Neighbours

Last night's Neighbours finale was a ratings winner for Channel 10 and while some say it's the end of an era, could the TV show make a comeback in the ...

"So, I think it's going to be a very interesting time over the next couple of years as consuming content on demand becomes more and more normalised and mainstream." "So, that is a particular way of consuming television that I guess functions like a cultural glue, where we all have to watch it in a synchronised way and have the conversations about what happened in last night's episode in a synchronised way, which obviously doesn't happen to the same extent with on demand viewing, which is the streaming service model." She's not convinced there won't be a resurgence of shows like Neighbours in the future, pointing to the fact that as recently as five years ago, Netflix was focused on providing an alternative that superseded broadcast television, but was now considering a subscription model that offers advertisements. "The question is around whether these kinds of long-running soap dramas have a place in the streaming era." "And [they] wanted to see it off as part of that kind of cultural participation in the end of an era." "It was for many people this kind of daily ritual, and keeping up with the very frequent and swift narrative twists and turns meant that you had to keep on top of those scheduled broadcasts," she said.

Margot Robbie, Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan and Natalie Imbruglia are among the celebrities who returned to fictional Ramsay Street for the send-off.

The show announced its cancellation in March following the loss of its main British broadcast partner, Channel 5. “Most definitely, I don’t know what I am going to do at 6.30pm. It’s just going to be an automatic thing to go in front of the TV,” Patel said. Fan Riya Patel arrived two hours before the broadcast started at 7.30pm local time on a brig screen in Melbourne’s Federation Square to secure a bean bag in the front row, despite passing showers and a bracing temperature of 9 degrees Celsius.

Neighbours went out with a bang not a whimper, with its final episode drawing its biggest TV audience in 13 years. The Australian soap bowed out on Channel ...

Home and Away also sent a fond message of farewell to its longtime competitor on social media. Rival soap Home and Away, over on Channel Seven, went head to head with Neighbours, drawing 429,000 metro viewers. The Australian soap bowed out on Channel Ten after 37 years on screen, becoming the top-rating show of the night, with 873,000 tuning in across the country’s five state capital cities, according to ratings published on TV Tonight.

The final episodes of TV soap opera Neighbours have been aired in Australia. The cast attend the "Neighbours" finale event on 29 June 2022 in Melbourne,.

In truth half the time we were being put in light cotton shirts and freezing to death." "Because of Neighbours, it's where I ended up. "I don't know how I am going to say goodbye. You would sometimes go to his swimming pool, he would sometimes come to your swimming pool. You could call him by his first name. Stefan Dennis, who has played Paul Robinson since the show started in 1985, told the BBC that it was going to take a while to "say goodbye to Paul".

Opinion: After 37 years and 8903 episodes, Neighbours finally drew to a close.

After realising no one is in any of the houses, Charlene spots an open window and gets a mischievous look on her face. While there are shots of both sides looking at each other, they're never in the same shot together. While this is happening, the Kennedys are dealing with the fact they're about to be the last Ramsay Street residents left standing. The four run towards each other for big bear hugs but it's also obvious that Pearce wasn't shooting the same day as Donovan and Minogue. Mal is devastated and Karl and Susan do their best to not say "I told you so". My years on Ramsay Street were some of the best of my entire life". And you just know Robbie is talking about her time on the show. With that, they're back together and the New York plans are off. He follows her and they talk on a park bench about where it went wrong but also his fears that he will only hurt her again because he knows he's a scoundrel. He climbs out of a car at one point but that is the extent of his vehicular involvement. And the other are Jane and Mike's own neuroses. Inspired by Mike's attempts to reunite with Jane, things got real for Paul and Therese at Toadie's wedding. As Jane Harris says towards the end of the Neighbours series finale: "Daring to dream I might recapture a time from the past.

Neighbours went out with a bang not a whimper, with its final episode drawing its biggest TV audience in 13 years. The Australian soap bowed out on Channel ...

Home and Away also sent a fond message of farewell to its longtime competitor on social media. Rival soap Home and Away, over on Channel Seven, went head to head with Neighbours, drawing 429,000 metro viewers. The Australian soap bowed out on Channel Ten after 37 years on screen, becoming the top-rating show of the night, with 873,000 tuning in across the country’s five state capital cities, according to ratings published on TV Tonight.

They were symbolic of the ghosts of Neighbours' glory days past. Their reappearance was the moment viewers had been waiting for: the return of Scott (Jason ...

The Ramsay Street memory book lives on with enough future custodians in place to honour this popular culture phenomenon. The past was on Melanie (Lucinda Cowden) and Toadie’s (Ryan Moloney) minds – how would they escape their histories and create new memories? Would this wedding buck the soap opera trend and go ahead without a hitch? Joel (Daniel MacPherson) was back for Toadie and Melanie’s wedding, and to remind Toadie about his mullet. Meanwhile Jane (Annie Jones) struggled to forgive Dr Clive’s (Geoff Paine) infatuation with another woman. They were symbolic of the ghosts of Neighbours’ glory days past.

Longtime Neighbours fans will remember Sonya Mitchell was a dog trainer for Toadie Rebecchi who went on to become his second wife.

She said: "At the end of 2017 Neighbours was at a point where it was negotiating its future (following Australian broadcaster Network Ten going into administration), and there had to be changes budget-wise for it to move forward in every department, and I was part of that. I feel death was the only option in order to be true to them. Check out more of our Soaps coverage or visit our TV Guide to see what's on tonight.

How will the long-running soap end? Another plane crash? Meteor strike? Will the last 37 years' worth of plot have been a mere figment of Bouncer's ...

Perhaps that is down to reports that Margot Robbie sent over 37 bottles of champagne to the cast and crew for the final episode. There are so many references to the 80s golden age of Neighbours I can hardly keep up. I have no idea what is happening. And now it is time for Toadie and Melanie’s wedding! It seems like the cast are having a ball filming this though. They are now having to read their word out in front of everyone else.

Gracious, generous and energetically invested in his role, the Hollywood actor stole the last episodes – and invited us to reflect on the passage of time.

At the risk of overstating it, because this is afternoon soap opera and not a Guillermo del Toro flick, he invited the audience to reflect on their own passage of time. He wasn’t a pixelated face on a TV screen. The promised cameos turned out to each be a handful of seconds in a video montage – which, in fairness, is what we expected, and we still went “LANCE!!!” when he came on screen. Perhaps it’s obvious that an Emmy-award winning actor would put in a strong performance, but it seemed there was more to it than that. It was gracious and generous. In this sea of characters we once knew, one made a particular splash.

Charlene! Scott! Margot Robbie in what looks like a toilet! This upbeat, celeb-packed finale was a truly fitting celebration of not just the end of a TV ...

The show was still pulling in 1.5 million viewers on Channel 5 when it was axed and despite never being able to reach the halcyon days of the 80s-90s, was still producing headline-worthy storylines in its final weeks. Charlene clinks a champagne glass with her old friend Paul. This isn’t a finale mourning a show’s demise: it’s a celebration of its success – and what a success it was. It is not just that the series has a uniquely positive place in British culture – and not only with fans who haven’t watched it since they were skipping lectures to watch the BBC lunchtime slot. Former mistress of Karl Kennedy, Izzy Hoyland (Natalie Bassingthwaighte), returns as a homage to one of soapland’s classic affairs (coming back to sleep with Karl’s son then dump him for a millionaire, naturally). Pearce being taken on a tour inside the Ramsay Street houses gives a summary of events for any viewers who have lost track over the years (“How many wives has Paul had?” he asks Jane. “Six.”) Meanwhile, Harold Bishop’s “memory book” enables present-day scenes to be interspersed with classic clips. Driving on to the street as the car radio blasts Especially for You, Minogue dons a denim jumpsuit with more than a small nod to Charlene’s infamous overalls. Watching the opening credits on the final episode of Neighbours (Channel 5), with almost four decades of variations of the famous golden typography edited into one, it would not be hyperbole to suggest that it feels like watching your life flash before your eyes.

1. Madge Bishop (Anne Charleston) · 2. Doug Willis (Terence Donovan) · 3. Lance Wilkinson (Andrew Bibby) · 4. Tad Reeves (Jonathon Dutton) · 5. Stuart Parker (Blair ...

And that's exactly the attitude needed to celebrate Neighbours' 37 year run. But as Susan pondered life on Ramsay Street, she remembered the troubled villain as a lost soul. We got a glimpse of Toadie's cousin Tad as he playfully complained that he didn't get the chance to DJ at the wedding. Star Morey has stayed with the show ever since, working as an intimacy coordinator and acting coach. Rawlings's unannounced cameo followed a 17 year gap, as he last popped by back in 2005. Madge was seen in the closing moments in spirit, as mainstay Susan Kennedy (Jackie Woodburne) imagined what the late residents of Ramsay Street would look like if they had survived. But Naomi was another popular character, so her cameo was a delight. Sharon was last seen in 1990 when she departed to move to New Zealand with her sister Bronwyn. Sharon's reappearance marks 34 years since her debut. Happily, Tad is still alive and well, and he joined in with the task of convincing Toadie not to move away! At the time, Harold had been led to believe that Tad had died, only for it to have been a case of mistaken identity. Toadie was convinced it was someone they all knew, so perhaps Lance and Amy were left with a shared secret! So, while you're catching your breath and wiping your eyes, here's a look at every unexpected character who popped up tonight.

The National Film and Sound Archive has preserved recordings of the long-running TV show as important cultural artefacts that captured the national ...

"Writers always have one eye on what's going on in the real world," he said. "It's not trying to be something that it's not, it's not trying to be premier television," he said. "Imagine the shared memory that Australians have of something like that," Mr Arneil said. In Britain, the number of people tuning in to watch the antics on Ramsay Street was more than the entire Australian population. "People might scoff at the idea of a soap opera as cultural heritage, but soap operas and serials have been a part of our culture for almost a century", Mr Arneil said. "I think some people have the impression that TV just survives on its own, but that's not the case," he said.

A couple describe how they bought a house on the street where the legendary Aussie soap was filmed.

"People still come specifically to see it. "I was in two episodes, I was man in the background with a cup of coffee," he explained. Ms Jones, who lives in the house used as the Kennedy's family home in the show, said that "was definitely a pro" when they were looking to buy, although Mr Shackley said he mainly liked the garden.