Oh woe, oh woe, oh who cares?

Continuing lamentation on the part of the BBC over the loss of Neighbours. The Guardian reports:

For 21 years it has been a fixture in the BBC1 schedules, bringing viewers a daily homespun slice of Australian suburbia and making stars of the likes of Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan and Natalie Imbruglia.
But yesterday it was announced that the BBC and Neighbours are good friends no longer, as the corporation waved goodbye to the Antipodean soap because it could no longer justify the asking price demanded by producer Fremantle.
BBC1 controller Peter Fincham said that it was a "sad day" for the channel, but it could not pay "the best part of £300m" to retain the soap, which has been snapped up by Five on a 10-year deal.

I'm afraid that my view is simple. Why import expensive Australian rubbish when you could make domestic rubbish much more cheaply?