You can’t beat a good, old-fashioned revamp to boost a show’s ratings, and this trusty old trick seems to have done the trick for Neighbours. The venerable soap, which was recently the subject of an intense and frankly barmy bidding war (the results of which sees it go over to five next year), was losing viewers in its native Australia.

This story, on DS here, says that brand new credits, theme tune, a swing back to more realistic storylines and new, sparkly high-definition filming saw the show break the one million viewers for the first time in ages. The fact that there was a wedding in the revamp episode probably helped too.