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Aussie soap keeps its Irish home MIPCOM NEWS: RTE and Australia's Southern Star have renewed their long-standing output deal, in a move that keeps Aussie soap Home and Away at the Irish public broadcaster. The agreements secures RTE's broadcast rights to Home and Away for a further five years, after an uninterrupted 20-year run in its weekday schedule. Building on two previous agreements between RTE and Southern Star, the latest deal also includes an annual guaranteed pick-up of TV movies, drama series, children's, factual and library titles. Among these are the UK version of preschool show Hi-5, produced for Cartoonito and GMTV in the UK by Darrall Macqueen; the new Australian drama Packed to the Rafters, from Seven Network Australia; and new episodes of Wire in the Blood, from Coastal Productions. "RTE has a very long and fruitful relationship with Southern Star," said Dermot Horan, director of broadcast and acquisitions at RTE. "We were the very first broadcaster in the Northern Hemisphere to show Home and Away and it continues to be our most popular daily show on RTE2. "The sheer range of the Southern Star catalogue, from the best of Australian drama and factual programming to top-end ITV and BBC dramas and excellent natural history and children's programming, makes it a perfect fit with RTE's mixed-genre channels." Gün Akyuz 17 Oct 2008 © C21 Media 2008 
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