Speculation about the Neighbours finale is rife. How do you end a story that’s been 37 years in the telling? With a natural disaster, a wedding or a plane crash? Could there possibly be another explosion at the surely-by-now-uninsurable Lassiters Complex? Is there anybody left that Paul Robinson hasn’t yet married?
We know a fleet of guest stars and familiar faces – Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan among them – will be returning for one last visit to Erinsborough. Set leaks suggest that the final ever scene will be a sweetly nostalgic capper to almost four decades of drama. If Neighbours were true to its roots though, it might end just as it began – with a sinister, overblown 80s nightmare sequence that’s more Elm Street than Ramsay Street.
On the 18th of March 1985, Grundy Television’s new soap aired on the Seven network in Australia. And it was determined to make an impression.
We know a fleet of guest stars and familiar faces – Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan among them – will be returning for one last visit to Erinsborough. Set leaks suggest that the final ever scene will be a sweetly nostalgic capper to almost four decades of drama. If Neighbours were true to its roots though, it might end just as it began – with a sinister, overblown 80s nightmare sequence that’s more Elm Street than Ramsay Street.
On the 18th of March 1985, Grundy Television’s new soap aired on the Seven network in Australia. And it was determined to make an impression.
- 7/21/2022
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Don’t expect brave faces or a breezy goodbye, says the official Neighbours finale trailer, we’re about to wring every last drop of wet nostalgia from our last outing as Australia’s longest-running soap opera. And good on them. Now’s not the time for understatement, now’s the time for garment-rending grief and aching nostalgia, which is exactly what this three and a half minute compilation provides.
To a haunting, reverb-y song about a reluctant break-up, the trailer takes us through Neighbours past and present. It starts sweet in the early days, with Lou Carpenter larking about with a clapperboard, Harold and Madge’s post-amnesia reunion, Guy Pearce, Russell Crowe, and more weddings than a Moonie ceremony. And then it gets sexy, and then it gets dangerous. Explosions! Murder! Violence! Fires! Plane Crashes! Horse-riding accidents! Natural Disasters! Stefan Dennis!
Next – accompanied by the sad piano version of the theme song – come the deaths.
To a haunting, reverb-y song about a reluctant break-up, the trailer takes us through Neighbours past and present. It starts sweet in the early days, with Lou Carpenter larking about with a clapperboard, Harold and Madge’s post-amnesia reunion, Guy Pearce, Russell Crowe, and more weddings than a Moonie ceremony. And then it gets sexy, and then it gets dangerous. Explosions! Murder! Violence! Fires! Plane Crashes! Horse-riding accidents! Natural Disasters! Stefan Dennis!
Next – accompanied by the sad piano version of the theme song – come the deaths.
- 7/1/2022
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Like gravity, you don’t have to actually see Neighbours to feel reassured by it being there. The Aussie soap is a cathedral of the UK TV schedule – an edifice you can walk past daily without ever stepping inside, but knowing that if you ever feel the need for cold stone and silent reflection/sunshine and kidnapping plots, its doors are open. The news that Channel 5, which took over Neighbours’ UK broadcast from BBC One in 2008, will drop the show from this autumn has been met with some outrage. ‘Hey!’ people said, ‘leave Neighbours alone! We weren’t really watching that!’
Over a million people are watching Neighbours in the UK. Over a million TV commuters are still travelling daily between here and Ramsay Street. What, I wondered, has changed in the two decades since I last numbered among them? Let’s find out.
One change is that Neighbours...
Over a million people are watching Neighbours in the UK. Over a million TV commuters are still travelling daily between here and Ramsay Street. What, I wondered, has changed in the two decades since I last numbered among them? Let’s find out.
One change is that Neighbours...
- 2/8/2022
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
You can’t just say that you’ve seen Christ risen and not expect a few questions, Peter (played by Adam Levy) learns in this sneak peek from next Sunday’s A.D. The Bible Continues (NBC, 9/8c).
RelatedRatings: A.D. The Bible Continues Premiere Lords Over Competition
In the clip below, the disciples are hiding from the authorities when they reveal to Peter’s daughter Maya (Helen Daniels) that they have seen and met with Jesus, who of course had been publicly and famously crucified.
So why aren’t they out and about, spreading the good news? What (or Who) are they waiting for?...
RelatedRatings: A.D. The Bible Continues Premiere Lords Over Competition
In the clip below, the disciples are hiding from the authorities when they reveal to Peter’s daughter Maya (Helen Daniels) that they have seen and met with Jesus, who of course had been publicly and famously crucified.
So why aren’t they out and about, spreading the good news? What (or Who) are they waiting for?...
- 4/13/2015
- TVLine.com
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