Neighbours [News, Spoilers and Discussion]

They wrapped it up quite nicely, in a kinda typical Neighbours way, totally over the top, silly and unrealistic of course, but, also very emotional at times too ( a few tears were shed 😭). It was great seeing all the old cast members back and some nostalgic old scenes that I remember seeing the first time around. The old characters coming back reminiscing about the past was a great way to send it off. Like pretty much everyone else at the time I watched it in the 80's, then dipped in and out of it for most of the 90's and watched regularly for the early to mid noughties, then drifted away again for a few years but got back into watching regularly over the last few years again. It's sad that it's finished and I'll miss my daily fix of it, but, I was satisfied that it had an uplifting ending and pretty much everyone got a happy ending.

I guess RTE will show the U.K. version off the final episode. Australia had extra bits so the 3 episodes filled 90 minutes with ads.

"After bolting the second last episode with the finale and dropping an extra set of credits and recap, it opened up over a minute of time." said the executive producer.

Channel 5's version of the finale also included commercial tracks from the likes of George Ezra and Harry Styles.

My lunchtime will never be the same again 😫. Shed a few tears today. Good job Paige hadn't managed to sell all 5 houses within a week 😀 There was a guy with a greying longish beard who I didn't recognise. Pity Charlene lost her tongue since she left all those years ago. It was a bit daft that she barely said a word.

Coincidence mainly. Paul decided to sell Lassiters to Shane and move to New York and Toadie thought he needed a clean break from the area and the others were leaving for different reasons.

Looks like he was happy enough just having Kiri in his life in the end. He didn't seem too upset to see Terese back with Paul anyway.

It shows it should have never been dropped by Channel 5, that was a stupid decision.....there was life in the show yet.

I really thought it was gone - fantastic news. I wonder will RTE get it.

Sooooo happy!!!!! 😄 🤣

I believe they will get it, they have always been very positive about Neighbours. Both Neighbours and Home and Away always perform stunningly well for RTE for the show category and its cost.

I hope it will be as it was - every day - some people are suggesting it might change format but you'd think they would have mentioned that. And hopefully they will support it for years to come or it will find another buyer - you never know with a streaming service, I'd rather it see it go to ITV or BBC. But right now just delighted to see it back at all, it was looking very grim for a long time! 😎

Was only thinking about neighbours the other day and wondering if others were missing it too. It was a shame it ended, but, I thought they wrapped it up so well, brought the old and new together, thought it might be better to leave it at that. I wonder will it be picked up by any terrestrial channel, as I didn't think it would last long on a streaming service alone. Hopefully they don't ruin what was a very good ending.

The Celebration tour kicked off in Belfast on Wednesday night! A great evening with Toadie, the Kennedys, Jane Harris, Chloe Brennan and Paul Robinson.

Any word on where or when it'll be broadcast when it returns?

In the UK at least, it will be on Freevee which is an Amazon channel. The programmes are free to watch but there are adverts. There's a Freevee app which you can use on your phone and which can also be downloaded to a Chromecast device. There are already a lot of old episodes on there - 50 classics dating back to the very first one and every episode from 2012 and 2013 (I believe they'll be adding the ones after that in due course.)

April Rose Pengilly, Ryan Moloney, Jackie Woodburne, Alan Fletcher, Annie Jones and Stefan Dennis will all be back as well.