It was confirmed Neighbours would be revived on Amazon’s Freevee this year. However, it’s been revealed that many of the cast members are yet to be invited back to the soap.
An unnamed production source told Daily Mail Australia that a number of key actors haven’t been contacted about reappearing on Neighbours.
“Cast and crew still haven’t been given an update on what is going on with the show. We’ve all been left in the dark,” the insider said.
While only Stefan Dennis, (Paul Robinson) Alan Fletcher, (Dr Karl Kennedy), Ryan Moloney, (Toadfish) and Jackie Woodburne, (Susan Kennedy) – were told that the soap was restarting, the long-time cast members still haven’t been given a start date.
“Stefan was told he couldn’t commit to anything else. He was planning to go on tour with his music and had to put his musical theatre stuff on hold too,” the source said.
The insider added that they were originally told they’d have an “early 2023 start” but haven’t heard anything since.
In November, it was announced that Neighbours is coming back after a short hiatus since its “series finale” that aired earlier in 2022.
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The soap’s new home was announced to be on Amazon’s AVOD service, Freevee, which bought the rights from former Neighbours distributor, Fremantle.
The new season will premiere exclusively on Freevee in both the U.K. and the U.S. and will come alongside thousands of episodes from previous seasons.
“We start shooting again next year, early in the year,” Maloney told Kyle Sandilands and his new co-host Brittany Hockley on the Kyle and Jackie O at the time.
“And then it’ll be on air on (Channel) 10 first, in Australia, at the end of the year. Then it’ll be on Amazon Freevee worldwide.”
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