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How ‘Neighbours’ Came Back From the Dead: Inside the Cult Australian Soap’s Remarkable Journey From Emotional Farewell to the Emmys
After being saved by Amazon's Freevee four months after its official finale, cult Australian soap 'Neighbours' is now up for its first Daytime Emmys.
In June 2022, Jason Herbison was on set shooting what was to be the 8,903 rd — and final — episode of “ Neighbours,” an experience he admits was “very, very emotional.” The cult Australian soap opera — a show he first starting writing for after leaving high school in 1990 and came to oversee as its top exec producer — was coming to a tearful end. And so, alongside the latest ensemble of cast members, several of whom have been show regulars since the early 1990s, the finale featured a who’s who of “Neighbours” alumni dropping by to say “G’day.” Kylie Minogue and Jason Donavan appeared (but in scenes shot two weeks before it was even written due to scheduling commitments), as did Jesse Spencer, Holly Valance, Natalie Imbruglia, Guy Pearce and even Margot Robbie (although via a pre-recorded video message). Herbison and his writing team devised a two-year time jump from where the finale left viewers, a tactic that enabled them to explain why some interiors had been “renovated” (the ones where the sets had been wrecked beyond repair), why several characters hadn’t returned (some had moved onto other projects) and why new ones had joined.
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