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Nine ends McLeod’s Daughters

The Nine Network is hanging up the hats of McLeod’s Daughters.

It has announced the eighth series, to air next year, will be its final.

Creator Posie Graeme-Evans, who also devised Hi-5, said, “I have always maintained that the series should finish on a high, and while it was still loved by the audience. Based on this belief, in conjunction with Channel Nine, we have come to the decision, that Series 8 will be the last.”

Ratings this year have hovered around the 1m to 1.2m mark. The series has also received 8 Logies Awards, including two for Most Popular Drama Series in 2004 and 2005.

Press Release:

Channel Nine announced today that Series 8 of the Australian rural drama McLeod’s Daughters, currently in production, will be its final.

Creator and Executive Producer of McLeod’s Daughters, Posie Graeme-Evans said, “I have always maintained that the series should finish on a high, and while it was still loved by the audience. Based on this belief, in conjunction with Channel Nine, we have come to the decision, that Series 8 will be the last.”

Nine CEO David Gyngell said today, “Channel Nine is extremely proud of McLeod’s
Daughters and the incredible success it has enjoyed since premiering in 2001. It has become an iconic Australian drama and has featured the best of local talent, both in front of, and behind the cameras.”

A phenomenally successful series, both locally and internationally, McLeod’s has been a top performer for Nine each season and has been sold to an incredible 200 countries around the world. The series has also received 8 Logies Awards, including two for Most Popular Drama Series in 2004/05.

McLeod’s Daughters is shot entirely on location in South Australia, centres on the vast cattle property of Drovers Run and the lives and loves of the women who work it. The eighth and final series starring Simmone Jade Mackinnon, Aaron Jeffery, Abi Tucker, Michala Banas, Matt Passmore, Doris Younane, Gillian Alexy, Luke Jacobz and Dustin Clare, will premiere in early 2008 on Channel Nine.

9 Responses

  1. One of the best programmes on TV. Could there perhaps be a continuing series
    ie with a baby on the show, a continuation of the next generation. There’s also enough young people on the show who could marry have babies etc, etc.

    ps I don’t suppose you could reply to this. Please thanks.

  2. meh – a boring and tedious show that runs for eight years is still a boring and tedious show. Hopefully now Nine can come up with a better premise for drama.

  3. When they had to keep inventing new previously unheard of daughters to justify the show’s title, i think the show went way past it’s useby date. perhaps if they called the show Dovers Run, it could have gone on forever.

  4. “THANK GOD” and “THANK GOODNESS FOR THAT”????? You un-appreciative bunch of tossers…..

    Geez….the show has had a geeat run, and lasted longer than expected. It employed so many people, and did wonders for our industry. Ending it on a high is great, and, a very noble thing for Nine to do…. Figures of 1.2 million are not “ordinary”….

    Congratulation to all inolved in the production. Eight years is a run most shows can only dream of….

  5. First Blue Heelers, now this. We have already been sadden by the departures of Kate Kitchie in Home & Away and Ian Smith in Neighbours.

    What will happen if series 8 ends up getting much better ratings such as 1.5 million?

    I believe series 8 will be much better than the last and I also believe that if channel 9 does not change their mind, the final episode should be a big family reunion by bringing back original cast members.

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