to petition for a drain across the lower land under the Drainage Act. If he is successful, all neighbours would be forced to pay for their fair share of the costs based on how much water they drained into the watershed of the Municipal Drain, and how much benefit they received from it. However, in most cases, the Municipal Drain option might end up costing everyone more in the long run.
The authors are indebted to Ross Irwin, P.Eng. and John Johnston, P.Eng. whose previous work in interpreting the Common Law aspects of drainage was very helpful in the preparation of this Factsheet. Competent legal counsel should be procured for any drainage problems that may arise between rural neighbours.
We set up Good Neighbours to support the needs of those around us; the people, projects and initiatives in our own backyard. We invite our neighbours in, and listen to what they have to say through events, talks and workshops. We get out there to help, volunteer and raise awareness on the important issues that matter to our communities. Because when the neighbourhood flourishes, so do we all.
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