It Be Jason My Teenage Neighbour

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By Rowan Pelling for the Daily Mail Updated: 00:58 BST, 22 November 2010
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A lovely family have moved into my village and I’ve become friendly with them through the school run and local events.
The couple’s older daughter is in her last year of sixth-form college, like my daughter, and we often all go to our local pub. The past few times we’ve been there I’ve noticed another local friend — a married man in his 40s — has been talking to her for hours.
I know he’s had many extra-marital affairs and I’m worried he’s lining her up to be the next notch on his bedpost. I don’t know if I should warn her parents or if it’s none of my business when she’s 18 years of age. Please help.
A concerned neighbour fears the local lothario is lining up a teenage girl to be his next conquest (file picture)
Rowan says: This is a delicate question, no doubt about it. Village etiquette can be a minefield. One wrong footstep and a bomb detonates under your social relations.
If you voice your worries about this married man to the girl’s parents you need to be certain they won’t discuss your fears with other villagers. If they do, every family locally will be in on the gossip and they will know the allegations stemmed from you.
His behaviour may be reprehensible, but if you place any value on his friendship, or that of his wife, you don’t want to stir up tittle-tattle.
So you need to proceed with caution. Bear in mind his conversations with your friend’s daughter could be innocent — or one of those instances of an older man flirting with a pretty young girl, but never expecting to get anywhere.
To get a better steer on the situation, I’d ask your daughter how serious she thinks the banter is.
Girls of this age confide in one another and it wouldn’t take long to find out whether her friend views this man as an ‘Ugh!’ or a ‘Mm-mm!’.
Another factor is your friend’s daughter’s age. At 18, you’re an adult. And let’s remember that even adults of mature years require guidance from friends and family in matters of the heart.
You are going to have to decide if she’s really at risk from this man’s predatory ways or if she’s just exercising her power in flirting.
My parents owned a country pub and I often witnessed pretty daughters of locals batting their eyelashes at middle-aged dads in a perfectly harmless manner.
Having said that, there was one predatory, but attractive married man whose intentions could never be clear. My mother had a fit when she realised he was smouldering at my 21-year-old sister.
She took him aside one day, after all the other locals had left, saying she would have to close down the pub and leave the neighbourhood if he continued the pursuit. He backed off.
I had my own moment of naive entanglement when I was 18. I was working as a barmaid for my parents and became pals with a local farmer, who was separated from his wife. I went out for drinks and day excursions with him.
My parents kept warning me the friendship was unsuitable, yet I protested it was ‘harmless’.
Then he turned up on our doorstep one day in tears, threatening to harm himself and saying he had to talk to me. I was just too young and self-obsessed to realise the complexity of emotion he had brought to the situation.
Because I wasn’t attracted to him, I imagined he wasn’t attracted to me. Once again, my wonderful mother had a stern talk with the man involved.
My mother’s intervention in these two incidents demonstrates that women tend to be the most effective social sheriffs. Men will heed their concerns, where they might become aggressive with another male interfering.
If your daughter confirms your suspicions that there’s a dangerous spark between this young woman and married man, I would certainly want to do something.
The strength of close-knit communities comes, in part, from collective parenting. You would feel no qualms about telling a friend’s child not to drink and drive, so you should feel free to step in when she’s perilously rash with her romances.
The only question is what is the most effective and discreet way to issue a warning.
The simplest is to get your daughter to tell her friend that the man’s a total sleazebag and she wouldn’t touch him with a bargepole.
Peer pressure works like a charm with teenagers. Alternatively, you could approach the married man yourself and say firmly that you think he’s over-stepping the boundary. But there’s a risk he’ll deny all culpability and turn it into a village feud.
If your daughter won’t act as your secret agent, the third option is to talk to the girl’s mother (do ask that the matter be kept between the two of you). The golden rule in such cases is: would you want to be left in ignorance if it were your child?
You don’t need to be too alarmist. Just say: ‘There’s probably nothing in it, but I thought you should keep your eye out.’ It’s better to risk being dubbed an interfering busybody than to see good people risk scandal and heartbreak.
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Farewell to Neighbours: “I really wanted it to be a celebration of the past & the present.”

Executive Producer Jason Herbison reflects on Neighbours finale & achievements, including how it changed British television forever.

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Jason Herbison was a high school student when he wrote to producers,
eventually rising to Executive Producer and the man entrusted with its exit.
Today he reflects on its successes -including how it forever changed British television.
You don’t always appreciate what you’ve got until it’s gone, as Executive Producer Jason Herbison (pictured top left) has been starkly reminded of following the news in February that Channel 5 would discontinue to fund the long-running Australian soap.
If its place in TV schedules had been somewhat taken for granted, suddenly there was an outpouring of emotion from viewers.
“It’s only really since the show was announced to be finishing, that we’ve seen this enormous reaction from the audience and we really heard how much it means to them,” he tells TV Tonight.
“But you don’t invite a television show into your living room for decades on end, if you’re not getting something very important and special from that show. And I think this has been giving our audience that.
“How often would a show be become part of the popular culture, not just in its home country, but in another country -for decades?”
Neighbours was Herbison’s first job in television, some time after penning a “Dear Producers c/0 Nunawading” letter as a Year 11 student. Story editor Ray Kolle responded, eventually offering him a job as storyliner, then scriptwriter. He returned in 2013 becoming Series Producer succeeding Richard Jasek, before Executive Producer in late 2015.
Fittingly, he has scripted the final episodes, including the much-anticipated extended finale which includes returns from Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, and Guy Pearce. New names have been confirmed: Margot Robbie, Jesse Spencer, Delta Goodrem, Kym Valentine and Carla Bonner, while UK reports suggest Natalie Imbruglia & Holly Valance have also filmed special videos.
At the time we speak, details had managed to stay under wraps.
“I always had in my mind, how I would end the show if it came to an end,” he explains.
“It’s looking amazing. The finale I think, is a very befitting, celebratory finale, which is what I wanted it to be. I think, I hope, people are really going to like it.
“Obviously, people know what we’ve announced and I’ve seen various speculation about how all these people are going to come back and what they’re going to do. I think exactly what we ended up doing is not out there.
“A really nice balance of the past and the present, always with the door open to the future as well”
“I really wanted it to be a celebration of the past and the present. That was very important to me, that we really celebrate the show today. It’s not all about yesteryear. But I wanted it to be both. So I think what we settled on is a really nice balance of the past and the present, always with the door open to the future as well. Whatever that could be.”
Over the past six years, Herbison has crafted ways of bringing the past into the present, with a mix of new and heritage characters returning including Madeleine West, Carla Bonner, Ally Fowler, Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Annie Jones, and overhauled a lack of diversity with a same-sex wedding, transgender, non-binary, people with disabilities and a range of ethnic backgrounds including Indigenous.
If Herbison was making up for lost time on the show, it’s clear that whatever spark attracted him to Ramsay Street as a teenage boy has not left him.
“I remember as a teenager, when I became a huge fan of the show, there were a lot of older characters in the show. People might remember Scott and Charlene, but the balance was actually older,” he recalls.
“It was a sense of family, a sense of belonging, a sense of community”
“The younger characters back then, really got something out of the older characters and I think it was a sense of family, a sense of belonging, a sense of community that they maybe didn’t have in their own lives.
“When I think back to the mid ’80s when Neighbours launched, I think it struck – and it’s corny to say it- the ‘perfect blend’ of storytelling that no other show had done. Very simply, a mix of the drama, the comedy, the heartland.
“It was a blend that was quite unique at the time, and then others followed. We even saw the British soaps start to change and evolve and adapt.”
Herbison is adamant on this point, and one that Australian audiences don’t really appreciate.
“When Neighbours began in 1986 in the UK, all of the British soaps were on twice a week. But it was Neighbours coming on five episodes a week and pretty soon, twice a day. That completely revolutionised all of the serial dramas in the UK, and incrementally they went up to 3, 4, 5, 6 episodes -and it’s all because of Neighbours .
“Neighbours completely changed the landscape of British television”
“I think this is something that doesn’t get enough recognition. Neighbours completely changed the landscape of British television.
“I think was very aspirational, there was a lot of escapism in it. But it was also very captivating. I do think that over the years, whilst it’s evolved and the show has moved with the times, if you compare a 1980s episode to Neighbours 2022, you will see it’s it’s moved on. But there are some benchmarks that remain the same.”

Jason Herbison (Executive Producer), Chris Donis (Line Producer), Kate Kendall (Producer Director) and Andrew Thompson (Producer)
Neighbours was also a world-leader in television drama finding a pathway forward during the height of the pandemic. Production companies from around the world, and press as far away as the BBC and New York Times, all reached out to hear the solution that Herbison and his team had forged to shoot safely -and achievement that should never be forgotten.
“Those of us in Melbourne… know how difficult it was just for life to go on, let alone a workplace to go on”
“That’s an absolutely huge thing that I know we’ve been recognised for and that is wonderful. But it was a very difficult couple of years and I think those of us in Melbourne, as you are one of those people, know how difficult it was just for life to go on, let alone a workplace to go on,” he acknowledges.
“This is a contact sport, people have to interact with each other. It was a very challenging time that I’m very proud we got through.”
Already moving onto a newly-announced miniseries, Riptide , for 10 / Channel 5, Herbison has little time to pause.
I finish by asking for the fans, does he envisage a time when Neighbours might be revived?
“It’s a beloved brand. Obviously, nowadays shows do come back after a year, 5 years, 20 years. We’ve seen lots of things rebooted. I think anything’s possible, but certainly now it’s the end.”
Neighbours Finale Week:
Monday July 25 6:30pm – 8pm 10 Peach
Tuesday July 26 6:30pm – 8pm 10 Peach
Wednesday July 27 6:30pm – 8pm 10 Peach
Thursday July 28 7.30pm – 9pm on 10 and 10 Peach
Attention British fans: TV Tonight will be filing a finale story following the Australian broadcast.
Do you think think the Lims will be making a return?
So good that Margot Robbie and Jesse Spencer are going to be in it as both have said in the past that they owe a great deal to Neighbours for learning there craft on. Be great if the Hemsworth brothers did something, if only Alan Dale hadn’t already done the “ghostly” appearance to Paul back in 2018, they could have done that.
Oooooh maybe that’s it for the finale, Jim Robinson isn’t really dead and they pan out and we see Jim in a wheelchair in a vegetative state staring into a Christmas Bauble and a retiring Nurse saying to their replacement: I don’t know what he sees in that Bauble but he won’t let it go.(I jest, I jest just going St Elsewhere and the snow-globe scenario for fun).
Neighbour’s peak in was early on. When 10 rebooted it they added a lot more teen romance to the formula of suburban intergenerational soap. The thing is all the popular characters left after 3-4 years when they have got what they were going out of it, and moved on to careers in Sydney, London or LA. People who vaguely remember those days are now in their 50s. In the UK Neigbours was a hit with school and university students as an afternoon soap opera. Emmerdale Farm, Coronation Street and The Bill were evening serial dramas, typically on Tue and Thurs that their parents watched. That was a revolution in afternoon TV, but it lasted only a decade for the internet forced the BBC to chase older viewers with quizs and murder mysteries. Viacom wants content that can be streamed globally. Ten shunted it off to 11 once the ratings declined towards 1m, last weeks episodes of Neigbours rated 110-120k on Peach. The will be some nostaligia value in Thursday’s ep but it’s time to say…
Mid-40s here and I very clearly remember watching “Neighbours” back in the mid to late 80s (I was at primary school when it started), so “in their 40s and 50s” would be a more accurate generalisation :-).
My question for Jason, if he reads this and could kindly answer, was did he have an inkling that neighbours was coming to an end when he brought back legendary characters, Jane, Melanie, Amy and Glen as regulars?
The answer to that is no. Annie Jones came back in 2018. Jason was always about marrying past with present for the fans, hence why I’ve sought to recognise it here.
Yes, Annie was initially a recurring guest star, before she returned full time after Jane was paired with Des for the special 35th anniversary episodes in 2020. Yes, you have and he has, and it has been very rewarding for fans.
The question needs to be asked is why did they snub Craig McLachlan …. he was found not guilty of his alleged deeds by a court of law
You don’t know that they did snub him.
They could have asked and he could have said no. From what I understand, Craig is opting to keep a low profile after everything he went through. Being apart of Neighbours’ finale would put him front and centre.
It would be nice if Steph and Rebecca return, also Pepper from 2007 and Libby and Caitlyn stasey
I think Neighbours will return in the future. its got the audience and every is still talking about it.
Another great article, thanks David.
As I’m in the U.K., seen quite a number of episodes that have not yet aired in Aus. Been great to see all the returning characters, and newly announced ones. I’m sure apart from the obvious names, a considerable amount will be via video/FaceTime etc, which does loose some impact.
Some interesting storylines to get some of the characters back (and pave way for others to leave), interesting to see if the others will seem like an organic return, or just a big push to get as many as they can.
Ofc I’m interested to see the final stories conclude but unsure how I feel about what seems all of Ramsay st going on sale and everyone leaving (doesn’t seem too realistic to me, and this is just going by all the pics/videos in the media in Aus), not too mention how quickly some of these big life decisions are being made (yes, very aware, they had very limited time to wrap these up).
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