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Returning: Neighbours

Neighbours returns to ELEVEN next Monday.

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Neighbours returns to ELEVEN next Monday at 6:30pm.

Although TEN is yet to confirm it, from this point forward the show should be screening 52 weeks a year following a recent UK order.

News quickly spreads of baby Gabe’s disappearance, with Erinsborough banding together in a desperate search. Tensions rise and fingers are pointed over who is to blame for his disappearance. When Mark receives a mysterious phone call, the news is not good.

Unaware of the drama back home, Toadie and Sonya celebrate their vows renewal. Planning a night away at the marina on the Brennan brothers’ boat, the happy couple’s love-in takes an unexpected turn.

Also unaware of the emergency, David still feels bad for turning down Aaron’s offer to move in and wants to do something to prove he is in this relationship for keeps. Will his romantic plans go pear-shaped?

Having confessed to the manslaughter of Hamish Roche, Tyler faces an uncertain future.

6:30pm Monday January 8 on ELEVEN.

8 Responses

  1. The number of episodes being produced will be for 52 weeks a year, but one of those weeks will only be three episodes (or two weeks of 4 episodes), as I recall reading it’ll be 258 episodes a year. My guess is they will pause on Christmas and NY day.

  2. I will be intrigued what the first actual Christmas Day episode will be like.
    Being it usually sets a shock episode with ending a massive storyline that has been running throughout the end of the year or start storylines for the next year coming. That’s the UK soap standard anyways.

  3. No doubt they will (or have) adopted a similar shooting schedule to The Bold and the Beautiful which also airs 52 weeks of the year. B&B work 4 days a week shooting between 6-8 episodes. They have 3 weeks on and one week off. Not a bad gig!

  4. I had seen something about the 52 weeks a year on a British site and I wondered if it had been reported on TV Tonight. If it’s true, Neighbours is now practically a British Soap that just happens to be set in Australia. It is very unAustralian to let your staff have to work over Christmas and with our summer over the Brits winter we don’t feel much like watching melodrama at this time of year. I must admit I enjoy the short break from the show.

    2. Neighbours has been a “British soap set in Australia” for well over a decade now. If not for the British audience, Neighbours would most likely have been axed a long time ago. While Home & Away isn’t pulling the numbers that it used to, they’re still enough to keep it on the primary channel. TEN dumped Neighbours as soon as they had a secondary channel to dump it on, and its local audience numbers have never been the same since.

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