About The Vancouver Expat Australian Meetup Group

I'm Brett. I'm the organiser. Wouldn't have a clue what I am doing.

The site's a bit bare...so I'll just paste in the wikipedia entry for Home and Away...

Home and Away is an Australian week nightly half-hour television soap opera produced in Sydney by the Seven Network since July 1987. The show first went to air on Sunday 17 January 1988 with a two hour pilot and from then it premiered as a week nightly program the night after on Monday 18 January 1988 at 6pm before Seven News which then aired at 6:30pm. Home and Away has also aired at the 6:30pm timeslot however from 1992 the 7pm slot has been its stable time.

The show is broadcast on the Seven Network and its affiliates from Monday to Friday at 7pm in Australia and is exported to many countries including the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, France, Norway and many Asian countries.

When the show began in January 1988 ratings were low but soon improved and gradually the show's popularity grew. Originally Home and Away focused primarily on Pippa and Tom who ran the Summer Bay Caravan Park and lived there with a succession of foster children, but eventually the show's focus broadened to focus on the lives and loves of the inhabitants of the rest of Summer Bay.