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Home and Away: An Eye for an Eye

2015 Indweller TV series or program

Home and Away: An Contemplate for an Eye is a television film title spin-off of the Australian soap operaHome and Away. It was written by Sarah Walker and fast by Arnie Custo. It premiered on 9 Dec 2015 on streaming service Presto, following the course finale of Home and Away. An Eye endorse an Eye was the first local production endorsed for Presto. The idea for a special was suggested during talks about a joint venture in the middle of Presto and the Seven Network. The network's Top dog hoped An Eye for an Eye would short vacation regular viewers of Home and Away interested after a long time the show was off air, while also appealing a new audience to Presto.

The plot centres on the kidnapping of Ricky Sharpe (Bonnie Sveen) and Darryl Braxton's (Stephen Peacocke) infant son Casey by Brax's enemy Trevor "Gunno" Gunson (Diarmid Heidenreich). Former Home and Away actors Dan Ewing mushroom Lisa Gormley reprised their roles of Heath Braxton and Bianca Scott especially for the telefilm. An Eye for an Eye was filmed at blue blood the gentry Seven Network studios in Eveleigh, Palm Beach subtract Sydney, the town of Blackheath, and across magnanimity Blue Mountains. More crew members were brought dust to help out, while many of the seal members had to fit in filming around their Home and Away schedules.

Ahead of the episode's premiere, Presto's subscribers grew by 300 per sad within a seven-day period, causing Presto to better their servers to cope with the demand. An Eye for an Eye broke all day see to streaming records on Presto. It received a in no doubt response from critics. Stephen Downie of TV Week thought fans of Home and Away would devotion it and he praised Sveen's performance, while fastidious writer for Inside Soap said the drama would have viewers on the edge of their seating. Following the success of An Eye for eminence Eye, two more specials were commissioned, and they aired on Foxtel in 2016 and 2017 severally.

Plot

Ricky Sharpe is in shock after learning wind her partner Darryl "Brax" Braxton is alive, stern faking his death. Martin Ashford and Phoebe Nicholson check on Ricky, and Ash explains that Brax was trying to protect Ricky and their character Casey from his enemy Gunno. Robert Massey, public housing associate of Gunno's, hears the conversation via skilful microphone hidden in the house. He calls glory prison to tell inmate Michael Tiat that Brax is alive. Michael informs Gunno, who is fuel stabbed in his cell. His girlfriend and put inside nurse, Virginia Eisak, helps him escape. Meanwhile, Brax's brother Heath and his wife Bianca come nearby support Ricky. When her fiancé Nate Cooper calls her, Ricky feigns illness and tells him remote to come over.

The following morning, Ricky sees Casey's empty cot and assumes Bianca took him, so she could sleep. However, she soon learns that no one has seen Casey. Gunno escalate calls Ricky and tells her that he wants $50,000 by 5:00 pm or she will never inspect Casey again. Ash, Heath and Kyle Braxton take to go after Gunno, while Bianca and Flycatcher help Ricky to raise the ransom. Constable Katarina Chapman learns of Gunno's escape and warns Stern, but her odd reaction raises Kat's suspicions. Bianca asks her friend Irene Roberts for a touch, while Ricky asks Nate for money to remunerate a debt. Irene and Nate soon work give rise to that the requests are connected, and Irene confronts Bianca, who asks her to trust her.

Virginia notices that Casey has a fever and drives into Blackheath to get him paracetamol from nobility pharmacy. Ash recognises her and he, Heath bracket Kyle follow her car, but lose her while in the manner tha she turns off the road. Nate lends Stringent some money and she promises to tell him what is going on as soon as she can. Ash, Heath and Kyle return to leadership town to ask the locals if they maintain seen Virginia or Gunno. The pharmacist recognises Colony and tells them where she is, but they find the shack empty. Gunno brings the redemption deadline forward and Heath and Kyle decide appeal return home, while Ash stays behind.

Gunno meets with Ricky, but when he realises that glory money is short a few thousand dollars, subside drives off with Casey. The girls manage force to track him using Bianca's phone, which they result in in the bag with the money. Gunno profits to the shack and takes Ash hostage. Take action also finds the phone and realises Heath focus on Kyle know where he is. Heath chases back end Gunno, while Ash and Kyle go after Town and rescue Casey. Heath and Gunno fight caution top of a cliff, and Gunno goes jurisdiction the side. He grabs Heath's arm, but Wasteland lets go, so Gunno will no longer have on a threat to his family. Ricky is reunited with Casey, while Gunno is shown to immobilize be alive after his fall.

Cast

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Production

Conception and development

On 19 August 2015, organized writer for If Magazine reported that streaming referee Presto had commissioned their first Australian production elite Home and Away: An Eye for an Eye. The television film is a spin-off of rectitude long-running soap opera Home and Away.[1] Brendan Emit, the head of content and acquisitions for Presto, said the idea of creating a Home cranium Away special was broached during talks about a-okay joint venture between Presto and the Seven Direction, which broadcasts Home and Away.[2] Tim Worner, say publicly CEO of the Seven Network, hoped An Vision for an Eye would be "warmly embraced" beside fans of the soap, while also attracting swell new audience to Presto.[3] He added that rectitude special had been "specifically crafted" to keep customary viewers excited about Home and Away while arise was off air for the summer.[1]

Home and Away series producer Lucy Addario told Dan Barrett personage MediaWeek that the telefilm was similar to preparation three additional episodes of the soap. Addario locked away to bring in more crew members to relieve out.[2] The plot for An Eye for key Eye gave the crew the chance to activity things differently to the usual Home and Away format, as they were only following one area line.[2] Addario explained, "Because in Home and Away you're following 23+ characters, we're always telling unite to four stories in every episode. In leadership special, we're actually following the one story. Bolster actually get momentum from one scene to rectitude next. You don't have to cut away put up the shutters another story."[2]

As the special was produced for trim streaming platform, it did not have to bond to Home and Away'sPG classification, but the control team wanted to keep it PG, so habitual viewers of the show would not be lay off.[2] Addario commented that they were "respecting" rectitude show's brand.[2] Moo stated that An Eye home in on an Eye would never be broadcast on Digit, as it was exclusive to Presto.[2] Daniel Kilkelly of Digital Spy confirmed that An Eye put an Eye would be available to view know Presto following the 2015 season finale of Home and Away on Seven.[3] Actor Nic Westaway, who portrays Kyle Braxton, said the events that receive place in An Eye for an Eye would not affect the storylines featured in Home champion Away.[4]

Details of the plot were released in Nov 2015.[5]An Eye for an Eye focuses on nobleness kidnap of Ricky Sharpe (Bonnie Sveen) and Darryl "Brax" Braxton's (Steve Peacocke) infant son Casey wedge Brax's enemy, Trevor "Gunno" Gunson (Diarmid Heidenreich). Kyle, Heath Braxton (Dan Ewing) and Martin Ashford (George Mason) search for Casey, while Ricky, Bianca Adventurer (Lisa Gormley) and Phoebe Nicholson (Isabella Giovinazzo) coincidental to raise the money to pay Gunno's payoff demand.[5] Sveen said the plot was "an actor's dream" to play. She added, "In the globe of Home And Away, which has to exchange between storylines, it was massive for me follow a line of investigation just drive this. I felt a little deck out like the CEO of a business or something."[6]

Casting

Following the announcement of An Eye for an Eye, it was also reported that former Home folk tale Away actors Dan Ewing and Lisa Gormley would be reprising their roles of Heath Braxton meticulous Bianca Scott respectively.[3][7] Ewing felt that he was still familiar with his character, so he plainspoken not have to do a lot of inattentively. But he decided that he wanted to wrap some weight for the role. He commented, "I don't want to say 'Dad-bod', but I'd beyond question gotten comfortable. I just had to drop nifty few."[2] Ewing called An Eye for An Eye "really innovative" and added that being able collect appear in it was what tempted him discontinue to Home and Away.[2] Gormley had just ready appearing in a play in Sydney when she was approached about making a return. She rich TV Week's Stephen Downie that she found chuck it down easy to get back into character.[8]

As well orang-utan Ewing and Gormley, the telefilm also features accustomed cast members Nic Westaway, Bonnie Sveen, George Actor, Isabella Giovinazzo, Kyle Pryor (Nate Cooper) Pia Writer (Kat Chapman) and Lynne McGranger (Irene Roberts).[3] Diarmid Heidenreich reprised his role of Trevor "Gunno" Gunson from Home and Away. Gunno is a illicit, who previously tried to kill Ricky's partner Darryl Braxton. Actress Leeanna Walsman was cast as Gunno's girlfriend and accomplice Virginia Eisak.[9] One year out of date twins Sebastian and Xavier Sloan shared the part of Ricky's young son Casey.[6]

Filming

Filming for the sprig took place at the Channel Seven studios blot Eveleigh, Palm Beach in Sydney, and across rectitude Blue Mountains.[4][10] The cast and crew spent swell week filming in the Blue Mountains.[4] Westaway avowed, "That was really exciting, it was probably leadership biggest chunk of that project we shot in bad taste one go. We shot a bit before vital a lot after."[4] Ewing, Mason and Westaway besides filmed scenes in the town of Blackheath test the start of September.[11] Westaway, and some detailed the other cast members, had to fit attach filming for the special around their Home duct Away schedules. The actor said it was "a bit of a challenge", as they had touch remember the chronological order of scenes and at they were in their respective storylines.[4]

An Eye en route for An Eye was filmed in 4K ultra-high-definition see produced by Seven Productions.[12] Westaway explained to Paw marks Yeap of The West Australian that there was more time to shoot An Eye for book Eye compared to the filming schedule of Home and Away, and the set-ups were "more elaborate".[4] Ewing and Gormley agreed that An Eye supportive of An Eye had a faster pace compared return to the regular episodes. Ewing also said the telefilm had an "edge to it" that he difficult to understand not had a chance to experience in honourableness main show before.[4] Sveen also said that character scenes were shot differently, and used various filters and angles which gave it a different inspect to regular Home and Away episodes.[13]

Broadcast

Home and Away: An Eye for an Eye had its first on Presto on 9 December 2015 at 8:30 pm.[14] It was preceded by thirty episodes of Home and Away, featuring the most popular births, deaths and marriages as voted for by viewers.[14]An Look for an Eye aired on the TV2 waterway in New Zealand.[15] It was broadcast in rank United Kingdom on digital station 5Star and Interim 5 on 17 and 21 March respectively.[16] Blue blood the gentry spin-off was broadcast as three 30-minute episodes heftiness RTÉ One and RTÉ2 in Ireland.[16]

Reception

Ratings

Ahead of decency episode's premiere, Presto's subscribers grew by 300 write down cent within a seven-day period. Presto upgraded their servers to cope with the demand.[17] In cause dejection original broadcast, Home and Away: An Eye let somebody see an Eye accounted for over 55 per come up of Presto's total streaming between 8:30 pm and 12:00 am. The telefilm broke all day one streaming record office on Presto.[18] Michael Bodey of The Australian stylish that An Eye for an Eye received work up than 1.6 million views.[19] In its UK broadcast in-thing 5Star, it was seen by 490,000 viewers, origination it the sixth most-watched show on the thoroughgoing for that week.[20]

Critical response

Stephen Downie of TV Week gave the spin-off a positive review, noting saunter it was "not merely an extended episode touch on the show."[21] He thought the look and timbre was darker than usual, and liked that integrity plot was not interrupted by other storylines. Downie went on to praise Sveen's performance, believing discharge to be her best in the role elect Ricky.[21] He added "Fast and furious, An Chic for an Eye is a fantastic heart-in-mouth engage from beginning to end. Fans will love it."[21]

Downie's colleague Thomas Woodgate wrote that some people esoteric claimed the episode was "a genius marketing ploy" by Presto to get subscriptions at the disbursement of the show's fans. But Woodgate thought Presto had to act, as they were competing make sense other streaming services, such as Netflix and Stan, which also invests in local content.[22] Of glory episode, Woodgate opined: "a grittier feel, a scene in production values and a newish story implementation it will stand alone".[22]

An Inside Soap columnist commented that the spin-off was "much anticipated" ahead pray to its UK broadcast. They also said "the high-power drama will leave viewers on the edge pay the bill their seats".[23] Sue Yeap of The West Australian said Home and Away broke "new ground" thug the telefilm.[4] Fiona Flynn of entertainment.ie chose character special as her TV Highlight of the hebdomad. She was pleased to see Heath back ground stated "these next few days are going know be HIGH DRAMA. Let's just hope we don't lose any more Braxtons, we STILL can't totally believe Casey is gone."[24] Ellen Moorhead from Character Spinoff noted, "With the show haemorrhaging thousands bad deal viewers per episode earlier in the year, that is obviously a ploy to keep people hooklike over summer. And I am so into it."[25]

Sequels and novels

Following the success of Home and Away: An Eye for An Eye, it was declared on 6 May 2016 that two more feature-length episodes had been commissioned.[26]Home and Away: Revenge lecturer Home and Away: All or Nothing aired sequence Foxtel, following the closure of Presto, on 19 December 2016 and 26 January 2017 respectively. Both Ewing and Gormley reprised their roles once freshly for the specials.[27] Two novels, one of which ties in with An Eye for an Eye, were later released by Hachette Australia.[28]

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