Neighbours AXED after 37 years (now saved and returning to screens in 2023)

[Carrie Fairchild]

Given that filming wraps next week, I’m presuming she’s back as part of the finale, which looks to be an altogether more low key affair than the 2022 “farewell”.

Kimberley Davies returning to Neighbours | TV Tonight

‘Annaliese Hartman’ is heading home after two decades away.

tvtonight.com.au

 

[Carrie Fairchild]

Final episodes are released / air next week, with the finale on Thursday 11th. Based on the below article, the returns this time around are a lot less starry than the ones for the farewell in 2022.

Neighbours icon will be missing from final ever episodes, boss confirms

Toadie Rebecchi star Ryan Moloney was asked to reprise his role but was unavailable for filming.

www.radiotimes.com

 

[Monzo]

Before Neighbours bids farewell, presumably for the last time, there's a mystery about the show that I still haven't solved, and it concerns its UK broadcast history: When Neighbours premiered in October 1986, it had been airing in Australia since March 1985. However, when Neighbours ended, the finale aired on the same day in Australia and the UK. When did the UK manage to catch up on the missing year and a half? Was it still on BBC One, or only after moving to Channel 5, and, most importantly, how did it happen? Was the daily repeat temporarily suspended, with two new episodes airing each day? Or did Neighbours air on Saturdays (or even Sundays) for a while?

 

[Knots4ever]

Before Neighbours bids farewell, presumably for the last time, there's a mystery about the show that I still haven't solved, and it concerns its UK broadcast history: When Neighbours premiered in October 1986, it had been airing in Australia since March 1985. However, when Neighbours ended, the finale aired on the same day in Australia and the UK. When did the UK manage to catch up on the missing year and a half? Was it still on BBC One, or only after moving to Channel 5, and, most importantly, how did it happen? Was the daily repeat temporarily suspended, with two new episodes airing each day? Or did Neighbours air on Saturdays (or even Sundays) for a while?

A two week break around Xmas each year in Australia, no break in the UK. There were points after a few years where the UK was at risk of overtaking Australia.

 

[Carrie Fairchild]

Before Neighbours bids farewell, presumably for the last time, there's a mystery about the show that I still haven't solved, and it concerns its UK broadcast history: When Neighbours premiered in October 1986, it had been airing in Australia since March 1985. However, when Neighbours ended, the finale aired on the same day in Australia and the UK. When did the UK manage to catch up on the missing year and a half? Was it still on BBC One, or only after moving to Channel 5, and, most importantly, how did it happen? Was the daily repeat temporarily suspended, with two new episodes airing each day? Or did Neighbours air on Saturdays (or even Sundays) for a while?

A two week break around Xmas each year in Australia, no break in the UK. There were points after a few years where the UK was at risk of overtaking Australia.

If I remember correctly, when it was on BBC, there’d be a break in the summer for Wimbeldon coverage, which would help keep it from completely catching up but there were times when they’d have to do self imposed breaks to stop it from overtaking (I can’t recall if this was on BBC or Channel 5). From 2016 onwards, they were airing episodes in the UK on the same day they aired in Australia.

 

[Knots4ever]

If I remember correctly, when it was on BBC, there’d be a break in the summer for Wimbeldon coverage, which would help keep it from completely catching up but there were times when they’d have to do self imposed breaks to stop it from overtaking (I can’t recall if this was on BBC or Channel 5). From 2016 onwards, they were airing episodes in the UK on the same day they aired in Australia.

Yes, there used to be some ad-hoc days off for Wimbledon and also some bank holidays. Once it moved to Channel 5, not so much... no Wimbledon and by that point bank holiday programming pretty much was no different than normal weekdays.

 

[Mel O'Drama]

When did the UK manage to catch up on the missing year and a half? Was it still on BBC One, or only after moving to Channel 5, and, most importantly, how did it happen?

A two week break around Xmas each year in Australia, no break in the UK.

The breaks were even longer at times.

After Neighbours' initial cancellation in 1985 there was a two-and-a-half month break in Australia before it resumed on Channel Ten in February 1986. Britain aired the first 1986 episode the day after the 1985 finale.

In Australia there was a break of over a month between the Second and Third Seasons, and a similar gap occurred between the other seasons in the Eighties. It seems in the early years it typically aired less than eleven months of the year in Oz which allowed time to close the gap.