If you want your product seen, you have to have a good vehicle for that.” TV ratings are dropping across the board because people are watching things on their devices. If networks and the industry don’t reinvent themselves and stay modern and available on all of these viewing platforms, you kind of get left by the wayside. Living in the States, everything is streamed. It was the opportunity to work on the special for Presto that enticed Ewing to return to Home and Away, “It’s a really innovative thing that Presto was doing. I was certainly in cheese and bikkies land.” I don’t want to say ‘Dad-bod’, but I’d certainly gotten comfortable. Ewing said, “I had to lose a bit of weight. Ewing suggested that he was so familiar with his character that it didn’t require much preparation, but admits that returning to the character of Heath Braxton did require some physical prep work.
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Returning for the special was former series star Dan Ewing (pictured). You don’t have to cut away to another story.” You actually get momentum from one scene to the next. In the special, we’re actually following the one story. “Because in Home and Away you’re following 23+ characters, we’re always telling three to four stories in every episode. It was great for the performers as well because they got to concentrate on a big arc within the special. Addario said, “It’s really exciting to be able to go outside our format. Telling a story on the new platform did, however, afford the team the opportunity to explore beyond the structure of a regular Home and Away episode. We were respecting the timeslot and the brand of the show. Addario explained, “We did keep it to PG because we wanted our regular Home & Away viewers to be enticed to watch it.
It was like a third unit running simultaneously with the show.”ĭespite the show being produced for a new platform that doesn’t have to meet the PG timeslot requirements of the regular series, the Eye For An Eye production team wasn’t tempted to stretch the limits of the sort of content they could include in the show. We worked side by side with the Home and Away infrastructure. We have lots of crew people that are rotating on our show, so we took some of our people who were available. Producer Lucy Addario explained that producing the episode was the equivalent of producing three additional episodes. Producing a TV special in addition to a nightly series was a challenge for the Home and Away production team. Internationally, Home and Away: An Eye For An Eye will be available on the market for other broadcasters to acquire. It won’t ever be seen on Seven in the territory here.” Home and Away: An Eye For An Eye will only be seen on Presto. Moo is adamant that the special will only be available on Presto, “ To be clear, this has been commissioned by Presto and is an exclusive Presto property. Moo explained, “Once people have trialled the service, we think they will see the value in it and see what else we have to offer and then hopefully stay on as customers.”įans planning to just wait until Seven broadcasts the special shouldn’t hold their breath.
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Within Presto, the special is seen as an opportunity to entice Home and Away fans to trial the Presto service. “It was obviously an idea that came up in the conversations with senior people at the time, so that’s Brian Walsh and Angus Ross, who is the head of programming at Seven. Home and Away: An Eye For An Eye is a special, one-off event that fits between the series finale of the nightly serialised drama and its 2016 series return.īrendan Moo, head of content and acquisitions for Presto, revealed that discussions to work together on a Home and Away special commenced as soon as talk about the joint venture began.
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