Character Creation and Casting
In 2007 Neighbours suffered one of its worst decline in ratings and several key changes took place to boost the ratings. Network Ten drama executive Dan Bennett revealed that the show would return to its focus on relationships and family dynamics. Writers created and introduced a new family, the Parkers, who already had a link to Ramsay Street in the form of Ned Parker (Daniel O'Connor). The family made their first on-screen appearance in July 2007, marking the start of the show's renovation.
Australian drama actress, Nikki Coghill was cast as the matriarch of the family, Miranda, and Steve Bastoni was cast as her husband Steve Parker. Eloise Mignon and Sweeney Young were cast as their children, Bridget and Riley.
Shortly after she joined Neighbours Coghill believed that she was going to get the sack after she broke her ankle. She said "I thought, "That's it, I won't be able to work now and I'll be fired". However, the Neighbours bosses gave her a month off work and wrote her broken ankle into the script. Miranda was then said to have broken her ankle riding a mechanical bull.
In March 2009, it was announced that the Parker family were to be written out of the show after both Mignon and Bastoni decided to leave to concentrate on other commitments.
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